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Planning for the BladeCenter S system

Before your BladeCenter S system arrives, you can begin planning for the physical environment and configuration. Take advantage of the planning worksheets to help you focus your planning and organize your BladeCenter environment.

  • Planning for the physical environment
    Make sure that the site where the BladeCenter® unit will be installed meets the minimum physical requirements for rack, power, and cooling.
  • Planning for deployment
    Plan your BladeCenter S system network topology and determine which deployment tools to use to deploy operating system software, firmware, and drivers.
  • Planning for configuration
    During planning, you need to plan for the configuration of the advanced management module, I/O modules, blade servers, and storage.
  • Planning worksheets
    Use the planning worksheets to gather the information that you will need to install and configure your BladeCenter S system.
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