Table Of Contents - IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 Type 8842 Installation And User Manual
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- Setup manual (64 pages) ,
- Maintenance and troubleshooting manual (218 pages) ,
- Installation and user manual (132 pages)
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Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Notices and statements used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2. Preparing the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Preinstallation checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Checking the status of the media tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 3. Installing the blade server in the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 4. Installing the operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 5. Configuration requirements for the blade server . . . . . . . 15
Using the Serial Over LAN (SOL) feature on the blade server . . . . . . . . 15
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Blade server Ethernet controller enumeration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Configuring the blade server for Fibre Channel boot . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Using the command-line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Using the simple network management protocol (SNMP) . . . . . . . . . 24
Chapter 6. BladeCenter JS20 Type 8842 description . . . . . . . . . . 25
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
What your IBM BladeCenter JS20 Type 8842 offers . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
System-board internal and option connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
System-board LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Opening the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Removing the blade-server bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Installing IDE hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Determining current blade server firmware code levels . . . . . . . . . 20
Updating the system flash using Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Updating and managing system flash using AIX diagnostics . . . . . . . 22
Updating the system flash using AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Committing the temporary firmware image using AIX . . . . . . . . . 23
Verifying the system firmware levels using AIX . . . . . . . . . . . 23
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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