Table Of Contents - IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 Installation And User Manual

Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD
Notices and statements used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What your IBM BladeCenter JS20 Type 8842 offers . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
System-board internal and option connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
System-board LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Preinstallation requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Checking the status of the CD-ROM media tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Chapter 2. Blade server power, controls, and indicators . . . . . . . . 13
Turning on the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Turning off the blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Blade server controls and LEDs
Chapter 3. Installing the blade server in the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . 17
Chapter 4. Installing and removing options and customer-replaceable units 21
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Removing the blade server from the BladeCenter unit
Opening the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Removing the blade-server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installing IDE hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installing memory modules
Installing an I/O expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Installing an Ethernet cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Replacing the battery
Replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Input/output connectors and devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 5. Configuring your blade server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using the Serial Over LAN (SOL) feature on the blade server . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring the BladeCenter unit for the Serial Over LAN (SOL) feature . . . . 42
Configuring the BladeCenter components for Serial Over LAN operation . . . . 46
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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Installing the blade-server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Closing the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Starting the management and configuration program in the management
module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Global SOL settings and status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Management-module configuration
BladeCenter JS20 Type 8842 configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
IBM 4-Port Ethernet Switch Module for BladeCenter configuration . . . . . 49
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