
5
Compute and IO Blade Procedures
5.1
Remove a Blade Using xtwarmswap
Prerequisites
Tools Required:
T15 Torx driver
Time Required:
5 minutes
IMPORTANT: Only certain IO blades can be warm swapped. An IO blade with only InfiniBand cards that
is labeled LNET on the config sheet may be warm swapped.
WARNING:
●
System corruption
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Do not warm swap a boot node, SDB node, DVS node or login/network node. Serious system
corruption may occur if an I/O blade is warm swapped during system operation.
CAUTION:
●
Equipment damage
●
A slot cannot be left empty for more than two minutes on a running system. Leaving a slot empty for
more than two minutes can lead to processor throttling.
●
Avoid using
xtwarmswap
when mission critical applications are running.
●
Before using
xtwarmswap
, verify that the system is re-routable using the
rtr-s
command.If the
system cannot be routed,
xtwarmswap
cannot be used.
CAUTION:
●
Equipment overheating
●
A filler block needs to be installed for ensure proper cooling.
Procedure
1.
CAUTION:
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Loss of data
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