8. Install the blade cover from the BladeCenter HX5 (see Installing the blade
9. Install the blade server or scalable blade complex into the BladeCenter chassis
Removing an expansion unit
Use these instructions to remove an expansion unit from a blade server or from the
topmost blade server in a scalable blade complex.
Cover
Pins
To open and remove an expansion unit, complete the following steps.
1. Before you begin, read "Safety" on page v and "Installation guidelines" on
2. If the blade server or scalable blade complex is installed in a BladeCenter
3. Carefully lay the blade server on a flat, static-protective surface, orienting the
4. Open the blade server cover (see "Removing the blade server cover" on page
5. Press the blade server cover release on each side of the blade server and lift the
6. Rotate the expansion blade open; then, lift the expansion blade from the blade
7. If additional expansion units need to be removed, repeat steps 5 and 6.
8. If you are instructed to return the expansion unit, follow all packaging
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server cover).
Important: The BladeCenter HX5 blade cover contains the system-service label
on the bottom of the cover.
(see Installing a blade server in a BladeCenter chassis for instructions).
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page 23.
chassis, remove it. See Removing the blade server from the BladeCenter chassis
for instructions.
blade server with the bezel pointing toward you.
25 for instructions).
expansion unit from the blade server.
server.
instructions, and use any packaging materials for shipping that are supplied to
you.
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