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Sun Fire X4640 Server Service Manual Overview
Controlling Power and Performing Hardware Reset
Powering the Server On and Off
Controlling Server Power Remotely
Resetting the Server Using the Reset Switch (SW2)
Removing and Installing Components
Antistatic Procedures and Precautions
Tools Required for Servicing the Sun Fire X4640 Server
Preparing the Server for Service and Operation
Removal and Replacement Procedures
List of Customer Replaceable Units and Field Replaceable Units
Replacing the CMOS Battery (CRU)
Replacing a CPU Module and Filler Card (CRU)
Replacing or Adding DIMMs (CRU)
Replacing or Adding PCI Cards (CRU)
Replacing or Adding a Power Supply (CRU)
Replacing the Service Processor Board (FRU)
Replacing the DVD Module (FRU)
Replacing the Power Distribution Board (FRU)
Replacing the Fan Tray Carriage (FRU)
Replacing the Front Panel Indicator Board (FRU)
Replacing the Front I/O Board (FRU)
Replacing a Hard Disk Backplane (FRU)
Replacing the Motherboard (FRU)
Updating Field-Replaceable Unit Information
How to Update the Server CPLDs
Configuring the System Using the BIOS Setup Utilities
BIOS and the BIOS Setup Utility
How to Configure the System BIOS
BIOS and Service Processor Updates
LSI BIOS Configuration Utility
Sun Fire X4640 Server References and Specifications
Sun Fire X4640 Server Features and Components
Sun Fire X4640 Server Front and Back Panel Features and Components
Sun Fire X4640 Server Specifications
Sun Fire X4640 Server Motherboard Jumpers and Switches
Sun Fire X4640 Server External LED Locations and Meanings
Note - If your server has fewer than four hard drives, the empty drive bays must have hard drive fillers installed to ensure proper air flow and server cooling.
Hard drives for the Sun Fire X4640 server are hot-swappable. You can replace hard drives without powering off the server. A single hard drive failure will not cause a data loss if the hard drives are configured as a mirrored RAID 1 volume. The failed hard drive can be hot-swapped, and when a new hard drive is inserted, the contents are automatically rebuilt from the rest of the array with no need to reconfigure the RAID parameters. If the hard drive was configured as a hot-spare, the new hard drive is automatically configured as a new hot-spare to mirror the data from the good hard drive.
However, if you insert a hard drive that was configured with a RAID volume into a server that did not previously have its hard drives configured with RAID volumes, the existing hard drives in the server are converted to RAID volumes during automatic synchronization and data on the existing hard drives are lost. To avoid this problem, use the LSI Configuration Utility to delete the RAID volume from the hard drive before removing it.
For information about the implementation and configuration of RAID on this server, see LSI BIOS Configuration Utility.