Table Of Contents - IBM HS40 - BladeCenter - 8839 Installation And User Manual

Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The IBM BladeCenter and BladeCenter T Documentation CDs . . . . . . . . 7
Notices and statements used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
What your IBM BladeCenter HS40 Type 8839 offers
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Major components of the BladeCenter HS40 Type 8839 blade server . . . . . 11
Processor board components
I/O board components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
LED locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Switches and jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 2. Power, controls, and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Turning on the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Turning off the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Controls and LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 3. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Removing the blade server from the BladeCenter unit
Opening the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Removing the blade server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Installing an IDE drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installing memory modules
Installing an additional microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Installing an I/O expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installing a PCI I/O expansion unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Installing a SCSI storage expansion unit
Installing a SCSI hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Replacing a SCSI hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Replacing the battery
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Input/output connectors and devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Chapter 4. Configuring your blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program
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BladeCenter HS40 specifications for non-NEBS/ETSI environments . . . . . 5
BladeCenter HS40 specifications for NEBS/ETSI environments
Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
System reliability considerations
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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Installing the blade server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Closing the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Installing the blade server in the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Updating your blade server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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