IBM 7945G2U, Installation And User Manual

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Installing an optional tape drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Converting a 16 bay system to a 8 bay + tape system . . . . . . . . . 90
Installing the tape drive option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Installing a second microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Thermal grease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
DIMM installation sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Memory mirroring
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Online-spare memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Installing a DIMM
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Installing a hot-swap ac power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Removing a hot-swap fan
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Installing a hot-swap fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Removing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly . . . . . . . . . . 117
Installing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly
. . . . . . . . . . 118
Removing a ServeRAID SAS controller from the SAS riser-card . . . . . . 121
Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller on the SAS riser-card
. . . . . . . 122
Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter advanced feature key . . . . . . 124
Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller battery on the remote battery tray . . . 126
Moving the SAS controller retention bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Installing a USB hypervisor memory key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Removing a USB hypervisor memory key
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Installing the optional two-port Ethernet adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Installing an optional DVD drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Replacing the server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Connecting the external cables
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Updating the server configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Chapter 3. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Using the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Starting the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Setup utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Using the Boot Selection Menu program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Starting the backup server firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD. . . . . . . . . . . . 150
ServerGuide features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Setup and configuration overview
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Typical operating-system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide . . . . . . . 152
Using the integrated management module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Using the USB memory key for VMware hypervisor . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture . . . . . . . 154
Enabling the remote presence feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Obtaining the IP address for the Web interface access . . . . . . . . . 155
Logging on to the Web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Enabling the Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Utility program . . . . . . . . . 156
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Using the LSI Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Starting the LSI Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Formatting a hard disk drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Creating a RAID array of hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
IBM Advanced Settings Utility program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Updating IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
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