Installing An Emx0 Pcie Gen3 I/O Expansion Drawer; Installing Or Setting Up An Emx0 Pcie3 Expansion Drawer; Preparing To Install Or Set Up An Emx0 Pcie3 Expansion Drawer - IBM EMX0 PCIe3 Installing

Installing an EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer

Learn how to install an EMX0 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer (EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer) into a
rack or remove the shipping bracket from a preinstalled EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer. Then, learn how
to connect the EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer to your system.
Notes:
v If you have a 9080-MHE, 9080-MME, 9119-MHE, or 9119-MME system and it is being installed at the
same time as your EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer, the service provider completes the installation of
the EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer. If you already have the 9080-MHE, 9080-MME, 9119-MHE, or
9119-MME system installed, and you have ordered an EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer, the installation
and setup of the EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer is a customer task. You can complete this task
yourself, or contact a service provider to complete the task for you for a fee.
v If you have any other type of system, the installation and setup of the EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer
is a customer task. You can complete this task yourself, or contact a service provider to complete the
task for you for a fee.

Installing or setting up an EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer

Learn how to install an EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer into a rack or set up a preinstalled EMX0 PCIe3
expansion drawer.
Complete the following tasks to install or set up an EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer:

1. Preparing to install or set up an EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer

2. Completing inventory for the EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer
3. Determining and marking the location in the rack
4. Attaching the mounting hardware to the rack
5. Installing the EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer into the rack
Preparing to install or set up an EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer
Learn about the prerequisites for installing your EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer.
Important: Changing the cable configuration of an existing EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer or drawers
can result in unintended I/O configuration changes, including a change to the bus numbers assigned to
existing expansion drawers. When bus numbers change, partition profiles cannot find existing I/O
resources.
To prepare to install an EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer, complete the following steps:
1. Ensure that you have a PCIe3 cable adapter installed in the host system before you install the EMX0
PCIe3 expansion drawer. For all systems except the 8408-44E system that has an installation of system
firmware FW860.10 or later installed, or the 9080-MHE, 9080-MME, 9119-MHE, or 9119-MME system
that has an installation of system firmware FW840.xx or later installed, you must power off the
system to install the PCIe3 cable adapter.
To install another PCIe3 cable adapter to accommodate an EMX0 PCIe3 expansion drawer, see the
following topics:
v If you must power off the system to install a PCIe adapter in your system, see PCIe
adapters (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER8/p8hak/pciadapters.htm).
v If you can install a PCIe adapter when the system power is turned on, see Installing a part by using
the HMC (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER8/p8haj/hmcinstall.htm).
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