Table Of Contents - IBM HS21 - BladeCenter - 8853 User Manual
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Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The IBM Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What your blade server offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Major components of the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 2. Power, controls, and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Turning on the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Turning off the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Blade server connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 3. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Opening the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Removing an expansion unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Removing the blade server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Installing a SAS hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Removing a SAS hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Installing an additional microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installing a Concurrent KVM Feature Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Installing an I/O-expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Installing an expansion unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Input/output connectors and devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Chapter 4. Configuring the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing a small-form-factor expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Installing a standard-form-factor expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installing a high-speed expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Installing the blade server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Closing the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Installing the blade server in a BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Updating the blade server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Configuration/Setup Utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Setup and configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Typical operating-system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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