BX924 S3
Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
Contents
5.2
Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.2.1
Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and iRMC . . . 80
5.2.1.1
Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . 80
5.2.1.2
Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
5.2.2
Restoring BIOS settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.2.3
Restoring iRMC settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.2.4
Updating mezzanine card firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.2.5
Enabling Option ROM scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
5.2.6
Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . 89
5.2.7
Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
5.2.7.1
Viewing the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
5.2.7.2
Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5.2.8
Enabling boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
5.2.9
Enabling replaced components in the system BIOS . . . . . . . 93
5.2.10
Verifying the memory mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
5.2.11
Verifying the system time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
5.2.12
Viewing and clearing the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . 95
5.2.12.1
Viewing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.2.12.2
Saving the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
5.2.12.3
Clearing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
5.2.13
Updating the NIC configuration file in a Linux environment . . . 97
5.2.14
Enabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
5.2.15
Performing a RAID array rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.2.16
Looking up changed MAC / WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.2.16.1
Looking up MAC addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.2.16.2
Looking up WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
5.2.17
Using the Chassis ID Prom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.2.18
Configuring LAN teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.2.18.1
After replacing / upgrading LAN/CNA controllers . . . . . . 102
5.2.18.2
After replacing the server blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.2.19
Switching off the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
6
Solid state drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
6.1
Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
6.2
Overview of the disk mounting kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
6.3
Installing SSD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
6.3.1
Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
6.3.2
Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
6.3.3
Locations of the drives inside the server blade . . . . . . . . . 108
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