Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S8, Upgrade And Maintenance Manual, Page: 8 / 502

Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
RX300 S8
Contents
4.3 Disconnecting power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4.4 Getting access to the component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.4.1 Extending the server out of the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.4.2 Removing the server from the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.4.3 Opening the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.4.3.1 Removing the housing cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.4.3.2 Removing the air duct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.5 Reassembling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.5.1 Installing the air duct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.5.2 Closing the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
4.5.2.1 Mounting the housing cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.5.3 Mounting the server in the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.5.3.1 Seating the server on the rack rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.5.3.2 Sliding the server into the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.6 Connecting the server to the power source . . . . . . . . . . 69
4.7 Switching on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
5 Basic software procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1 Starting the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1.1 Disabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1.2 Disabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.1.2.1 Viewing boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.1.2.2 Configuring boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.1.3 Removing backup and optical disk media . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
5.1.4 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . . 77
5.1.5 Note on server maintenance in a Multipath I/O environment . . . 77
5.1.6 Switching on the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and iRMC . . . . 80
5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . . 81
5.2.1.2 Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
5.2.2 Verifying system information backup / restore . . . . . . . . . . 83
5.2.3 Updating RAID controller firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
5.2.4 Enabling Option ROM scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.2.5 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . . 86
5.2.6 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.2.6.1 Viewing the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.2.6.2 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87