Does upgrading my harddrive to an SSD break the warranty?

Hi everyone, i recently bought an MBP 15" (Late 2011), its really fast but of course i want it to be even faster and i was considering changing the old HDD to an SSD and was wondering if it ruins the warranty and if there is anyting else i should be aware of?
My other question is, how do i install the operating system when i dont have a CD, do i have to get ont or does apple have a magic sollution for that too?

The warranty is good for rest of the MBP. The SSD will be under the manufacturers warranty.
See the attached link for reinstalling Lion:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.7/en/mchlp1599.html
Have your data backed up before you do this.
Ciao.

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