Table Of Contents - IBM System x3620 M3 7376 Installation And User Manual

Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Chapter 1. The System x3620 M3 Type 7376 server . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What your server offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features
IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The UpdateXpress System Pack Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Server controls, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 2. Installing optional devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Server components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Internal cable routing and connectors
Removing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Removing the air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Removing the PCI riser-card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Installing a ServeRAID adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Installing a ServeRAID adapter battery on the remote battery tray . . . . . . 44
Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter advanced feature key . . . . . . . 48
Installing an IBM Virtual Media Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Removing a hot-swap hard disk drive
Installing a simple-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Removing a simple-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Installing an optional DVD drive cage
Installing an optional DVD drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Installing an optional tape drive cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Installing an optional tape drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
System-board internal connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
System-board DIMM connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
System-board external connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
System-board jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
System-board LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Fan board connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
PCI riser-card adapter connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Working inside the server with the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
DVD drive cable connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Tape drive cable connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Hot-swap hard disk drive backplane cable connections . . . . . . . . . 34
Simple-swap hard disk drive backplate cable connections . . . . . . . . 35
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