HP Integrity BL860c Server Blade Linux Installation white paper

Scripting Linux Installations for Large Deployments
HP Rapid Deploy Pack (RDP) 3.50 and HP SmartSetup Scripting Tookit (SSTK) 2.5 provide you
the means to script network-based RHEL4U4 installations for environments with large numbers
of systems. All supported features of RDP and SSTK are available to BL860c server blades in
BladeSystem c-Class enclosures that do not use the Ethernet Pass-Thru Interconnect Module for
network connections (for example, chassis-based switch modules).
Scripted RHEL4U4 installations will not work when the server blade is using the Ethernet
Pass-Thru Interconnect Module because of the issue with the tg3 driver that is distributed with
RHEL4U4. Alternatively, the image deployment features of RDP and SSTK to a server blade over
the Ethernet Pass-Thru Interconnect Module does work. Image deployment requires that RHEL4U4
be manually installed first, as described in the previous sections, on the reference target server
from which an image is captured. The captured image can then be deployed to other server
blades. For further details regarding RDP and SSTK, see the HP Integrity Essentials Total Integrity
Server Management Web site at:
http://www.hp.com/go/integrityessentials
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