The bladecenter s system ships with the external ports of the ethernet switch module set to disabled.
Ibm bladecenter ethernet switch configuration.
In addition to the layer 2 switching capabilities this switch supports the expanded capabilities of layer 3 routing.
To determine which ethernet switch modules are compatible with the bladecenter s chassis see the ibm serverproven web site.
This guide provides best design practices for deploying the cisco catalyst ethernet switch module 3110 cbs3110 for the ibm bladecenter enclosure family within the cisco data center networking architecture.
Everything written in this article could be made from the command line so these recommendations can be helpful for system administrators and system engineers working with hosts.
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This article describes the ibm power7 processor based ibm bladecenter blade server installation starting from bladecenter ethernet switch setup through logical partitioning lpar configuration and to ibm aix setup.
The ibm bladecenter 1 10gb uplink ethernet switch module serves as a switching and routing fabric for all models of bladecenter server chassis.