IBM Type 8677 User Manual

IBM

Contents

About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Support telephone numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Chapter 1. General information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM Documentation CD

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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Related publications

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Notices and statements used in this book

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Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Major components of the BladeCenter Type 8677 and 1881 unit . . . . . . . 8

Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

BladeCenter unit power, controls, and indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Starting the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Shutting down the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
BladeCenter components, controls, and LEDs

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Setting up the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting to the default IP address on a new BladeCenter . . . . . . . 19
Registering and profiling the BladeCenter products

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Chapter 2. Configuring your BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
BladeCenter unit power requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
BladeCenter power configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Firmware updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Configuring the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Configuring the management module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Communicating with the IBM Director software . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Configuring I/O modules

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Configuring blade servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Using IBM Director

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About the wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Starting the wizard

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Using Remote Deployment Manager Version 4.1 or later

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BladeCenter networking guidelines

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Chapter 3. Diagnostics

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Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Identifying problems using the Light Path Diagnostics feature . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 4. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installing the BladeCenter unit in a rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installation guidelines

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System reliability considerations

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Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Installing and removing modules

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The BladeCenter modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installing a module

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Removing a module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Installing and removing the acoustic module option

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Installing the acoustic module option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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