Table Of Contents - IBM x3550 - System - 7978 Installation Manual

Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM System x Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Major components of the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 2. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Removing the server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Removing air baffles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Installing a hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Replacing a riser-card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Replacing the RAID SAS controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installing a microprocessor
Installing a Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 3. Server controls, LEDs, connectors, and power . . . . . . . . 29
Front view
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 4. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Configuring hot-swap SAS or hot-swap SATA RAID . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Configuring simple-swap SATA RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using the baseboard management controller utility program . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 5. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Working inside the server with the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Installing a simple-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Replacing the server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Updating the server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using the IBM ServeRAID Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . 36
Using ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . 39
Enabling and configuring SOL using the OSA SMBridge management utility
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Installing the OSA SMBridge management utility program . . . . . . . . 49
Using the baseboard management controller utility programs . . . . . . . 51
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