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Drive installation guidelines ............................................................................................................ 30
Installing a non-hot-plug drive .......................................................................................................... 30
Installing a hot-plug drive ................................................................................................................ 32
Drive cage options .................................................................................................................................. 33
Four-bay LFF hot-plug drive backplane option .................................................................................... 33
Eight-bay SFF hot-plug drive cage option .......................................................................................... 37
Controller options .................................................................................................................................... 39
Installing a storage controller .......................................................................................................... 39
Installing the FBWC module and capacitor pack ............................................................................... 40
Optical drive option ................................................................................................................................ 42
Memory options ...................................................................................................................................... 44
HP SmartMemory .......................................................................................................................... 45
DIMM identification ....................................................................................................................... 45
Single-rank and dual-rank DIMMs .................................................................................................... 46
Memory subsystem architecture ....................................................................................................... 46
ECC memory ................................................................................................................................ 46
General DIMM slot population guidelines ......................................................................................... 47
Installing a DIMM .......................................................................................................................... 47
Expansion board options .......................................................................................................................... 48
Dedicated iLO management port option ..................................................................................................... 52
Enabling the dedicated iLO management port ................................................................................... 53
HP Trusted Platform Module option ............................................................................................................ 54
Installing the Trusted Platform Module board ..................................................................................... 54
Retaining the recovery key/password .............................................................................................. 56
Enabling the Trusted Platform Module ............................................................................................... 56
RPS enablement option ............................................................................................................................ 57
Cabling ..................................................................................................................................... 61
Cabling overview .................................................................................................................................... 61
Storage cabling ...................................................................................................................................... 61
Four-bay LFF drive cabling .............................................................................................................. 61
Eight-bay SFF drive cabling ............................................................................................................. 63
Media drive cabling ................................................................................................................................ 64
Power supply cabling............................................................................................................................... 65
Nonredundant power supply cabling ............................................................................................... 65
Redundant power supply cabling ..................................................................................................... 65
Capacitor pack cabling ........................................................................................................................... 66
Software and configuration utilities ............................................................................................... 67
Server mode ........................................................................................................................................... 67
Server QuickSpecs .................................................................................................................................. 67
HP iLO Management Engine ..................................................................................................................... 67
HP iLO ......................................................................................................................................... 67
Intelligent Provisioning .................................................................................................................... 69
HP Insight Remote Support software ................................................................................................. 71
Scripting Toolkit ............................................................................................................................ 71
HP Service Pack for ProLiant ..................................................................................................................... 72
HP Smart Update Manager ............................................................................................................. 72
HP ROM-Based Setup Utility ..................................................................................................................... 72
Using RBSU .................................................................................................................................. 73
Auto-configuration process .............................................................................................................. 73
Boot options ................................................................................................................................. 74
Re-entering the server serial number and product ID ........................................................................... 74
Utilities and features ................................................................................................................................ 74
