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Preface
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a detailed technical guide for
configuring and using the IBM BladeCenter® JS23 and IBM BladeCenter JS43
servers. These IBM Power Blade servers feature the latest IBM POWER6™
processor technology. This book teaches you how to set up the latest Power
Blade servers to run AIX®, i, and Linux® operating systems in the IBM
BladeCenter architecture.
This book will be useful for data center system architects; network, storage and
facilities engineers; system administrators; and application architects that need a
detailed system bring-up guide and integration guide for IBM Power Blade
servers hosting virtualized operating system partitions. We include procedures
for installation and configuration of Virtual Input/Output Server (VIOS), Integrated
Virtualization Manager (IVM), IBM AIX Version 6.1, IBM i 6.1 (i5/OS® V6R1),
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE® Enterprise Linux.
The team that wrote this book
This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working
at the International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center.
Alex Zanetti de Lima is a Software Engineer at the Linux Technology Center in
Brazil since 2007 and leads the development of the IBM Installation Toolkit
project. He has experience on developing, debugging and deploying SLES and
RHEL Linux on Bladecenters JS23 and JS43, He's also experienced on
developing and deploying server consolidation solutions using Bladecenters and
holds two patents in the United States Patent and Trademark Office related to
this area.
Kerry Anders is a Consultant in System p™ Lab Services for the IBM Systems
and Technology Group, based in Austin, Texas. He supports clients implementing
POWER™-based processor blades using Virtual I/O Server, Integrated
Virtualization Manager, and AIX. He was previously the Systems Integration Test
team lead for the IBM BladeCenter JS21blade with IBM SAN storage using AIX
and Linux. His prior work includes test experience with the JS20 blade also using
AIX and Linux in SAN environments. Kerry began his career with IBM in the
Federal Systems Division supporting NASA at the Johnson Space Center as a
systems engineer. He transferred to Austin in 1993.
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