System reliability guidelines

To help make sure that proper cooling and system reliability requirements are met, review the following guidelines:

• To ensure proper cooling, do not operate the BladeCenter® unit without a blade server, expansion unit, or blade filler installed in each blade-server bay. See the documentation for your BladeCenter unit for additional information.
• Each microprocessor socket always contains either a microprocessor dust cover and heat sink filler or a microprocessor and heat sink. If the blade server has only one microprocessor, it must be installed in microprocessor socket 1.
• Each DIMM socket always contains a memory module or filler.
• Make sure that the ventilation holes on the blade server are not blocked.
• The blade server battery must be operational. If the battery becomes defective, replace it immediately.