IBM Redboks System x3550 M4, Installation And User Manual

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Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Chapter 1. The System x3550 M4 server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM System x Documentation CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What your server offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Reliability, availability, and serviceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Update
Xpress System Packs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Server controls, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
System pulse LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 2. Installing optional devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Instructions for IBM Business Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
How to send DSA data to IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Server components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
System-board internal connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
System-board external connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
System-board switches and jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
System-board LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
System-board optional devices connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Working inside the server with the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Internal cable routing and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Hard disk drive cable connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
DVD drive cable connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Operator information panel cable connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
USB and video cable connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Removing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Removing the air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Installing drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Installing a simple-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Installing an optional DVD drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
DIMM installation sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Memory mirrored channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Memory rank sparing
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Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Replacing a PCI riser-card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Removing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Installing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter memory module . . . . . . . . . 75
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