Lenovo x3250 m6 - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

Contents
Safety..................v
Guidelinesfortrainedservicetechnicians.....vi
Inspectingforunsafeconditions.......vi
Guidelinesforservicingelectricalequipment.vii
Safetystatements.............viii
Chapter1.Documentationandnotice
types...................1
TheLenovoSystemxDocumentationCD.....1
Systemrequirements...........1
DocumentationBrowser..........1
Relateddocumentation............2
Noticesinthisdocument...........2
Chapter2.AbouttheLenovoSystem
x3250M6server.............5
Serverfeaturesandspecifications........6
Whatyourserveroffers............9
Reliability,Availability,andServiceability....12
Turningonorturningofftheserver.......13
Turningontheserver..........13
Turningofftheserver..........13
Chapter3.Componentlocations...15
Frontview................15
Rearview.................17
Operatorinformationpanel..........18
Servercomponents.............19
System-boardconnectors..........21
System-boardswitchesandjumpers......22
System-boardLEDs............24
Chapter4.Configuration
information..............25
Updatingthefirmware............25
Configuringtheserver............26
UsingtheServerGuideSetupandInstallation
CD.................27
UsingtheSetupUtilityprogram......28
UsingtheBootManagerprogram.....34
Startingthebackupserverfirmware....34
UpdateXpressSystemPackInstaller....34
ChangingthePowerPolicyoptiontothe
defaultsettingsafterloadingUEFIdefaults..34
UsingtheIntegratedManagementModuleII
(IMM2)................35
Usingtheremotepresenceandblue-screen
capturefeatures............36
Usingtheembeddedhypervisor......37
Ethernetcontrollerinformation.......38
EnablingFeaturesonDemandEthernetand
DemandRAIDsoftware.........38
AccessingRAIDconfigurationutility....39
LenovoToolsCenterSuiteCLIprogram...39
UsingLenovoXClarityAdministrator....39
UpdatingtheUniversalUniqueIdentifier
(UUID)................40
UpdatingtheDMI/SMBIOSdata......42
ConfiguringonboardSATAsoftwareRAID....44
EnablingtheonboardSATARAID
functionality..............44
CreatingRAIDvolumes.........44
DeletingRAIDvolumes.........45
Markingdisksasspare.........45
Chapter5.Troubleshooting......47
Starthere.................47
Diagnosingaproblem..........47
Openinganonlineservicerequest.....49
Servicebulletins..............49
Checkoutprocedure............50
Precautionsbeforeperformingthecheckout
procedure...............50
Performingthecheckoutprocedure....50
Diagnostictools..............51
Lightpathdiagnostics..........53
ErrorLEDs..............53
Power-supplyLEDs...........54
SystempulseLEDs...........55
Eventlogs...............56
POST................58
DynamicSystemAnalysis........58
Automatedservicerequest(callhome).....60
ElectronicServiceAgent.........60
Errormessages..............60
Troubleshootingbysymptom.........61
Generalproblems............61
Opticaldriveproblems..........62
Harddiskdriveproblems.........62
Hypervisorproblems..........64
Intermittentproblems..........64
Keyboard,mouse,orUSB-deviceproblems.65
Memoryproblems...........65
Monitorproblems............66
Networkconnectionproblems.......68
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