Table Of Contents - IBM QS21 - BladeCenter - 0792 Service Manual

Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Notices and statements used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Support for local storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Turning on the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Turning off the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Blade server controls and LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
System board LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
System board internal and expansion card connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2. Configuring the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Communicating with the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Updating the system and BMC firmware
Updating the optional expansion card firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Integrating the Gigabit Ethernet controller into the BladeCenter . . . . . . . 23
Updating the Ethernet controller firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Blade server Ethernet controller enumeration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 3. Parts listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Replaceable components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 4. Installing and removing replaceable units
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Removing the blade server from the BladeCenter unit
Opening and removing the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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Using the Advanced Management Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using the Web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using the command-line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using Serial over LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using the serial interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using the SMS utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Starting SMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Viewing FRU information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Adding FRU information
Updating steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Determining current blade server firmware levels . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Updating the BMC firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using the BMC update package
Using the Advanced Management Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing the system firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The firmware update package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Using the package
Updating the system firmware automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Installing the firmware manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Updating the system firmware images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Using the update package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Firmware update steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Removing the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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