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2 Installing the Expansion Card
This chapter provides detailed instructions for installing the Expansion Card in your blade server.
Installation guidelines
Before you begin installing the Expansion Card in your blade server, read the following information:
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Read the safety information beginning on page v. This information will help you work safely with your
blade server and options.
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Have a small flat-blade screwdriver and a Phillips* screwdriver available.
Handling static-sensitive devices
Attention: Static electricity can damage electronic devices, including your blade server. To avoid damage,
keep static-sensitive devices in their static-protective packages until you are ready to install them.
To reduce the possibility of damage from electrostatic discharge, observe the following precautions:
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Limit your movement. Movement can cause static electricity to build up around you.
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Handle the device carefully, holding it by its edges or its frame.
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Do not touch solder joints, pins, or exposed circuitry.
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Do not leave the device where others can handle and damage it.
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While the device is still in its static-protective package, touch it to an unpainted metal part of the SBCE
unit for at least 2 seconds. This drains static electricity from the package and from your body.
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Remove the device from its package and install it directly into the blade server without setting down the
device. If it is necessary to set down the device, place it back into its static-protective package. Do not
place the device on your blade server cover or on a metal surface.
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Take additional care when handling devices during cold weather. Heating reduces indoor humidity and
increases static electricity.
Installing the Expansion Card
Complete the following steps to install the Expansion Card in a blade server:
1.
Review the safety information beginning on page v
Safety Information book that is provided in PDF on the Resource
server.
2.
Read "Handling static-sensitive devices."
Ensure that one Fibre Channel Switch Module is installed in switch-module bay 3 or bay 4 in the
3.
SBCE unit. See the Intel
installation instructions.
NOTE
You must install at least one Fibre Channel switch module in the SBCE unit when you install the
Fibre Channel Expansion Card in a blade server. Installing a second Fibre Channel switch module
in the SBCE unit provides a backup switch in case one switch module fails.
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and the Intel Server Boards and Server Chassis
®
Server Switch Module SBCEFCSW Installation Guide for detailed
CD that comes with your blade
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