Moving a blade from one chassis to another might cause changes to the I/O devices presented to the blade operating system. To help identify which I/O configurations might change consider taking these steps prior to moving the blade:
List the blade slot location in both the source and destination chassis.
List the I/O slot locations (associated with the blade) in both the source and destination chassis.
Source refers to the chassis that the blade is moving from and destination refers to the chassis where the blade is moving to.
Making use of the I/O devices in the destination chassis might require making changes to the blade's operating system network settings.
The following is an inclusive list of possible Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and Infiniband device network changes.
For VMware OS installations, consider this list of changes:
The Ethernet MAC addresses of the vmnics will change.
The instance number of the vmnic (for example, vmnic0) might change.
For additional information about configuring network devices in VMware, refer to the VMware ESX Server Configuration Guide at: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vi_pubs.html.
For Solaris, Microsoft Windows 2003, and Linux OS installations, consider this list of changes:
The Ethernet MAC address will change.
The instance number for the Ethernet interface (for example in Solaris, e1000g0) might change.
The device path to the network card may change.
DHCP with static addressing will require updates to the DHCP server.
For additional information about configuring network settings in Solaris, refer to the Solaris System Administration Guide: IP Services at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4554.
For additional information about configuring network settings in Linux operating systems, consult the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 documentation at: http://www.novell.com or the Red Hat documentation at: http://www.redhat.com/docs.
For additional information about configuring network settings in Windows Server 2003 operating systems, consult th Microsoft Windows Server 2003 documentation, at http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx.
For VMware OS installations, consider this list of changes:
The Host Bus Adapter (HBA) port World Wide Numbers (WWNs) might change.
The path to the LUNs and Datastores might change.
The path to the Fibre Channel boot device might change.
For additional information about configuring Fibre Channel storage devices in VMware, refer to the VMware ESX Server Configuration Guide at: http://vmware.com/support/pubs/vi_pubs.html.
For Solaris, Microsoft Windows 2003, and Linux OS installations, consider this list of changes:
The Host Bus Adapter (HBA) port World Wide Numbers (WWNs) will change.
The Fibre Channel boot device might change.
The device driver instance numbers might change.
The device path to the storage HBA might change.
For additional information about configuring Fibre Channel storage in Solaris refer to the Solaris Fibre Channel Storage Configuration and Multipathing Administration Guide at: http://docs-pdf.sun.com/819-0139/819-0139.pdf.
For additional information about configuring Fibre Channel network settings in Linux operating systems, consult the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 documentation at: http://www.novell.com/ or the Red Hat documentation at: http://www.redhat.com/docs.
For additional information about configuring Fibre Channel network settings in Windows Server 2003 operating systems, consult th Microsoft Windows Server 2003 documentation, at: http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx.
For Solaris OS installations, consider this list of changes:
The IB Global Unique Identifier (GUID) will change.
The instance number of the of the ibd driver, used to provide IPoIP functionality might change.
For Linux OS installations, consider this list of changes:
The IB Global Unique Identifier (GUID) will change.
The IPoIB might not change.
The instance number of the Host Channel Adapter (HCA) (for example, mthca0) might change.
For Microsoft Windows 2003 OS installations, consider this list of changes:
The IB Global Unique Identifier (GUID) will change.
The driver for the IPoIB network device might need to be re-installed. If there is a yellow exclamation next to the device, the driver needs to be reloaded. For more information, see Reload Driver for IPoIB Network Device..