Table Of Contents - IBM BladeCenter QS20 Installation And User Manual

Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The BladeCenter QS20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The BladeCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Notices and statements used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2. Blade server power, controls, and indicators . . . . . . . . . 9
Turning on the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Turning off the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Blade server controls and LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
System-board internal and option connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Chapter 3. Preparing the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Preinstallation checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 4. Installing the blade server in the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . 17
Installing the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 5. Installing and removing replaceable units
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Removing the blade server from the BladeCenter unit
Opening the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Removing the blade-server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Installing the IDE hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Installing InfiniBand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Replacing the battery
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Input/output connectors and devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 6. Configuring the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Communicating with the blade server
Using the command-line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using the serial interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Starting the management and configuration program in the Management Module 47
Integrating the Gigabit Ethernet controllers into the BladeCenter . . . . . . . 47
Blade server Ethernet controller enumeration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Upgrading the system firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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Power modules and power module bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
InfiniBand package content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
What you need to install InfiniBand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Installing InfiniBand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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Installing the blade server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Closing the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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