Table Of Contents - IBM LS20 - BladeCenter - 8850 Installation And User Manual
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Also See for LS20 - BladeCenter - 8850:
- Configuration and options manual (548 pages) ,
- Deployment manual (54 pages) ,
- Service manual (116 pages)
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Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The IBM Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Notices and statements used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
What your LS20 Type 8850 blade server offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Major components of the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Turning on the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Turning off the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
The control panel buttons and LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Chapter 3. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Opening the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Removing the blade server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing a SCSI hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Removing a SCSI hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Installing an additional microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Installing an I/O expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Input/output connectors and devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 4. Configuring the blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Firmware updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Blade server Ethernet controller enumeration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Configuring a SCSI RAID array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 5. Installing the operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing a small-form-factor expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Installing a standard-form-factor expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Installing the blade server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Closing the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Installing the blade server in a BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Updating the blade server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Configuration/Setup Utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using the LSI Logic Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using the ServeRAID configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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