Configuring blade solutions

Valid blade configuration The system ensures a valid configuration and guides you in placing blades in the bays of the blade enclosures based on the configured physical properties of the equipment. Supported configurations Any combination of full / half height with double / single width blades. Amount The system validates that there are a sufficient amount of bays available in the blade enclosure to contain the amount of bays that the blade servers take up. Product family If the blade enclosure has been specified to be of a certain brand or product family, only blades with the same properties can be placed in it. If there is no product family defined for the blade enclosure, only blades that have no product family defined either can be added to this enclosure.

Configuring blade solutions Blade solutions are typically used when there is a need for high server density, power and cooling efficiency, and more flexible management functions than solutions with traditional servers provide. Blade servers are very compact servers. Many components have been removed to save space, minimize power consumption, and other considerations. Power and cooling supply is handled by the enclosure instead. A blade enclosure can be mounted in a rack and contains a number of bays in which the blade servers (also referred to as blades) are placed. Bays and blade servers can be half-height or full-height, single-width or double-width. The standard genome library installed with the application contains the most commonly used blade products. You can configure any additional blades and blade enclosures that you use, setting the number of bays and bay height and width (in any combination). 102237315_360037994594.png 123 Steps to... Adding blade equipment to the rack layoutThe system guides you in placing the blade equipment in the rack layout. This ensures that blade enclosures fit into the rack and that blades fit into the enclosure bays.Before adding blade equipment to the layout, select Planning> Data Center in the Application bar and select to view a room in Rack Layout, for example by double-clicking a rack in the Floor Layout. Drag the blade enclosure icon into the position in the rack layout that matches its position in the data center. Drag the blade server icon into the position in the rack layout that matches its position in the data center. * Green highlights where you can place the equipment Yellow highlights where you can place some of the equipment (the system will place what fits and leave out what does not fit) Red highlights where you cannot place the equipment 3. Repeat above steps to add all blade equipment to the rack layout. Tip Tip: You can move or delete multiple items at the same time by using Ctrl-click or Shift-click. 4. Right-click the component icon and select Properties to e.g. define a custom name for it, or to use other menu options.