Table Of Contents - IBM JS20 - BladeCenter - 8842 Installation And User Manual

Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notices and statements used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What your IBM blade server offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 2. Blade server power, controls, and indicators . . . . . . . . 11
Turning on the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Turning off the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The control panel buttons and LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
System-board internal and option connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
System-board LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 3. Preparing the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Preinstallation checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Checking the status of the media tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 4. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Removing the blade server from the BladeCenter unit
Opening the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Installing IDE hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Installing memory modules
Installing an I/O expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Ethernet controller, switch module, and cabling requirements . . . . . . . . 28
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Input/output connectors and devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 5. Configuration requirements for the blade server . . . . . . . 35
Using the Serial Over LAN (SOL) feature on the blade server . . . . . . . . 36
Starting the management and configuration program in the management module 37
Connecting to the management module through a directly connected computer
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Blade server Ethernet controller enumeration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Configuring the blade server for Fibre Channel boot . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Updating the firmware code for the blade server and the service processor . . . 40
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
BladeCenter JS20 specifications for non-NEBS/ETSI environments . . . . . 6
BladeCenter JS20 specifications for NEBS/ETSI environments . . . . . . . 7
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Closing the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Installing the blade server in the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Determining current blade server firmware code levels . . . . . . . . . 40
Updating the firmware code for the blade server service processor . . . . . 41
Updating and managing the system flash using Linux service aids . . . . . 41
Updating the system flash using Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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