IBM BladeCenter T Type 8720, Инструкция по установке и эксплуатации

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The caution and danger statements that appear in this document are also in the
multilingual Safety Information document, which is on the IBM BladeCenter T
Documentation CD. Each statement is numbered for reference to the corresponding
statement in the Safety Information document.
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hazardous procedure step or situation.
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extremely hazardous to you. A danger statement is placed just before the
description of a potentially lethal or extremely hazardous procedure step or
situation.
What the BladeCenter T unit offers
The design of the BladeCenter T unit takes advantage of advancements in server
technology. It provides up to eight functionally separate servers and their shared
resources in a single center. The BladeCenter T unit with blade servers installed
has the following features:
v IBM Enterprise X-Architecture
IBM Enterprise X-Architecture
™
technology leverages proven innovative IBM
technologies to build powerful, scalable, reliable Intel
™
-processor-based servers.
Enterprise X-Architecture technology includes features such as light path
diagnostics, Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA), scalability, and Real Time
Diagnostics.
v Expansion capabilities
You can add blade servers to the BladeCenter T unit as needed, to a maximum
of eight blade servers.
Note: If any blade server or option is in blade bay 5 through 8 or if an I/O
module is in I/O-module bay 3 or 4, power modules must be present in all
four power-module bays.
Some blade servers have connectors for options that add capabilities to the
blade server, such as an I/O expansion card to add a network interface, or a
storage expansion unit to add SCSI hard disk drives.
v Hot-swap capabilities
The front bays on the BladeCenter T unit are hot-swap blade, power-module, and
management-module bays; the rear bays on the BladeCenter T unit are hot-swap
I/O, KVM, LAN, and blower-module bays. You can add, remove, or replace blade
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