BladeCenter H Type 8852, 7989, and 1886. Installation and User s Guide

BladeCenter H Type 8852, 7989, and 1886 Installation and User s Guide

BladeCenter H Type 8852, 7989, and 1886 Installation and User s Guide

Note Before using this information and the product it supports, read the general information in Appendix B, Getting help and technical assistance, on page 51 and Appendix C, Notices, on page 55. Seenth Edition (December 2012) Copyright IBM Corporation 2012. US Goernment Users Restricted Rights Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.

Contents Safety............................ Chapter 1. Introduction...................... 1 Locating and recording BladeCenter unit information........... 2 Features and specifications..................... 3 The BladeCenter modules..................... 3 Adanced management module.................. 4 I/O modules......................... 4 Blade serers......................... 4 Power modules........................ 5 Blower modules........................ 5 The IBM Documentation CD.................... 5 Hardware and software requirements................ 5 Using the Documentation Browser................. 6 Related documentation...................... 6 Notices and statements in this document................ 8 Major components of the BladeCenter H unit.............. 9 Chapter 2. BladeCenter unit power, controls, and indicators....... 11 Supplying power to the BladeCenter unit............... 11 Disconnecting power from the BladeCenter unit............. 11 BladeCenter components, controls, and LEDs............. 12 Front iew......................... 12 Rear iew.......................... 15 Chapter 3. Installing the BladeCenter unit and options......... 17 Installation checklist....................... 17 Installing the BladeCenter unit in a rack................ 17 Installation guidelines...................... 18 System reliability guidelines................... 18 Handling static-sensitie deices................. 18 Remoing components before rack installation............. 19 Remoing a power module................... 19 Remoing a blade serer.................... 21 Remoing a management module................. 21 Remoing a blower module................... 22 Remoing an I/O module.................... 22 Remoing a bezel....................... 23 Remoing an optical drie filler.................. 24 Installing components...................... 24 Installing a blower module.................... 24 Installing a management module................. 26 Installing an I/O module.................... 27 Installing a power module.................... 28 Installing an optical drie.................... 30 Installing a bezel....................... 31 Installing a blade serer.................... 31 Completing the installation..................... 32 Chapter 4. Configuration and networking guidelines.......... 35 Configuring the BladeCenter unit.................. 35 Configuring the management module................ 35 Configuring I/O modules.................... 35 Copyright IBM Corp. 2012 iii

Configuring blade serers.................... 35 Using IBM FastSetup..................... 36 BladeCenter networking guidelines................. 36 Chapter 5. IBM Director..................... 37 Chapter 6. Shared BladeCenter resources.............. 39 Chapter 7. Soling problems................... 41 Diagnostic tools oeriew..................... 41 Troubleshooting tables...................... 41 Monitor or ideo problems.................... 42 Power problems....................... 42 Management module problems.................. 43 Blower module problems.................... 43 Media tray problems...................... 44 Light path diagnostic LEDs.................... 44 Diagnosing problems using diagnostic LEDs............. 44 Diagnostic LEDs....................... 45 Appendix A. BladeCenter management-module configuration worksheet 47 Appendix B. Getting help and technical assistance.......... 51 Before you call......................... 51 Using the documentation..................... 52 Getting help and information from the World Wide Web.......... 52 How to send Dynamic System Analysis data to IBM........... 52 Creating a personalized support web page............... 52 Software serice and support................... 52 Hardware serice and support................... 53 IBM Taiwan product serice.................... 53 Appendix C. Notices...................... 55 Trademarks.......................... 55 Important notes......................... 56 Particulate contamination..................... 57 Documentation format...................... 57 Telecommunication regulatory statement............... 58 Electronic emission notices.................... 58 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) statement......... 58 Industry Canada Class A emission compliance statement........ 58 Ais de conformité à la réglementation d'industrie Canada........ 58 Australia and New Zealand Class A statement............ 59 European Union EMC Directie conformance statement......... 59 Germany Class A statement................... 59 VCCI Class A statement.................... 60 Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) statement......................... 60 Korea Communications Commission (KCC) statement......... 61 Russia Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Class A statement....... 61 People's Republic of China Class A electronic emission statement..... 61 Taiwan Class A compliance statement............... 61 Index............................ 63 i BladeCenter H Type 8852, 7989, and 1886: Installation and User s Guide

Safety Before installing this product, read the Safety Information. Antes de instalar este produto, leia as Informações de Segurança. Læs sikkerhedsforskrifterne, før du installerer dette produkt. Lees oordat u dit product installeert eerst de eiligheidsoorschriften. Ennen kuin asennat tämän tuotteen, lue turaohjeet kohdasta Safety Information. Aant 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. Copyright IBM Corp. 2012

Antes de instalar este producto, lea la información de seguridad. Läs säkerhetsinformationen innan du installerar den här produkten. Bu ürünü kurmadan önce güenlik bilgilerini okuyun. Important: Each caution and danger statement in this document is labeled with a number. This number is used to cross reference an English-language caution or danger statement with translated ersions 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 are in the Safety Information document under "Statement 1". Be sure to read all caution and danger statements in this document before you perform the procedures. Read any additional safety information that comes with the serer or optional deice before you install the deice. i BladeCenter H Type 8852, 7989, and 1886: Installation and User s Guide

Statement 1: DANGER Electrical current from power, telephone, and communication cables is hazardous. To aoid a shock hazard: Do not connect or disconnect any cables or perform installation, maintenance, or reconfiguration of this product during an electrical storm. Connect all power cords to a properly wired and grounded electrical outlet. Connect to properly wired outlets any equipment that will be attached to this product. When possible, use one hand only to connect or disconnect signal cables. Neer turn on any equipment when there is eidence of fire, water, or structural damage. Disconnect the attached power cords, telecommunications systems, networks, and modems before you open the deice coers, unless instructed otherwise in the installation and configuration procedures. Connect and disconnect cables as described in the following table when installing, moing, or opening coers on this product or attached deices. To Connect: 1. Turn eerything OFF. 2. First, attach all cables to deices. 3. Attach signal cables to connectors. 4. Attach power cords to outlet. 5. Turn deice ON. To Disconnect: 1. Turn eerything OFF. 2. First, remoe power cords from outlet. 3. Remoe signal cables from connectors. 4. Remoe all cables from deices. Safety ii

Statement 2: CAUTION: When replacing the lithium battery, use only IBM Part Number 33F8354 or an equialent 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: Throw or immerse into water Heat to more than 100 C (212 F) 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 dries, fiber optic deices, or transmitters) are installed, note the following: Do not remoe the coers. Remoing the coers of the laser product could result in exposure to hazardous laser radiation. There are no sericeable parts inside the deice. 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 iew directly with optical instruments, and aoid direct exposure to the beam. Class 1 Laser Product Laser Klasse 1 Laser Klass 1 Luokan 1 Laserlaite Appareil A ` Laser de Classe 1 iii BladeCenter H Type 8852, 7989, and 1886: Installation and User s Guide

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 deice and the power switch on the power supply do not turn off the electrical current supplied to the deice. The deice also might hae more than one power cord. To remoe all electrical current from the deice, ensure that all power cords are disconnected from the power source. 2 / 3 1 / 4 Safety ix

Statement 8: CAUTION: Neer remoe the coer on a power supply or any part that has the following label attached. Hazardous oltage, current, and energy leels are present inside any component that has this label attached. There are no sericeable parts inside these components. If you suspect a problem with one of these parts, contact a serice technician. Statement 12: CAUTION: The following label indicates a hot surface nearby. Statement 13: DANGER Oerloading a branch circuit is potentially a fire hazard and a shock hazard under certain conditions. To aoid these hazards, ensure that your system electrical requirements do not exceed branch circuit protection requirements. Refer to the information that is proided with your deice for electrical specifications. x BladeCenter H Type 8852, 7989, and 1886: Installation and User s Guide

Statement 20: CAUTION: To aoid personal injury, before lifting the unit, remoe all the blades to reduce the weight. 164 kg (360 lbs) (14X) (4X) (2X) 44 kg (96 lbs) Statement 21: CAUTION: Hazardous energy is present when the blade is connected to the power source. Always replace the blade coer before installing the blade. United Kingdom - Notice to Customers: This apparatus is approed under approal number NS/G/1234/J/100003 for indirect connection to public telecommunication systems in the United Kingdom. Statement 26: CAUTION: Do not place any object on top of rack-mounted deices. Attention: This serer is suitable for use on an IT power distribution system whose maximum phase-to-phase oltage is 240 V under any distribution fault condition. Important: This product is not suitable for use with isual display workplace deices according to Clause 2 of the German Ordinance for Work with Visual Display Units. Safety xi

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Chapter 1. Introduction The IBM BladeCenter Type 8852, 7989, and 1886 unit is a high-density, high-performance rack-mounted serer system. The BladeCenter unit proides 14 bays for blade serers and other BladeCenter deices, integrating common resources that are shared by the blade serers. The use of common resources proides a small serer-system footprint that contains high-performing serers with minimal cabling. The BladeCenter unit has the following features: Hot-swap that enable you to add, remoe, or replace blade serers, management modules, I/O modules, power modules, or blower modules without remoing power from the BladeCenter unit. A midplane that connects all BladeCenter components. A management module that functions as a system-management processor. There are two management module bays. Power modules that proide redundant power for all BladeCenter components. There are four power modules that operate in redundant pairs. Each pair proides power to selected BladeCenter components. Blowers that proide cooling for most BladeCenter components. There are two blower modules. There are three fans attached to each power module that proide cooling for the power modules and other components. Ten input/output (I/O) module bays that support external network interface connections to network resources and other deices. A media tray that contains an optical drie and two Uniersal Serial Bus (USB) ports that can be used by any blade serer. Note: The optical drie is an option on some BladeCenter units. This Installation and User s Guide proides information about the following tasks: Defining and recording your BladeCenter network configuration information Installing and cabling the BladeCenter unit Installing basic BladeCenter unit optional deices: Management modules I/O modules Power modules Blower modules Blade serers Performing basic troubleshooting of the BladeCenter unit Packaged with the Installation and User s Guide are software CDs that help you to configure and manage the BladeCenter unit. You can obtain up-to-date information about your BladeCenter Type 8852, 7989, and 1886 unit and other IBM serer products at http://www.ibm.com/bladecenter/. Copyright IBM Corp. 2012 1

Locating and recording BladeCenter unit information Record information about your BladeCenter unit in the following table. You will need this information for future reference. Product name BladeCenter H Machine type 8852 Model number Serial number 7989 1886 The serial number and model number are on labels on the top, front, and rear of the chassis. A set of blank labels comes with each blade serer. Record identifying information on a label and place it on the BladeCenter unit top bezel, just aboe the blade serer. Do not place the label on the blade serer itself or in any way block the entilation holes on the blade serer. 2 BladeCenter H Type 8852, 7989, and 1886: Installation and User s Guide

Features and specifications The following table proides a summary of the features and specifications of the BladeCenter unit. Depending on the model, some features might not be aailable, or some specifications might not apply. Media tray (on front): Optical drie (optional) Two USB 2.0 ports Front system LED panel Blade bays (on front): 14 hot-swap blade-serer bays Module bays (on front): Four hot-swap power-module bays Module bays (on rear): Two hot-swap management-module bays Ten hot-swap I/O-module bays Two hot-swap blower bays Power modules: Minimum: Two hot-swap power modules that are configured for redundant operation Maximum: Four hot-swap power modules that proide redundancy to all BladeCenter components Redundant cooling: Two ariable-speed hot-swap blowers Management module: Minimum: One hot-swap adanced management module. Maximum: Two hot-swap adanced management modules: one actie, one hot stand-by. Upgradeable microcode: Management-module firmware I/O-module firmware (not all I/O module types) Blade-serer firmware Security features: Login password for remote connection Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security for remote management access Predictie Failure Analysis (PFA) alerts: Blowers Blade-dependent features Size (9 U): Height: 400.1 mm (15.75 in. or 9 U) Depth: 711.2 mm (28 in.) Width: 482.6 mm (19 in.) Weight: Full configured weight with blade serers: Approximately 158.8 kg (350 lbs) Empty chassis without modules or blade serers: Approximately 40.82 kg (90 lbs) Enironment: Air temperature: BladeCenter unit on: - Altitude: 0 to 914 m (3000 ft) 10 to 35 C (50 to 95 F) - Altitude: 914 m to 2134 m (3000 ft to 7000 ft) 10 to 32 C (50 to 90 F) BladeCenter unit off: -40 to 60 C (-40 to 140 F). Humidity: 8% to 80% Acoustics: declared sound power leel: 7.5 bels 1 Electrical input: Sine-wae input (50-60 Hz single-phase) required Input oltage: Minimum: 200 V ac Maximum: 240 V ac Heat output: Approximate heat output in British thermal units (Btu) per hour: Minimum configuration: 1024 Btu/hour (300 watts) Maximum configuration: 32757 Btu/hour (9600 watts) Airflow: Approximate airflow in cubic feet per minute (cfm): Minimum airflow: 450 cfm Maximum airflow: 975 cfm Notes: 1. Goernment regulations (such as those prescribed by Occupational Safety and Health Administration or European Community Directies) might goern noise leel exposure in the workplace and might apply to you and your serer installation. The actual sound pressure leels in your installation depend on a ariety of factors, including the number of racks in the installation; the size, materials, and configuration of the room where you designate the racks to be installed; the noise leels from other equipment; the room ambient temperature; and employees' location in relation to the equipment. Compliance with such goernment regulations also depends on a ariety of additional factors, including the duration of employees' exposure and whether employees wear hearing protection. It is recommended that you consult qualified experts in this field to determine whether you are in compliance with the applicable regulations. The BladeCenter modules The BladeCenter unit contains the following hot-swap modules: Adanced management modules I/O modules Power modules Blower modules Chapter 1. Introduction 3

See Major components of the BladeCenter H unit on page 9 for the location of each module. These modules supply common functions to the blade serers that are installed in the blade bays in the front of the BladeCenter unit. The BladeCenter unit and the actie management module make optional I/O deices (optical drie, USB port, keyboard, ideo, and mouse) aailable to all the blade serers, selected by any one blade serer at a time. Adanced management module The BladeCenter unit comes with one hot-swap management module in management-module bay 1. You can add a second management-module in management-module bay 2 to proide redundancy. The management module is a hot-swap module that you use to configure and manage BladeCenter components. See the User s Guide that comes with the management module for more information. I/O modules Blade serers The BladeCenter unit has 10 hot-swap I/O module bays that are compatible with three types of I/O modules (see Rear iew on page 15 for the location of the I/O module bays). These bays can be used as follows: The modules in bays 1 and 2 such as Ethernet switches or pass-thru modules, proide a communication links for the first and second network interface controllers (NICs) on each blade serer. The modules in these bays must support Ethernet. The modules in bays 3 and 4 can be either of the following types, but the modules in both bays must be of the same type: Switch modules, which proide a communication link for the third and fourth NICs in each blade serer. The modules in these bays must support the type of network interface that is used in the corresponding blade-serer NICs. When these bays are used this way, they are similar in function to bays 1 and 2. Bridge modules, which proide links to bays 7 through 10 that can be used as additional outputs for the I/O modules in those bays. When these bays are used this way, the modules in these bays are not directly linked to the blade serers but bay 3 proides redundancy for the module in bay 5 and bay 4 proides redundancy for bay 6. The modules in bays 5 and 6, such as bridge modules, proide links to bays 7 through 10 that can be used as additional outputs for the I/O modules in those bays. Bays 5 and 6 are not directly linked to the blade serers. The modules in bays 7 through 10, such as Infiniband switches, proide high-speed communication links to the fifth through eighth NICs in each blade serer. The modules in these bays must support the type of network interface that is used in the corresponding blade-serer NICs. The BladeCenter unit proides 14 bays for blade serers or other BladeCenter deices. A blade serer is a hot-swap, independent serer with its own processors, memory, storage, network controllers, operating system, and applications. The blade serer is installed in a bay in the BladeCenter unit and shares power, fans, switches, and ports with other blade serers. 4 BladeCenter H Type 8852, 7989, and 1886: Installation and User s Guide

Power modules The BladeCenter unit comes with two or four hot-swap power modules. Power modules are needed in bays 1 and 2 if you install blade serers in blade bays 1 through 7 or if you install I/O modules in I/O module bays 1 through 4 or 7 through 10. Power modules are needed in power module bays 3 and 4 if you install blade serers in blade bays 8 through 14 or if you install I/O modules in any of I/O module bays 5 through 10. Each pair of power modules is redundant. If either power module fails, the remaining power module continues to supply power, but there is no redundancy; the failed power module must be replaced as soon as possible. Blower modules The BladeCenter unit comes with two hot-swap blowers for cooling redundancy. The blower speeds ary depending on the ambient air temperature at the front of the BladeCenter unit and the temperature of internal BladeCenter components. If the ambient temperature is 25 C (77 F) or below, the BladeCenter unit blowers will run at their minimum rotational speed, increasing their speed as required to control internal BladeCenter temperature. If the ambient temperature is aboe 25 C (77 F), the blowers will run faster, increasing their speed as required to control internal BladeCenter unit temperature. If a blower fails, the operating speed of the remaining blower might increase and continue to cool the BladeCenter unit and blade serers. Replace a failed blower as soon as possible, to restore cooling redundancy. The IBM Documentation CD Your BladeCenter might be equipped with standard blower modules (part number 44E5083), or it might be equipped with high-efficiency blower modules (part number 68Y8205). The standard and high-efficiency blower modules are not interchangeable and should not be mixed in the same BladeCenter unit. For a list of supported options for the BladeCenter, see the SererProen list at http://www.ibm.com/serers/eserer/sererproen/compat/us/. The IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD contains documentation for your BladeCenter unit 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: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (with Serice Pack 3 or later), Windows 2000, or Red Hat Linux 100 MHz microprocessor 32 MB RAM Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 (or later) or xpdf, which comes with Linux operating systems. Acrobat Reader software is included on the CD, and you can install it when you run the Documentation Browser. Chapter 1. Introduction 5

Using the Documentation Browser Use the Documentation Browser to browse the contents of the CD, read brief descriptions of the documents, and iew documents, using Adobe Acrobat Reader or xpdf. The Documentation Browser automatically detects the regional settings in use in your system and presents the information in the language for that region (if aailable). If a topic is not aailable in the language for that region, the English ersion is displayed. Use one of the following procedures to start the Documentation Browser: If Autostart is enabled, insert the CD into the drie. The Documentation Browser starts automatically. If Autostart is disabled or is not enabled for all users: If you are using a Windows operating system, insert the CD into the drie; then, click Start Run. IntheOpen field, type e:\win32.bat Related documentation where e is the drie letter of your optical drie, and click OK. If you are using a Red Hat Linux, insert the CD into the drie and run the following command from the /mnt/cdrom directory: sh runlinux.sh Select your computer from the Product menu. The Aailable Topics list displays all the documents for your BladeCenter product. Some documents might be in folders. A plus sign (+) indicates each folder or document that has additional topics under it. Click the plus sign to display the additional documents. When you select a document, a description of the document appears under Topic Description. To select more than one document, press and hold the Ctrl key while you select the documents. Click View Book to iew 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. 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 appears are listed in order of the most occurrences. Click a document to iew it, and press Ctrl+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. In addition to this Installation and User s Guide, the following related documentation is proided in Portable Document Format (PDF) at http://www.ibm.com/ supportportal/ or on the BladeCenter Documentation CD that comes with your BladeCenter unit: BladeCenter H Problem Determination and Serice Guide This document contains the information to help you sole problems, and it contains information for serice technicians. BladeCenter H Rack Installation Instructions This printed document contains instructions for installing the BladeCenter unit in a rack. BladeCenter Adanced Management Module Installation Guide 6 BladeCenter H Type 8852, 7989, and 1886: Installation and User s Guide

This document contains instructions for installing the management module in the BladeCenter unit and creating the initial configuration. BladeCenter Adanced Management Module User s Guide This document proides general information about the management module for your BladeCenter unit type, including information about features, how to configure the management module, and how to get help. BladeCenter Adanced Management Module Command-Line Interface Reference Guide This document explains how to use the management-module command-line interface to directly access BladeCenter management functions as an alternatie to using the Web-based user interface. The command-line interface also proides access to the text-console command prompt on each blade serer through a Serial oer LAN (SOL) connection. BladeCenter Adanced Management Module Messages Guide This document contains a complete list of all non-deice specific eents and recommended actions, sorted by eent ID. Deice specific eent information is in the documentation for the deice. Safety Information This document contains translated caution and danger statements. Each caution and danger statement that appears in the documentation has a number that you can use to locate the corresponding statement in your language in the Safety Information document. Safety Information Labels This document proides the Simplified Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uygur, and Zhuang translated ersions of the product safety labels. Warranty This document contains information about the terms of the warranty. Serial oer LAN Setup Guide This document explains how to update and configure BladeCenter components for Serial oer LAN (SOL) operation. The SOL connection proides access to the text-console command prompt on each blade serer and enables the blade serers to be managed from a remote location. Additional documents might be included on the IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD. Chapter 1. Introduction 7

Notices and statements in this document The caution and danger statements that appear in this document are also in the multilingual Safety Information document, which is on the IBM BladeCenter Documentation CD. Each statement is numbered for reference to the corresponding statement in the Safety Information document. The following notices and statements are used in this document: Note: These notices proide important tips, guidance, or adice. Important: These notices proide information or adice that might help you aoid inconenient or problem situations. Attention: These notices indicate possible damage to programs, deices, or data. An attention notice is placed just before the instruction or situation in which damage could occur. 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. 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. 8 BladeCenter H Type 8852, 7989, and 1886: Installation and User s Guide

3rd power module 4th power module Hot-Swap Power Module AC OK DC OK Description and Action Handle (open) Power Module LEDs CD BladeCenter Serice Information BladeCenter System LED Panel - Primary Blade Serer Control Panel - Secondary Light Path Diagnostics See hardware for actual location of LEDs and buttons. See hardware for actual location of LEDs and buttons. Major components of the BladeCenter H unit The following illustrations show the locations of the major components in the BladeCenter unit. I/O module Management module I/O module filler Management module filler I/O module filler Blower module Blade filler I/O module filler System serice card Chassis Bezel, top and bottom Media tray CD/DVD drie Power module Fan pack Power module filler Chapter 1. Introduction 9