IBM x3850 X5 7145 Installation And User Manual

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ContentsSafety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vChapter 1. The System x3850 X5 and x3950 X5 server . . . . . . . . . 1The IBM Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5What your server offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Reliability, availability, and serviceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10The UpdateXpress System Pack Installer (UXSPI) . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Server controls, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Front view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Rear view LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Chapter 2. Installing optional devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Server components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Memory-card DIMM connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Memory-card LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21SAS-backplane connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Microprocessor-board connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Microprocessor-board LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23I/O-board connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24I/O-board jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24I/O-board LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25A single-power-supply server operating at 208 V ac . . . . . . . . . . 27System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Working inside the server with the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Internal cable routing and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Removing the top cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Removing the top-cover bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Installing the top-cover bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Removing the bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Installing a hot-swap power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Installing a DVD (optical) drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Installing a hard disk drive backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Installing a QPI wrap card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Installing an internal removable flash drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Installing a memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Installing DIMMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Installing a microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Completing the installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Updating the server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60© Copyright IBM Corp. 2010 iii