Table Of Contents - IBM HC10 - BladeCenter - 7996 Installation And User Manual

Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The IBM Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What your blade workstation offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Major components of the blade workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 2. Power, controls, jumpers, switches, and indicators . . . . . . 11
Turning on the blade workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Turning off the blade workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
The control panel buttons and LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
System-board connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
System-board switches and jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 3. Installing optional devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Removing the blade workstation from the BladeCenter unit
Opening the blade workstation cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Removing the blade workstation bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing a SATA storage drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Removing a SATA storage drive
Installing memory modules
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Input/output connectors and devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 4. Configuring the blade workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Changing the IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Establishing a session between the blade workstation and the thin client
Updating the compression card firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program
Using the Boot Menu program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing the blade workstation bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Closing the blade workstation cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installing the blade workstation in a BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . 24
Updating the blade workstation configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Changing the compression card IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program to change the compression
card IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using another computer to change the compression card IP address . . . 29
Changing the thin client IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Changing the blade workstation IP address for the integrated Ethernet
controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Changing the IP address for the SOL function . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Configuration/Setup Utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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