Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX300 User manual

PRIMERGY
PRIMERGY BX300
Blade Server System
Operating Manual
Xenia Fierley / Martin Jung
Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH München
81730 Munich
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A26361-K863-Z102-8-7619
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Introduction
Overview: Blade Server System Installation Steps
Important Notes
Installing the Hardware
Preparation for Use and Operation
Blade Server System LAN Port Assignment
Property and Data Protection
The Server Blade
The Switch Blade
The Management Blade
Continued

The Power Supply Concept
The Ventilation Concept
Troubleshooting and Tips
Related Publications and Index

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Contents
1Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Overview of the Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Blade Server System Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.4 Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.5 Technical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2 Overview: Blade Server System
Installation Steps 11
3 Important Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.1 Notes On Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2 Components With Electrostatic Sensitive Devices . . . . . . . 18
3.3 CE Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.4 FCC Class A Compliance Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.5 Notes On Installing Into the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.6 Transporting the Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.7 Environmental Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4 Installing the Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.1 Installation Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.2 Unpacking the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.3 Installing the System Into the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.3.1 Mounting the Assembly Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.3.2 Mounting/Removing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.4 Cabling the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.4.1 Connecting External Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.4.2 Cable Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4.4.3 Instructions On Connecting and Disconnecting Cables . . . . . 39
4.5 Connecting the System to the Line Voltage . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5 Preparation for Use and Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
5.1 System Operating and Indicator Elements . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.1.1 The Front Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.1.2 The Rear Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
5.2 Switching the Server System ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
5.3 Management Blade Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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5.4 Updating BX300 System Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5.4.1 Updating the Server Blade Firmware (BIOS and BMC) . . . . . 51
5.4.1.1 Using an USB Floppy Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5.4.1.2 Using TFTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
5.4.2 Updating the Management Blade firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
5.4.3 Updating the Switch Blade firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6 Blade Server System LAN Port Assignment . . . . . . . . . . 63
6.1 One LAN Switch Blade / 10 Server Blades . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
6.2 Two Redundant LAN Switch Blades / 10 Server Blades . . . . . 64
6.3 Four LAN Switch Blades / 11 or More Server Blades . . . . . . . 65
6.4 LAN Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
6.5 Additional LAN Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
7 Property and Data Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
7.1 BIOS Setup Security Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
8 The Server Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
8.1 Server Blade Pentium® III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
8.1.1 CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
8.1.2 Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
8.2 Server Blade Pentium® M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
8.2.1 CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
8.2.2 Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
8.3 Control and Connection Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
8.4 PCI Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
8.4.1 LAN-PCI Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
8.4.2 FC-PCI Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
8.5 Exchanging/Adding Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
8.5.1 Installing SDRAM/DDR RAM Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
8.5.2 Installing an Additional Hard Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
8.5.3 Exchanging a Hard Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
8.5.4 Exchanging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
8.5.5 Adding PCI Module to the Server Blade Pentium® M . . . . . . 88
8.6 Adding/Removing a Server Blade to/from the System . . . . . . 95
8.6.1 Server Blade Pentium® III/M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
8.6.2 Server Blade Pentium® M with attached PCI Module . . . . . 101
9 The Switch Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
9.1 Control and Connection Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
9.2 Installing a Switch Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

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10 The Management Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
10.1 Control and Connection Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
10.2 Exchanging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
10.3 Exchanging a Management Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
11 The Power Supply Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
11.1 Power Supply Unit (PSU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
11.1.1 Replacing a Power Supply Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
11.2 Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
12 The Ventilation Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
12.1 The Front Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
12.1.1 Replacing the Front Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
12.2 The Rear Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
12.2.1 Replacing the Rear Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
13 Troubleshooting and Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
13.1 System beeps three times and stands still . . . . . . . . . . . 133
13.2 System Power LED Remains Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
13.3 Front or Rear Identify/Fault LED Blinks Amber . . . . . . . . . 134
13.4 System Switches Itself OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
13.5 Screen Remains Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
13.6 Flickering Stripes On the Monitor Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
13.7 No Screen Display or Display Drifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
13.8 No Mouse Pointer Displayed On the Screen . . . . . . . . . . 137
13.9 Floppy Disk Cannot Be Read/Written . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
13.10 Time and Date Are Not Correct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
13.11 Server Blade Does Not Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
13.12 Drive Reported as Defective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Related Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143