System information

18 Deploying Samba on IBM Eserver BladeCenter
The Web interface allows you to manage and check the status of each of the modules and
blade servers. Below is a list of the functions and sub-functions available.
򐂰 Monitor
–System status
–Event log
– Vital product data
򐂰 Blade Tasks
–Power/restart
– Firmware update
– Configuration
򐂰 Switch tasks
–Power/restart
– Management
򐂰 MM console (Management Module)
– General settings
– Login profiles
–Alerts
– Network interface
– Network protocols
– Security
– Configuration file
– Fireware update
– Restore defaults
– Reset MM
򐂰 Log off
RDM - Rapid Deployment Manager
This powerful tool allows you to deploy system images to the blade servers from the
administrator's console.
RDM supports the following environments:
򐂰 Windows® 2000
򐂰 Windows 2000 Advanced Server
The advantages of Rapid Deployment Manager are:
򐂰 Rapid deployment of Operating System image to the destination server
򐂰 Hot-spare blade option: see “Hot-spare blades” on page 22.
1.3.2 High density computing
As data centers have grown with the proliferation of Wintel servers over recent years, it is
important to note that rack space and floor space can be more efficiently taken up with the
use of blade servers. A fully populated 42U rack is capable of holding six IBM Eserver
BladeCenters and 84 dual processor blade servers, for a total of 168 CPUs per rack. This is