IBM System x3550 M4 Installation And User Manual

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Contents

IBM System x3550 M4 Installation And User Manual Manual pdf 5 page image

ContentsSafety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viiChapter 1. The System x3550 M4 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21System pulse LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Chapter 2. Installing optional devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Instructions for IBM Business Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31How to send DSA data to IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Server components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32System-board internal connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33System-board external connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34System-board switches and jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35System-board LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37System-board optional devices connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Working inside the server with the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Internal cable routing and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Hard disk drive cable connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41DVD drive cable connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Operator information panel cable connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49USB and video cable connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Removing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Removing the air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Installing drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Installing a simple-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Installing an optional DVD drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59DIMM installation sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Memory mirrored channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Memory rank sparing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Replacing a PCI riser-card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Removing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Installing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter memory module . . . . . . . . . 75© Copyright IBM Corp. 2012 iii