Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX2540 M1 User manual

Upgrade and Maintenance Manual - English
FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY TX2540 M1
Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
March 2014

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.1 Notational conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2 Before you start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.1 Classification of procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.1.1 Customer Replaceable Units (CRU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.1.2 Upgrade and Repair Units (URU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.1.3 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.2 Average task duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.3 Tools you need at hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.4 Documents you need at hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3 Important information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.1 Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.2 CE conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.3 FCC Class A Compliance Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.4 Environmental protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4 Basic hardware procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.1 Using diagnostics information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.1.1 Locating the defective server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.1.2 Determining the error class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.1.2.1 Global Error indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.1.2.2 Customer Self Service (CSS) indicator . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.1.3 Locating the defective component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.1.3.1 Local diagnostic indicators on the front . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.1.3.2 Local diagnostic indicators on the system board . . . . . . . 47
4.2 Shutting down the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.3 Disconnecting the server from the mains . . . . . . . . . . 48

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4.4 Getting access to the component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.4.1 Rack model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.4.1.1 Extending the server out of the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.4.1.2 Removing the server from the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4.4.1.3 Removing the top cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.4.1.4 Removing the rack front cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4.4.2 Tower model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
4.4.2.1 Unlocking the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
4.4.2.2 Removing the side cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.4.2.3 Removing accessible drive and HDD bay covers . . . . . . . 58
4.4.2.4 Removing the front cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.4.3 Removing the system air duct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.5 Reassembling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.5.1 Installing the system air duct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.5.2 Rack model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.5.2.1 Installing the rack front cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.5.2.2 Installing the top cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
4.5.2.3 Mounting the server in the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.5.2.4 Sliding the server into the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
4.5.3 Tower model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.5.3.1 Installing the front cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.5.3.2 Installing accessible drive and HDD bay covers . . . . . . . 69
4.5.3.3 Installing the side cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
4.5.3.4 Locking the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
4.6 Connecting the server to the mains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.7 Switching on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
4.8 Handling the system fan holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
4.9 Handling the anti-tilt bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
4.10 Handling rubber feet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
5 Basic software procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.1 Starting the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.1.1 Disabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.1.2 Disabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . 78
5.1.2.1 Viewing boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
5.1.2.2 Configuring boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
5.1.3 Removing backup and optical disk media . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

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5.1.4 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . 81
5.1.5 Note on server maintenance in a Multipath I/O environment . . 81
5.1.6 Switching on the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and iRMC . . . 85
5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . 85
5.2.1.2 Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.2.2 Verifying system information backup / restore . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.2.3 Updating RAID controller firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
5.2.4 Enabling Option ROM scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
5.2.5 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . 90
5.2.6 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5.2.6.1 Viewing the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5.2.6.2 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5.2.7 Enabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . 93
5.2.8 Enabling replaced components in the system BIOS . . . . . . . 93
5.2.9 Verifying the memory mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
5.2.10 Verifying the system time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.2.11 Viewing and clearing the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . 95
5.2.11.1 Viewing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.2.11.2 Clearing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
5.2.12 Updating the NIC configuration file in a Linux environment . . . 97
5.2.13 Enabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
5.2.14 Performing a RAID array rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
5.2.15 Looking up changed MAC / WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.2.15.1 Looking up MAC addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.2.15.2 Looking up WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.2.16 Using the Chassis ID Prom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
5.2.17 Configuring LAN teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.2.17.1 After replacing / upgrading LAN controllers . . . . . . . . . 103
5.2.17.2 After replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.2.18 Switching off the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.2.19 Specifying the chassis model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
5.2.20 Performing a fan test after replacing a defective fan . . . . . . 105
6 Power supply units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
6.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
6.2 Standard power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
6.2.1 Replacing the standard power supply unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

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6.2.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
6.2.1.2 Removing the defective standard power supply unit . . . . 110
6.2.1.3 Installing the new standard power supply unit . . . . . . . . 112
6.2.1.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
6.3 Redundant power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
6.3.1 Installing hot-plug power supply units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
6.3.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
6.3.1.2 Removing the PSU dummy cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
6.3.1.3 Installing a hot-plug PSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
6.3.1.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
6.3.2 Removing a hot-plug PSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
6.3.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
6.3.2.2 Removing a hot-plug PSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
6.3.2.3 Installing a PSU dummy cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
6.3.3 Replacing a hot-plug PSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
6.3.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
6.3.3.2 Removing the defective hot-plug PSU . . . . . . . . . . . 121
6.3.3.3 Installing the new hot-plug PSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
6.3.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
6.3.4 Replacing the power backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
6.3.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
6.3.4.2 Removing the hot-plug PSUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
6.3.4.3 Replacing the defective power backplane . . . . . . . . . . 123
6.3.4.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
6.4 Converting a standard power supply to a redundant power
supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
6.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
6.4.2 Removing the standard power supply unit . . . . . . . . . . . 125
6.4.3 Installing the hot-plug power supply units . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
6.4.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
7 Hard disk drives / solid state drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
7.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
7.2 2.5-inch HDD / SSD configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
7.2.1 2.5-inch HDD backplane overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
7.2.2 8x 2.5-inch HDD / SSD configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
7.2.3 16x 2.5-inch HDD / SSD configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
7.2.4 24x 2.5-inch HDD / SSD configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
7.2.5 Installing 2.5-inch HDD / SSD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

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7.2.5.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
7.2.5.2 Removing a 2.5-inch HDD / SSD dummy module . . . . . . 142
7.2.5.3 Installing a 2.5-inch HDD / SSD module . . . . . . . . . . . 143
7.2.5.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
7.2.6 Removing 2.5-inch HDD / SSD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
7.2.6.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
7.2.6.2 Removing a 2.5-inch HDD / SSD module . . . . . . . . . . 146
7.2.6.3 Installing a 2.5-inch HDD / SSD dummy module . . . . . . . 147
7.2.6.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
7.2.7 Replacing a 2.5-inch HDD / SSD module . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
7.2.7.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
7.2.7.2 Removing a 2.5-inch HDD / SSD module . . . . . . . . . . 149
7.2.7.3 Installing a 2.5-inch HDD / SSD module . . . . . . . . . . . 149
7.2.7.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
7.2.8 Replacing a 2.5-inch HDD SAS backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 149
7.2.8.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
7.2.8.2 Removing the defective SAS backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 150
7.2.8.3 Installing the new SAS backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
7.2.8.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
7.2.9 Upgrading to 16x 2.5-inch HDD / SSD configurations . . . . . . 152
7.2.9.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
7.2.9.2 Removing the 8x 2.5-inch HDD front panel . . . . . . . . . 152
7.2.9.3 Mounting the second 2.5-inch HDD drive cage . . . . . . . 153
7.2.9.4 Installing the 16x 2.5-inch HDD front panel . . . . . . . . . 159
7.2.9.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
7.3 3.5-inch HDD configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
7.3.1 3.5-inch HDD backplane overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
7.3.2 4x 3.5-inch HDD configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
7.3.3 8x 3.5-inch HDD configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
7.3.4 Installing 3.5-inch HDD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
7.3.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
7.3.4.2 Removing a 3.5-inch HDD dummy module . . . . . . . . . 165
7.3.4.3 Installing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
7.3.4.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
7.3.5 Removing 3.5-inch HDD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
7.3.5.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
7.3.5.2 Removing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
7.3.5.3 Installing a 3.5-inch HDD dummy module . . . . . . . . . . 169
7.3.5.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
7.3.6 Replacing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
7.3.6.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

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7.3.6.2 Removing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
7.3.6.3 Installing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
7.3.6.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
7.3.7 Replacing a 3.5-inch HDD SAS backplane . . . . . . . . . . 171
7.3.7.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
7.3.7.2 Removing the defective 3.5-inch HDD SAS backplane . . . 172
7.3.7.3 Installing the new 3.5-inch HDD SAS backplane . . . . . . 174
7.3.7.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
7.4 HDD extension boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
7.4.1 HDD extension box variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
7.4.2 Installing an HDD extension box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
7.4.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
7.4.2.2 Removing accessible drive dummy covers . . . . . . . . . 180
7.4.2.3 Installing the HDD extension box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
7.4.2.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
7.4.3 Removing an HDD extension box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
7.4.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
7.4.3.2 Removing the HDD extension box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
7.4.3.3 Installing accessible drive dummy covers . . . . . . . . . . 188
7.4.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
7.4.4 Replacing an HDD extension box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
7.4.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
7.4.4.2 Removing the defective HDD extension box . . . . . . . . 190
7.4.4.3 Installing the new HDD extension box . . . . . . . . . . . 190
7.4.4.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
7.5 SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
7.5.1 Installing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
7.5.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
7.5.1.2 Installing the carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
7.5.1.3 Installing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
7.5.1.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
7.5.2 Removing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
7.5.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
7.5.2.2 Removing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
7.5.2.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
7.5.3 Replacing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
7.5.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
7.5.3.2 Removing the defective SAS expander board . . . . . . . 200
7.5.3.3 Installing the new SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . 200
7.5.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

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8 Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
8.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
8.2 System fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
8.2.1 Replacing the system fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
8.2.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
8.2.1.2 Removing the defective system fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
8.2.1.3 Installing the new system fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
8.2.1.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
8.3 Rear fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
8.3.1 Installing the rear fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
8.3.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
8.3.1.2 Installing the rear fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
8.3.1.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
8.3.2 Removing the rear fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
8.3.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
8.3.2.2 Removing the rear fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
8.3.2.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
8.3.3 Replacing the rear fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
8.3.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
8.3.3.2 Removing the defective rear fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
8.3.3.3 Installing the new rear fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
8.3.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
9 Expansion cards and backup units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
9.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
9.2 Handling slot brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
9.2.1 Installing a slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
9.2.2 Removing a slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
9.3 Handling SFP+ transceiver modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
9.3.1 Installing SFP+ transceiver modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
9.3.2 Removing an SFP+ transceiver module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
9.4 Expansion cards in PCI slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
9.4.1 Installing expansion cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
9.4.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
9.4.1.2 Removing the PCI slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
9.4.1.3 Installing an expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
9.4.1.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

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9.4.2 Removing expansion cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
9.4.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
9.4.2.2 Removing an expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
9.4.2.3 Installing a PCI slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
9.4.2.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
9.4.3 Replacing expansion cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
9.4.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
9.4.3.2 Removing the defective expansion card . . . . . . . . . . 235
9.4.3.3 Installing the new expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
9.4.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
9.4.4 Replacing TFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
9.4.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
9.4.4.2 Removing the defective TFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
9.4.4.3 Installing the new TFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
9.4.4.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
9.5 Backup Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
9.5.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
9.5.2 Installing a BBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
9.5.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
9.5.2.2 Installing the BBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
9.5.2.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
9.5.3 Installing an FBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
9.5.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
9.5.3.2 Installing TFM to the RAID controller (if applicable) . . . . . 245
9.5.3.3 Installing the FBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
9.5.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
9.5.4 Removing a BBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
9.5.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
9.5.4.2 Removing the BBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
9.5.4.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
9.5.5 Removing an FBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
9.5.5.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
9.5.5.2 Removing the FBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
9.5.5.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
9.5.6 Replacing a BBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
9.5.6.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
9.5.6.2 Removing the defective BBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
9.5.6.3 Installing the new BBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
9.5.6.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
9.5.7 Replacing an FBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
9.5.7.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

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9.5.7.2 Removing the defective FBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
9.5.7.3 Installing the new FBU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
9.5.7.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
10 Main memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
10.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
10.2 Installing memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
10.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
10.2.2 Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
10.2.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
10.3 Removing memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
10.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
10.3.2 Removing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
10.3.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
10.4 Replacing memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
10.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
10.4.2 Removing the defective memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
10.4.3 Installing the new memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
10.4.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
11 Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
11.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
11.2 Installing processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
11.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
11.2.2 Installing a processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
11.2.2.1 Removing the protective cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
11.2.2.2 Installing the new processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
11.2.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
11.3 Removing processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
11.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
11.3.2 Removing a processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
11.3.2.1 Installing the protective cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
11.3.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
11.4 Upgrading or replacing processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
11.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
11.4.2 Upgrading or replacing a processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

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11.4.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
11.5 Handling processor heat sinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
11.5.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
11.5.2 Installing processor heat sinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
11.5.2.1 Preparing the heat sink and processor . . . . . . . . . . . 284
11.5.2.2 Installing the heat sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
11.5.3 Removing processor heat sinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
11.5.4 Replacing processor heat sinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
11.5.4.1 Removing the processor heat sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
11.5.4.2 Applying thermal paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
11.5.4.3 Installing the processor heat sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
11.5.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
11.6 Applying thermal paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
12 Accessible drives and LSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
12.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
12.2 Installing accessible drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
12.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
12.2.2 Removing accessible drive dummy covers . . . . . . . . . . . 294
12.2.3 Installing mounting brackets to RDX and DAT72 backup drives 295
12.2.4 Installing an accessible drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
12.2.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
12.3 Removing accessible drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
12.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
12.3.2 Removing an accessible drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
12.3.3 Installing accessible drive dummy covers . . . . . . . . . . . 301
12.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
12.4 Replacing accessible drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
12.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
12.4.2 Removing the defective accessible drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
12.4.3 Installing the new accessible drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
12.4.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
12.5 Slimline ODD and LSD in Multibay box . . . . . . . . . . . 304
12.5.1 Installing the slimline ODD or LSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
12.5.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
12.5.1.2 Installing the slimline ODD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
12.5.1.3 Installing the LSD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

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12.5.1.4 Removing accessible drive dummy covers . . . . . . . . . 308
12.5.1.5 Installing the Multibay box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
12.5.1.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
12.5.2 Removing a slimline ODD or LSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
12.5.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
12.5.2.2 Removing the Multibay box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
12.5.2.3 Removing the slimline ODD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
12.5.2.4 Removing the LSD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
12.5.2.5 Installing the Multibay box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
12.5.2.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
12.5.3 Replacing a slimline ODD or LSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
12.5.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
12.5.3.2 Removing the defective slimline ODD . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
12.5.3.3 Removing the defective LSD module . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
12.5.3.4 Installing the new slimline ODD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
12.5.3.5 Installing the new LSD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
12.5.3.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
12.6 Slimline ODD in 4x 3.5-inch HDD extension box . . . . . . . 317
12.6.1 Installing the slimline ODD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
12.6.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
12.6.1.2 Installing the slimline ODD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
12.6.1.3 Installing the 4x 3.5-inch HDD extension box . . . . . . . . 322
12.6.1.4 Cabling the slimline ODD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
12.6.1.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
12.6.2 Removing the slimline ODD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
12.6.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
12.6.2.2 Removing the slimline ODD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
12.6.2.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
12.6.3 Replacing the slimline ODD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
12.6.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
12.6.3.2 Removing the defective slimline ODD . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
12.6.3.3 Installing the new slimline ODD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
12.6.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
13 Front panel module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
13.1 Replacing the front panel module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
13.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
13.1.2 Removing the defective front panel module . . . . . . . . . . . 331
13.1.3 Installing the new front panel module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
13.1.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

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14 System board and components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
14.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
14.2 Replacing the CMOS battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
14.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
14.2.2 Removing the CMOS battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
14.2.3 Installing the CMOS battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
14.2.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
14.3 USB Flash Module (UFM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
14.3.1 Installing the UFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
14.3.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
14.3.1.2 Installing the UFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
14.3.1.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
14.3.1.4 Software configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
14.3.2 Removing the UFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
14.3.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
14.3.2.2 Removing the UFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
14.3.2.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
14.3.3 Replacing the UFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
14.3.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
14.3.3.2 Removing the defective UFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
14.3.3.3 Installing the new UFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
14.3.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
14.3.3.5 Software configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
14.4 Trusted Platform Module (TPM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
14.4.1 Installing the TPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
14.4.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
14.4.1.2 Installing the TPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
14.4.1.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
14.4.2 Removing the TPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
14.4.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
14.4.2.2 Removing the TPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
14.4.2.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
14.4.3 Replacing the TPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
14.4.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
14.4.3.2 Removing the defective TPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
14.4.3.3 Installing the new TPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
14.4.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
14.5 Onboard SAS enabling key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
14.5.1 Installing the onboard SAS enabling key . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

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14.5.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
14.5.1.2 Installing the onboard SAS enabling key . . . . . . . . . . . 358
14.5.1.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
14.5.2 Removing the onboard SAS enabling key . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
14.5.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
14.5.2.2 Removing the onboard SAS enabling key . . . . . . . . . . 360
14.5.2.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
14.5.3 Replacing the onboard SAS enabling key . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
14.5.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
14.5.3.2 Replacing the onboard SAS enabling key . . . . . . . . . . 361
14.5.3.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
14.6 Replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
14.6.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
14.6.2 Removing the defective system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
14.6.3 Installing the new system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
14.6.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
15 Converting a tower model to a rack model . . . . . . . . . . 375
15.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
15.2 Converting a tower model to a rack model . . . . . . . . . . 376
15.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
16 Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
16.1 List of used cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
16.2 Cabling plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
16.3 Replacing the intrusion switch cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
16.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
16.3.2 Removing the defective intrusion switch cable . . . . . . . . . 395
16.3.3 Installing the new intrusion switch cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
16.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
17 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
17.1 Mechanical overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
17.1.1 Server front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

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17.1.2 Server rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
17.1.3 Server interior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
17.2 Connectors and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
17.2.1 Connectors and indicators on the system board . . . . . . . . 404
17.2.1.1 Onboard connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
17.2.1.2 Onboard indicators and controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
17.2.1.3 I/O panel connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
17.2.1.4 I/O panel indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
17.2.1.5 PSU indicator (only hot-plug PSUs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
17.2.2 Connectors and indicators on the front panel . . . . . . . . . . 411
17.2.2.1 Front panel connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
17.2.2.2 Front panel controls and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
17.3 Onboard settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
17.4 Minimum startup configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413