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Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The IBM Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What your dx340 system-board tray offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Reliability, availability, and serviceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The UpdateXpress program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 2. Components, features, and controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
System-board tray components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Flexible chassis features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Hardware configuration examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Operator panel controls, LEDs, connectors, and power . . . . . . . . . . 20
Rear connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Turning on the system-board tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Turning off the system-board tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Chapter 3. Installing optional devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Removing a 3U chassis from an iDataPlex rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Removing a system-board tray from a 2U chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Removing a system-board tray from a 3U chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Removing the system-board tray cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Removing a hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installing a hard disk drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Completing the installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
System-board connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
System-board switches and jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2U compute server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2U input/output server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2U storage server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3U storage server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Removing a 3.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Removing a 3.5-inch simple-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Removing a 2.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Installing an adapter in a one-slot riser card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Installing an adapter in a two-slot riser card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Installing a 3.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Installing a 2.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Reinstalling the system-board tray cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Reinstalling an expansion enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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