IBM BladeCenter JS23, BladeCenter JS43 Installation And User Manual

BladeCenter JS23 BladeCenter JS43

Type 7778

Installation and User's Guide

Welcome.

Thank you for buying an IBM blade server. This blade server takes advantage of IBM Power Architecture technologies and features superior performance, availability, and scalability.

This contains information for setting up, configuring, and using your blade server.

Additionally, a service information label is attached to each BladeCenter unit and blade server. This label provides a graphical summary of many of the installation and service activities that are associated with each device.

Installation Guideand User's

Before installing the BladeCenter JS23 or JS43 Type 7778, you should have completed the following procedures:

Installed and configured the rack according to the documentation that came with the rack. Installed and configured into the rack. See the documentation provided with the BladeCenter unit to install the unit into the rack. Supplied input power to the BladeCenter unit.

Install options in the blade server:

Drives Memory modules I/O expansion card

See Chapter 3 for more information.

Make sure that the BladeCenter management module and the Ethernet switch module firmware support the Serial over LAN (SOL) feature. See the

Serial Over LAN Setup Guide

for more information.

Install the blade server in the BladeCenter unit. See Chapter 3 for more information.

Establish an SOL session with the blade server. See the

Install the operating system. See Chapter 5 for more information.

Install additional applications according to the instructions provided with the applications.

the BladeCenter unit

for more information.Serial Over LAN Setup Guide

For more information about your BladeCenter components and features, view the publications on the

IBM BladeCenter Documentation

CD or download the current publications from the IBM Support Web site.

Go to http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/.

The blade server is now ready to use. Be sure to register and profile your blade server on the IBM support web site.

Blade Server Support

Is the

blade server working

correctly?

Ye s

Check all cables for loose connections and verify that all optional devices you installed are on the ServerProven list at

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/ serverproven/compat/us/.

Is the problem

solved?

Ye s

http://www.ibm.com/support/mysupport/.

View information about IBM Support Line at

http://www.ibm.com/services/sl/products/

or view support telephone numbers at

http://www.ibm.com/planetwide/.

See the troubleshooting information that comes with the blade server to determine the cause of the problem and the action to take.

Is the problem

solved?

Ye s

Update the firmware to the latest level. You can download firmware from

http://www.ibm.com/systems/ support/.

Ye s

Is the problem

solved?

View support telephone numbers at

http://www.ibm.com/planetwide/.

Hardware

No Software

Hardware or

software problem?

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BladeCenter JS23 and BladeCenter JS43 Type 7778

Installation and User’s Guide

Note

Before using this information and the product it supports, read the general information in Appendix B, “Notices,” on page 65, the Warranty and Support Information document for your blade server type and the IBM Environmental Notices and User Guide on the IBM Documentation CD.

Fourth Edition (May 2008)

US Government Users Restricted Rights – Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.

Safety ...............v

Safety statements ............vi

Chapter 1. Product overview ......1

Safety

Before installing this product, read the Safety Information.

Antes de instalar este produto, leia as Informações de Segurança.

Pred instalací tohoto produktu si prectete prírucku bezpecnostních instrukcí.

Læs sikkerhedsforskrifterne, før du installerer dette produkt.

Lees voordat u dit product installeert eerst de veiligheidsvoorschriften.

Ennen kuin asennat tämän tuotteen, lue turvaohjeet kohdasta Safety Information.

Avant d’installer ce produit, lisez les consignes de sécurité.

Vor der Installation dieses Produkts die Sicherheitshinweise lesen.

Prima di installare questo prodotto, leggere le Informazioni sulla Sicurezza.

Les sikkerhetsinformasjonen (Safety Information) før du installerer dette produktet.

Antes de instalar este produto, leia as Informações sobre Segurança.

Antes de instalar este producto, lea la información de seguridad.

Läs säkerhetsinformationen innan du installerar den här produkten.

Safety statements

Important: Each caution and danger statement in this documentation is labeled with a number. This number is used to cross reference an English-language caution or danger statement with translated versions of the caution or danger statement in the Safety Information document.

For example, if a caution statement is labeled, ″Statement 1,″ translations for that caution statement are in the Safety Information document under ″Statement 1.″ Be sure to read all caution and danger statements in this documentation before you perform the procedures. Read any additional safety information that comes with your blade server or optional device before you install the device.

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Statement 1

DANGER

Electrical current from power, telephone, and communication cables is hazardous.

To avoid a shock hazard:

v Do not connect or disconnect any cables or perform installation,

maintenance, or reconfiguration of this product during an electrical storm.

v Connect all power cords to a properly wired and grounded electrical outlet.

v Connect to properly wired outlets any equipment that will be attached to

this product.

v When possible, use one hand only to connect or disconnect signal cables.

v Never turn on any equipment when there is evidence of fire, water, or

structural damage.

v Disconnect the attached power cords, telecommunications systems,

networks, and modems before you open the device covers, unless instructed otherwise in the installation and configuration procedures.

v Connect and disconnect cables as described in the following table when

installing, moving, or opening covers on this product or attached devices.

To Connect: To Disconnect:

1. Turn everything OFF.

2. First, attach all cables to devices.

3. Attach signal cables to connectors.

4. Attach power cords to outlet.

5. Turn device ON.

1. Turn everything OFF.

2. First, remove power cords from outlet.

3. Remove signal cables from connectors.

4. Remove all cables from devices.

Safety vii

Statement 2

CAUTION: When replacing the lithium battery, use only IBM®Part Number 33F8354 or an equivalent type battery recommended by the manufacturer. If your system has a module containing a lithium battery, replace it only with the same module type made by the same manufacturer. The battery contains lithium and can explode if not properly used, handled, or disposed of.

Do not:

v Throw or immerse into water

v Heat to more than 100°C (212°F)

v Repair or disassemble

Dispose of the battery as required by local ordinances or regulations.

Statement 3

CAUTION: When laser products (such as CD-ROMs, DVD drives, fiber optic devices, or transmitters) are installed, note the following:

v Do not remove the covers. Removing the covers of the laser product could

result in exposure to hazardous laser radiation. There are no serviceable parts inside the device.

v Use of controls or adjustments or performance of procedures other than those

specified herein might result in hazardous radiation exposure.

DANGER

Some laser products contain an embedded Class 3A or Class 3B laser diode. Note the following.

Laser radiation when open. Do not stare into the beam, do not view directly with optical instruments, and avoid direct exposure to the beam.

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Statement 4

≥ 18 kg (39.7 lb) ≥ 32 kg (70.5 lb) ≥ 55 kg (121.2 lb)

CAUTION: Use safe practices when lifting.

Statement 5

CAUTION: The power control button on the device and the power switch on the power supply do not turn off the electrical current supplied to the device. The device also might have more than one power cord. To remove all electrical current from the device, ensure that all power cords are disconnected from the power source.

1 2

Statement 8

Safety ix

CAUTION: Never remove the cover on a power supply or any part that has the following label attached.

Hazardous voltage, current, and energy levels are present inside any component that has this label attached. There are no serviceable parts inside these components. If you suspect a problem with one of these parts, contact a service technician.

Statement 10

CAUTION: Do not place any object on top of rack-mounted devices.

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Chapter 1. Product overview

The IBM BladeCenter®JS23 blade server and JS43 blade server is based on IBM Performance Optimization with Enhanced RISC (POWER®) Architecture technologies. The BladeCenter JS23 blade server and JS43 blade server run in BladeCenter units to provide a high-density, high-performance blade server environment using advanced processing technology.

Note: Unless otherwise stated, references to the BladeCenter unit apply to BladeCenter H (8852 and 7989), BladeCenter HT (8740 and 8750), and BladeCenter S (8886 and 7779) units.

The Installation and User’s Guide comes with the blade server on the IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD. All of the following information is in the document and also in the online information center:

v Setting up the blade server v Starting and configuring the blade server v Installing optional hardware devices v A reference to more information about installing supported operating systems v Performing basic troubleshooting of the blade server

Packaged with the hardcopy Installation and User’s Guide are software CDs that help you to configure hardware, install device drivers, and install the operating system.

The blade server comes with a limited warranty. For information about the terms of the warranty and getting service and assistance, see the online information center or the Warranty and Support Information document that is on the IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD.

The blade server might have features that are not described in the documentation that comes with the blade server, and the documentation might be updated occasionally to include information about those features, or technical updates might be available to provide additional information that is not included in the original blade server documentation. The most recent version of all BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 documentation is in the BladeCenter information center.

The online BladeCenter information center is available in the IBM BladeCenter Information Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/bladectr/ documentation/index.jsp.

Download and install updated device drivers and the JS23 aqnd JS43 firmware. Go to the IBM Support site to download the updates. Select your product, type, model, and operating system, and then click Go. Click the Download tab, if necessary, for device driver and firmware updates.

Note: Changes are made periodically to the IBM Web site. Procedures for locating firmware and documentation might vary slightly from what is described in this documentation.

Print Table 1 on page 2 and use it to record information about your blade server.

You will need this information when you register the blade server with IBM. You can register the blade server at http://www.ibm.com/support/mysupport/.

Table 1 includes a place for you to record the JS23 and JS43 vital product data.

To determine the values for your JS23 blade server and JS43 blade server, use the management module and the lsvpd command. If you are running Linux

, download and install the service and productivity tools for Linux on POWER systems to install the lsvpd command.

Table 1. JS23 and JS43 vital product data

Vital product data field Vital product data How to find this data

Product name BladeCenter JS23 and BladeCenter JS43

Type model number 7778-23X

Serial number

System unique ID

WorldWide port number

Brand B0 (B followed by zero)

________________________ (7 characters)

_________________________________ (12 characters)

Advanced management module HW VPD

lsvpd | grep SU

command

lsvpd | grep WN

command

lsvpd | grep BR

command

The model number and serial number are on the ID label that is behind the control panel door on the front of the blade server, and on a label on the side of the blade server that is visible when the blade server is not in the BladeCenter unit.

A set of blank labels comes with the blade server. When you install the blade server in the BladeCenter unit, write identifying information on a label and place the label on the BladeCenter unit bezel. See the documentation for your BladeCenter unit for recommended label placement.

Important: Do not place the label where it will block any ventilation holes on the blade server or the BladeCenter unit.

The IBM Documentation CD

You can run the IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD on any personal computer that meets the hardware and software requirements.

The IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD contains documentation for your blade server in Portable Document Format (PDF) and includes the IBM Documentation Browser to help you find information quickly.

Hardware and software requirements

The IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD requires the following minimum hardware and software levels.

v Microsoft

v 100 MHz microprocessor

v 32 MB of RAM

v Adobe

systems

Windows®XP, Windows 2000, or Red Hat Linux

Acrobat Reader 3.0 (or later) or xpdf, which comes with Linux operating

Using the Documentation Browser

Use the Documentation Browser to browse the contents of the CD, read brief descriptions of the documents, and view documents, using Adobe Acrobat Reader or xpdf.

The Documentation Browser automatically detects the regional settings in your system and displays the documents in the language for that region (if available). If a document is not available in the language for that region, the English-language version is displayed.

Use one of the following procedures to start the Documentation Browser:

v If Autostart is enabled, insert the CD into the CD or DVD drive. The

Documentation Browser starts automatically.

v If Autostart is disabled or is not enabled for all users, use one of the following

procedures:

– If you are using a Windows operating system, insert the CD into the CD or

DVD drive and click Start --> Run.IntheOpen field, type

e:\win32.bat

where e is the drive letter of the CD or DVD drive, and click OK.

– If you are using Red Hat Linux, insert the CD into the CD or DVD drive;

then, run the following command from the /mnt/cdrom directory:

sh runlinux.sh

Select the blade server from the Product menu. The Available Topics list displays all the documents for the blade server. Some documents might be in folders. A plus sign (+) indicates each folder or document that has additional documents under it. Click the plus sign to display the additional documents.

When you select a document, a description of the document is displayed under Topic Description. To select more than one document, press and hold the Ctrl key while you select the documents. Click View Book to view the selected document or documents in Acrobat Reader or xpdf. If you selected more than one document, all the selected documents are opened in Acrobat Reader or xpdf.

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To search all the documents, type a word or word string in the Search field and click Search. The documents in which the word or word string occurs are listed in order of the most occurrences. Click a document to view it, and press Crtl+F to use the Acrobat search function, or press Alt+F to use the xpdf search function within the document.

Click Help for detailed information about using the Documentation Browser.

Notices and statements in this documentation

The caution and danger statements in this document are also in the multilingual Safety Information. Each statement is numbered for reference to the corresponding statement in your language in the Safety Information document.

The following notices and statements are used in this document:

v Note: These notices provide important tips, guidance, or advice.

v Important: These notices provide information or advice that might help you

avoid inconvenient or problem situations.

v Attention: These notices indicate potential damage to programs, devices, or data.

An attention notice is placed just before the instruction or situation in which damage might occur.

v Caution: These statements indicate situations that can be potentially hazardous

to you. A caution statement is placed just before the description of a potentially hazardous procedure step or situation.

v Danger: These statements indicate situations that can be potentially lethal or

extremely hazardous to you. A danger statement is placed just before the description of a potentially lethal or extremely hazardous procedure step or situation.

Chapter 1. Product overview 5

Features and specifications

Features and specifications of the IBM BladeCenter JS23 blade server and the JS43 blade server are summarized in this overview.

The JS23 and JS43 blade servers are available as a single-wide model (JS23 Type 7778-23X) and with a symmetric multi processing (SMP) planar expansion unit, as a double-wide model (JS43 Type 7778-23X with feature code 8446). The JS23 blade server and the JS43 blade server are used in an IBM BladeCenter H (8852 and

7989), BladeCenter HT (8740 and 8750), or BladeCenter S (8886 and 7779) chassis unit.

Notes:

v Power, cooling, removable-media drives, external ports, and advanced system

management are provided by the BladeCenter unit.

v The operating system in the blade server must provide support for the Universal

Serial Bus (USB), to enable the blade server to recognize and communicate internally with the removable-media drives and front-panel USB ports.

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Core electronics:

64-bit Power 6+ processors (11S2 technology);

JS23 single-wide model: v Dual core, dual socket (4-way)

processors @ 4.2 GHz (DCM)

v 64 GB maximum in 8 very low

profile (VLP) DIMM slots; Supports 2 GB, 4 GB, and 8 GB DDR2 VLP DIMMs

v 1 internal small-form-factor (SFF)

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drive or Solid State Drive (SSD)

JS43 double-wide model: v Additional dual core, dual socket

(total 8-way) processors @ 4.2 GHz (DCM)

v Additional 8 VLP DIMM slots for

total 128 GB maximum

v Additional 1 internal SFF SAS hard

drive or SSD

P5IOC2 I/O hub on-board, integrated features:

v The baseboard management

controller (BMC) is a flexible service processor (FSP1) with Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), Serial over LAN (SOL), and Wake on LAN (WOL) firmware support

v JS23: Two 1 GB Ethernet controllers

(HEA) connected to the BladeCenter chassis fabric through the 5-port integrated Ethernet switch

v JS43: Two additional 1 GB Ethernet

controllers, connecting directly to BladeCenter Ethernet switch modules

v SAS RAID 0/1/5 controller v 2D ATI Graphics (KVM support) v USB 2.0

Daughter card I/O options:

v JS23: 1 1Xe expansion card: SFFv,

CFFv, or CIOv

v JS23: 1 PCIe High speed expansion

card - SFFh or CFFh

v JS43: Additional 1Xe connector v JS43: Additional PCIe connector

Integrated functions:

v RS-485 interface for

communication with the management module

v Automatic server restart (ASR) v SOL through FSP v Four Universal Serial Bus (USB

2.0) buses on base planar for communication with keyboard and removable-media drives

v Support for USB-attached local

keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM)

v Transferable Anchor function

(Renesas Technology HD651330 microcontroller) in the management card

v Optical media available by shared

chassis feature

Environment:

v Air temperature:

– Blade server on: 10° to 35°C

(50° to 95°F). Altitude: 0 to 914 m (3000 ft)

– Blade server on: 10° to 32°C

(50° to 90°F). Altitude: 914 m to 2133 m (3000 ft to 7000 ft)

– Blade server off: -40° to 60°C

(-40° to 140°F)

v Humidity:

– Blade server on: 8% to 80% – Blade server off: 8% to 80%

JS23 Size:

v Height: 24.5 cm (9.7 inches)

v Depth: 44.6 cm (17.6 inches)

v Width: 30 mm (1.14 inches)

single-slot blade

v Maximum weight: 5.0 kg (11 lb)

JS43 Size:

v Height: 24.5 cm (9.7 inches)

v Depth: 44.6 cm (17.6 inches)

v Width: 60 mm (2.28 inches)

double-slot blade

v Maximum weight: 10.0 kg (22 lb)

Systems management:

v Supported by BladeCenter chassis

management module

v Front panel LEDs v Light path diagnostics v IBM Director v Cluster Systems Management (CSM) v Energy Scale thermal management

for power management/ oversubscription (throttling) and environmental sensing

v IBM PowerExecutive

Clusters support for:

v eCluster 1350 v Cluster Systems Management v High-performance computing (HPC)

Open Software Stack

Virtualization support for:

PowerVM

™

Standard Edition hardware feature, which provides the Integrated Virtualization Manager and Virtual I/O Server

Partition Migration

Reliability and service features:

v Dual alternating current power

supply

v BladeCenter chassis redundant and

hot plug power and cooling modules

v Predictive Failure Analysis

(PFA) alerts for the microprocessor and memory

v Boot-time processor deallocation v Blade server hot plug v Customer setup and expansion v Automatic reboot on power loss v Internal and ambient temperature

monitors

v ECC, chipkill memory v System management alerts

Electrical input: 12Vdc

See the ServerProven Web site for information about supported operating-system versions and all JS23 blade server and JS43 blade server optional devices.

Chapter 1. Product overview 7

What your blade server offers

The design of the blade server takes advantage of advancements in chip technology, memory management, and data storage.

The blade server uses the following features and technologies:

v Baseboard management controller (BMC)

The enhanced BMC for the JS23 blade server and JS43 blade server is a flexible service processor that provides support for the following functions:

– Alert Standard Format (ASF) and RS-485 interfaces to the management

modules

– Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)

– The operating system

– Power control and advanced power management

– Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features

– Serial over LAN (SOL)

– Continuous health monitoring and control

– Configurable notification and alerts

– Event logs that are time stamped and saved in nonvolatile memory and that

can be attached to e-mail alerts

– Point-to-point protocol (PPP) support

– Remote power control

– Remote firmware update and access to critical blade server settings

v Disk drive support

The blade server supports one 2.5 inch (small-form-factor) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drive.

v IBM Director

IBM Director is a workgroup-hardware-management tool that you can use to centrally manage the JS23 blade server and JS43 blade server, including updating the JS23 and JS43 firmware.

For more information, see the IBM Director documentation on the IBM Director CD.

v Impressive performance using the latest microprocessor technology

The blade server comes with two POWER6

v Integrated network support

The blade server has two integrated (onboard) 1 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA) controllers that provide advanced acceleration features, such as checksum offload, TCP large send, and jumbo frames. Capabilities include virtualized adapter sharing among logical partitions that does not require the shared Ethernet adapters of Virtual I/O Server. TCP advanced features include hardware de-multiplexing and per connection queues.

v I/O expansion

The blade server has connectors on the system board for optional 1Xe and PCIe expansion cards, such as Fibre Channel and InfiniBand expansion cards, for adding more network communication capabilities to the blade server.

v Large system memory capacity

The memory bus in the JS23 Type 7778 blade server supports up to 64 GB of system memory. The memory bus in the JS43 Type 7778 blade server supports

™

microprocessors.

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up to 128 GB of system memory. For the official list of supported DIMMs, see the ServerProven®Web site at http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/ serverproven/compat/us/.

v Light path diagnostics

Light path diagnostics provides light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to help you diagnose problems. An LED on the blade server control panel is lit if an unusual condition or a problem occurs. If this happens, you can look at the LEDs on the system board to locate the source of the problem.

For more information, see the online information or the Problem Determination and Service Guide.

v Power throttling

If your BladeCenter unit supports power management, the power consumption of the blade server can be dynamically managed through the management module. For more information, see the online management-module documentation or the IBM support site at http://www.ibm.com/systems/ support/.

Reliability, availability, and serviceability features

Three of the most important features in server design are reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS). The reliability of the BladeCenter JS23 and the JS43 blade servers starts with components, devices, and subsystems that are fault tolerant.

Reliability, availability, and serviceability protect the integrity of the data that is stored in the blade server, maintain the availability of the blade server when you need it, and enhance the ease with which you can diagnose and correct problems.

Component-level RAS features

The blade server has the following component-level RAS features:

v Alternate processor recovery v Bit steering v Chipkill v Diagnostic support of Ethernet controllers v Dual inline memory module (DIMM) failure isolation

– DIMM pair identification through unrecoverable error (UE) checkpointing and

– Single DIMM identification through recoverable component error (CE)

v Dynamic deallocation (runtime POWER6 garding of microprocessor and

memory)

v L2 cache line delete v Memory chip kill - Chipkill memory for DIMMs v Memory Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) alerts through scrubbing and

error-checking and correction (ECC)

v Memory scrubbing v Peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus parity, ECRC, and surprise link

down

v PFA thresholding of correctable hardware errors of the microprocessors and L2

cache

v Processor runtime diagnostics (PRD) that initiates the following actions to

recover from errors: – Self-healing, such as redundant bit steering for memory – Deallocation at runtime of a failing resource, such as a processor core, a

™

memory for dual inline memory modules (DIMMs)

message-related recovery actions

checkpointing and garding

memory page

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– Identifying parts for service – Runtime error persistent deallocation, if necessary, for I-Cash, D-cash, L2

cache, L3 cache

– Transparent microprocessor hardware error recovery (for example, for L2

cache errors)

v Single processor checkstop (including a partition checkstop)

Blade-level RAS features

The blade server has the following blade-level RAS features: v Automatic service processor reset and reload recovery for service processor

errors

v Automatic server recovery and restart that provides automatic reboot after boot

hangs or detection of checkstop conditions

v Automatic server restart (ASR) v Built-in monitoring for temperature, voltage, hard disk drives, and flash drives v Call Home - eCare client v Checkstop analysis v Checkstop detection with automated restart v Customer-upgradeable basic input/output system (BIOS) code (firmware code) v Customer support center 24 hours per day, 7 days a week v Degraded boot support (memory and microprocessors) v Repeat Gard v Extended Error Handling (EEH) for PCI host and root complex, PCIe link, and

PCI adapter failures

v Emergency power off (EPOW) for the blade server and expansion cards v Environmental monitors and alerts v Error codes and messages v ECC memory v Failover Ethernet support v First Failure Data Capture (FFDC) for determining failure root cause v Service processor communication with the management module to enable

remote blade server management

v Light emitting diodes (LEDs) for identifying failing customer replaceable units

(CRUs) or field replaceable units (FRUs)

v Light path diagnostics v POWER6 RAS design and objectives v POWER6 Hypervisor (PHYP) partition recovery or partition termination when

unrecoverable errors occur

v Power-on self-test (POST) v SDRAM with serial presence detect (SPD) and vital product data (VPD) v System error logging v System Management Services (SMS) menu support v System-wide checkstop v Vital product data (VPD) unique identifiers on blade server and all major

electronic components with information stored in nonvolatile memory for remote viewing

1. Service availability will vary by country. Response time will vary depending on the number and nature of incoming calls.

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IBM Director

BladeCenter unit-level RAS features

The BladeCenter unit provides the following RAS features:

v Power-supply error detection v Redundant power supplies v Remote power control v Management-module system-event log v Redundant blowers, I/O modules (switches) v Hot plug of BladeCenter CRUs (blowers, switches, power supplies)

Use IBM Director to perform network and system management tasks.

With IBM Director, a network administrator can perform the following tasks:

v View the hardware configuration of remote systems, in detail

v Monitor the usage and performance of critical components, such as

microprocessors, disks, and memory

v Centrally manage individual or large groups of IBM and non-IBM

x86-processor-based servers, desktop computers, workstations, and notebook computers on a variety of platforms

IBM Director provides a comprehensive entry-level workgroup hardware manager. It includes the following key features:

v Advanced self-management capabilities for maximum system availability.

v Multiple operating-system platform support, including Microsoft Windows

Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP Professional, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, VMware, Novell NetWare, AIX (formerly known as i5/OS®). For a complete list of operating systems that support IBM Director, see the IBM Director Compatibility Document. This document is in Portable Document Format (PDF) at http://www.ibm.com/ systems/management/director/resources. It is updated every 6 to 8 weeks.

v Support for IBM and non-IBM servers, desktop computers, workstations, and

notebook computers.

v Support for systems-management industry standards.

v Integration into leading workgroup and enterprise systems-management

environments.

v Ease of use, training, and setup.

, and IBM i operating system

IBM Director also provides an extensible platform that supports advanced server tools that are designed to reduce the total cost of managing and supporting networked systems. By deploying IBM Director, you can achieve reductions in ownership costs through the following benefits:

v Reduced downtime

v Increased productivity of IT personnel and users

v Reduced service and support costs

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Chapter 2. Power, controls, indicators, and connectors

You can use the control panel to turn the blade server on or off and to view some controls and indicators. Other indicators are on the system board. The system board also has connectors for various components.

Blade server control panel buttons and LEDs

Blade server control panel buttons and LEDs provide operational controls and status indicators.

Note: Figure 1 shows the control-panel door in the closed (normal) position. To access the power-control button, you must open the control-panel door.

Figure 1. Blade server control panel buttons and LEDs

1 Keyboard/video select button: When you use an operating system that supports a local console and keyboard, press this button to associate the shared BladeCenter unit keyboard and video ports with the blade server.

Notes:

v The operating system in the blade server must provide USB support for the

blade server to recognize and use the keyboard, even if the keyboard has a PS/2-style connector.

v The keyboard and video are available after partition firmware loads and is

running. Power-on self-test (POST) codes and diagnostics are not supported using the keyboard and video. Use the management module to view checkpoints.

The LED on this button flashes while the request is being processed, then is lit when the ownership of the keyboard and video has been transferred to the blade server. It can take approximately 20 seconds to switch control of the keyboard and video to the blade server.

Using a keyboard that is directly attached to the management module, you can press keys in the following sequence to switch keyboard and video control between blade servers:

NumLock NumLock blade_server_number Enter

Where blade_server_number is the two-digit number for the blade bay in which the blade server is installed. When you use some keyboards, such as the 28L3644 (37L0888) keyboard, hold down the Shift key while you enter this key sequence.

If there is no response when you press the keyboard/video select button, you can use the Web interface of the management module to determine whether local control has been disabled on the blade server.

2 Media-tray select button: Press this button to associate the shared BladeCenter unit media tray (removable-media drives and front-panel USB ports) with the blade server. The LED on the button flashes while the request is being processed, then is lit when the ownership of the media tray has been transferred to the blade server. It can take approximately 20 seconds for the operating system in the blade server to recognize the media tray.

If there is no response when you press the media-tray select button, use the management module to determine whether local control has been disabled on the blade server.

Note: The operating system in the blade server must provide USB support for the blade server to recognize and use the removable-media drives and USB ports.

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3 Information LED: When this amber LED is lit, it indicates that information about a system error for the blade server has been placed in the management-module event log. The information LED can be turned off through the Web interface of the management module or through IBM Director Console.

4 Blade-error LED: When this amber LED is lit, it indicates that a system error has occurred in the blade server. The blade-error LED will turn off after one of the following events:

v Correcting the error

v Reseating the blade server in the BladeCenter unit

v Cycling the BladeCenter unit power

5 Power-control button: This button is behind the control panel door. Press this button to turn on or turn off the blade server.

The power-control button has effect only if local power control is enabled for the blade server. Local power control is enabled and disabled through the Web interface of the management module.

Press the power button for 5 seconds to begin powering down the blade server.

6 NMI reset (recessed): The nonmaskable interrupt (NMI) reset dumps the partition. Use this recessed button only as directed by IBM Support.

7 Sleep: This LED is not used in the JS blade family.

8 Power-on LED: This green LED indicates the power status of the blade server

in the following manner:

v Flashing rapidly: The service processor is initializing the blade server.

v Flashing slowly: The blade server has completed initialization and is waiting for

a power-on command.

v Lit continuously: The blade server has power and is turned on.

Note: The enhanced service processor can take as long as three minutes to initialize after you install the BladeCenter JS23 or JS43 blade server, at which point the LED begins to flash slowly.

9 Activity LED: When this green LED is lit, it indicates that there is activity on the hard disk drive or network.

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