System information

Preface

As data centers have grown with the proliferation of Intel®-based servers over recent years,it

is important to note that rack space and floor space can be more efficiently used with the use

of the IBM® IBM Eserver BladeCenter™ HS20 servers. Attractive cost savings are also

possible where a large number of rack installed servers are required, since the equivalent

number of 1U servers would be much more expensive.

This IBM Redpaper describes how to set up and configure Linux and Samba on the IBM

IBM Eserver BladeCenter and provides some pointers on managing the installation. It also

describes the functionality of the IBM IBM Eserver BladeCenter in this type of environment.

The team that wrote this Redpaper

This Redpaper was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the

International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh Center.

Rufus Credle is a Senior I/T Specialist and certified Professional Server Specialist at the

International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh Center. He conducts residencies

and develops Redbooks™ about network operating systems, ERP solutions, voice

technology, high availability and clustering solutions, Web application servers, pervasive

computing, and IBM and OEM e-business applications, all running IBM Eserver

xSeries® systems. Rufus’s various positions during his IBM career have included

assignments in administration and asset management, systems engineering, sales and

marketing, and IT services. He holds a BS degree in business management from Saint

Augustine’s College. Rufus has been employed at IBM for 22 years.

Eric Butler is a Network Engineer in United States of America. He has three years of

experience with Linux and Open Source software. He holds a degree in Electrical

Engineering. He has worked at IBM for seven years. His areas of expertise include network

monitoring, administration of Lotus® Domino®, AIX®, and Linux systems, DCE/DFS™,

Apache, Samba, MRTG, Cricket, and xSeries and pSeries® hardware. Eric participated

extensively in the writing of Deploying Samba on IBM Eserver BladeCenter, REDP3595.

Tim Verhoeven is an IT Professional in Belgium. He has four years of experience in Linux

and Open Source software. He has worked at IBM for one year. He holds a degree in

Electronics and Computer Science. His areas of expertise include Linux, Apache, Samba,

WebSphere® Application Server, Java™ and J2EE, xSeries and zSeries® hardware and

clustering. Tim participated extensively in the writing of Deploying Apache on IBM Eserver

BladeCenter, REDP3588.

David Green is a Staff Engineer at IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and works

in BladeCenter ecosystem development. He worked on the development of the Layer 2-7

GbE Switch Module and the Optical Passthrough Module for BladeCenter. He has a Bachelor

of Science degree in Information Systems from UNC-Greensboro. His areas of expertise

include IBM IBM Eserver BladeCenter, Fibre Channel, SANS and networking.