IBM System x3550 M4 Installation And User Manual

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Contents

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Installing the DVD drive cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Installing a SAS/SATA 4 Pac HDD option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Installing a second microprocessor and heat sink . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Thermal grease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Installing a hot-swap ac power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Installing a hot-swap dc power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Installing a hot-swap fan assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Installing the optional dual-port network adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Installing a USB embedded hypervisor flash device . . . . . . . . . . . 99Installing a RAID adapter battery remotely in the server . . . . . . . . . . 99Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Replacing the air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Replacing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Connecting the cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Updating the server configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Chapter 3. Configuring the server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD. . . . . . . . . . . . 106ServerGuide features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Setup and configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Typical operating-system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide . . . . . . . 108Using the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Starting the Setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Setup utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Using the Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Starting the backup server firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Using the integrated management module II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Obtaining the IP address for the IMM2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Logging on to the web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture . . . . . . 117Using the embedded hypervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Configuring the Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Enabling Features on Demand Ethernet software . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Enabling Features on Demand RAID software . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Configuring RAID arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120IBM Advanced Settings Utility program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Updating IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120The UpdateXpress System Pack Installer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . 123Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . 124How to send Dynamic System Analysis data to IBM . . . . . . . . . . . 124Creating a personalized support web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Software service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125IBM Taiwan product service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125Appendix B. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Trademarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128Particulate contamination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Documentation format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129iv IBM System x3550 M4 Type 7914: Installation and User’s Guide