Fujitsu Primergy RX300 S3 User manual

PRIMERGY RX300 S3
Operating Manual
Edition December 2006

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RX300 S3 Operating manual
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.1 Overview of the Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.2 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.3 Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1.4 Technical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2 Installation Steps: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3 Important Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.1 Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.2 CE Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.3 Transporting the Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.4 Notes on Installing into the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.5 Environment Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4 Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4.1 Unpacking the Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4.2 Installing/Removing the Server into/from the Rack . . . . . 34
4.2.1 Mounting into the PRIMECENTER/DataCenter Rack . . . . . . 38
4.2.2 Mounting into 3rd-Party Racks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4.2.3 Installing the Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4.3 Connecting Devices to Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
4.4 Connecting the Server to the Line Voltage . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.5 Instructions on Connecting and Disconnecting Cables . . 47
5Preparation for Use and Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.1 Operating and Indicator Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.1.1 The Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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5.1.2 The Rear Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.1.3 Indicators on the hot-plug CPU and System Fans . . . . . . . 57
5.2 Switching the Server ON and OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
5.3 Configuring the Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
5.3.1 Configuration with ServerStart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
5.3.2 Configuration without ServerStart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
5.4 Starting up Hot-Plug PCI Slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
5.5 Cleaning the Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
6 Property and Data Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
6.1 BIOS Setup Security Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
7Troubleshooting and Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
7.1 Power-On Indicator Remains Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
7.2 The Server switches itself OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
7.3 The Monitor Remains Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
7.4 Flickering Stripes Across the Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
7.5 No Monitor Display or the Display Drifts . . . . . . . . . . . 69
7.6 No Mouse Pointer Displayed on the Monitor . . . . . . . . . 69
7.7 The Floppy Disk Cannot be Read or Written . . . . . . . . . 70
7.8 Incorrect Time and/or Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
7.9 System Fails to Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
7.10 Drives Are Reported as „Dead“ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
7.11 Added Drive Reported Defective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
7.12 Hot-Plug PCI Error Indicator Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
7.13 Hot-Plug PCI Power Indicator not Lighting after Replacing the
Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
7.14 Error Messages on the Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
8 Hot-plug Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
8.1 Hot-plug Power Supply Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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8.1.1 Removing the Dummy Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
8.1.2 Adding a hot-plug Power Supply Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
8.1.3 Replacing a Hot-plug Power Supply Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
8.2 Hot-plug Hard Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
8.2.1 Handling Hard Disk Drives/HDD Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
8.2.2 Removing/installing the dummy module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
8.2.3 Installing/Removing HDD Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
8.2.4 Hot-swap for HDD Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
8.3 Replacing a Hot-plug Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
8.3.1 Replacing the Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
8.4 Replacing hot-plug PCI Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
8.4.1 Mounting the PCI board into the pull out aid . . . . . . . . . . 94
8.5 Opening/Closing the Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Related Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

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1Introduction
The PRIMERGY RX300 S3 server is an Intel-based server for mid-size
networks and large companies. The server is suitable for use as a file server
and also as an application, information or Internet server.
The PRIMERGY RX300 S3 server offers a high level of reliability and avail-
ability through highly developed hardware and software components. These
include hot-plug hard disk drive modules, redundant CPU fans, system fans and
power supply units, and hot-plug PCI slots, the ServerView Suite server
management software, „Prefailure Detection and Analysing“ (PDA) and
„Automatic Server Reconfiguration and Restart“ (ASR&R).
Security functions in the BIOS Setup and on the system board protect the data
on the server against manipulation. Additional security is provided by the the
lockable rack door.
The rack model occupies 2 height units (HU) in the rack.
1.1 Overview of the Documentation
IPRIMERGY manuals are available in PDF format on the
ServerBooks DVD. The ServerBooks DVD is part of the ServerView Suite
delivered with each server system.
The PDF files for the manuals can also be downloaded free of charge
from the Internet. The overview page showing the online documentation
available in the Internet can be found via the URL:
http://manuals.fujitsu-siemens.com (click industry standard server).
Concept and Target Group of this Manual
This operating manual describes how to install, how to operate and how to
expand your server.
This operating manual is intended for those responsible for installing the
hardware and operating the system. The manual contains all the information
required for mounting and operating your PRIMERGY RX300 S3 .
Knowledge of hardware and data transmission is required, as well as basic
knowledge of the operating system used.

8 Operating manual RX300 S3
Overview of the Documentation Introduction
Additional server documentation
The PRIMERGY RX300 S3 documentation also includes:
– “Quick Start Hardware - PRIMERGY RX300 S3 ” (leaflet)
– “Quick Start Software - PRIMERGY ServerView Suite” (leaflet)
– “Warranty” manual (print version supplied with the system, PDF file available
on the ServerBooks DVD supplied)
– “Safety notes and other important information” manual (print version
supplied with the system, PDF file available on the ServerBooks DVD
supplied)
– “Ergonomics” manual (PDF file available on the ServerBooks DVD supplied)
– “Returning used devices” manual (PDF file available on the ServerBooks DVD
supplied)
– “Helpdesk” (leaflet with worldwide helpdesk telephone numbers)
– Technical Manual for the D2119 system board (PDF file available on the
ServerBooks DVD supplied)
– “BIOS Setup” (PDF file available on the ServerBooks DVD supplied)
–“
PRIMERGY RX300 S3 Server Options Guide”(PDF file available on
the ServerBooks DVD)
IThe “Options Guide”describes the server expansion and modifi-
cation options.
–“ServerView Suite”includes the ServerStart Disc 1, the ServerStart Disc 2
and the ServerBooks DVD. The PDF version of the “PRIMERGY ServerView
Suite - ServerStart”user manual is also available on the
ServerBooks DVD.
IIf you need a replacement copy of the -ServerBooks DVD, send the
details of your sever to the following e-mail address: Reklamat-PC-
[email protected]
–“Global Array Manager Client Software User’s Guide”(PDF file available on
the ServerBooks DVD)
–“Global Array Manager Server Software User’s Guide”(PDF file available on
the ServerBooks DVD)
–“Integrated Mirroring User’s Guide”(PDF file available on the ServerBooks
DVD)
IIf you need a backup of the ServerBooks-DVD send the details of your
server via email address: [email protected].

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Introduction Features
Further sources of information
–technical manual for the rack
–manual for the monitor
–server management manual ServerView
–manual for the Remote Test and Diagnostic System RemoteView
–in the documentation for the boards and drives
–operating system documentation
–information files of your operating system
(see also “Related Publications”on page 103).
1.2 Features
System board
The features of the system board (D2119 are described in the technical manual
for the system board in relation to the hardware and in the BIOS setup manual
(see “Related Publications”on page 103).
Slots for additional boards
There are up to fife extension slots for additional controller boards on the system
board of the server:
Figure 1: PCI slots: basic configuration
LAN 1 LAN 2
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Features Introduction
* The hot-plug functionality are indicated by two LEDs (6 and 7) on each slot
(see section “The Rear Side”on page 56).
Pos. Slot No. Type Features PCI-Board
11 standard PCI X
64 bit/133 MHz
low-profile
22
33 hot-plug * PCI express x4
44
5 5 standard PCI express x8
Table 1: PCI slots: basic configuration