4 Setup ...............................................................................................................................................................

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Optional installation services ..............................................................................................................

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Optimum environment ........................................................................................................................

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Space and airflow requirements ........................................................................................

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Temperature requirements ................................................................................................

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Power requirements ...........................................................................................................

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Electrical grounding requirements .....................................................................................

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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 ........................................................................

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Installing hardware options .................................................................................................................

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Installing the server into the rack ........................................................................................................

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Installing the operating system ...........................................................................................................

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Citrix XenServer .................................................................................................................

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VMware vSphere ...............................................................................................................

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Powering on and selecting boot options .............................................................................................

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Registering the server ........................................................................................................................

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5 Hardware options installation ..........................................................................................................................

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Introduction .........................................................................................................................................

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Memory options ..................................................................................................................................

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HP SmartMemory ..............................................................................................................

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Memory subsystem architecture ........................................................................................

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Single-,dual-, and quad-rank DIMMs ................................................................................

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DIMM identification ............................................................................................................

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Memory configurations ......................................................................................................

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Advanced ECC memory configuration ..............................................................

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Online Spare memory configuration ..................................................................

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Lockstep memory configuration ........................................................................

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General DIMM slot population guidelines ..........................................................................

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Advanced ECC population guidelines ...............................................................

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Online spare population ....................................................................................

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Lockstep Memory population guidelines ...........................................................

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Population order ................................................................................................

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Installing a DIMM ...............................................................................................................

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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 ...............................................................................................................................

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Installing the flash-backed write cache module .................................................................

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Installing the flash-backed write cache capacitor pack ......................................................

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