Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX600 User manual

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PRIMERGY BX600
You will find updates and new components in the chapter ’Updates’ positioned
after the index.
Contents
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-5
The Blade Server Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-5
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-7
Server Blade Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-7
Switch Blade Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-9
Management Blade Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-9
Other Boards: Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-10
Product designations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-13
System allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-19
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-19
Technical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-20
Installation and initial operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-23
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-23
Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-23
Connecting devices to the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-25
–Connectors on the server blade / breakout cable . . . . . . 02-BX600-25
–Connectors on the server rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-26
Connecting the server to the mains voltage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-28
Initial operation and operating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-29
Controls and indicators on the server front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-29
–Controls and indicators on the front bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-29
–Controls and indicators on the server blade panel . . . . . 02-BX600-31
Controls and indicators on the server rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-33
–Controls and indicators on the PS/2-ID board . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-33
–Controls and indicators on the PSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-34
Switching the server on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-37
Server Blade Setup Using ServerStart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-39
Reference installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-39
–Hardware preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-39
–Software preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-41
Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-43

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Contents
The Switch Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-43
–The control and connection panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-44
The Fibre Channel pass-thru Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-46
–Control and connection panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-47
–Fibre Channel SFP module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-48
The Management Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-50
–Management blade control and connection panel . . . . . . 02-BX600-51
–Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-53
–Temperature/System monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-54
–Possible screen resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-55
–Management Blade Initial Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-55
The SCSI Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-60
Spare Parts and Add-On Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-61
Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-63
Drive indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-63
Server Blade Diagnostics LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-64
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-65
Removal and Installation Routines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-71
Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-71
The Server Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-71
Removing or Installing Server Blade Dummy Modules . . . . . 02-BX600-71
Installing or Removing Server Blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-73
Opening a Server Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-76
Hard Disk Subsystem on the Server Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-77
–Installing/replacing hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-77
Exchangeable Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-80
Main Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-81
–Installing memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-81
–Removing memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-84
Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-84
Replacing the Server Blade Lithium Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-88
Front PCI Expansion Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-90
Fibre Channel Daughter Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-98
Upgrading the Server Blade Firmware (BIOS and BMC) . . 02-BX600-100
Recovering the Server Blade BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-102
The Switch Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-104
Removing/installing Switch Blade Dummy Modules . . . . . . 02-BX600-104

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Removing and Installing Switch Blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-106
Upgrading the Switch Blade Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-108
The Fibre Channel Pass-Thru Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-110
Exchanging an FC pass-thru Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-110
The Management Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-115
Removing or Installing Management Blades . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-115
Replacing the Management Blade Lithium Battery . . . . . . 02-BX600-117
Upgrading the Management Blade Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-118
–Upgrading the BMC via the LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-118
–Rebuilding the default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-120
–Emergency Flash of the Management Blade Firmware 02-BX600-123
The SCSI Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-126
Removing and Installing the SCSI Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-126
Power Supply Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-128
Removing and Installing Power Supply Units . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-128
The Midplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-131
Replacing or Installing the Midplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-131
Replacing the Front Control Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-135
Other Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-139
Removing or Installing the KVM Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-139
System Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-141
Replacing the Fan Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-141
Replacing a Fan in the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-143
Replacing the PSU Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-144
Installing the System in the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-145
Mounting the Assembly Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-148
Mounting/Removing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-150
Overviews, lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-153
Spare parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-153
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-153
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-155
Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02-BX600-157

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BX600
General information
The Blade Server Concept
The Blade Server System concept is a modular concept which separates the
I/O functionality (switch blade, SCSI blade, FC pass-thru blade) from the CPU
(server blade). Two management blades with an integrated management
solution for complete redundant remote administration of the system are also
implemented. Fault tolerance on a complete blade system level is also
maintained by using 3+1 redundant, hot-swap power supply units (PSU), as well
as hot-swap, redundant fans.
A fully redundant, hot-swap design of the server blade ensures that blades can
be added or exchanged without interruption of service. The compact design
allows up to 10 server blades to be installed in a chassis of only 7 HU (height
units) in a 19-inch rack.
The figure below shows the front of the BX600 system unit and the numbering
of the server blade slots.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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The Blade Server Concept General information
The server blade combines all the core components of a traditional server. It
contains one or two CPUs, the main memory and one or two Ultra320 SCSI
hard disk drives on which the operating system and application programs are
installed. The server blade comes with extensive I/O capabilities, as there are
two Gigabit Ethernet ports, two optional 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel ports and one
optional PCI expansion slot. The VGA and USB connectors at the front of each
server blade can be used for local, on-site maintenance.
The PRIMERGY BX600 chassis provides redundant and hot-pluggable infra-
structure modules that are connected to the server blades by means of a
passive midplane. The management blades provide the remote management
interface. The Gigabit Ethernet switch blades connect the Gigabit Ethernet
ports of the server blades to the LAN. The Fibre Channel pass-thru blades are
responsible for connection to a SAN, using the optional FC module for each
server blade. The infrastructure is rounded off by a KVM switch and an SCSI
module for connecting external backup devices.
The two management blades have separate LAN connections for maintaining
accessibility to the system even when the standard traffic network connections
are down.
Application areas
As economical, ultra-compact systems, the mono or dual CPU server blades
are ideal for use by company data centers and Internet service providers. They
are perfectly suited for large application servers, terminal servers for CPU-
intensive applications, and DBMS servers.
Other common application areas:
– Internet and caching services (Microsoft IIS and Linux Apache)
– Web cache (Inktomi traffic server, Microsoft ISA server or Volera)
– Streaming media
– DNS server, VPN gateway, SSL/LB, firewall intrusion protection
– IP load balancing, clustering (F5 BIG-IP, Microsoft NLBS, Linux LVS)
– Terminal server (Citrix)
– Communications or front-end applications

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General information Features
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High level of availability and failure protection
The PRIMERGY BX600 blade server system offers a high level of reliability and
availability through highly developed hardware and software components:
– When memory data is accessed, 1-bit errors in the main memory are recog-
nized and automatically corrected with the ECC (Error Correcting Code)
method.
– ASR&R (Automatic Server Reconfiguration and Restart) restarts the system
in the case of an error and automatically “hides” the defective system
components.
– The PDA (Prefailure Detection and Analyzing) technology from Fujitsu
Siemens Computers analyzes and monitors all components relevant for
system reliability.
– The on-board SCSI-RAID controllers with HostRAID support (RAID-Levels
0, 1 and 10) increase system availability.
– The hot-swappable components provide additional failure protection. Failure
protection on a complete blade system is ensured by up to four redundant,
hot-swap power supply units (PSU), as well as hot-swap, redundant fans.
Features
Server Blade Features
A server blade combines the core components of a traditional server on a hot-
swappable system board that can accommodate one or two Intel®Xeon™
processors, one or two SCSI hard disk drives, and up to 12 GB of main memory.
Processors One or two Intel®Xeon™ processors with 2.8 GHz to 3.2 GHz
and 1 MB third-level cache in up to 10 hot-swappable mono- or
dual-CPU server blades ensure high data throughput and
system performance.

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Features General information
Memory There are three memory banks available on each server
blade. These can be populated with 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB or
4 memory each with two DDR SDRAM modules. The
maximum memory expansion is 12 GB. ECC with memory
scrubbing function and hot-spare memory bank is standard.
Peripheral
interfaces
Special connector for 2xUSB and VGA port
LAN avail-
ability
Each server blade has four Gigabit LAN channels. Usually two
channels are connected with the switch blades. Each switch
blade has ten 1-Gigabit downlink ports to connect and three
uplink ports for 10/100/1000 Base TX.
Fibre Channel Each server blade can be equipped with two 2 Gbit/sec Fibre
Channel I/O ports. For this purpose an FC daughter board
must be installed in the server blade. To use Fibre Channel
functionality at least one Fibre Channel pass-thru blade is also
required in the system.
PCI
expansion
module
A server blade can be optionally provided with a proprietary
expansion module for a standard full height half length PCI
card via a PCI riser card. This PCI module will occupy the
space of the internal SCSI hard disk module on the left side of
the server blade.
Graphics
controller
Onboard video controller ATI Rage XL 8 MB onboard
Storage Each server blade can accommodate two 3.5“ SCA2 SCSI
hard disk drives (HDD) with 18, 36, 73 or 146 GB. The
maximum hard disk capacity on one server blade is 292
(2x146) GB in a RAID 0 configuration. Usually two disks are
mirrored in a RAID 1 configuration. Each server blade is
equipped with a two-channel Ultra 320 SCSI onboard
controller and embedded HostRAID.

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Switch Blade Features
All incoming and outgoing data traffic is transmitted via LAN (TCP/IP protocol,
Gigabit Ethernet). Up to two redundant switch blades provide high-speed LAN
access via multiple Gigabit interfaces. Each switch blade offers ten downlink
ports to the server blades and three RJ45 uplink ports to level-3 switches. These
LAN connections provide the I/O functionality for the server blade besides the
optional Fibre Channel connections (see page 02-BX600-43).
Management Blade Features
Two redundant management blades allow the complete remote administration of
the whole server system. Separate LAN connections are provided to maintain
accessibility to the system even if the standard traffic network connections are
down (see page 02-BX600-50).
Security
functions
– Simple error detection and correction in the main memory
with ECC (only for memory modules with ECC)
– System, setup and keyboard password
– Write protection for the floppy disk drive
Notification System status, selection notification, HDD activity, LAN
connection status
BIOS AMI BIOS, 4-Mbit boot block flash memory

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Features General information
Other Boards: Features
Power supply
Up to four hot-swappable power supply units which adjust automatically to any
power voltage in the range 100 V - 127V or 200 V - 240 V in a 3+1 redundant
power supply configuration ensure enough power for the system. If one of these
units fails, the others ensure that operation continues unimpaired. The defective
power supply unit can be replaced during operation (hot-swap).
KVM blade The rear KVM blade provides the VGA, PS2 keyboard and
mouse interface in the KVM connector for local administration
of the server blades. To connect these devices a special cable
is required, see page 02-BX600-27.
To provide information as to which server blade is connected
to the KVM blade, the KVM blade also has an identify button
and an LED (see page 02-BX600-31).
Front control
board
The front control board is included in the server front and
contains front indicators and controls. It also contains an
identify button and LED on the server front that indicates if the
system has been selected for identification or remote adminis-
tration (see page 02-BX600-31).
Power distri-
bution board
(PDB)
The power distribution board is the bridge that provides inter-
connection between the redundant power supply units and the
midplane. It divides up the 12 V output into 10 branches for
server blades and 6 branches for management blades and switch
blades and FC pass-thru blades.
Midplane
board
The midplane board provides internal interconnection between
all BX600 blade boards.
Docking
board
The docking board connects the front control board (containing
indicators and controls on the front bezel) to the midplane (see
page 02-BX600-131).