Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S8 Upgrade And Maintenance Manual

Upgrade and Maintenance Manual RX300 S8
Contents
4.3 Disconnecting power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4.4 Getting access to the component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.4.1 Extending the server out of the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.4.2 Removing the server from the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.4.3 Opening the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.4.3.1 Removing the housing cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.4.3.2 Removing the air duct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.5 Reassembling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.5.1 Installing the air duct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.5.2 Closing the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
4.5.2.1 Mounting the housing cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.5.3 Mounting the server in the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.5.3.1 Seating the server on the rack rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.5.3.2 Sliding the server into the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.6 Connecting the server to the power source . . . . . . . . . . 69
4.7 Switching on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
5 Basic software procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1 Starting the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1.1 Disabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1.2 Disabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.1.2.1 Viewing boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.1.2.2 Configuring boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.1.3 Removing backup and optical disk media . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
5.1.4 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . . 77
5.1.5 Note on server maintenance in a Multipath I/O environment . . . 77
5.1.6 Switching on the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and iRMC . . . . 80
5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . . 81
5.2.1.2 Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
5.2.2 Verifying system information backup / restore . . . . . . . . . . 83
5.2.3 Updating RAID controller firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
5.2.4 Enabling Option ROM scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.2.5 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . . 86
5.2.6 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.2.6.1 Viewing the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.2.6.2 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S8 Specifications

General

Memory	Up to 768 GB DDR3
Form Factor	2U rack server
Remote Management	iRMC S4 (Integrated Remote Management Controller)
Chipset	Intel C602
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 product family
Storage	Up to 16 x 2.5" or 8 x 3.5" drives
RAID	RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Network	4 x Gigabit Ethernet ports
Expansion Slots	6 x PCIe 3.0 slots
Operating System Support	Windows Server, Red Hat, SUSE, VMware
Memory Type	DDR3 RDIMM/LRDIMM
Power Supply	Hot-plug redundant power supply units