Servicing a Blade Server
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Replacing a Drive, on page 1
• Removing a Blade Server Cover, on page 4
• Air Baffles, on page 5
• Internal Components, on page 5
• Diagnostics Button and LEDs, on page 6
• Installing a CMOS Battery, on page 7
• Installing the FlexStorage Module, on page 8
• Upgrading to Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 CPUs, on page 9
• Removing a Heat Sink and CPU, on page 10
• Installing a New CPU and Heat Sink, on page 11
• Installing Memory, on page 14
• Installing a Virtual Interface Card Adapter, on page 17
• Installing an Adapter Card in Addition to the VIC mLOM Adapter, on page 18
• Installing the NVIDIA M6 GPU Adapter Card, on page 19
• Enabling the Trusted Platform Module, on page 22
Replacing a Drive
The Cisco UCS B200 M4 blade server uses an optional Cisco UCS FlexStorage modular storage subsystem
that can provide support for two drive bays and RAID controller, or NVMe-based PCIe SSD support
functionality. If you purchased the UCS B200 M4 blade server without the modular storage system configured
as a part of the system, a pair of blanking panels may be in place. These panels should be removed before
installing hard drives, but should remain in place to ensure proper cooling and ventilation if the drive bays
are unused.
You can remove and install hard drives without removing the blade server from the chassis.
The drives supported in this blade server come with the hot-plug drive sled attached. Empty hot-plug drive
sled carriers (containing no drives) are not sold separately from the drives. A list of currently supported drives
is in the Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server Specification Sheet.
Before upgrading or adding a drive to a running blade server, check in the service profile and make sure the
new hardware configuration will be within the parameters allowed by the service profile.
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