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Installing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller on the SAS/SATA RAID riser card
Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter advanced feature key . . . . . . . 78
Installing an optional optical drive cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Installing a SAS/SATA 4 Pac HDD option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Installing a second microprocessor and heat sink . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Installing a hot-swap fan assembly
Installing a hot-swap ac power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Installing the optional two-port Ethernet adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Installing the virtual media key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Installing a USB embedded hypervisor flash device . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Installing a RAID adapter battery remotely in the server . . . . . . . . . . 99
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Chapter 3. Configuring the server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Using the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Using the Boot Manager program
Starting the backup server firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Using the integrated management module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Using the embedded hypervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture . . . . . . . 119
Enabling the Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Utility program . . . . . . . . . 120
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Using LSI Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
IBM Advanced Settings Utility program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Updating IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
The UpdateXpress System Pack Installer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . 125
Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . 126
How to send Dynamic System Analysis data to IBM . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Creating a personalized support web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Software service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
IBM Taiwan product service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
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Thermal grease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Replacing the DIMM air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Replacing the microprocessor 2 air baffle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Replacing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Updating the server configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Starting the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Setup utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
ServerGuide features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Setup and configuration overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Typical operating-system installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide . . . . . . . 116
Enabling the remote presence feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Obtaining the IP address for the IMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Logging on to the Web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Starting the LSI Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Formatting a hard disk drive
Creating a RAID array of hard disk drives
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