Table Of Contents - IBM 8677 - BladeCenter Rack-mountable - Power Supply Hardware Maintenance Manual And Troubleshooting Manual

Contents
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Support telephone numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Chapter 1. General information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notices and statements used in this book
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Major components of the BladeCenter Type 8677 and 1881 unit . . . . . . . 8
BladeCenter unit power, controls, and indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Setting up the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 2. Configuring your BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
BladeCenter unit power requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
BladeCenter power configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Firmware updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Configuring the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Using IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Using Remote Deployment Manager Version 4.1 or later . . . . . . . . . 26
BladeCenter networking guidelines
Chapter 3. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Identifying problems using the Light Path Diagnostics feature . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 4. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installing the BladeCenter unit in a rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installing and removing modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installing and removing the acoustic module option
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Starting the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Shutting down the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
BladeCenter components, controls, and LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Connecting to the default IP address on a new BladeCenter . . . . . . . 19
Registering and profiling the BladeCenter products
Configuring the management module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Communicating with the IBM Director software . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Configuring I/O modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Configuring blade servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
About the wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Starting the wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
System reliability considerations
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
The BladeCenter modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installing a module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Removing a module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Installing the acoustic module option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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