Cabling The Server With Keyboard, Video, And Mouse; Cabling The Server And Connecting Expansion Units; Completing The Server Setup - IBM S812L Installing

7. Continue with "Cabling the server and connecting expansion units."

Cabling the server with keyboard, video, and mouse:

Before you start the system, you might need to connect the keyboard, video, and mouse to the system, if
a graphics card is present.
To connect the keyboard, video, and mouse, complete the following steps:
1. Locate the graphics card and Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports at the rear of the system. You might
need a connector converter.
2. Connect the monitor cable to the graphics card.
3. Connect a keyboard and mouse to the blue USB 3.0 ports.
4. Power on the console.
5. Continue with "Cabling the server and connecting expansion units."

Cabling the server and connecting expansion units

Learn how to cable the server and to connect expansion units.
To cable the server and to connect expansion units, complete the following steps:
1. Complete the following steps:
a. Plug the power cord into the power supply.
b. Plug the system power cords and the power cords for any other attached devices into the power
source.
c. If your system uses a power distribution unit (PDU), complete the following steps:
1) Connect the system power cords from the server and I/O drawers to the PDU with an IEC 320
type receptacle.
2) Attach the PDU input power cord and plug it into the power source.
3) If your system uses two PDUs for redundancy, complete the following steps:
v If your system has two power supplies, attach one power supply to each of the two PDUs.
v If your system has four power supplies, plug E1 and E2 to PDU A and E3 and E4 to PDU
B.
Note: Confirm that the system is in standby mode. The green power status indicator on the
front control panel is flashing, and the dc out indicator lights on the power supplies are
flashing. If none of the indicators are flashing, check the power cord connections.
2. For information about connecting enclosures and expansion units, see Enclosures and expansion units
(http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER8/p8ham/p8ham_kickoff.htm).

Completing the server setup

Learn about the tasks you must complete to set up your managed system.
One of the tasks you can perform to complete your server setup is to virtualize your server. IBM
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PowerKVM is an open virtualization solution that is offered for the Power
servers built on POWER8
PowerKVM delivers server virtualization based on open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
Linux technology. PowerKVM virtualization technology enables you to share real compute, memory, and
I/O resources through server virtualization. These virtual resources are used by virtual machines running
on the PowerKVM virtualized server.
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