
BX924 S4
Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
Contents
5.2.6
Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . 81
5.2.7
Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.2.7.1
Viewing the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.2.7.2
Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.2.8
Enabling boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
5.2.9
Enabling replaced components in the system BIOS . . . . . . . 85
5.2.10
Verifying the memory mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.2.11
Verifying the system time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
5.2.12
Viewing and clearing the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . 87
5.2.12.1
Viewing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.2.12.2
Saving the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
5.2.12.3
Clearing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
5.2.13
Updating the NIC configuration file in a Linux environment . . . 89
5.2.14
Enabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5.2.15
Performing a RAID array rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
5.2.16
Looking up changed MAC / WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . 92
5.2.16.1
Looking up MAC addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
5.2.16.2
Looking up WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
5.2.17
Using the Chassis ID Prom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
5.2.18
Configuring LAN teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
5.2.18.1
After replacing / upgrading LAN/CNA controllers . . . . . . 94
5.2.18.2
After replacing the server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.2.19
Switching off the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
6
Hard disk drives / Solid state drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
6.1
Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
6.2
Overview of the disk mounting kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
6.3
Installing HDD/SSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
6.3.1
Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
6.3.2
Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
6.3.3
Locations of the drives inside the server blade . . . . . . . . . 100
6.3.4
Installing SSD 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
6.3.5
Installing HDD/SSD 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
6.3.6
Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
6.4
Removing HDD/SSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
6.4.1
Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
6.4.2
Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
6.4.3
Removing SSD 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
6.4.4
Removing HDD/SSD 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111