Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
RX300
S7
Contents
4.2
Opening the rack door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
4.3
Shutting down the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.4
Disconnecting power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
4.5
Extending/removing the server from the rack . . . . . . . . . 68
4.5.1
Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.5.2
Extending the server out of the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
4.5.3
Removing the server from the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
4.6
Opening the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.6.1
Removing the server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.6.2
Removing the air duct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
4.6.3
Installing the air duct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
4.7
Closing the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
4.7.1
Mounting the server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
4.8
Mounting the server in the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4.8.1
Seating the server on the rack rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4.8.2
Sliding the server into the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
4.9
Connecting the server to the power source . . . . . . . . . . 81
4.10
Switching on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
4.11
Concluding software tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
4.12
Closing the rack door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
5
Basic software procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.1
Starting the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.1.1
Disabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.1.2
Disabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . 86
5.1.2.1
Viewing boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
5.1.2.2
Configuring boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.1.3
Removing backup and optical disk media . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
5.1.4
Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . . 89
5.1.5
Note on server maintenance in a Multipath I/O environment . . . 90
5.1.6
Switching on the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5.2
Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
5.2.1
Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and iRMC . . . . 92
5.2.1.1
Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . . 92
5.2.1.2
Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Summary of Contents for PRIMERGY RX300 S7
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