XTR33G: IBM BladeCenter H Workshop

This course builds on the skills gained from the BladeCenter Fundamentals Course XTR30, which focused on BladeCenter Chassis Servers, how they communicate to each other and their redundancy. This one day class XTR33, builds on those skills by placing emphasis on the BladeCenter H itself: its unique components, power and cooling, midplane connections and systems management. The next topic will discuss the high speed infrastructure and the options that are available. Open Fabric Manager is discussed to help you get the most from your I/O followed by showing the sequence of events in a Blade failover/recovery. The last section covers those important elements regarding installation and the associated tools. The lab environment includes the BladeCenter H environment, a review of the advanced management module (AMM), and the BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager, known as BOFM.

What You Will Learn

• List the different components of BladeCenter H
• Describe the high level architecture of a BladeCenter H
• Describe the power domains configuration in the BCH chassis
• List the cooling components in a BCH
• Describe management features of the BladeCenter H
• Understand the network connectivity of BladeCenter H
• List the various Ethernet switch modules and expansion cards
• List the features of virtual fabric technology
• Enumerate the various Storage switch modules and expansion cards
• List the features of FCoE technology
• List the features implemented in the BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager
• List the AMM features for Basic BOFM configuration
• Enumerate the Advanced BOFM configuration steps
• List the sequence of events that occur in blade failover and recovery
• List the basic questions to ask in preparation form and IBM
• BladeCenter H installation
• List the Power considerations for the IBM BladeCenter H
• Match Power requirements to connection options
• Describe and list the cooling requirements for the IBM BladeCenter H
• List the Problem Determinations tools available

Audience

This is an intermediate course for individuals who are involved in the planning, installation, configuration and upgrading of IBM BladeCenter solutions in their environments.

Prerequistes

You should complete IBM BladeCenter Fundamentals (XTR30). It is also recommended that you have some level of technical experience with x86-based computer hardware, and Windows or Linux operating systems.

Course Outline

• Unit 1 - IBM BladeCenter H - Introduction and Overview
• Unit 2 - High bandwidth infrastructure
• Unit 3 - Open Fabric Manager
• Unit 4 - Installation considerations and tools
  • Exercise 1 - Identify the BladeCenter environment
  • Exercise 2 - BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager (BOFM)

Course Labs