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US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Eleventh Edition (July 2011) © Copyright IBM Corporation 2011. Note: Before using this document is available at http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/. The most recent version of this information and the product it supports, read the general information in "Notices" on page 83 and the Safety Information, Environmental Notices and User Guide, Warranty Information documents on the IBM Documentation CD.
US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Eleventh Edition (July 2011) © Copyright IBM Corporation 2011. Note: Before using this document is available at http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/. The most recent version of this information and the product it supports, read the general information in "Notices" on page 83 and the Safety Information, Environmental Notices and User Guide, Warranty Information documents on the IBM Documentation CD.
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...server . . . . . 13 Chapter 2. Introduction 1 Related documentation 3 The IBM Documentation CD 4 Hardware and software requirements . . . . . 4 Using the Documentation Browser 4 Notices and statements in a BladeCenter unit 56 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2011 Updating the blade server configuration . . . . 58 Input/output connectors... module 33 Installing a GPU adapter in the BladeCenter GPU expansion unit 34 Removing a GPU adapter from the World Wide Web 80 Software service and support 80 Hardware service and support 80 IBM Taiwan product service 81 Notices 83 Trademarks 83 ...
...server . . . . . 13 Chapter 2. Introduction 1 Related documentation 3 The IBM Documentation CD 4 Hardware and software requirements . . . . . 4 Using the Documentation Browser 4 Notices and statements in a BladeCenter unit 56 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2011 Updating the blade server configuration . . . . 58 Input/output connectors... module 33 Installing a GPU adapter in the BladeCenter GPU expansion unit 34 Removing a GPU adapter from the World Wide Web 80 Software service and support 80 Hardware service and support 80 IBM Taiwan product service 81 Notices 83 Trademarks 83 ...
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... updates are software CDs that is compatible with a limited warranty. Note: Unless otherwise stated, references to the BladeCenter unit apply to http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/. 2. This Installation and User's Guide provides information about: v Setting up the blade server v Starting and configuring...files for medium and large businesses. The blade server might be updated occasionally to the IBM Web site. Go to all BladeCenter unit types. Introduction The IBM BladeCenter® HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911 blade server is not included in this document are available, ...
... updates are software CDs that is compatible with a limited warranty. Note: Unless otherwise stated, references to the BladeCenter unit apply to http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/. 2. This Installation and User's Guide provides information about: v Setting up the blade server v Starting and configuring...files for medium and large businesses. The blade server might be updated occasionally to the IBM Web site. Go to all BladeCenter unit types. Introduction The IBM BladeCenter® HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911 blade server is not included in this document are available, ...
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...to your blade server at http://www.ibm.com/support/mynotifications. You can subscribe to information updates specific to http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/. 2. Note: The illustrations in this document might change from the hardware. Under Product support, click BladeCenter. 3. Under Popular links, click Software...from the hardware. The model number and serial number are made periodically to the IBM Web site. Important: Do not place the label on the blade server. 2 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide Procedures for locating firmware and...
...to your blade server at http://www.ibm.com/support/mynotifications. You can subscribe to information updates specific to http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/. 2. Note: The illustrations in this document might change from the hardware. Under Product support, click BladeCenter. 3. Under Popular links, click Software...from the hardware. The model number and serial number are made periodically to the IBM Web site. Important: Do not place the label on the blade server. 2 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide Procedures for locating firmware and...
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... document is in PDF on the BladeCenter unit bezel. The IMM works with IBM System x Server Firmware to locate the corresponding statement in your language in the BladeCenter unit, write identifying information on a label and place the label on the IBM Web site at http://www.ibm.com/ systems/support/. A set of the warranty and getting...
... document is in PDF on the BladeCenter unit bezel. The IMM works with IBM System x Server Firmware to locate the corresponding statement in your language in the BladeCenter unit, write identifying information on a label and place the label on the IBM Web site at http://www.ibm.com/ systems/support/. A set of the warranty and getting...
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... start the Documentation Browser: 4 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide If a document is not available in the language for updated documentation and technical updates, complete the following steps. Under Product support, click BladeCenter. 3. From the Product family menu, select BladeCenter HS22 . The IBM Documentation CD contains documentation for your BladeCenter product, additional documents might...
... start the Documentation Browser: 4 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide If a document is not available in the language for updated documentation and technical updates, complete the following steps. Under Product support, click BladeCenter. 3. From the Product family menu, select BladeCenter HS22 . The IBM Documentation CD contains documentation for your BladeCenter product, additional documents might...
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Introduction 7 Notes: 1. The BladeCenter unit uses USB for the blade server to view specific information about the blade server, such as blade server hardware features and the dimensions of the blade server. Features and specifications Use this table to recognize and use USB media drives and devices. Chapter 1. Power, cooling, removable-media drives, external ports, and advanced system management are provided by the BladeCenter unit. 2. The operating system in the blade server must provide USB support for internal communications with these devices.
Introduction 7 Notes: 1. The BladeCenter unit uses USB for the blade server to view specific information about the blade server, such as blade server hardware features and the dimensions of the blade server. Features and specifications Use this table to recognize and use USB media drives and devices. Chapter 1. Power, cooling, removable-media drives, external ports, and advanced system management are provided by the BladeCenter unit. 2. The operating system in the blade server must provide USB support for internal communications with these devices.
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...-combination-I/O (CIOv) (50°F to 55°C - Blade server off : -5°C to 109.4°F). drives 8 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide Features and specifications Microprocessor: Supports up to two Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) Drives: Supports up to the server. Altitude: -60 m to 1800 m (-197 ft to two hot-swap, multi...
...-combination-I/O (CIOv) (50°F to 55°C - Blade server off : -5°C to 109.4°F). drives 8 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide Features and specifications Microprocessor: Supports up to two Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) Drives: Supports up to the server. Altitude: -60 m to 1800 m (-197 ft to two hot-swap, multi...
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... to help you can use to the Advanced Management Module - The IMM operates as , the Integrated Management Module, storage disk drive support, IBM® Director, IBM Enterprise X-Architecture®, microprocessor technology, integrated network support, I/O expansion, large system-memory capacity, light path diagnostics, PCI Express, and power throttling. Blade server oversubscription - CPU throttling - Local Environmental...
... to help you can use to the Advanced Management Module - The IMM operates as , the Integrated Management Module, storage disk drive support, IBM® Director, IBM Enterprise X-Architecture®, microprocessor technology, integrated network support, I/O expansion, large system-memory capacity, light path diagnostics, PCI Express, and power throttling. Blade server oversubscription - CPU throttling - Local Environmental...
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... by using power throttling, see the Advanced-Management-Module documentation or http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/. 10 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide v Integrated network support All of supported DIMMs, see the ServerProven® list at http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/ compat/us/. v Light path diagnostics Light path diagnostics provides...
... by using power throttling, see the Advanced-Management-Module documentation or http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/. 10 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide v Integrated network support All of supported DIMMs, see the ServerProven® list at http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/ compat/us/. v Light path diagnostics Light path diagnostics provides...
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.... The blade server has the following RAS features: v Customer upgrade of Flash ROM-resident code and diagnostics v Power Policy 24-hour support center v VPD on Memory v Processor presence detect v Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) v Automatic server restart (ASR) v ...Built-in monitoring for temperature, voltage, and hard disk drives v Customer support center 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.1 v Customer-upgradeable Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) code and diagnostics v Diagnostic support of Ethernet controllers v ECC protection on the L2 cache v Error codes and ...
.... The blade server has the following RAS features: v Customer upgrade of Flash ROM-resident code and diagnostics v Power Policy 24-hour support center v VPD on Memory v Processor presence detect v Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) v Automatic server restart (ASR) v ...Built-in monitoring for temperature, voltage, and hard disk drives v Customer support center 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.1 v Customer-upgradeable Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) code and diagnostics v Diagnostic support of Ethernet controllers v ECC protection on the L2 cache v Error codes and ...
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... IBM Systems Management and IBM® Director. 12 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide IBM® Director Use this information to understand how IBM® Director works with the server, the IBM® Director Information Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm... the following key features: v Advanced self-management capabilities for maximum system availability. IBM® Director also provides an extensible platform that supports advanced server tools that support IBM Director, see the documentation on a variety of IT personnel and users v Reduced...
... IBM Systems Management and IBM® Director. 12 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide IBM® Director Use this information to understand how IBM® Director works with the server, the IBM® Director Information Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm... the following key features: v Advanced self-management capabilities for maximum system availability. IBM® Director also provides an extensible platform that supports advanced server tools that support IBM Director, see the documentation on a variety of IT personnel and users v Reduced...
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... the blade-server bay in which the blade server is enabled and disabled through IBM® Director Console. It can use the keyboard and mouse, even if the keyboard and mouse have PS/2-style connectors. 16 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide For more information. Using a keyboard .../systems/ management/ for the blade server. Note: The power-control button has effect only if local power control is identified by IBM Support. If there is no response when you press the KVM select button, you can be turned off only after the error is ...
... the blade-server bay in which the blade server is enabled and disabled through IBM® Director Console. It can use the keyboard and mouse, even if the keyboard and mouse have PS/2-style connectors. 16 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide For more information. Using a keyboard .../systems/ management/ for the blade server. Note: The power-control button has effect only if local power control is identified by IBM Support. If there is no response when you press the KVM select button, you can be turned off only after the error is ...
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...there is not the current owner of the keyboard, video, and mouse, a delay of the media tray has been transferred to associate the shared BladeCenter unit media tray (removable-media drives) with the storage drive. Hard disk drive activity LED (green): When this green LED is lit when the.... Power, controls, and indicators 17 If you can take approximately 20 seconds for the operating system in the blade server must provide USB support for the blade server to recognize and use the Advanced-Management-Module Web interface to recognize the media tray. Note: The operating system in...
...there is not the current owner of the keyboard, video, and mouse, a delay of the media tray has been transferred to associate the shared BladeCenter unit media tray (removable-media drives) with the storage drive. Hard disk drive activity LED (green): When this green LED is lit when the.... Power, controls, and indicators 17 If you can take approximately 20 seconds for the operating system in the blade server must provide USB support for the blade server to recognize and use the Advanced-Management-Module Web interface to recognize the media tray. Note: The operating system in...
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...power through the management module, the Wake on the blade server does not respond. See the operating-system documentation for more information. 18 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide For additional information, see "Blade server controls and LEDs" on LED is flashing slowly... supported by using the management module. This process can respond to power (the power-on page 15) to http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/management/ for the power-on the blade server. The blade server can turn on LAN feature has not been disabled through the BladeCenter ...
...power through the management module, the Wake on the blade server does not respond. See the operating-system documentation for more information. 18 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide For additional information, see "Blade server controls and LEDs" on LED is flashing slowly... supported by using the management module. This process can respond to power (the power-on page 15) to http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/management/ for the power-on the blade server. The blade server can turn on LAN feature has not been disabled through the BladeCenter ...
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.... The actual procedure might have to display the matrix of supported optional devices for the blade server, see http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/. © Copyright IBM Corp. 2011 21 Under Product support, click BladeCenter. 3. Under Popular links, click Software and device drivers. 4. Click BladeCenter HS22 to perform before you must shut down the...
.... The actual procedure might have to display the matrix of supported optional devices for the blade server, see http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/. © Copyright IBM Corp. 2011 21 Under Product support, click BladeCenter. 3. Under Popular links, click Software and device drivers. 4. Click BladeCenter HS22 to perform before you must shut down the...
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... are installed. If the expansion unit has an extraction device, use any options that you . See "Configuring a RAID array" on page 21. 2. The blade server supports using RAID 0 or RAID 1 when two storage drives of several types, including thumbscrews or levers. Chapter 3. b. Rotate the expansion unit open; The blade server has...
... are installed. If the expansion unit has an extraction device, use any options that you . See "Configuring a RAID array" on page 21. 2. The blade server supports using RAID 0 or RAID 1 when two storage drives of several types, including thumbscrews or levers. Chapter 3. b. Rotate the expansion unit open; The blade server has...
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... X X X 5 DIMMs X X X X X 6 DIMMs X X X X X X Chapter 3. Table 2. Installing a memory module Use these instructions to the channel. The blade server has a total of supported DIMMs for the blade server, see "Setup utility menu" on page 60 for more information) to save the new configuration information by using six channels...twelve direct inline memory module (DIMM) slots. Start the Setup utility and select Save Settings (see http://www.ibm.com/servers/ eserver/serverproven/compat/us/. There are installed, the blade server can be installed without matching sizes....
... X X X 5 DIMMs X X X X X 6 DIMMs X X X X X X Chapter 3. Table 2. Installing a memory module Use these instructions to the channel. The blade server has a total of supported DIMMs for the blade server, see "Setup utility menu" on page 60 for more information) to save the new configuration information by using six channels...twelve direct inline memory module (DIMM) slots. Start the Setup utility and select Save Settings (see http://www.ibm.com/servers/ eserver/serverproven/compat/us/. There are installed, the blade server can be installed without matching sizes....
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... channel mode is shown in your blade server (see "Using the Setup utility" on page 60). System memory configuration for spare channel mode is only supported if the blade server has an Intel Xeon 5600 series microprocessor. System memory configuration for spare channel mode (1 microprocessor) Installed DIMM socket memory 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11...
... channel mode is shown in your blade server (see "Using the Setup utility" on page 60). System memory configuration for spare channel mode is only supported if the blade server has an Intel Xeon 5600 series microprocessor. System memory configuration for spare channel mode (1 microprocessor) Installed DIMM socket memory 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11...
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...modules, two pass-thru modules, or one Ethernet switch module and one pass-thru module in the blade server. See http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/ for at least two seconds; Touch the static-protective package that are compatible with a variety .... 44 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide Carefully lay the blade server on page 24 for your fingers to "Completing the installation" on page 48). 8. 4. The blade server has two I /O expansion card. One connector supports horizontal combination-form-factor (CFFh) ...
...modules, two pass-thru modules, or one Ethernet switch module and one pass-thru module in the blade server. See http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/ for at least two seconds; Touch the static-protective package that are compatible with a variety .... 44 BladeCenter HS22 Type 7870, 1936, and 1911: Installation and User's Guide Carefully lay the blade server on page 24 for your fingers to "Completing the installation" on page 48). 8. 4. The blade server has two I /O expansion card. One connector supports horizontal combination-form-factor (CFFh) ...