4 Setup ...............................................................................................................................................................
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Optional installation services ..............................................................................................................
Optimum environment ........................................................................................................................
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Space and airflow requirements ........................................................................................
Temperature requirements ................................................................................................
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Power requirements ...........................................................................................................
Electrical grounding requirements .....................................................................................
Connecting a DC power cable to a DC power source .......................................................
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Rack warnings ....................................................................................................................................
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Identifying the contents of the server shipping carton ........................................................................
Installing hardware options .................................................................................................................
Installing the server into the rack ........................................................................................................
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Installing the operating system ...........................................................................................................
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Citrix XenServer .................................................................................................................
VMware vSphere ...............................................................................................................
Powering on and selecting boot options .............................................................................................
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Registering the server ........................................................................................................................
5 Hardware options installation ..........................................................................................................................
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Introduction .........................................................................................................................................
Memory options ..................................................................................................................................
HP SmartMemory ..............................................................................................................
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Memory subsystem architecture ........................................................................................
Single-,dual-, and quad-rank DIMMs ................................................................................
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DIMM identification ............................................................................................................
Memory configurations ......................................................................................................
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Advanced ECC memory configuration ..............................................................
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Online Spare memory configuration ..................................................................
Lockstep memory configuration ........................................................................
General DIMM slot population guidelines ..........................................................................
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Advanced ECC population guidelines ...............................................................
Online spare population ....................................................................................
Lockstep Memory population guidelines ...........................................................
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Population order ................................................................................................
Installing a DIMM ...............................................................................................................
Hot-plug hard drive options ................................................................................................................
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Installing a hot-plug SAS or SATA hard drive ....................................................................
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Removing a hot-plug SAS or SATA hard drive ..................................................................
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Controller options ...............................................................................................................................
Installing the flash-backed write cache module .................................................................
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Installing the flash-backed write cache capacitor pack ......................................................
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