Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
BX920
S4
Contents
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Shutting down the server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Removing a server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Removing the server blade from the system unit . . . . . . . . . 55
Opening the server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Closing the server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Installing the server blade in the system unit . . . . . . . . . 58
Switching on the server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Concluding software tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Closing the rack door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Closing the rack door of a PRIMECENTER rack . . . . . . . . . 62
Closing the rack door of a PRIMECENTER M1 rack . . . . . . . 62
Basic software procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Starting the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Launching a video redirection to a server blade . . . . . . . . . 63
Checking the server blade status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Checking the server blade status via iRMC . . . . . . . . . . 64
Saving BIOS settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Saving iRMC settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Connecting virtual media to the managed server blade . . . . . 65
Disabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Disabling boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Viewing boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Configuring boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . . 69
Note on server maintenance in a Multipath I/O environment . . . 70
Note on server maintenance in a Multipath I/O environment . . . 71
Switching on the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and iRMC . . . . 75
Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . . 75
Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Restoring BIOS settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Restoring iRMC settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80