Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX2540 M2 User manual

Upgrade and Maintenance Manual - English
FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2540 M2
Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
October 2016

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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
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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.
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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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This product has been designed and manufactured to be used in commercial
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RX2540 M2 Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
Version history
Issue number Reason for update
March 2016 Initial release
2.0 / October 2016 General update, LTO 7 added

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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
1.1 Notational conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2 Before you start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.1 Classification of procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.1.1 Customer Replaceable Units (CRU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.1.2 Upgrade and Repair Units (URU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.1.3 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.2 Average task duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2.3 Tools you need at hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.4 Documents you need at hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3 Important information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.1 Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.2 ENERGY STAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.3 CE conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.4 FCC Class A Compliance Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
3.5 Environmental protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4 Basic hardware procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.1 Using diagnostics information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.1.1 Locating the defective server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.1.2 Determining the error class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.1.2.1 Customer Self Service (CSS) indicator . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.1.2.2 Global Error indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.1.3 Locating the defective component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.1.3.1 Local diagnostic indicators on the front . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.1.3.2 Local diagnostic indicators on the system board . . . . . . . 64
4.2 Shutting down the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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4.3 Disconnecting the power cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
4.4 Getting access to the component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.4.1 Extending the server out of the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.4.2 Removing the server from the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
4.4.3 Removing the top cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.4.4 Removing the air duct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
4.5 Reassembling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
4.5.1 Installing the air duct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
4.5.2 Installing the top cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
4.5.3 Mounting the server in the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
4.5.4 Sliding the server into the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
4.6 Connecting the power cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
4.7 Switching on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
4.8 Handling riser modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
4.8.1 Riser modules for expansion cards (HL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
4.8.1.1 Removing the riser module 1 (HL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
4.8.1.2 Installing the riser module 1 (HL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
4.8.1.3 Removing the riser module 2 (HL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
4.8.1.4 Installing the riser module 2 (HL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
4.8.2 Riser modules for GPGPU cards (FL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
4.8.2.1 Installing the riser module 1 (FL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
4.8.2.2 Removing the riser module 1 (FL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
4.8.2.3 Installing the riser module 2 (FL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
4.8.2.4 Removing the riser module 2 (FL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
5 Basic software procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.1 Starting the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.1.1 Suspending BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.1.2 Disabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . 96
5.1.2.1 Viewing boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
5.1.2.2 Configuring boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
5.1.3 Removing backup and optical disk media . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
5.1.4 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . . 99
5.1.5 Note on server maintenance in a Multipath I/O environment . . 100
5.1.6 Switching on the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and iRMC . . . 103

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5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . 103
5.2.1.2 Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
5.2.2 Verifying system information backup / restore . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.2.3 Updating RAID controller firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
5.2.4 Enabling Option ROM scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
5.2.5 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . 108
5.2.6 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
5.2.6.1 Viewing the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
5.2.6.2 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
5.2.7 Resetting the error status after replacing memory modules or
processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.2.7.1 Memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.2.7.2 Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
5.2.8 Enabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . 114
5.2.9 Enabling replaced components in the system BIOS . . . . . . . 115
5.2.10 Verifying the memory mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
5.2.11 Verifying the system time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
5.2.12 Viewing and clearing the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . 117
5.2.12.1 Viewing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.2.12.2 Clearing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
5.2.13 Updating the NIC configuration file in a Linux and VMware
environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
5.2.14 Resuming BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
5.2.15 Performing a RAID array rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
5.2.16 Looking up changed MAC / WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . 122
5.2.16.1 Looking up MAC addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
5.2.16.2 Looking up WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
5.2.17 Using the Chassis ID Prom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
5.2.18 Configuring LAN teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
5.2.18.1 After replacing / upgrading LAN controllers . . . . . . . . . 124
5.2.18.2 After replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
5.2.19 Switching off the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
5.2.20 Performing a fan test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
6 Power supply unit (PSU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6.1.1 PSU configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
6.1.2 Assembly rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
6.1.3 PSU bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
6.2 Installing hot-plug PSUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

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6.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
6.2.2 Removing the dummy cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
6.2.3 Installing a hot-plug PSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
6.2.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
6.3 Removing a hot-plug PSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
6.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
6.3.2 Note for servers using CMA (Cable Management Arm) . . . . 136
6.3.3 Removing a hot-plug PSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
6.3.4 Installing a dummy cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
6.3.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
6.4 Replacing a hot-plug PSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
6.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
6.4.2 Note for servers using CMA (Cable Management Arm) . . . . 140
6.4.3 Removing the defective hot-plug PSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
6.4.4 Installing the new hot-plug PSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
6.4.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
7 Hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD) . . . . 143
7.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
7.2 3.5-inch cage configurations HDD/SSD . . . . . . . . . . . 144
7.2.1 Mounting order for 3.5-inch HDDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
7.2.1.1 HDD mounting order for 4x 3.5-inch HDD configuration . . 145
7.2.1.2 HDD mounting order for 8x 3.5-inch HDD configurations . . 145
7.2.1.3 HDD mounting order for 12x 3.5-inch HDD configurations . 146
7.2.2 Installing 3.5-inch HDD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
7.2.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
7.2.2.2 Removing a 3.5-inch dummy module . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
7.2.2.3 Installing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
7.2.2.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
7.2.3 Removing 3.5-inch HDD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
7.2.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
7.2.3.2 Removing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
7.2.3.3 Installing a 3.5-inch dummy module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
7.2.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
7.2.4 Replacing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
7.2.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
7.2.4.2 Removing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
7.2.4.3 Installing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
7.2.4.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155