Installing A Standard-Form-Factor Expansion Card - Intel SBXD132 - Server Compute Blade Installation And User Manual

Installing a Standard-form-factor Expansion Card

If a SAS drive is connected to SAS connector 1 (J137), you must remove it and the SAS
drive tray before you can install a standard-form-factor expansion card and expansion
card bracket on the system board (see
You cannot have both a drive that is connected to SAS connector 1 and a standard-form-
factor expansion card installed in the system board of the blade server. If you are
removing the SAS disk drive, backup any information on it that you want to keep to
another storage device.
If the SAS hard disk drive that is installed in SAS connector 1 is part of a RAID array,
delete the SAS RAID array before removing the drive. When you delete the RAID array,
the array configuration information is removed, but no data is deleted.
The following illustration shows how to install a standard-form-factor expansion card.
To install a standard-form-factor expansion card, complete the following steps:
1. Read the safety information beginning on page
page
2. Shut down the operating system, turn off the blade server, and remove the blade server
from the SBCE unit (see
Chassis SBCE" on page 16
3. Carefully lay the blade server on a flat, static-protective surface.
4. Open the cover (see
5. If a Memory and I/O Expansion Blade is installed and you are installing the expansion
card on the system board, remove the expansion blade (see
Unit" on page
6. If you are installing the expansion card in the system board and a drive is connected to
SAS connector 1, remove the drive and tray (see
on page 21
board. Store the screws in a safe place.
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Standard-form-factor
expansion card
Expansion
card
bracket
15.
"Removing the Blade Server from the Intel
for instructions).
"Opening the Blade Server Cover" on page 17
18).
for instructions), and save the screws that secure the tray to the system
Intel® Server Compute Blade SBXD132 Installation and User's Guide
"Removing a SAS Hard Disk Drive" on page
Hard disk
drive tray
vii and "Installation Guidelines" on
"Removing a SAS Hard Disk Drive"
21).
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Blade Server
for instructions).
"Removing an Expansion