IBM BladeCenter T Type 8720 - Manual (Page 7)

Contents
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
Support telephone numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
Chapter 1. General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Notices and statements used in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Features and specifications for the BladeCenter T Type 8720 unit . . . . . . 5
Features and specifications for the BladeCenter T Type 8730 unit . . . . . . 7
Major components of the BladeCenter T Types 8720 and 8730 unit . . . . . . 9
Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
BladeCenter T unit power, controls, and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Starting the BladeCenter T unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Shutting down the BladeCenter T unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 2. Configuring the BladeCenter T unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Setting up the remote connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Cabling the Ethernet port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Management and configuration program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Setting up the management and configuration program . . . . . . . . . 26
Starting the management and configuration program . . . . . . . . . . 27
Setting management and configuration program options . . . . . . . . . 28
Saving and restoring the configuration file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Configuring an I/O module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
What to configure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Supporting Ethernet failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Configuring the Ethernet controllers in the blade servers . . . . . . . . 30
BladeCenter T networking guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using Remote Deployment Manager Version 4.11 Update 3 or later . . . . . 33
Using IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Communicating with the IBM Director software . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 3. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Identifying problems using the Light Path Diagnostics feature . . . . . . . . 35
Chapter 4. Setting up the BladeCenter T hardware . . . . . . . . . . 37
Setting up the BladeCenter T unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Preparing for system power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
System reliability considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Preinstallation steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Removing and installing the bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Removing the bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Installing the bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Removing and installing the bezel air filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Removing and installing power modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Removing a power module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Installing a power module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Removing and installing the media tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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