Select Blade Tasks → Configuration to view and change blade server configuration settings.
The following illustration shows blade server configuration choices for a management module.
Click Blade Information to
perform the following tasks:
- View the bay locations and names of the installed blade servers
Click Blade Policy Settings to enable or disable the following items on all blade servers in the BladeCenter® unit:
- Local power, KVM, and media tray control: These fields display the global policy setting for all blade bays. When set to Enabled, the feature is enabled for all bays. When set to Disabled, the feature is disabled for all bays. The value of Not set indicates that no global policy has been set; some bays might have the feature enabled while others have it disabled.
- Remote media tray control: This field displays the global policy setting for remote media tray switching for all blade bays. When set to Enabled, the media tray switching for all bays are enabled on the Remote Control applet. When set to Disabled, the media tray switching for all bays are disabled on the Remote Control applet. The value of Not set indicates that no global policy has been set (some bays might have the media tray switching enabled while others have it disabled). If the remote disk feature is disabled, this field will be disabled. You can enable the remote disk by going to the MM Control → Network Protocols → Remote Control page.
- Power management settings. These fields display the power management settings for management modules.
- Wake on LAN: This field displays the global policy setting for Wake on LAN for all blade bays. When set to Enabled, Wake on LAN is enabled for all bays. When set to Disabled, Wake on LAN is disabled for all bays. The value of Not set indicates that no global policy has been set; some bays might have Wake on LAN enabled while others have it disabled. Not all blade server types support the WOL capability; the default BIOS setting for Wake on LAN is Enabled for blade servers which support WOL.
Click Management Network Configuration to complete the following tasks:
- View a list of blade servers in the BladeCenter unit. This section
displays a table which shows all the blade servers in the chassis.
In order to change the network configuration for a blade
server, click on the blade server name link. This will take you to another
page where the following settings can be changed and saved. Note that only
certain blade servers types support this configuration.
- DHCP
- IP Address
- Subnet mask
- Gateway address
Click Boot Sequence to view or define the startup (boot) sequence for one or more blade servers. The startup sequence prioritizes the boot-record sources for a blade server.
The following boot sequences for your BladeCenter unit and blade servers are available:
- Hard disk drives (0 through 4). The selection of hard disk drives depends on the hard disk drives that are installed in your blade server.
- CD-ROM (optical drive).
- Diskette drive (some BladeCenter unit types)
- Network - PXE. Selecting Network - PXE attempts a PXE/DHCP network startup the next time the blade server is turned on or restarted.
- iSCSI boot devices. Select iSCSI Critical to force the blade server to search for an iSCSI boot device until it finds one.