Table Of Contents - IBM System x3400 Type 7975 Installation Manual

Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Machine Types 7973 and 7974 features and specifications . . . . . . . . . 5
Machine Types 7975 and 7976 features and specifications . . . . . . . . . 6
Major components of the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Removing the side cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Removing the bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Removing the front fan cage assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing a drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 3. Server controls, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Front view
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 4. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program
Using the RAID configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using the baseboard management controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using the Boot Menu program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Working inside the server with the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
IDs for hot-swap hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installing a simple-swap SATA hard disk drive
Power and signal cables for internal drives
Replacing the bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Replacing the side cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Updating the server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Configuring hot-swap SAS, hot-swap SATA, or simple-swap SATA (some
models) RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Configuring simple-swap SATA RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Using ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Enabling and configuring SOL using the OSA SMBridge management utility
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Installing the OSA SMBridge management utility program . . . . . . . . 61
Using the baseboard management controller utility programs . . . . . . . 63
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