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Installing the blade server
Complete the following steps to install a blade server into the BladeCenter unit:
Release-
handles
open
Figure 7. Inserting the blade server into the BladeCenter unit
10. If this is the initial installation of the blade server, install the operating system.
11. Check http://www.ibm.com/support/us/en/ for any software or firmware updates.
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BladeCenter QS22 Type 0793: Installation and User's Guide
1. Read the safety information beginning on page vii and "Installation guidelines"
on page 19.
2. If you have not done so already, install any options. See Chapter 4, "Installing
and removing replaceable units," on page 19 for further information.
3. Select the bay for the blade server.
4. If the bay that you selected contains blade fillers, remove the blade fillers.
When you remove blade fillers from a blade bay in the BladeCenter unit do not
discard the blade fillers. You need the blade fillers if you ever remove the
blade server or during repair or upgrades.
For future use, store the blade fillers in a static-protective environment.
To help ensure proper cooling, performance, and system reliability, do not
operate the BladeCenter unit for more than 1 minute without a blade server or
blade fillers installed in each blade bay.
5. Make sure that the release levers on the blade server are in the open position
(perpendicular to the blade server).
6. Slide the blade server into the bay until it stops. The spring-loaded doors
further back in the bay that cover the bay opening move out of the way as you
insert the blade server.
7. Push the release levers on the front of the blade server to the closed position.
8. A set of user labels comes with the BladeCenter unit. Use them to write
identifying information for each blade server; then place the label on the
BladeCenter unit. See your BladeCenter unit documentation for the exact
location.
Important: Do not place the label on the blade server or in any way block the
ventilation holes on the blade server.
9. Turn on the blade server (see "Turning on the blade server" on page 9). The
power-on LED on the blade server changes from the slowly-flashing state to a
continuously lit (steady) state.
Use the installation instructions that come with the operating system. For more
information, see Chapter 6, "Installing the operating system," on page 55.
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