System information

Upgrade and Maintenance Manual RX2520 M1
Contents
9 Expansion cards and backup units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
9.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
9.2 Handling slot brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
9.2.1 Installing a slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
9.2.1.1 Installing a standard slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
9.2.1.2 Installing a slot bracket to the Network adapter D2755 . . . 155
9.2.1.3 Installing a slot bracket to the USB 3.0 interface card D3305 . .
157
9.2.2 Removing a slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
9.3 Expansion cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
9.3.1 Installing expansion cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
9.3.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
9.3.1.2 Removing the slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
9.3.1.3 Installing an expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
9.3.1.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
9.3.2 Removing expansion cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
9.3.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
9.3.2.2 Removing an expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
9.3.2.3 Installing a PCI slot bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
9.3.2.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
9.3.3 Replacing expansion cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
9.3.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
9.3.3.2 Removing an expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
9.3.3.3 Installing an expansion card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
9.3.3.4 Connecting cables to the expansion card . . . . . . . . . . 166
9.3.3.5 Connecting a battery backup unit to the expansion card . . 166
9.3.3.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
9.4 SAS RAID controller in PCI slot 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
9.4.1 Installing the SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
9.4.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
9.4.1.2 Preparing the SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
9.4.1.3 Installing the SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
9.4.1.4 Connecting cables to the expansion card . . . . . . . . . . 169
9.4.1.5 Connecting a backup unit to the expansion card . . . . . . 169
9.4.1.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
9.4.2 Removing the SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
9.4.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
9.4.2.2 Removing the SAS RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
9.4.2.3 Removing the SAS RAID card holder . . . . . . . . . . . . 171