Marathon Computer IBM BladeCenter manual Mapping the Switchbays, Area Connection Properties

Planning and Preparation

Mapping the Switchbays

After installation of the Windows operating system on a blade you can fill-in the switchbay mapping table for your particular configuration using the fol- lowing procedure.

Note: Do not perform PCI-to-Switchbay mappings when blades within the chassis are operating within a production environment.

1.On one of the CoServer blades right-click My Network Places to view the Network Connections dialog.

2.From the back of the BladeCenter cabinet select a switchbay and unplug it.

3.Return to the CoServer console and observe the Network Connections dialog and note which connection experiences a status change.

4.Right-click on the connection that changed status to display the Local

Area Connection Properties.

5.Click the Configure button to display the controller properties. Note the switchbay number of the switch you unpluged and record the corre- sponding PCI location information for that adapter in Table 4. Plug the switchbay back into its slot and wait for the connection status to return to normal.

6.Repeat this procedure for each configured ethernet switchbay until you have identified all connections. Since these connections will hold for like blade models this mapping will work for all other configured blades.

TABLE 5. Adapter PCI-to-Switchbay Mappings

Blade Model	Switchbay 1	Switchbay 2	Switchbay 3	Switchbay 4
Blade HS20	1:0:0 (b:d:f)	1:0:1 (b:d:f)	2:2:1 (b:d:f)	2:2:0 (b:d:f)
8832 Chassis
Blade HS20	5:1:0	5:1:1	6:1:0	6:1:1
8843 Chassis
Blade HSXX
88nn Chassis

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