Removing And Installing A Ucs B200 Blade Server; Shutting Down And Powering Off A Blade Server - Cisco UCS B200 Installation And Service Note

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Removing and Installing a UCS B200 Blade Server

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Push the hard drive lever into the closed position.
Step 3
You can use UCS Manager to format and configure RAID services. refer to the UCS Manager
configuration guide for your software release for details on RAID configuration.
If you need to move a RAID cluster, refer to the
Server Hardware" chapter of the Cisco UCS Troubleshooting Guide.
Removing and Installing a UCS B200 Blade Server
Before performing any internal operation on a blade server, you must remove it from the chassis. To
prevent ESD damage, wear grounding wrist straps during these procedures and handle modules by the
carrier edges only.
Caution
To prevent ESD damage, wear grounding wrist straps during these procedures and handle modules by
the carrier edges only.

Shutting Down and Powering Off A Blade Server

The server can run in two power modes:
After establishing a connection to the blade server's operating system, you can directly shut down the
blade server using the operating system.
You can invoke a graceful shutdown or an emergency shutdown (hard shutdown) by using either of the
following methods:
Check the color of the Power Status LED.
Step 1
Invoke either a graceful shutdown or a hard shutdown:
Step 2
To avoid data loss or damage to your operating system, you should always invoke a graceful shutdown
Caution
of the operating system.
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Main power mode—Power is supplied to all server components and any operating system on your
hard drives can run.
Standby power mode—Power is supplied only to the service processor and the cooling fans and it
is safe to power off the server from this mode.
Use the UCS Manager. See either the Cisco UCS Manager GUI Configuration Guide or the Cisco
UCS Manager CLI Configuration Guide.
Use the Power button on the server front panel. To use the Power button, follow these steps:
Green indicates that the server is in main power mode and must be shut down before it can be safely
powered off. Go to Step 2.
Amber indicates that the server is already in standby mode and can be safely powered off. Go to
Step 3.
Moving a RAID Cluster
section of the "Troubleshooting
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