User guide

Contents 4
Drive installation guidelines ............................................................................................................... 30
Installing a non-hot-plug drive ............................................................................................................ 30
Installing a hot-plug drive .................................................................................................................. 32
Drive cage options ..................................................................................................................................... 33
Four-bay LFF hot-plug drive backplane option ...................................................................................... 33
Eight-bay SFF hot-plug drive cage option ............................................................................................ 37
Controller options ....................................................................................................................................... 39
Installing a storage controller ............................................................................................................. 39
Installing the FBWC module and capacitor pack ................................................................................. 40
Optical drive option ................................................................................................................................... 42
Memory options ......................................................................................................................................... 44
HP SmartMemory ............................................................................................................................. 45
DIMM identification .......................................................................................................................... 45
Single-rank and dual-rank DIMMs ...................................................................................................... 46
Memory subsystem architecture ......................................................................................................... 46
ECC memory ................................................................................................................................... 46
General DIMM slot population guidelines ........................................................................................... 47
Installing a DIMM ............................................................................................................................. 47
Expansion board options ............................................................................................................................ 48
Dedicated iLO management port option ....................................................................................................... 52
Enabling the dedicated iLO management port ..................................................................................... 53
HP Trusted Platform Module option .............................................................................................................. 54
Installing the Trusted Platform Module board ....................................................................................... 54
Retaining the recovery key/password ................................................................................................. 56
Enabling the Trusted Platform Module ................................................................................................. 56
RPS enablement option ............................................................................................................................... 57
Cabling ..................................................................................................................................... 61
Cabling overview ....................................................................................................................................... 61
Storage cabling ......................................................................................................................................... 61
Four-bay LFF drive cabling ................................................................................................................ 61
Eight-bay SFF drive cabling ............................................................................................................... 63
Media drive cabling ................................................................................................................................... 64
Power supply cabling ................................................................................................................................. 65
Nonredundant power supply cabling ................................................................................................. 65
Redundant power supply cabling ....................................................................................................... 65
Capacitor pack cabling .............................................................................................................................. 66
Software and configuration utilities ............................................................................................... 67
Server mode .............................................................................................................................................. 67
Server QuickSpecs ..................................................................................................................................... 67
HP iLO Management Engine ....................................................................................................................... 67
HP iLO ............................................................................................................................................ 67
Intelligent Provisioning ...................................................................................................................... 69
HP Insight Remote Support software ................................................................................................... 71
Scripting Toolkit ............................................................................................................................... 71
HP Service Pack for ProLiant ........................................................................................................................ 72
HP Smart Update Manager ............................................................................................................... 72
HP ROM-Based Setup Utility ........................................................................................................................ 72
Using RBSU ..................................................................................................................................... 73
Auto-configuration process ................................................................................................................ 73
Boot options .................................................................................................................................... 74
Re-entering the server serial number and product ID ............................................................................. 74
Utilities and features ................................................................................................................................... 74