Table Of Contents - IBM 8678 Installation And User Manual

Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notices and statements used in this book
What your IBM BladeCenter HS20 Type 8678 offers
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Major components of the BladeCenter HS20 Type 8678 blade server . . . . . 7
System board illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2. Blade server power, controls, and indicators . . . . . . . . 11
Turning on the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Turning off the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Blade server controls and LEDs
Chapter 3. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Removing the blade server from the BladeCenter unit
Opening the blade server cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Removing the blade server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing IDE hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing memory modules
Installing an additional microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installing an I/O expansion option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Installing a SCSI storage expansion unit
Installing a SCSI hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Replacing a SCSI hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Replacing the battery
Completing the installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Input/output connectors and devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 4. Configuring your blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program
Using the PXE Boot Agent Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Using Remote Deployment Manager Version 3.1.01 or later . . . . . . . . 43
Updating the service processor firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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System board LED locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Switches and jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
System reliability considerations
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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Installing the blade server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Closing the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Installing the blade server in the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Updating your blade server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Configuration/Setup Utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Power-on password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Starting the PXE Boot Agent Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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