✏Important
Installation of a standard
If the SCSI drive that is installed in SCSI connector 2 contains any information that you want to keep, back it up to another storage device.
If the SCSI hard disk drive that is installed in SCSI connector 2 is part of a RAID array, delete this SCSI RAID array configuration before removing the hard disk drive. When you delete the RAID array, the array configuration information is removed; no data is deleted.
There are two types of I/O expansion cards supported by the blade server:
•Gigabit Ethernet expansion card
•Fibre Channel expansion card
The Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel expansion cards are available as a small
The following sections describe how to install an I/O expansion card in the blade server.
✏NOTE
You cannot install both sizes of I/O expansion cards in the same blade server. You can install the small
Installing a small form-factor expansion card
The small
Complete the following steps to install the small
1.Read the safety information beginning on page “Safety” on page vii and “Installation guidelines” on page 19.
2.Shut down the operating system, turn off the blade server, and remove the blade server from the SBCE unit (see “Installing and removing the blade server from the SBCE unit” on page 20 for information).
3.Carefully lay the blade server on a flat,
4.Open the cover (see “Opening the blade server cover” on page 20 for instructions).
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