Table Of Contents - IBM System x3550 M3 Type 4254 Installation And User Manual

Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Chapter 1. The System x3550 M3 server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM System x Documentation CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What your server offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Reliability, availability, and serviceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The UpdateXpress System Packs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Server controls, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 2. Installing optional devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Instructions for IBM Business Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Server components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Internal cable routing and connectors
Removing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Removing the microprocessor 2 air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Removing the DIMM air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Installing drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Replacing a PCI riser-card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Replacing a PCI Express assembly with a PCI-X assembly
Replacing a PCI-X assembly with a PCI Express assembly
Removing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller from the SAS/SATA RAID riser
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Operator information panel
Light path diagnostics panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
System pulse LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
System-board internal connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
System-board external connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
System-board switches and jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
System-board LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
System-board optional device connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Working inside the server with the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
DIMM installation sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Memory mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Online-spare memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
IDs for hot-swap hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Installing a simple-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Installing an optional DVD drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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