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Installing a hot-swap power supply
Removing a hot-swap fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Installing a hot-swap fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Removing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly . . . . . . . . . . 91
Installing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Removing a ServeRAID SAS controller from the SAS riser card . . . . . . . 93
Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller on the SAS riser card . . . . . . . . 94
Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller battery on the remote battery tray
Moving the SAS controller retention bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Installing a USB hypervisor memory key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Removing a USB hypervisor memory key
Installing an Ethernet adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Installing an optional CD-RW/DVD drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Chapter 3. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Using the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Using the Boot Selection Menu program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Starting the backup server firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Using the integrated management module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Using the USB memory key for VMware hypervisor . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture . . . . . . . 123
Enabling the Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Utility program . . . . . . . . . 125
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Using the LSI Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
IBM Advanced Settings Utility program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Updating IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . 131
Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . 131
Software service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
IBM Taiwan product service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
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DIMM installation sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Memory mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Replacing the server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Connecting the external cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Updating the server configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Starting the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Setup utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
ServerGuide features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Setup and configuration overview
Typical operating-system installation
Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide . . . . . . . 121
Enabling the remote presence feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Obtaining the IP address for the Web interface access . . . . . . . . . 124
Logging on to the Web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Starting the LSI Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Formatting a hard disk drive
Creating a RAID array of hard disk drives
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