Specifications

Table of Contents
BIG-IP® Platform Guide for the Hewlett-Packard® ProLiant BL20p Blade Server vii
BIG-IP Software on the Hewlett-Packard
ProLiant BL20p Blade Server System
Getting started ................................................................................................................................1-1
Task overview .........................................................................................................................1-1
What is BIG-IP software? .....................................................................................................1-2
Installing the hardware ...................................................................................................................1-2
Power management ...............................................................................................................1-3
Disabling hyper-threading on the ProLiant BL20p Generation 2 Blade Server ......1-3
Hardware changes or failures .............................................................................................1-3
Reviewing basic configurations ...........................................................................................1-4
Installing the BIG-IP software .......................................................................................................1-5
Selecting a host to act as a PXE server ............................................................................1-5
Configuring the host as a PXE server ...............................................................................1-5
Connecting to the blade server system ............................................................................1-6
Performing a PXE boot ........................................................................................................1-9
Activating the license .................................................................................................................. 1-10
Using the Setup utility ................................................................................................................. 1-13
Setting up a basic BIG-IP software configuration ................................................................. 1-14
Performing backup and recovery ............................................................................................. 1-16
Finding additional resources ...................................................................................................... 1-18
Glossary
Index