Installing blade servers into a chassis

The installation and removal of half-width and full-width blade servers is almost identical, with the only difference being that there's one ejector arm in a half-width blade server, whereas in a full-width blade server, there are two ejector arms. Only the B460 M4 blade server requires two full-width slots in the chassis with an additional Scalability Connector to connect two B260 M4 blade servers and allow them to function as a single server. The bottom blade in this pair serves as the master and top blade as slave. The process is as follows:

1. Make sure you are wearing an ESD wrist wrap grounded to the chassis.
2. Open the ejector arm for a half-width blade or both ejector arms for a full-width blade.
3. Push the blade into the slot. Once it's firmly in, close the ejector arm on the face of server and hand-tighten the screw.

The removal of a blade server is the reverse of the preceding process.

In order to install a full-width blade, it is necessary to remove the central pider. This can be done with a Philips-head screw driver to push two clips, one downward and the other upward, and sliding the pider out of the chassis.