IBM eServer BladeCenter, Linux, and Open Source : Blueprint for e-Business on Demand

Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. About the book: Blueprint for building an e-business application for BladeCenter -- 1.1 Building an e-business infrastructure -- 1.1.1 Materials -- 1.1.2 Objectives -- 1.2 IBM eServer™ BladeCenter -- 1.3 FAStT SAN storage -- 1.4 BladeCenter business value -- 1.5 Linux business value -- 1.6 Open source business value -- 1.7 Other references -- Chapter 2. Architecture: Solution overview -- 2.1 Open source e-business infrastructure a modular approach -- 2.2 All construction projects start with a pattern -- 2.2.1 Industry standard e-business pattern: A three-tier infrastructure -- 2.3 Blade servers -- 2.3.1 The next evolutionary step in computing: Blade-based computing -- 2.3.2 IBM eServer BladeCenter -- 2.3.3 BladeCenter value -- 2.3.4 When BladeCenter is not the right platform -- 2.4 SAN storage -- 2.5 Software stack -- 2.5.1 High-level architecture -- 2.5.2 Open source e-business software components -- 2.5.3 Functional aspects -- 2.5.4 Non-functional requirements -- 2.5.5 Non-functional aspects -- 2.5.6 Detailed software stack -- Chapter 3. Foundation -- 3.1 Hardware -- 3.1.1 Single CD-ROM, floppy drive, keyboard, video, and mouse -- 3.2 Installing operating system instances -- 3.2.1 PXE -- 3.2.2 Red Hat Kickstart -- 3.2.3 Sample Kickstart configuration for BladeCenter -- Chapter 4. Plumbing: Network infrastructure -- 4.1 DHCP -- 4.1.1 Background -- 4.1.2 Building in fault tolerance -- 4.1.3 Security concerns -- 4.1.4 Conclusion -- 4.2 DNS -- 4.2.1 History -- 4.2.2 Building a highly available DNS -- 4.2.3 Conclusion -- 4.3 LDAP -- 4.3.1 LDAP servers -- 4.3.2 LDAP concepts -- 4.3.3 Working with OpenLDAP -- 4.3.4 gq: A graphical LDAP browser.