IBM 425162U Installation And User Manual

Contents

ContentsSafety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viiChapter 1. The System x3250 M3 server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1The IBM System x Documentation CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6What your server offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Reliability, availability, and serviceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12The UpdateXpress System Packs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Server controls, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Chapter 2. Installing optional devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Instructions for IBM Business Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Server components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20System-board internal connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21System-board external connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22System-board switches and jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23System-board LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25System-board optional-device connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Working inside the server with the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Removing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Unbuffered DIMMs (UDIMMs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Installing drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Installing a simple-swap Serial ATA hard disk drive. . . . . . . . . . . 36Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37IDs for hot-swap hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Installing an optional DVD drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Replacing a PCI riser-card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Replacing an IBM ServeRAID-BR10il SAS/SATA Controller v2 . . . . . . . 45Installing an optional IBM ServeRAID-MR10i SAS/SATA Controller . . . . . . 47Installing the optional IBM ServeRAID-MR10is VAULT SAS/SATA controller 50Installing the virtual media key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Installing a USB embedded hypervisor flash device . . . . . . . . . . . 54Completing the installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Replacing the DIMM air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Replacing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Updating the server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Chapter 3. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011 iii