Now a day’s nobody like to use telnet on their datacenter server but every now and then you have to use telnet. I start looking into telnet while working on xCAT setup.

The xCAT is cluster administration toolkit which is open source cluster and is a great resource for provisioning IBM blade servers. Since xCAT is [...]

If you are using IBM Bladecenters then you can use IBM Director which is free to use with IBM servers for deploying and provisioning new blades.

I have installed IBM Director 5.20.3 on IBM x3650 server on Red Hat Enterprise 4 AS but for blade server provisioning you need to purchase Remote deployment manager (RDM) which [...]

SSPT is Server Storage Provisioning Tool in IBM world. SSPT is prerequisite for installing RDM (Remote deployment Manager) .If you are running IBM Director 5.20.2 or Director 5.20.3 and looking for RDM install you would need to have these SSPT installed otherwise your RDM will fail. I am running Director 5.20.3 on Red Hat Enterprise [...]

Working on IBM Blades is not very fun, things get harder day by day when you start noticing one issues after another. I spend several days just to update the firmware on all IBM HS21 blades. I remember 6-7 years ago working on IBM Blades, the administrative console now called Advanced management module for managing [...]

If your keyboard stopped working on IBM blades then there could be some problem with kvm card installed on the Blade.I have this situation when all of sudden keyboard control stopped working from AMM web console, I was trying to change the IBM HS21 Blade boot order and to get into boot sequence i have [...]

I haven’t find automated way of updating BMC firmware on brand new IBM blades, if you are running any Microsoft operating system on blades then you use update express or Remote deployment manager(RDM) with IBM Director.

If IBM blades are brand new and you don’t have no operating system installed then to update Baseboard management controller [...]

IBM Director version 6.1 download availability was announced here few days ago, However if you are planning to use older version of IBM Director then the most stable version available to use in Production environment is Director version 5.20.

If you are planning to install IBM Director 5.20 then you should also install service update 2, [...]

How to change boot sequence on IBM blades
Boot sequence on IBM blades can be changed by getting into individual blade BIOS setting but if you need to change boot sequence on several  IBM blades then there is another simpler way to achieve this.

I am going to use PXE boot on IBM HS21 blade center so [...]

IBM Systems Director 6.1 downloads Availability
IBM just announced release of long awaited Systems Director version 6.1 on September 23rd. IBM has put lot of enhancements in IBM systems Director 6.1 to give it a new face lift. There is a secret behind the new face lift in IBM Director 6.1, it is based on HP [...]