IBM 8874 - eServer xSeries MXE 460 Installation Manual

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ContentsSafety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vChapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1The IBM xSeries Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Major components of the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Chapter 2. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Working inside the server with the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Installing additional DIMMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Installing a memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Installing an additional microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Updating the server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22SMP Expansion cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Chapter 3. Server controls, connectors, LEDs, and power. . . . . . . . 31Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Chapter 4. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Installing and using the baseboard management controller utility programs . . . 38Enabling and configuring SOL using the OSA SMBridge management utilityprogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Installing the OSA SMBridge management utility program . . . . . . . . 47Using the baseboard management controller utility programs . . . . . . . 49Using the SAS/SATA Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Using the ServeRAID configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Using the PXE boot agent utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Using the Scalable Partition Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Creating a scalable partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Deleting a scalable partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Chapter 5. Updating IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Chapter 6. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57POST beep codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57© Copyright IBM Corp. 2005 iii