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Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The IBM Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notices and statements used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
What your blade server offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Major components of the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 2. Power, controls, and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Turning on the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Turning off the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Blade server connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 3. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Opening the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Removing an expansion unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Removing the bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Installing a SAS hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installing additional memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Installing an additional microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Installing an I/O-expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installing a Concurrent KVM card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Input/output connectors and devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 4. Configuring the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing a small-form-factor expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Installing a standard-form-factor expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installing a high-speed expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Installing the bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Installing an expansion unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Closing the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Installing the blade server in a BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Updating the blade server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuration/Setup Utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Setup and configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Typical operating-system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Installing the operating system without ServerGuide . . . . . . . . . . 49
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