Chapter 3. Installing A Management Module; Installation Guidelines; System Reliability Guidelines - IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module Installation Manual

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Chapter 3. Installing a management module

See the Installation and User's Guide that comes with your BladeCenter unit type

for specific management-module bay locations and installation information.

Before you install the management module, read the following information:

v Read the safety information that begins on page v and "Handling

static-sensitive devices" on page 12, and read the safety statements in the

BladeCenter unit documentation.

v The orange color on components and labels in your BladeCenter unit

identifies hot-swap components. You can install or remove hot-swap

modules and, with some restrictions, hot-swap blade servers while the

BladeCenter unit is running. For details about installing or removing a

management module, see the detailed information in this chapter.

v For a list of supported options for your BladeCenter unit, see

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/.

To help ensure proper BladeCenter cooling and system reliability, make sure

that the following requirements are met:

v Each of the module bays on the front and rear of the BladeCenter unit has

either a module or a module filler installed.

v Each of the blade server bays on the front of the BladeCenter unit has either

a blade server or a blade filler installed.

v Each of the drive bays in a blade-server storage expansion option has either

a hot-swap drive or a panel filler installed.

v Replace a removed hot-swap module, blade server, or drive within 1 minute

of removal.

v Route cables for optional modules according to the documents that come

with the modules.

v Replace a failed blower as soon as possible to restore cooling redundancy.

See the BladeCenter Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide

for instructions.

Failure to replace a blade server or module with another blade server, module,

blade filler, or module filler within 1 minute can affect performance in the

blade servers.

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