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From the beginning of august 2008, IBM is shipping the BladeCenter Start Now Advisor together with the BladeCenter S.

The software (approx. 330MB) can also be downloaded seperately.

Update:  A video is available @ http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3542028/9809187 to show you how it works.

Start Now Advisor Features:

• Guided setup for all components of the chassis
• Automatic discovery of the chassis over network or directly attached
• Automatic inventory of chassis and health check
• Set passwords, IP addresses all from a single spot
• Automatically update firmware to latest version for chassis components
• Set alerts automatically
• Setup Storage Zoning automatically
• Setup entire chassis in 30 minutes or less

Source: IBM BladeCenter Support - BladeCenter Start Now Advisor