Table Of Contents - IBM System x3650 M4 Type 7915 Installation And User Manual

Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Chapter 1. The System x3650 M4 server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM System x Documentation CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
What your server offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
The UpdateXpress System Pack Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Server controls, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2. Installing optional devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Instructions for IBM Business Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
How to send DSA data to IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Server components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Internal cable routing and connectors
Removing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Removing a PCI riser-card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Installing a PCI riser-card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Removing the air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Installing the air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Stretching a PCI riser-card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Shrinking a PCI riser-card assembly (for half-length adapters)
Installing a PCI adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Removing a PCI adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Installing a hard disk drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Removing a hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Installing a SAS/SATA 8 Pac HDD option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Installing a SAS/SATA 8 Pac HDD with a ServeRAID adapter option . . . . . 73
Installing a SAS/SATA 8 Pac HDD with 2 6 GB performance optimized HBA
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
System-board internal connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
System-board external connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
System-board switches and jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
System-board LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
System-board optional device connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
PCI riser-card adapter connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
PCI riser-card assembly LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Working inside the server with the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
2.5-inch hard disk drive cable connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3.5-inch hard disk drive cable connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
adapters option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
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