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BladeCenter unit, view the publications on the Documentation CD. You can also find the most current information about your BladeCenter unit and servers on the IBM Web site at: http://www.ibm.com/pc/support Install the BladeCenter unit in the rack. Install and...
RAID code. You can download this code at http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/ Server Support Register your computer. Go to http://www.ibm.com/pc/register/ View information about IBM support line at http://www.ibm.com/services/sl/products/ or view support telephone numbers at http://www.ibm.com/planetwide/ Problem solved? View support telephone numbers at http://www.ibm.com/planetwide/...
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Antes de instalar este producto, lea la información de seguridad. Läs säkerhetsinformationen innan du installerar den här produkten. Statement 1: DANGER Electrical current from power, telephone, and communication cables is hazardous. To avoid a shock hazard: v Do not connect or disconnect any cables or perform installation, maintenance, or reconfiguration of this product during an electrical storm.
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Statement 2: CAUTION: When replacing the lithium battery, use only IBM Part Number 33F8354 or an equivalent type battery recommended by the manufacturer. If your system has a module containing a lithium battery, replace it only with the same module type made by the same manufacturer.
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Statement 4: ≥ 18 kg (39.7 lb) ≥ 32 kg (70.5 lb) ≥ 55 kg (121.2 lb) CAUTION: Use safe practices when lifting. Statement 5: CAUTION: The power control button on the device and the power switch on the power supply do not turn off the electrical current supplied to the device.
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Statement 8: CAUTION: Never remove the cover on a power supply or any part that has the following label attached. Hazardous voltage, current, and energy levels are present inside any component that has this label attached. There are no serviceable parts inside these components.
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Statement 20: CAUTION: To avoid personal injury, before lifting the unit, remove all the blades to reduce the weight. Statement 21: CAUTION: Hazardous energy is present when the blade is connected to the power source. Always replace the blade cover before installing the blade. BladeCenter Type 8677: Installation and User’s Guide...
Record information about your BladeCenter unit in the following table. You will need this information when you register your BladeCenter unit with IBM. 1. Enterprise X-Architecture technology takes full advantage of existing IBM technologies to build powerful, scalable, and reliable Intel processor-based servers. For more information about IBM Enterprise X-Architecture, go to http://www.ibm.com/pc/us/eserver/xseries/xarchitecture/index.html.
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User label Important: Do not place the label on the blade server itself or in any way block the ventilation holes on the blade server. BladeCenter Type 8677: Installation and User’s Guide...
100 MHz Intel Pentium v 32 MB RAM. v Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later. Adobe Acrobat Reader software is included on the documentation CD, and you can install it when you run the IBM Documentation Browser. Starting the IBM Documentation Browser Use one of the following procedures to start the Documentation Browser: v If Autostart is enabled, insert the documentation CD into your CD-ROM drive.
BladeCenter unit, and how to get help. In addition to this Installation and User’s Guide, the following documentation is provided in PDF on the IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD that comes with your BladeCenter unit: v Safety Information: This publication contains translated caution and danger statements.
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Additional publications might be included on the IBM BladeCenter Documentation Chapter 1. Introduction...
2. For information about which types of I/O modules can be installed in which I/O-module bays, see “I/O modules” on page 16. 3. The operating system in the blade server must provide USB support for the blade server to recognize and use the keyboard, mouse, CD-ROM drive, and diskette drive.
Notices and statements used in this book The caution and danger statements that appear in this book are also in the multilingual Safety Information book, which is on the IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD. Each statement is numbered for reference to the corresponding statement in the Safety Information book.
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I/O-module bays 3 and 4 identically provides support for the failover configured on the I/O expansion options. Other network-interface I/O expansion options, such as the IBM HS20 Fibre Channel Expansion Card, can have similar capability for redundant network connections.
(RAS). These factors help to ensure the integrity of the data stored on your blade server; that your blade server is available when you want to use it; and that should a failure occur, you can easily diagnose and repair the failure with minimal inconvenience.
Diskette Front bezel drive Attention: either a module or a filler module; each blade bay must contain either a blade server or a filler blade. BladeCenter Type 8677: Installation and User’s Guide Blade server Media Blade server with tray...
Front view Blade control panel See Chapter 3, “BladeCenter unit power, controls, and indicators”, on page 29 for details about these components and indicators. Rear view I/O module bay 3 I/O module 2 I/O module bay 4 See Chapter 3, “BladeCenter unit power, controls, and indicators”, on page 29 for details about these components and indicators.
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Each of the blade bays on the front of the BladeCenter unit has either a blade server or filler blade installed. v Each of the drive bays in a blade server storage expansion option has either a hot-swap drive or a filler panel installed.
The chassis and the active management module supply I/O (diskette drive, CD-ROM drive, USB port, keyboard, video, and mouse) that is available to all the blade servers, selected by any one blade server at a time. The chassis can contain up to 14 blade servers.
For blade server communication with the network, your BladeCenter unit supports from one to four hot-swap I/O modules. Table 2 identifies the type of I/O module you can install in each I/O-module bay. Go to the IBM Support Web site at http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/ to see the list of supported I/O modules.
2. The routing of an Ethernet controller to a particular I/O-module bay depends on the type of blade server. You can verify which Ethernet controller is routed to which I/O-module bay by using the following test: a.
Each pair of power modules is redundant. If either power module fails, the remaining power module continues to supply power, but there is no redundancy; the failed power module must be replaced as soon as possible. Important: 1. The power modules in a pair must match each other in capacity (wattage, amperage, and so forth).
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Statement 8: CAUTION: Never remove the cover on a power supply or any part that has the following label attached. Hazardous voltage, current, and energy levels are present inside any component that has this label attached. There are no serviceable parts inside these components.
Removing a module Complete the following steps to remove a power module, management module, or I/O module. See the Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide on the BladeCenter Documentation CD for information about replacing a blower module. Note: These instructions assume the BladeCenter unit is connected to power. Statement 8: CAUTION: Never remove the cover on a power supply or any part that has the following...
(See the documentation that comes with the blade server for instructions for shutting down the blade server operating system and turning off the blade server.) b. If you are removing a management module, you might prefer to stop all management module local and remote sessions before proceeding, to avoid unexpected termination of sessions.
Installing and removing blade servers Your BladeCenter unit supports up to 14 high-performance blade servers. Each blade server is an enclosure that contains microprocessors, memory, a control chip set, an I/O bus, Ethernet controllers, hard disk drives, and customer interface controls, and connectors for expansion options.
Some blade servers contain connectors for options that add capabilities to the blade server. You can add these options before installing the blade server in the BladeCenter unit. Go to http://www.ibm.com/pc/compat/ on the World Wide Web for a list of available options for your IBM blade server. I/O expansion option Some blade servers have connectors for adding an I/O expansion option, such as the IBM HS20 Fibre Channel Expansion Card.
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If a blade server has a SCSI storage expansion option installed on it, the blade server and expansion option require two adjacent blade bays. b. If you install a blade server or option in bay 7 through 14, you must install power modules in power bays 3 and 4.
You might need to reconfigure the blade server. If this is the initial installation for a blade server in the BladeCenter unit, you need to configure the blade server with the blade server Configuration/Setup Utility program and install the blade server operating system.
5. Place either a filler blade or another blade server in the bay within one minute. The spring-loaded doors will move out of the way as you insert the blade server or filler blade. Completing the installation After you connect the cables to the modules and route the cables (if necessary, see...
Video connector Your BladeCenter management module contains one standard video connector. The integrated video controller on each blade server is compatible with SVGA and VGA and communicates through this video port. Use this connector to connect a video monitor to the BladeCenter unit.
The following illustration shows the Ethernet connector that is on the management module. I/O-module connectors See the documentation that comes with each I/O module for a description of the connectors on the I/O module. BladeCenter Type 8677: Installation and User’s Guide...
1. If a power failure occurs, the BladeCenter unit restarts automatically when power is restored. 2. The blade server power button turns on or turns off the blade server if local power control has not been disabled through the management module.
Diskette-eject button: Press this button to release a diskette from the drive. Blade control panel: This panel contains indicators and controls for the blade server. See the documentation that comes with your blade server for information about the blade control panel.
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System service card: This card contains system service instructions and a writable area for your use. Writeable area BladeCenter Type 8677: Installation and User’s Guide System service card...
Blower LEDs: The LED on each blower provides status information about the blower. For additional information, see the “Light Path Diagnostics” section in the BladeCenter Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide on the IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD. I/O module 1...
Power module LEDs: These green LEDs indicate the condition of the power module. For additional information, see the “Light Path Diagnostics” section in the BladeCenter Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide on the IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD. v AC power: When this LED is lit, ac input to the power module is present and within specifications.
For additional information, see the “Light Path Diagnostics” section in the Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide on the IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD. v Power-on: When this green LED is lit, the management module has power.
An LED on one of the components or on a blade server is also lit to further isolate the error. (For more information, see the Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide on the IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD.)
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Activating On Demand blade servers Note: The IBM Director program is a system-management product that comes with the BladeCenter unit. To configure the remote alert recipients for IBM Director over LAN, the remote alert recipient must be an IBM Director-enabled server.
(DHCP) server on the network, the host name, IP address, gateway address, subnet mask, and DNS server IP address are set automatically. v If the DHCP server does not respond within 2 minutes after the port is connected, the management module uses the static IP address and subnet address.
Console main window) that represents the BladeCenter unit. If the BladeCenter management module IP address is known, the network administrator can create an IBM Director managed object for the unit. If the IP address is not known, the IBM Director software can automatically discover the BladeCenter unit (out-of-band, using the Ethernet port on the BladeCenter management module) and create a managed object for the unit.
For the IBM Director software to discover the BladeCenter unit, your network must initially provide connectivity from the IBM Director server to the BladeCenter management-module Ethernet port. To establish connectivity, the management module attempts to use DHCP to acquire its initial IP address for the Ethernet port.
4. Shut down the blade server, insert a DOS startable diskette into the diskette drive, and then restart the blade server. 5. When the A:\ prompt appears, turn off the blade server using the power-control button. 6. Issue the Wake on LAN command (magic packet) from the remote computer.
The BladeCenter management and configuration window opens. Note: The upper left corner of the management and configuration window shows the location and identity of the active management module. Management and configuration program options From the management and configuration program main menu, you can select settings that you want to view or change.
Control → Configuration File). Note: If you cannot communicate with a replacement management module through the Web interface or the IBM Director programs, the IP address might be different from the IP address of the management module just removed. Press the IP reset button to set the management module to the factory default IP addresses;...
BladeCenter units. In addition to performing initial configuration on BladeCenter units, you can use the built-in IBM Director tasks in the wizard to modify the configuration and to set up more advanced features. You can also create a reusable profile in the wizard for configuring or reconfiguring BladeCenter units.
You can use the Remote Deployment Manager (RDM) Version 4.1 (or later) program to install a supported Microsoft Windows operating system or a BIOS update onto a blade server. Follow the instructions in the documentation that comes with the RDM program to log into the BladeCenter system and install a supported Microsoft Windows operating system or BIOS update.
IP address. See the documentation that comes with the switch module for more information. You can configure the IP addresses, subnet mask, and protocols through the IBM BladeCenter Deployment Wizard, which is a function of the IBM Director product.
Ethernet switches. You do not need to set any jumpers or configure the controller for the blade server operating system. However, you must install a device driver in the blade server to enable the blade server operating system to address the Ethernet controller.
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A typical, preferred BladeCenter network topology is shown in the following illustration. See the IBM Eserver BladeCenter Planning and Installation Guide for more information and other topologies and guidelines. 1 Gbps or...
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9 10 11 12 13 14 external switches Mgmt L2+ Switch Switch B Switch A 9 10 11 12 13 14 Mgmt Switch B IBM Director - Chassis management - Application deployment - Internal switches Establishment backbone Network administrator - Infrastructure management - Network hardware...
I/O modules; no user intervention is required. Some resources are selectable for use by a single blade server at a time, such as the CD-ROM drive, diskette drive, and USB port unit (media tray), or the keyboard-video-mouse unit.
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NVRAM values to reestablish ownership of the KVM and media tray (CD-ROM drive, diskette drive, and USB port). After that, the video from the blade server that is the current KVM owner is displayed on the monitor.
The system diagnostic program, Real Time Diagnostics Version 1.3, tests the major components of your BladeCenter unit. It is run from the IBM Director Management Console window (under the BladeCenter task in the Task panel).
Note: The monitor screen remains blank until directed to a blade server that is turned on; this is normal behavior. Some IBM monitors have their own self-tests. If you suspect a problem with your monitor, see the information that comes with the monitor for instructions for testing and adjusting the monitor.
3. An enhanced monitor cable with additional shielding is available for the 9521 and If the problem remains, call for service. All other symptoms Troubleshoot the blade server that is the current owner of the keyboard, video, and monitor. Power problems...
LEDs on the blade server). a. If the component is a module, replace the module. b. If the component is a blade server with its system error LED lit, follow the instructions in the documentation that comes with the blade server to isolate and correct the problem.
– If the error LED is on a module, follow the instructions for the module in this table. – If the error LED is on a blade server, see the documentation that comes with the blade server. v If your BladeCenter unit has only one management module: 1.
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Table 3. Light path diagnostics (continued) Lit LED Cause Power module System error A critical error has occurred in the power module. Blower module System error The blower has failed or is operating too slowly. I/O module System error A critical error has occurred in the I/O module. BladeCenter Type 8677: Installation and User’s Guide Action Reseat the power module.
If you need help, service, or technical assistance or just want more information about IBM products, you will find a wide variety of sources available from IBM to assist you. This appendix contains information about where to go for additional...
Setting up e-mail notification of technical updates about your products Software service and support Through IBM Support Line, you can get telephone assistance, for a fee, with usage, configuration, and software problems with Eserver BladeCenter units, xSeries servers, IntelliStation workstations, and appliances. For information about which products are supported by Support Line in your country or region, go to http://www.ibm.com/services/sl/products/.
Country-unique Terms, and Part 3 - Warranty Information. The terms of Part 2 replace or modify those of Part 1. The warranties provided by IBM in this Statement of Limited Warranty apply only to Machines you purchase for your use, and not for resale.
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Machine Code or software updates, or with a CRU, IBM or your reseller, if approved by IBM to provide warranty service, will either, at its discretion, 1) repair it to make it function as warranted, or 2) replace it with one that is at least functionally equivalent.
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Personal Data. Limitation of Liability IBM is responsible for loss of, or damage to, your Machine only while it is 1) in IBM’s possession or 2) in transit in those cases where IBM is responsible for the transportation charges.
TO YOU. Governing Law Both you and IBM consent to the application of the laws of the country in which you acquired the Machine to govern, interpret, and enforce all of your and IBM’s rights, duties, and obligations arising from, or relating in any manner to, the subject matter of this Statement of Limited Warranty, without regard to conflict of law principles.
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Limitation of Liability: The following is added to this section: Where IBM is in breach of a condition or warranty implied by the Trade Practices Act 1974 or other similar legislation, IBM’s liability is limited to the repair or replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods.
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2. as to any other actual damage arising in any situation involving nonperformance by IBM pursuant to, or in any way related to the subject of this Statement of Limited Warranty, the charge paid by you for the individual Machine that is the subject of the claim.
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Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 or other legislation which cannot be excluded or limited. The Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 will not apply in respect of any goods which IBM provides, if you require the goods for the purposes of a business as defined in that Act.
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Yugoslavia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, or Ukraine, you may obtain warranty service for that Machine in any of those countries from either (1) an IBM reseller approved to perform warranty service or (2) from IBM.
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Statement of Limited Warranty to the jurisdiction of the English courts. Arbitration: The following is added under this heading: In Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, FYR Macedonia, Moldova, Appendix B. IBM Statement of Limited Warranty Z125-4753-07 11/2002...
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598 (2) of the Austrian Code of Civil Procedure, the parties expressly waive the application of paragraph 595 (1) figure 7 of the Code. IBM may, however, institute proceedings in a competent court in the country of installation.
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In case IBM or your reseller is unable to repair an IBM Machine, you can alternatively ask for a partial refund as far as justified by the reduced value of the unrepaired Machine or ask for a cancellation of the respective agreement for such Machine and get your money refunded.
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Limitation of Liability: The following replaces item 2 in this section: as to any other actual direct damages, IBM’s liability will be limited to the total amount you paid for the Machine that is the subject of the claim. For purposes of this item, the term “Machine”...
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For the purposes of this section, a “Default” means any act, statement, omission, or negligence on the part of IBM in connection with, or in relation to, the subject matter of this Statement of Limited Warranty in respect of which IBM is legally liable to you, whether in contract or tort.
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For the purposes of this section, a “Default” means any act, statement, omission, or negligence on the part of IBM in connection with, or in relation to, the subject matter of this Statement of Limited Warranty in respect of which IBM is legally liable to you, whether in contract or tort.
* See “Types of Warranty Service” for the legend and explanations of warranty-service types. A warranty period of 3 years on parts and 1 year on labor means that IBM provides warranty service without charge for: 1. parts and labor during the first year of the warranty period; and 2.
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IBM will ship CRU parts to you for your replacement. If IBM instructs you to return the replaced CRU, you are responsible for returning it to IBM in accordance with IBM’s instructions. If you do not return the defective CRU, if IBM so instructs, within 30 days of your receipt of the replacement CRU, IBM may charge you for the replacement.
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IBM makes no representations or warranties with respect to non-IBM products. Support (if any) for the non-IBM products is provided by the third party, not IBM. Some software may differ from its retail version (if available), and may not include user manuals or all program functionality.
Properly shielded and grounded cables and connectors must be used in order to meet FCC emission limits. Properly shielded and grounded cables and connectors must be used in order to meet FCC emission limits.IBM is not responsible for any radio or television interference caused by using other than recommended cables and connectors or by using other than recommended cables and connectors or by unauthorized changes or modifications to this equipment.
Japanese Voluntary Control Council for Interference (VCCI) statement Power cords For your safety, IBM provides a power cord with a grounded attachment plug to use with this IBM product. To avoid electrical shock, always use the power cord and plug with a properly grounded outlet.
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The cord set should have the appropriate safety approvals for the country in which the equipment will be installed. IBM power cords for a specific country or region are usually available only in that country or region.
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IBM power cord part number Used in these countries and regions 14F0087 Israel 1838574 Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Caicos Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guam, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras,...
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