Removing And Installing A Ucs B440 High Performance Blade Server; Shutting Down And Powering Off A Blade Server - Cisco UCS B440 Installation And Service Note

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If you need to move a RAID cluster, refer to the

Troubleshooting Server Hardware chapter of the Cisco UCS Troubleshooting Guide.

Removing and Installing a UCS B440 High Performance Blade

Server

Before performing any internal operation on a blade server, you must turn it off and remove it from the

chassis.

To prevent ESD damage, wear grounding wrist straps during these procedures and handle modules by

Caution

the carrier edges only.

Shutting Down and Powering Off A Blade Server

The server can run in two power modes:

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After establishing a connection to the blade server's operating system, you can directly shut down the

blade server using the operating system.

You can invoke a graceful shutdown or an emergency shutdown (hard shutdown) by using either of the

following methods:

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Check the color of the Power Status LED.

Step 1

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Invoke either a graceful shutdown or a hard shutdown:

Step 2

Caution

To avoid data loss or damage to your operating system, you should always invoke a graceful shutdown

of the operating system.

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Main power mode—Power is supplied to all server components and any operating system on your

hard drives can run.

Standby power mode—Power is supplied only to the service processor and the cooling fans and it

is safe to power off the server from this mode.

Use the UCS Manager . See either the Cisco UCS Manager GUI Configuration Guide or the Cisco

UCS Ma nager CLI Configuration Guide.

Use the Power button on the server front panel. To use the Power button, follow these steps:

Green indicates that the server is in main power mode and must be shut down before it can be safely

powered off. Go to Step 2.

Amber indicates that the server is already in standby mode and can be safely powered off. Go to

Step 3.

Graceful shutdown—Press and release the Power button. The operating system will perform a

graceful shutdown and the server goes to standby mode, which is indicated by an amber Power

Status LED.

Emergency shutdown—Press and hold the Power button for 4 seconds to force the main power off

and immediately enter standby mode.

Cisco UCS B440 High Performance Blade Server Installation and Service Note