Hi There,
I have been trying to set-up my first blade system and have a couple of questions that I can’t seem to find the answers too.
My blade system is a C3000, with 2 x Cisco 3020, and 8 x BL460c G7's I want to install Ubtuntu 13.04 LTS, and run HPCC and want to ensure high abvailability.
- Can the Cisco 3020 be configured for high availability? For example can I port map each of the blade servers’ NIC’s to each switch? then team them so that they continue to run in the event of a hardware failure?
- Can the Port mapping be configured from the Blade server OA? or do I need to add mezzanine card to give each blade two more NIC’s?
- Does the Cisco 3020 have Web management built into the firmware? I am currently running : flash:/cbs30x0-ipbasek9-mz.122-55.SE5.bin and I am not sure if that has the Web management. or not after looking here :
Any advise or pointers would be greatly apprecaited as I am still trying to get a coomplete understanding of how a blade system works.
Thanks
Antony