https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/spare-blade/m-p/5236974#M16518 Thanks. Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:30:17 GMT elijah-boy 2010-04-26T13:30:17Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/spare-blade/m-p/5236972#M16516 We have ladeSystem c7000 det up by external consultant and he said the following:<BR />Out of your 8 blades you have to dedicate one blade for blade system management. He installed win2008 server on the 8th blade and dedicated it EVA Command and View and some other HP Management software. (see attachments)<BR /><BR />I'm curioius why would we waste the whole blade.... we have 7 blades dedicated to VMWare, can we just remove Windows 2008 from this server and dedicate it to VMWare as well? (and install CV EVA on some other machine which is not part of the blade system?)<BR /><BR />Thanks Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:55:06 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/spare-blade/m-p/5236972#M16516 elijah-boy 2010-04-26T12:55:06Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/spare-blade/m-p/5236973#M16517 Your management software doesn't need to be in the blade enclosure. Any system meeting the pre-requirements would be fine. Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:21:56 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/spare-blade/m-p/5236973#M16517 cjb_1 2010-04-26T13:21:56Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/spare-blade/m-p/5236974#M16518 Thanks. Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:30:17 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/spare-blade/m-p/5236974#M16518 elijah-boy 2010-04-26T13:30:17Z