Installing A Standard-Form-Factor Expansion Card - IBM HS21 - BladeCenter - 8853 User Manual

Installing a standard-form-factor expansion card

The following sections describe how to install an I/O expansion card in the blade
server. The illustrations show installation of the I/O expansion cards in the system
board: installing the cards in an expansion unit is similar.
If a SAS drive is connected to SAS connector 1 (J137), you must remove it and the
SAS drive tray before you can install a standard-form-factor expansion card and
expansion card bracket on the system board (see "Removing a SAS hard disk
drive" on page 22). Before you remove the drive, back up the data from the drive
another storage device.
If the drive that is connected to the SAS hard disk drive connector 1 is part of a
RAID array, delete the SAS RAID array before you remove the drive. When you
delete the array, the array configuration information is removed, but no data is
deleted.
The following illustration shows how to install a standard-form-factor expansion
card.
Standard-form-factor
expansion card
To install a standard-form-factor expansion card, Complete the following steps:
Expansion
card
bracket
Hard disk
drive tray
1. Read the safety information that begins on page v and "Installation guidelines"
on page 15.
2. If the blade server is installed in a BladeCenter unit, remove it (see "Removing
the blade server from the BladeCenter unit" on page 17 for instructions).
3. Carefully lay the blade server on a flat, static-protective surface.
4. Open the blade server cover (see "Opening the blade server cover" on page
18 for instructions).
5. If a Memory and I/O Expansion Blade is installed, remove it (see "Removing
an expansion unit" on page 19).
6. If you are installing the expansion card in the system board and a drive is
connected to SAS hard disk drive connector 1, remove the drive and tray (see
"Removing a SAS hard disk drive" on page 22 for instructions), and save the
screws that secure the tray to the system board. Store the screws in a safe
place.
7. Install the expansion-card bracket, if it is not already installed. Secure the
bracket to the system board with the screws from the option kit or from the
removed drive tray.
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