Installing an SSD expansion card

Use this information to install an SSD expansion card.

1. Before you begin, read Safety and Installation guidelines.
2. If the blade server or scalable blade complex is installed in a BladeCenter chassis, remove it. See Removing the blade server from the BladeCenter chassis for instructions.
3. Carefully lay the blade server on a flat, static-protective surface.
4. If you are installing the SSD expansion card in a blade server that is the bottom blade server in an existing scalable blade complex, disassemble the blade complex (see Disassembling a scalable blade complex for instructions).
5. If an optional expansion unit is installed, remove the expansion unit (see Removing an expansion unit for instructions).
   Note: Optional expansion units are not supported when a IBM MAX5 expansion blade is installed.
6. If an IBM MAX5 expansion blade is installed, remove it (see Removing an IBM MAX5 expansion blade for instructions).
7. Open the blade server cover (see Removing the blade server cover for instructions).
8. If a CFFh expansion card is installed, remove it (see Removing a CFFh expansion card for instructions).
9. Insert the back of the SSD expansion card into the expansion-card standoffs on the blade server and rotate the expansion card down toward the system board.
   Note: The expansion card standoff in the middle of the blade server has two slots. The top slot is for the CFFh expansion card. Be sure to insert the SSD expansion card into the bottom slot of the expansion-card standoff that is located in the middle of the blade server.
10. Carefully push down on the SSD expansion card (pressing on the blue label) until the expansion card is seated.
    Note: Make sure that the expansion card lever is in the closed position.

    
    
    
11. Install the CFFh expansion card, if you removed one from the blade server (see Installing a CFFh expansion card for instructions).
12. If the blade server is part of a scalable blade complex, assemble the scalable blade complex (see Assembling a scalable blade complex for instructions).
13. Install the IBM MAX5 expansion blade if you removed one (see Installing an IBM MAX5 expansion blade for instructions).
14. Install the optional expansion unit, if you removed one from the blade server (see Installing an expansion unit for instructions).
15. Install the cover onto the blade server (see Installing the blade server cover for instructions).
16. Install the blade server or scalable blade complex into the BladeCenter chassis (see Installing a blade server in a BladeCenter chassis for instructions).