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Figure 23 Verify Disk Media

Once the HBA configuration steps are completed, during the POST sequence you will notice the following text which indicates that the blade is now booting from the LUN 0 associated to the Fibre Channel Daughter Card.

Figure 24 Blade POST with HBA configured

3.3 Ethernet Port Numbering

In most cases, for Windows 2000/2003, the connection named Local Area Connection goes to the Ethernet switch in switch bay 1, and the connection named Local Area Connection 2 goes to the Ethernet switch in switch bay 2. We use the phrase most cases, because this is not always the case. For Windows 2000, the order of the Local Area Connection names assigned is based on the order in which the drivers for each NIC are installed. The drivers necessary to support the NICs on a blade server are not part of a standard Windows 2000/2003 install, and the NICs will be generically listed in Windows 2000 Device Manager as two or more Ethernet Controllers until the necessary drivers are loaded. For these NICs to become active, a third-party driver, supplied by IBM, needs to be installed. The normal procedure most users follow is to install the drivers on the first Ethernet Controller in the list, and then install the drivers on the second Ethernet Controller in the list (and so on). The end result of this is the most-casesscenario previously mentioned, where the Windows 2000/2003 connection named Local Area Connection goes to switch 1 and the one named Local Area Connection 2 goes to switch 2.

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