Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX924 S3 User manual

Upgrade and Maintenance Manual - English
PRIMERGY BX924 S3
Server Blade
Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
March 2012

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For your safety
This manual contains important information for safely and correctly using this
product.
Carefully read the manual before using this product. Pay particular attention to
the accompanying manual "Safety Notes and Regulations" and ensure these
safety notes are understood before using the product. Keep this manual and the
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Radio interference
This product is a "Class A" ITE (Information Technology Equipment). In a
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Aluminum electrolytic capacitors
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assemblies and in the mouse and keyboard are limited-life components. Use of
these components beyond their operating life may result in electrolyte leakage
or depletion, potentially causing emission of foul odor or smoke.
As a guideline, in a normal office environment (25°C) operating life is not
expected to be reached within the maintenance support period (5 years).
However, operating life may be reached more quickly if, for example, the
product is used in a hot environment. The customer shall bear the cost of
replacing replaceable components which have exceeded their operating life.
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trouble-free operation during the maintenance support period.
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Only for the Japanese market:
IAlthough described in this manual, some sections do not apply to the
Japanese market. These options and routines include:
– CSS (Customer Self Service)

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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.1 Where to find which information? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1.2 Notational conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2 Before you start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.1 Classification of procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.1.1 Upgrade and Repair Units (URU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.1.2 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.2 Average task duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.3 Tools you need at hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.4 Documents you need at hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3 Important information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.1 Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.2 CE conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.3 FCC Class A Compliance Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.4 Environmental protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
4 Basic hardware procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.1 Using diagnostics information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.1.1 Accessing the management blade web interface . . . . . . . . 43
4.1.2 Locating the defective server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.1.3 Determining the error class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.1.3.1 Global Error indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.1.3.2 Customer Self Service (CSS) indicator . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.1.4 Locating the defective component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4.2 Opening the rack door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.2.1 Opening the rack door of a PRIMECENTER rack . . . . . . . . 53
4.2.2 Opening the rack door of a PRIMECENTER M1 rack . . . . . . 53

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4.3 Shutting down the server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4.4 Replacing the server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
4.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
4.4.2 Replacing steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.4.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
4.5 Removing a server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
4.5.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
4.5.2 Removing the server blade from the system unit . . . . . . . . . 59
4.6 Opening the server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.7 Closing the server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.8 Installing the server blade in the system unit . . . . . . . . . 62
4.9 Switching on the server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.10 Concluding software tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
4.11 Closing the rack door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
4.11.1 Closing the rack door of a PRIMECENTER rack . . . . . . . . . 67
4.11.2 Closing the rack door of a PRIMECENTER M1 rack . . . . . . . 67
5 Basic software procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.1 Starting the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.1.1 Launching a video redirection to a server blade . . . . . . . . . 69
5.1.2 Checking the server blade status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.1.2.1 Checking the server blade status via management blade web
interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.1.2.2 Checking the server blade status via iRMC . . . . . . . . . . 70
5.1.3 Saving BIOS settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
5.1.4 Saving iRMC settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
5.1.5 Connecting remote storage to the managed server blade . . . . 72
5.1.6 Disabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1.7 Disabling boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.1.7.1 Viewing boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.1.7.2 Configuring boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.1.8 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . . 76
5.1.9 Note on server maintenance in a Multipath I/O environment . . . 77
5.1.10 Switching on the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

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5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and iRMC . . . 80
5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . 80
5.2.1.2 Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
5.2.2 Restoring BIOS settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.2.3 Restoring iRMC settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.2.4 Updating mezzanine card firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.2.5 Enabling Option ROM scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
5.2.6 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . 89
5.2.7 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
5.2.7.1 Viewing the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
5.2.7.2 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5.2.8 Enabling boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
5.2.9 Enabling replaced components in the system BIOS . . . . . . . 93
5.2.10 Verifying the memory mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
5.2.11 Verifying the system time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
5.2.12 Viewing and clearing the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . 95
5.2.12.1 Viewing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.2.12.2 Saving the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
5.2.12.3 Clearing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
5.2.13 Updating the NIC configuration file in a Linux environment . . . 97
5.2.14 Enabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
5.2.15 Performing a RAID array rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.2.16 Looking up changed MAC / WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.2.16.1 Looking up MAC addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.2.16.2 Looking up WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
5.2.17 Using the Chassis ID Prom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.2.18 Configuring LAN teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.2.18.1 After replacing / upgrading LAN/CNA controllers . . . . . . 102
5.2.18.2 After replacing the server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.2.19 Switching off the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
6 Solid state drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
6.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
6.2 Overview of the disk mounting kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
6.3 Installing SSD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
6.3.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
6.3.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
6.3.3 Locations of the drives inside the server blade . . . . . . . . . 108

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6.3.4 Installing SSD 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
6.3.5 Installing SSD 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
6.3.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
6.4 Removing SSD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
6.4.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
6.4.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
6.4.3 Removing SSD 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
6.4.4 Removing SSD 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
6.4.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
6.5 Replacing an SSD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
6.5.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
6.5.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
6.5.3 Removing an SSD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
6.5.4 Installing an SSD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
6.5.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
6.6 Replacing SSD backplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
6.6.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
6.6.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
6.6.3 Removing the SSD SAS / PCH backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 125
6.6.4 Installing the SSD SAS / PCH backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
6.6.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
7 Mezzanine cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
7.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
7.1.1 Installing riser cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
7.1.2 Removing riser cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
7.1.3 Population rules for mezzanine cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
7.2 Installing mezzanine cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
7.2.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
7.2.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
7.2.3 Installing a mezzanine card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
7.2.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
7.3 Removing mezzanine cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
7.3.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
7.3.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
7.3.3 Removing a mezzanine card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
7.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151