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Powering on and selecting boot options ....................................................................................................... 37
Registering the server.................................................................................................................................. 38
Hardware options installation ....................................................................................................... 39
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 39
Processor and fan option ............................................................................................................................ 39
Memory options ......................................................................................................................................... 46
HP SmartMemory ............................................................................................................................. 47
Memory subsystem architecture ................................................................................................................... 47
Single-, dual-, and quad-rank DIMMs ........................................................................................................... 47
DIMM identification .................................................................................................................................... 48
Memory configurations ............................................................................................................................... 49
Advanced ECC memory configuration ................................................................................................ 49
Online Spare memory configuration ................................................................................................... 50
Lockstep memory configuration .......................................................................................................... 50
General DIMM slot population guidelines ..................................................................................................... 50
Advanced ECC population guidelines ................................................................................................ 50
Online spare population ................................................................................................................... 51
Lockstep Memory population guidelines.............................................................................................. 51
Population order .............................................................................................................................. 51
Installing a DIMM ....................................................................................................................................... 51
Hot-plug hard drive options ......................................................................................................................... 52
Installing a hot-plug SAS or SATA hard drive ...................................................................................... 52
Removing a hot-plug SAS or SATA hard drive ..................................................................................... 53
Controller options ....................................................................................................................................... 54
Installing the flash-backed write cache module .................................................................................... 55
Installing the flash-backed write cache capacitor pack ......................................................................... 56
Optical drive option ................................................................................................................................... 58
Redundant hot-plug power supply option ...................................................................................................... 60
FlexLOM option ......................................................................................................................................... 61
Expansion board options ............................................................................................................................ 63
Removing the expansion slot blanks ................................................................................................... 63
Installing a full-length expansion board ............................................................................................... 64
Installing a half-length expansion board ............................................................................................. 65
Secondary PCI riser cage option .................................................................................................................. 66
Hard drive cage option .............................................................................................................................. 68
2U rack bezel option .................................................................................................................................. 77
HP Trusted Platform Module option .............................................................................................................. 78
Installing the Trusted Platform Module board ....................................................................................... 79
Retaining the recovery key/password ................................................................................................. 80
Enabling the Trusted Platform Module ................................................................................................. 80
Cabling ..................................................................................................................................... 82
SAS hard drive cabling ............................................................................................................................... 82
Optical drive cabling .................................................................................................................................. 83
FBWC cabling ........................................................................................................................................... 84
Chipset SATA cable option ......................................................................................................................... 85
150W PCIe power cable option .................................................................................................................. 88
Software and configuration utilities ............................................................................................... 89
Server mode .............................................................................................................................................. 89
Server QuickSpecs ..................................................................................................................................... 89
HP iLO Management Engine ....................................................................................................................... 89
HP iLO ............................................................................................................................................ 89
