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Installing the simple-swap hard disk drive backplate . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Installing a second microprocessor
Installing a hot-swap power supply
Installing a USB hypervisor memory key
Completing the installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Chapter 3. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Using the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Using the Boot Selection Menu program
Starting the backup server firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Using the integrated management module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Using the USB memory key for VMware hypervisor . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture . . . . . . . 93
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Enabling and configuring Serial over LAN (SOL)
Using the LSI Logic Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Configuring a ServeRAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Starting the Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM program . . . . . . . 99
IBM Advanced Settings Utility program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Updating the firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Updating IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . 105
Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . 105
Software service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
IBM Taiwan product service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Appendix B. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
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DIMM installation sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Memory mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Online-spare memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Thermal grease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Installing the PCI riser-card assembly
Installing the air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Installing the server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Connecting the external cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Updating the server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Starting the Setup utility
Setup utility menu choices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
ServerGuide features
Setup and configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Typical operating-system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide
Enabling the remote presence feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Obtaining the IP address for the Web interface access . . . . . . . . . 94
Logging on to the Web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
UEFI update and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Starting the LSI Logic Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . 98
Formatting a hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Creating a mirrored pair of hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
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