Care must be taken during the installation of all components as failure to follow installation procedures may result in component malfunction and bodily injury.
Note
UCS chassis don'ts:
Do not try to lift even the empty chassis alone. At least two people are required to handle a UCS chassis. Do not handle internal components such as CPU, RAM, and mezzanine cards without an ESD field kit.
Physical installation is divided into three sections:
- Blade server component (CPU, memory, hard drives, and mezzanine card) installation
- Chassis and component (blade servers, IOMs, fan units, and power supplies) installation
- Fabric Interconnect installation and physical cabling
Cisco UCS blade servers are designed with industry-standard components with some enhancements. Anyone with prior server installation experience should be comfortable installing internal components using guidelines provided in the blade server's manual and following standard safety...