Lenovo System x3630 M4, Installation And Service Manual

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Chapter 1. The Lenovo System x3630 M4 Type 7158 server
This Installation and Service Guide contains information and instructions for setting up your Lenovo System
x3630 M4 Type 7158 server, instructions for installing some optional devices, cabling and configuring the
server, removing and replacing devices, and diagnostics and troubleshooting information.
In addition to the instructions in Chapter 2 “Installing optional devices” on page 27 for installing optional
hardware devices, updating firmware and device drivers, and completing the installation, Lenovo Business
Partners must also complete the steps in “Instructions for Business Partners” on page 27.
The Lenovo System x3630 M4 Type 7158 is a 2-U-high rack model, two-socket server for virtualization,
database, and computational intensive computing. It is the next generation enterprise server based on Intel's
Romley-EN technology. This high-performance, scalable server is ideally suited for enterprise environments
that require superior input/output (I/O) flexibility, scalability, and high manageability.
Performance, ease of use, reliability, and expansion capabilities were key considerations in the design of
the server. These design features make it possible for you to customize the system hardware to meet your
needs today and provide flexible expansion capabilities for the future.
The server comes with a limited warranty. For information about the terms of the warranty and getting service
and assistance, see the Lenovo
Warranty Information document that comes with the server.
The server contains next generation technologies, which help increase performance and reliability. For more
information, see “What your server offers” on page 10 and “Reliability, availability, and serviceability”
on page 13.
You can obtain up-to-date information about the server and other Lenovo server products at
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The server may support up to four 3.5-inch simple-swap drives, eight 3.5-inch simple-swap or hot-swap
drives or fourteen 3.5-inch hot-swap drives (for this configuration two of the 3.5-inch hot-swap hard disk
drives are located at the rear of the server) using the supported drive backplane configurations. It supports
3.5-inch hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or SATA hard disk drives or 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA hard
disk drives. The illustrations in this document might differ slightly from your hardware.
Note: The simple-swap models do not support hard disk drive status reporting with system management
features. Hard disk drive status reporting can be managed by ServeRAID software. See the RAID
documentation on the ServeRAID Support CD for information about RAID controllers.
The following illustrations show the controls, connectors, and hard disk drive bays on the front of the server.
The server configuration may be of the following seven:
12 hot-swap hard-disk drive configuration:
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