Fujitsu Primergy CX270 S2 User manual

Upgrade and Maintenance Manual - English
PRIMERGY CX270 S2
Server Node
Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
Edition August 2014

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Japanese market. These options and routines include:
– CSS (Customer Self Service)

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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.1 Notational conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2 Before you start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.1 Classification of procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.1.1 Customer Replaceable Units (CRU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.1.2 Upgrade and Repair Units (URU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.1.3 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
2.4.1 Documents for the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.4.2 Documents for the server enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3 Important information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.1 Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.2 CE conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.3 FCC Class A Compliance Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3.4 Environmental protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4 Basic hardware procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.1 Shutting down the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.2 Removing the server node from the server enclosure . . . 44
4.3 Removing the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.4 Removing the air duct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.5 Removing the GPGPU riser module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.6 Removing the air duct brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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4.7 Removing the memory slot air ducts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4.8 Installing the memory slot air ducts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4.9 Installing the air duct brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.10 Installing the GPGPU riser module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4.11 Installing the air duct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.12 Installing the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.13 Removing the riser module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
4.14 Installing the riser module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.15 Installing the server node in the server enclosure . . . . . . 62
4.16 Switching on the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.17 Concluding software tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
5 Basic software procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.1 Starting the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.1.1 Disabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.1.1.1 Viewing boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.1.1.2 Configuring boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and BMC . . . . 67
5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . . 67
5.2.1.2 Updating or recovering the BMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
5.2.2 Updating RAID controller firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.2.3 Enabling boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.2.4 Enabling replaced components in the system BIOS . . . . . . . 74
5.2.5 Verifying the memory mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.2.6 Verifying the system time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.2.7 Viewing and clearing the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . . 76
5.2.7.1 Viewing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
5.2.7.2 Clearing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.2.8 Updating the NIC configuration file in a Linux environment . . . . 77
5.2.9 Performing a RAID array rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
5.2.10 Looking up changed MAC / WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2.10.1 Looking up MAC addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2.10.2 Looking up WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2.11 Using the Chassis ID Prom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

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5.2.12 Configuring LAN teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.2.12.1 After replacing / upgrading LAN controllers . . . . . . . . . 82
5.2.12.2 After replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
6 Expansion cards, interposer boards and battery
backup units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
6.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
6.2 Additional tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
6.2.1 Mounting expansion card slot brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
6.2.1.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
6.2.1.2 General instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
6.2.1.3 SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
6.2.1.4 Network adapter D3035 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
6.2.1.5 Network adapter D3045 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
6.2.1.6 Network adapter D2755 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
6.2.2 Handling SFP+ transceiver modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
6.2.2.1 Installing SFP+ transceiver modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
6.2.2.2 Removing an SFP+ transceiver module . . . . . . . . . . . 98
6.2.2.3 Replacing SFP+ transceiver modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
6.3 Expansion cards in PCI slot 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
6.3.1 Installing expansion cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
6.3.1.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
6.3.1.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
6.3.1.3 Removing the slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
6.3.1.4 Installing expansion cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
6.3.1.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
6.3.2 Removing expansion cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
6.3.2.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
6.3.2.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
6.3.2.3 Removing an expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
6.3.2.4 Installing the slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
6.3.2.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
6.3.3 Replacing expansion cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
6.3.3.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
6.3.3.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
6.3.3.3 Removing an expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
6.3.3.4 Installing an expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
6.3.3.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
6.4 SAS RAID controller on PCI slot 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

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6.4.1 Installing SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
6.4.1.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
6.4.1.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
6.4.1.3 Removing the slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
6.4.1.4 Connecting cables to the SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . 117
6.4.1.5 Installing a SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
6.4.1.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
6.4.1.7 NVIDIA GRID: Installing a SAS RAID controller . . . . . . 123
6.4.2 Removing SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
6.4.2.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
6.4.2.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
6.4.2.3 Removing SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
6.4.2.4 Disconnecting cables from the SAS RAID controller . . . . 126
6.4.2.5 Installing the slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
6.4.2.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
6.4.3 Replacing SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
6.4.3.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
6.4.3.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
6.4.3.3 Removing the SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
6.4.3.4 Installing the SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6.4.3.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6.5 GPGPU card in PCI slot 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
6.5.1 Installing a TESLA GPGPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
6.5.1.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
6.5.1.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
6.5.1.3 Preparing a TESLA GPGPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
6.5.1.4 Connecting the GPGPU card power cable to the
TESLA GPGPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
6.5.1.5 Installing a TESLA GPGPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
6.5.1.6 Connecting the GPGPU power cable to the
interposer board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
6.5.1.7 Installing the air tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
6.5.1.8 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
6.5.2 Removing a TESLA GPGPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
6.5.2.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
6.5.2.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
6.5.2.3 Removing the air tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
6.5.2.4 Disconnecting the GPGPU power cable from the
interposer board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
6.5.2.5 Removing a TESLA GPGPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
6.5.3 Replacing a TESLA GPGPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

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6.5.3.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
6.5.3.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
6.5.3.3 Removing the TESLA GPGPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
6.5.3.4 Installing the TESLA GPGPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
6.5.3.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
6.5.4 Installing a Xeon Phi in slot 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
6.5.4.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
6.5.4.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
6.5.4.3 Removing the air tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
6.5.4.4 Preparing a Xeon Phi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
6.5.4.5 Connecting the Xeon Phi power cable to the Xeon Phi . . . 154
6.5.4.6 Installing a Xeon Phi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
6.5.4.7 Connecting the Xeon Phi power cable to the
interposer board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
6.5.4.8 Installing the Xeon Phi air tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
6.5.4.9 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
6.5.5 Removing a Xeon Phi out of slot 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
6.5.5.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
6.5.5.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
6.5.5.3 Removing the Xeon Phi air tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
6.5.5.4 Disconnecting the Xeon Phi power cable from the
Xeon Phi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
6.5.5.5 Disconnecting the Xeon Phi power cable from the
interposer board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
6.5.5.6 Removing a Xeon Phi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
6.5.5.7 Deinstallation of the mounting brackets of a Xeon Phi . . . . 169
6.5.5.8 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
6.5.6 Replacing a Xeon Phi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
6.5.6.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
6.5.6.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
6.5.6.3 Removing the Xeon Phi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
6.5.6.4 Installing the Xeon Phi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
6.5.6.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
6.5.7 Installing a NVIDIA GRID GPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
6.5.7.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
6.5.7.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
6.5.7.3 Preparing a NVIDIA GRID GPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
6.5.7.4 Connecting the power cable to the NVIDIA GRID GPU card 178
6.5.7.5 Installing a NVIDIA GRID GPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
6.5.7.6 Connecting the power cable to the interposer board . . . . . 182
6.5.7.7 Installing the air tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
6.5.7.8 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

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6.5.8 Removing a NVIDIA GRID GPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
6.5.8.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
6.5.8.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
6.5.8.3 Removing a controller card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
6.5.8.4 Removing the air tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
6.5.8.5 Disconnecting the power cable from the interposer board . 187
6.5.8.6 Removing a NVIDIA GRID GPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
6.5.9 Replacing a NVIDIA GRID GPU card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
6.5.9.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
6.5.9.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
6.5.9.3 Removing the NVIDIA GRID GPU card . . . . . . . . . . . 191
6.5.9.4 Installing the NVIDIA GRID GPU card . . . . . . . . . . . 191
6.5.9.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
6.6 Interposer boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
6.6.1 Replacing the interposer board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
6.6.1.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
6.6.1.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
6.6.1.3 Removing the interposer board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
6.6.1.4 Interposer boards - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
6.6.1.5 Installing the interposer board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
6.6.1.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
6.7 Riser card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
6.7.1 Replacing the riser card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
6.7.1.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
6.7.1.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
6.7.1.3 Removing the riser card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
6.7.1.4 Installing the riser card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
6.7.1.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
6.8 GPGPU riser card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
6.8.1 Replacing the GPGPU riser card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
6.8.1.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
6.8.1.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
6.8.1.3 Removing the GPGU riser card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
6.8.1.4 Installing the GPGPU riser card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
6.8.1.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
6.9 Battery Backup Units (BBU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
6.9.1 Installing a BBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
6.9.1.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
6.9.1.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
6.9.1.3 Preparing a BBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

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6.9.1.4 Installing the BBU onto the system board . . . . . . . . . . 210
6.9.1.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
6.9.1.6 Connecting the BBU to the controller . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
6.9.2 Removing a BBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
6.9.2.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
6.9.2.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
6.9.2.3 Disconnecting the BBU from the controller . . . . . . . . . 216
6.9.2.4 Removing the BBU from the system board . . . . . . . . . 217
6.9.2.5 Fastening the system board in the chassis . . . . . . . . . 217
6.9.2.6 Removing the BBU from the BBU holder . . . . . . . . . . 218
6.9.2.7 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
6.9.3 Replacing a BBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
6.9.3.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
6.9.3.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
6.9.3.3 Removing the BBU holder from the chassis . . . . . . . . . 219
6.9.3.4 Removing the BBU from the BBU holder . . . . . . . . . . 220
6.9.3.5 Installing a new BBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
6.9.3.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
7 Main memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
7.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
7.1.1 Memory sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
7.1.2 Operation modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
7.1.2.1 Performance Channel Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
7.2 Installing memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
7.2.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
7.2.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
7.2.3 Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
7.2.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
7.3 Removing memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
7.3.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
7.3.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
7.3.3 Removing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
7.3.4 Concluding step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
7.4 Replacing memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
7.4.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
7.4.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
7.4.3 Removing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
7.4.4 Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

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7.4.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
8 Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
8.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
8.1.1 Supported processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
8.1.2 Processor location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
8.2 Replacing processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
8.2.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
8.2.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
8.2.3 Removing the processor heat sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
8.2.3.1 Removing the processor heat sink from CPU0 . . . . . . . 240
8.2.3.2 Removing the processor heat sink from CPU1 . . . . . . . 242
8.2.4 Removing the processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
8.2.5 Installing the processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
8.2.6 Applying thermal paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
8.2.7 Installing the processor heat sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
8.2.7.1 Installing the processor heat sink on CPU0 . . . . . . . . . 253
8.2.7.2 Installing the processor heat sink on CPU1 . . . . . . . . . 256
8.2.8 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
8.3 Replacing the processor heat sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
8.3.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
8.3.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
8.3.3 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
8.3.4 Installing the processor heat sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
8.3.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
9 System board and components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
9.1 Replacing the CMOS battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
9.1.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
9.1.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
9.1.3 Removing the CMOS battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
9.1.4 Installing the CMOS battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
9.1.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
9.2 USB Flash Module (UFM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
9.2.1 Installing the UFM board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
9.2.1.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
9.2.1.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

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9.2.1.3 Installing the UFM board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
9.2.1.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
9.2.1.5 Software configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
9.2.2 Removing the UFM board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
9.2.2.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
9.2.2.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
9.2.2.3 Removing the UFM board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
9.2.2.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
9.2.3 Replacing the UFM board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
9.2.3.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
9.2.3.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
9.2.3.3 Removing the UFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
9.2.3.4 Re-installing the UFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
9.2.3.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
9.2.3.6 Software configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
9.3 Replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
9.3.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
9.3.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
9.3.3 Replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
9.3.3.1 Removing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
9.3.3.2 Installing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
9.3.3.3 Swapping the processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
9.3.3.4 Completing system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
9.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
10 Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
10.1 Cabling overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
10.2 Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
11 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
11.1 Mechanical overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
11.1.1 Server node interior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
11.1.2 Server node rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
11.2 Connectors and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
11.2.1 Connectors and indicators on the system board . . . . . . . . 312
11.2.1.1 Onboard connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
11.2.1.2 Onboard settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

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11.2.2 Connector panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
11.2.2.1 Controls and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
11.2.2.2 Control elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
11.2.2.3 Indicators on the control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
11.2.2.4 LAN indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
11.3 Minimum startup configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

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Version history
Issue number Reason for update
1.0 / September 2013 Initial release
2.0 / November 2013 Chapter 6.9.1.4 and 6.9.2.4
3.0 / February 2014 Chapter 5.2.9
4.0 / March 2014 Chapter 6, 10
5.0 / August 2014 Chapter 6, 10

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1 Introduction
This Upgrade and Maintenance Manual provides instructions for the following
procedures:
● Upgrading the server configuration by adding optional hardware
components
● Upgrading the server configuration by replacing existing hardware
components with superior ones.
● Replacing defective hardware components
This manual focuses on on-site maintenance tasks. It is recommended to
prepare each service assignment following remote diagnostics procedures, as
described in the "ServerView Suite Local Service Concept (LSC)" manual (see
section "Documents you need at hand" on page 28.
VCAUTION!
The document at hand comprises procedures of a wide range of
complexity. Check the profile of qualification for technicians before
assigning tasks. Before you start, carefully read "Classification of
procedures" on page 23.

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1.1 Notational conventions
The following notational conventions are used in this manual:
Text in italics indicates commands or menu items
fixed font indicates system output
semi-bold fixed
font
indicates text to be entered by the user
"Quotation marks" indicate names of chapters and terms that are being
emphasized
Êdescribes activities that must be performed in the order
shown
[Abc] indicates keys on the keyboard
VCAUTION! Pay particular attention to texts marked with this symbol!
Failure to observe this warning may endanger your life,
destroy the system or lead to the loss of data.
Iindicates additional information, notes and tips
indicates the procedure category in terms of complexity
and qualification requirements, see "Classification of
procedures" on page 23
indicates the average task duration, see "Average task
duration" on page 26