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Installing a solid state drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Installing a QPI wrap card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Installing an internal removable flash drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Installing a memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Installing DIMMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Installing a microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Completing the installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Updating the server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Installing hardware devices in the MAX5 expansion module . . . . . . . . 72
MAX5 components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Removing the MAX5 bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Removing the MAX5 system-board tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Installing a MAX5 memory module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Installing a MAX5 hot-swap power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Completing the MAX5 installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 3. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Using the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Starting the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Setup utility menu choices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Passwords
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Using the Boot Selection Menu program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Starting the backup server firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
ServerGuide features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Setup and configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Typical operating-system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide
. . . . . . . 94
Using the integrated management module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Using the embedded hypervisor
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Obtaining the IP address for the Web interface access . . . . . . . . . . 97
Logging on to the Web interface
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Using the remote presence and blue-screen capture features . . . . . . . . 98
Enabling the Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Utility program . . . . . . . . . . 98
Configuring the Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controller. . . . . . . . . . . 98
Configuring RAID arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
IBM Advanced Settings Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Updating IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . 101
Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Getting help and information from the World Wide Web
. . . . . . . . . 101
Software service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
IBM Taiwan product service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Appendix B. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Trademarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Particulate contamination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
German Ordinance for Work gloss statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Documentation format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Electronic emission notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
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