IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module, Руководство по установке

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Chapter 3. Installing a management module
See the Installation and User’s Guide that comes with your BladeCenter unit type
for specific management-module bay locations and installation information.
Installation guidelines
Before you install the management module, read the following information:
v Read the safety information that begins on page v and “Handling
static-sensitive devices” on page 12, and read the safety statements in the
BladeCenter unit documentation.
v
The orange color on components and labels in your BladeCenter unit
identifies hot-swap components. You can install or remove hot-swap
modules and, with some restrictions, hot-swap blade servers while the
BladeCenter unit is running. For details about installing or removing a
management module, see the detailed information in this chapter.
v
For a list of supported options for your BladeCenter unit, see
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/.
System reliability guidelines
To help ensure proper BladeCenter cooling and system reliability, make sure
that the following requirements are met:
v
Each of the module bays on the front and rear of the BladeCenter unit has
either a module or a module filler installed.
v
Each of the blade server bays on the front of the BladeCenter unit has either
a blade server or a blade filler installed.
v
Each of the drive bays in a blade-server storage expansion option has either
a hot-swap drive or a panel filler installed.
v
Replace a removed hot-swap module, blade server, or drive within 1 minute
of removal.
v Route cables for optional modules according to the documents that come
with the modules.
v
Replace a failed blower as soon as possible to restore cooling redundancy.
See the BladeCenter Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide
for instructions.
Failure to replace a blade server or module with another blade server, module,
blade filler, or module filler within 1 minute can affect performance in the
blade servers.
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