Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX300 S7 - Page 9

TX300 S7 / RX350 S7 Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
Contents
4.10 Handling the anti-tilt bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
4.10.1 Installing the anti-tilt bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
4.10.2 Removing the anti-tilt bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
4.11 Mounting the server in the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
4.11.1 Seating the server on the rack rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
4.11.2 Sliding the server into the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
4.12 Connecting the server to the mains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
4.12.1 Securing power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
4.12.1.1 Mounting a PSU cable bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
4.12.1.2 Securing a power cord in the PSU cable bracket . . . . . . 136
4.13 Switching on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
4.14 Concluding software tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
5 Basic software procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
5.1 Starting the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
5.1.1 Disabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
5.1.2 Disabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . 142
5.1.2.1 Viewing boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
5.1.2.2 Configuring boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
5.1.3 Removing backup and optical disk media . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
5.1.4 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . 144
5.1.5 Note on server maintenance in a Multipath I/O environment . . 145
5.1.6 Switching on the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and iRMC . . . 147
5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . 148
5.2.1.2 Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
5.2.2 Verifying system information backup / restore . . . . . . . . . . 152
5.2.3 Updating RAID controller firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
5.2.4 Enabling Option ROM scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
5.2.5 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . 155
5.2.6 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
5.2.6.1 Viewing the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
5.2.6.2 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
5.2.7 Performing a fan test after replacing a defective fan . . . . . . 157
5.2.8 Enabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . 159
5.2.9 Enabling replaced components in the system BIOS . . . . . . . 160
5.2.10 Verifying the memory mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160