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Installing a PCI-X bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter memory module . . . . . . . . . 90
Installing a RAID adapter battery remotely in the server . . . . . . . . . . 91
Installing the microprocessor 2 expansion board
Installing a second microprocessor and heat sink . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Installing a hot-swap power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Installing a USB embedded hypervisor flash device . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Chapter 3. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Using the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Using the Boot Manager program
Starting the backup server firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Using the Integrated Management Module II
Using the embedded hypervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Configuring the Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Enabling Features on Demand Ethernet software . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Enabling Features on Demand RAID software . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Configuring RAID arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
IBM Advanced Settings Utility program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Updating IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
The UpdateXpress System Pack Installer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . 133
Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . 134
How to send Dynamic System Analysis data to IBM . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Creating a personalized support web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Software service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
IBM Taiwan product service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Appendix B. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
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DIMM installation sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Memory mirrored channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Memory rank sparing
Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Thermal grease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Replacing the fan cage assembly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Replacing the air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Replacing the left-side cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Updating the server configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
ServerGuide features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Setup and configuration overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Typical operating-system installation
Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide . . . . . . . 120
Starting the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Setup utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Obtaining the IP address for the IMM2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Logging on to the web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture . . . . . . 128
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