IBM System x3650 M3 4255 manuals
System x3650 M3 4255
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1. The System x3650 M3 server
- The IBM Documentation CD
- Related documentation
- Notices and statements in this document
- What your server offers
- Reliability, availability, and serviceability features
- IBM Systems Director
- The UpdateXpress System Pack Installer
- Front view
- operator information panel
- Rear view
- Server power features
- turning on the server
- Chapter 2. Installing optional devices
- Server components
- System-board internal connectors
- System-board external connectors
- System-board switches and jumpers
- System-board LEDs
- System-board optional device connectors
- SAS riser-card connectors and LEDs
- PCI riser-card adapter connectors
- Installation guidelines
- System reliability guidelines
- Handling static-sensitive devices
- Internal cable routing and connectors
- Removing the cover
- Removing a PCI riser-card assembly
- Installing a PCI riser-card assembly
- Removing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Installing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Removing the DIMM air baffle
- Installing the DIMM air baffle
- Installing the full-length-adapter bracket
- Installing a PCI adapter
- Removing a PCI adapter
- Installing an IBM Virtual Media Key
- Installing a hard disk drive
- Removing a hard disk drive
- Removing a simple-swap hard disk drive
- Installing a SAS/SATA 8 Pac HDD option
- Installing a SAS/SATA 8 Pac HDD for 2 RAID kit with 2 M5015 adapters option
- Installing an optional tape drive
- Converting a 16 bay system to a 8 bay + tape system
- Installing the tape drive option
- Installing a second microprocessor
- Thermal grease
- Installing a memory module
- DIMM installation sequence
- Memory mirroring
- Online-spare memory
- Installing a DIMM
- Installing a hot-swap ac power supply
- Removing a hot-swap fan
- Installing a hot-swap fan
- Removing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly
- Installing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly
- Removing a ServeRAID SAS controller from the SAS riser-card
- Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller on the SAS riser-card
- Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter advanced feature key
- Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller battery on the remote battery tray
- Moving the SAS controller retention bracket
- Installing a USB hypervisor memory key
- Removing a USB hypervisor memory key
- Installing the optional two-port Ethernet adapter
- Installing an optional DVD drive
- Completing the installation
- Replacing the server cover
- Connecting the external cables
- Updating the server configuration
- Chapter 3. Configuring the server
- Using the Setup utility
- Starting the Setup utility
- Passwords
- Using the Boot Selection Menu program
- Starting the backup server firmware
- Setup and configuration overview
- Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide
- Using the USB memory key for VMware hypervisor
- Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture
- Enabling the remote presence feature
- Enabling the Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Utility program
- Using the LSI Configuration Utility program
- Formatting a hard disk drive
- IBM Advanced Settings Utility program
- Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance
- Software service and support
- Appendix B. Notices
- Important notes
- Particulate contamination
- Electronic emission notices
- European Union EMC Directive conformance statement
- Japan VCCI Class A statement
- Russia Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Class A statement
- Index
System x3650 M3 4255
Table of contents
System x3650 M3 4255
Table of contents
System x3650 M3 4255
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- guidelines for trained service technicians
- guidelines for servicing electrical equipment
- safety statements
- Chapter 1. Start here
- Undocumented problems
- Chapter 2. Introduction
- Notices and statements in this document
- Features and specifications
- Server controls, LEDs, and connectors
- operator information panel
- light path diagnostics panel
- Rear view
- Internal connectors, LEDs, and jumpers
- System-board external connectors
- System-board switches and jumpers
- System-board LEDs
- System-board optional device connectors
- SAS riser-card connectors and LEDs
- Chapter 3. Diagnostics
- POST
- viewing event logs without restarting the server
- POST error codes
- Checkout procedure
- Performing the checkout procedure
- Troubleshooting tables
- General problems
- Hypervisor problems
- Intermittent problems
- USB keyboard, mouse, or pointing-device problems
- Memory problems
- Microprocessor problems
- Optional-device problems
- Power problems
- Serial device problems
- ServerGuide problems
- Software problems
- Light path diagnostics
- Remind button
- Light path diagnostics LEDs
- Power-supply LEDs
- Diagnostic programs, messages, and error codes
- Diagnostic text messages
- Tape alert flags
- Recovering the server firmware
- Automatic boot failure recovery (ABR)
- Nx boot failure
- Integrated management module error messages
- Drive n Status disabled
- Memory Logging Limit Reached
- Solving power problems
- Solving Ethernet controller problems
- Problem determination tips
- Chapter 4. Parts listing, Types 4255, 7945, and 7949 server
- Product recovery CDs
- Chapter 5. Removing and replacing server components
- System reliability guidelines
- Working inside the server with the power on
- Returning a device or component
- Removing and replacing consumable parts and Tier 1 CRUs
- Removing the cover
- Installing the cover
- Installing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Installing the DIMM air baffle
- Installing the fan bracket
- Removing an IBM virtual media key
- Installing an IBM virtual media key
- Installing a USB hypervisor memory key
- Removing a PCI riser-card assembly
- Installing a PCI riser-card assembly
- Removing a PCI adapter from a PCI riser-card assembly
- Installing a PCI adapter in a PCI riser-card assembly
- Removing the optional two-port Ethernet adapter
- Installing the optional two-port Ethernet adapter
- Storing the full-length-adapter bracket
- Removing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly
- Installing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly
- Removing a ServeRAID SAS controller from the SAS riser card
- Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller on the SAS riser card
- Removing an optional ServeRAID adapter advanced feature key
- Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter advanced feature key
- Removing a ServeRAID SAS controller battery from the remote battery tray
- Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller battery on the remote battery tray
- Removing a hot-swap hard disk drive
- Removing a simple-swap hard disk drive
- Installing a simple-swap hard disk drive
- Removing an optional CD-RW/DVD drive
- Installing an optional CD-RW/DVD drive
- Installing a tape drive
- Removing a memory module (DIMM)
- dimm installation sequence
- memory mirroring
- Installing a DIMM
- Removing a hot-swap fan
- Installing a hot-swap fan
- Removing a hot-swap ac power supply
- Installing a hot-swap ac power supply
- Removing the battery
- Installing the battery
- Removing the operator information panel assembly
- Removing and replacing Tier 2 CRUs
- Removing the SAS hard disk drive backplane
- Removing the simple-swap hard disk drive backplate
- Installing the simple-swap hard disk drive backplate
- Removing and replacing FRUs
- Installing a microprocessor and heat sink
- Thermal grease
- Removing a heat-sink retention module
- Removing the system board
- Installing the system board
- Removing the 240 VA safety cover
- Installing the 240 VA safety cover
- Chapter 6. Configuration information and instructions
- Using the Setup utility
- setup utility menu choices
- Using the Boot Selection Menu program
- serverguide features
- installing your operating system without using serverguide
- Using the integrated management module
- Using the USB memory key for VMware hypervisor
- Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture
- Using the embedded hypervisor
- Enabling the Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Utility program
- Using the LSI Configuration Utility program
- starting the lsi configuration utility program
- IBM Advanced Settings Utility program
- Updating the Universal Unique Identifier (UUID)
- Updating the DMI/SMBIOS data
- Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance
- Software service and support
- Appendix B. Notices
- Important notes
- Particulate contamination
- Telecommunication regulatory statement
- European Union EMC Directive conformance statement
- Japan VCCI Class A statement
- Russia Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Class A statement
- Index
System x3650 M3 4255
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1. The System x3650 M3 server
- The IBM Documentation CD
- Related documentation
- Notices and statements in this document
- What your server offers
- Reliability, availability, and serviceability features
- IBM Systems Director
- The UpdateXpress System Pack Installer
- Front view
- operator information panel
- Rear view
- Server power features
- turning on the server
- Chapter 2. Installing optional devices
- Server components
- System-board internal connectors
- System-board external connectors
- System-board switches and jumpers
- System-board LEDs
- System-board optional device connectors
- SAS riser-card connectors and LEDs
- PCI riser-card adapter connectors
- Installation guidelines
- System reliability guidelines
- Handling static-sensitive devices
- Internal cable routing and connectors
- Removing the cover
- Removing a PCI riser-card assembly
- Installing a PCI riser-card assembly
- Removing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Installing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Removing the DIMM air baffle
- Installing the DIMM air baffle
- Installing the full-length-adapter bracket
- Installing a PCI adapter
- Removing a PCI adapter
- Installing an IBM Virtual Media Key
- Installing a hard disk drive
- Removing a hard disk drive
- Removing a simple-swap hard disk drive
- Installing a SAS/SATA 8 Pac HDD option
- Installing a SAS/SATA 8 Pac HDD for 2 RAID kit with 2 M5015 adapters option
- Installing an optional tape drive
- Converting a 16 bay system to a 8 bay + tape system
- Installing the tape drive option
- Installing a second microprocessor
- Thermal grease
- Installing a memory module
- DIMM installation sequence
- Memory mirroring
- Online-spare memory
- Installing a DIMM
- Installing a hot-swap ac power supply
- Removing a hot-swap fan
- Installing a hot-swap fan
- Removing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly
- Installing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly
- Removing a ServeRAID SAS controller from the SAS riser-card
- Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller on the SAS riser-card
- Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter advanced feature key
- Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller battery on the remote battery tray
- Moving the SAS controller retention bracket
- Installing a USB hypervisor memory key
- Removing a USB hypervisor memory key
- Installing the optional two-port Ethernet adapter
- Installing an optional DVD drive
- Completing the installation
- Replacing the server cover
- Connecting the external cables
- Updating the server configuration
- Chapter 3. Configuring the server
- Using the Setup utility
- Starting the Setup utility
- Passwords
- Using the Boot Selection Menu program
- Starting the backup server firmware
- Setup and configuration overview
- Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide
- Using the USB memory key for VMware hypervisor
- Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture
- Enabling the remote presence feature
- Enabling the Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Utility program
- Starting the LSI Configuration Utility program
- Formatting a hard disk drive
- IBM Advanced Settings Utility program
- Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance
- Software service and support
- Appendix B. Notices
- Important notes
- Particulate contamination
- Telecommunication regulatory statement
- European Union EMC Directive conformance statement
- Japan VCCI Class A statement
- Russia Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Class A statement
- Index
System x3650 M3 4255
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- safety statements
- Chapter 1. The System x3650 M3 server
- The IBM Documentation CD
- Hardware and software requirements
- Related documentation
- Notices and statements in this document
- What your server offers
- Reliability, availability, and serviceability features
- IBM Systems Director
- The UpdateXpress System Pack Installer
- Operator information panel
- Light path diagnostics panel
- Rear view
- Power-supply LEDs
- Server power features
- Chapter 2. Installing optional devices
- Instructions for IBM Business Partners
- System-board internal connectors
- System-board switches and jumpers
- System-board LEDs
- System pulse LEDs
- SAS riser-card connectors and LEDs
- PCI riser-card adapter connectors
- PCI riser-card assembly LEDs
- System reliability guidelines
- Handling static-sensitive devices
- Removing the cover
- Removing a PCI riser-card assembly
- Installing a PCI riser-card assembly
- Removing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Installing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Removing the DIMM air baffle
- Installing the DIMM air baffle
- Installing the full-length-adapter bracket
- Installing a PCI adapter
- Removing a PCI adapter
- Installing an IBM Virtual Media Key
- Installing a hard disk drive
- Removing a hard disk drive
- Installing a simple-swap hard disk drive
- Removing a simple-swap hard disk drive
- Installing a SAS/SATA 4 Pac HDD upgrade option
- Installing a SAS/SATA 8 Pac HDD option
- Installing a SAS/SATA 8 Pac HDD for 2 RAID kit with 2 M5015 adapters option
- Installing an optional tape drive
- system
- Installing the tape drive option
- Installing a second microprocessor
- Thermal grease
- Installing a memory module
- DIMM installation sequence
- Memory mirroring
- Online-spare memory
- Installing a hot-swap ac power supply
- Removing a hot-swap fan
- Installing a hot-swap fan
- Removing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly
- Installing the SAS riser-card and controller assembly
- Removing a ServeRAID SAS controller from the SAS riser-card
- Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller on the SAS riser-card
- Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter advanced feature key
- Installing a ServeRAID SAS controller battery on the remote battery tray
- Moving the SAS controller retention bracket
- Installing a USB hypervisor memory key
- Removing a USB hypervisor memory key
- Installing the optional two-port Ethernet adapter
- Installing an optional DVD drive
- Completing the installation
- Replacing the server cover
- Updating the server configuration
- Chapter 3. Configuring the server
- Using the Setup utility
- Starting the Setup utility
- Passwords
- Power-on password
- Using the Boot Selection Menu program
- ServerGuide features
- Typical operating-system installation
- Using the integrated management module
- Using the USB memory key for VMware hypervisor
- Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture
- Enabling the remote presence feature
- Logging on to the Web interface
- Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller
- Starting the LSI Configuration Utility program
- Formatting a hard disk drive
- IBM Advanced Settings Utility program
- Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance
- Using the documentation
- Creating a personalized support web
- Appendix B. Notices
- Trademarks
- Particulate contamination
- Documentation format
- Electronic emission notices
- European Union EMC Directive conformance statement
- Japan VCCI Class A statement
- Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) statement
- Taiwan Class A compliance statement
- Index
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