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Preface
Overview
Blade servers are comprehensive computing systems that include processor, memory,
network connections, and associated electronics, all on a single motherboard called a
blade. This high-density technology addresses the current trend among large computing
centers to reduce space requirement while lowering their total cost of ownership and
getting a higher return on their IT investments.
The server blade, along with storage, networking and other blades, are typically installed
in a rack-mountable enclosure that houses multiple blades that share common resources
such as cabling, power supplies, and cooling fans. With its modular, hot-pluggable
architecture, the easily accessible blade server offers increased computing density while
ensuring both maximum scalability and ease of management.
HP Blade Servers offer a wide variety of unique features and functionality that will help
you to align your IT infrastructure with your business needs. HP's blade server
architecture is particularly well suited for Internet access layer computing, including
applications such as streaming video, security and web hosting and caching.
Blade Server Models Covered in this Guide
• Specific BH series models covered in this guide are:
o bh7800
o bh3710
o bh3700
Reader Expectations
This OS guide is not intended to be a comprehensive system administrators guide for any
one particular operating system. Please consult additional documentation addressing
ongoing system administration for your operating system choice. This guide is not
designed to cover the BL series blade servers. Please see the appropriate BL
documentation for the server you have.
This guide is intended to provide you with the necessary information needed to boot a
server blade and configure that blade when received initially and installed in the
computer server room. Based on the OS you have selected to use, separate chapters are
provided for each operating system and cover Linux, Microsoft Windows 2000 and HP-
UX 11i.