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Installing a hot-swap ac power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Removing a hot-swap fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Installing a hot-swap fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Removing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly . . . . . . . . . . 93
Installing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Removing a ServeRAID SAS controller from the SAS riser card . . . . . . . 97
Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller on the SAS riser card . . . . . . . . 98
Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller battery on the remote battery tray . . . 100
Moving the SAS controller retention bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Installing a USB hypervisor memory key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Removing a USB hypervisor memory key
Installing an Ethernet adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Installing an optional CD-RW/DVD drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Chapter 3. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Using the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Using the Boot Selection Menu program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Starting the backup server firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD. . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Using the integrated management module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Using the USB memory key for VMware hypervisor . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture . . . . . . . 128
Enabling the Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Utility program . . . . . . . . . 129
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Using the LSI Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
IBM Advanced Settings Utility program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Updating IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . 135
Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . 135
Software service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
IBM Taiwan product service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
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System x3650 M2 Types 4199 and 7947: Installation and User's Guide
DIMM installation sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Memory mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Replacing the server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Connecting the external cables
Updating the server configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Starting the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Setup utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
ServerGuide features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Setup and configuration overview
Typical operating-system installation
Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide . . . . . . . 125
Enabling the remote presence feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Obtaining the IP address for the Web interface access . . . . . . . . . 128
Logging on to the Web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Starting the LSI Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Formatting a hard disk drive
Creating a RAID array of hard disk drives
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