Dell PowerEdge C8000 User manual

Dell PowerEdge C8220X
Hardware Owner’s
Manual
Regulatory Model: B06B
Regulatory Type: B06B001

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Regulatory Model B06B
Regulatory Type: B06B001
2012 - 08 P/N XXXXX Rev. A00

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Contents
1 About Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Accessing System Features During Startup. . . . . . . 13
Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 14
NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Management Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Non-Central Independent Mode . . . . . . . . . . 20
Non-Central Consolidated Mode . . . . . . . . . . 22
Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Hot-Plug Hard-Drive Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 24
Sled Hard-Drive LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Power and System Board Indicator Codes . . . . . . . 26
BMC Heartbeat Indicator Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Service Tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
POST Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Collecting System Event Log for
Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
System Event Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Processor Error. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Memory Ecc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
PCIe Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
IOH Core Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SB Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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POST Start Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
POST End Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
POST Error Code Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
BIOS Recovery Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
ME Fail Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SEL Generator ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
BMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
2 Using the System Setup Program . . . . . 55
System Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
System Setup Options at Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using the System Setup Program Navigation
Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
General Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Console Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Enabling and Configuring Console
Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
System Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Advanced Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
CPU Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Memory Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
SATA Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
PCI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
USB Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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Security Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Server Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
View System Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Boot Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Exit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Command Line Interfaces for System Setup
Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
IPMI Command List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Power Management Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . 135
Safety Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Sled Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Sled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Removing a Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Installing a Sled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Sled Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Removing a Sled Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Installing a Sled Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Hard-Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Hard-Drive Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Front-Access Hard-Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 146

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Installing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . 147
Installing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . 148
Removing a Hard-Drive From
a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Hard-Drive Cage Hard-Drives . . . . . . . . . . 150
Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier
Located on the Sled Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Installing a Hard-Drive Carrier
on the Sled Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Removing a Hard-Drive From
a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Installing a Hard-Drive Into
a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Internal Hard-Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier
Located on the Sled Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Installing a Hard-Drive Carrier
on the Sled Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Removing a Hard-Drive From
a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Installing a Hard-Drive Into
a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Removing the Hard-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . 158
Installing the Hard-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . 159
SD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Removing a SD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Installing a SD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Sled Covers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Removing the Front and Back Sled
Covers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Installing the Front and Back Sled
Covers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Removing the Sled Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

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Installing the Sled Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Hot-Plug Hard-Drive Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Removing the Hot-Plug Hard-Drive
Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Installing the Hot-Plug Hard-Drive
Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Hard-Drive LED Board Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Removing the Hard-Drive LED Board
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Installing the Hard-Drive LED Board
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Removing the Hard-Drive LED Board. . . . . . . . 175
Installing the Hard-Drive LED Board . . . . . . . . 176
Removing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Installing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Removing the MegaRAID SAS 9265-8i
Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Installing the MegaRAID SAS 9268-8i
Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Expansion Card Risers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Removing the Expansion Card Risers . . . . . . . 185
Installing the Expansion Card Risers . . . . . . . . 186
GPGPU Card Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Removing the Front GPGPU Card
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Installing the Front GPGPU Card
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Removing the Back GPGPU Card
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Installing the Back GPGPU Card
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

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Removing the NVIDIA Tesla M2090
GPGPU Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Installing the NVIDIA Tesla M2090
GPGPU Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
GPGPU Card Risers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Removing the Front GPGPU Card Riser. . . . . . 202
Installing the Front GPGPU Card Riser . . . . . . 203
Removing the Back GPGPU Card Riser. . . . . . 204
Installing the Back GPGPU Card Riser . . . . . . 205
Hard-Drive Cage Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Removing the 2.5-inch Hard-Drive
Cage Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Installing the 2.5-inch Hard-Drive
Cage Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Removing the 3.5-inch Hard-Drive
Cage Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Installing the 3.5-inch Hard-Drive
Cage Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . 210
Installing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Removing a Heat Sink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Installing a Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Installing a Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Memory Module Installation Guidelines . . . . . 218
Supported DIMM Configuration . . . . . . . . . 219
Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . 221

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Installing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Mezzanine Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Removing the SAS Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . . 223
Installing the SAS Mezzanine Card. . . . . . . . . 229
Removing the Infiniband Mezzanine Card . . . . . 229
Installing the Infiniband Mezzanine Card . . . . . 232
Removing the 10 GbE Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . 233
Installing the 10 GbE Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . 236
SD Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Removing the SD Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Installing the SD Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Removing the SD Card Reader Support
Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Installing the SD Card Reader Support
Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Removing the Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . . 242
Installing the Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . . 243
BMC Management Cable (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . 244
Removing the BMC Management Cable . . . . . . 244
Installing the BMC Management Cable . . . . . . 245
Node Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Removing the Node Power Distribution
Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Installing the Node Power Distribution
Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Removing the Node Power Distribution
Board Located on the Sled Cover . . . . . . . . . 248
Installing the Node Power Distribution
Board on the Sled Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

10 Contents
System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Removing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 252
Installing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 253
System Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Installing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . 256
4 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . 259
Installation Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Troubleshooting System Startup Failure. . . . . . . . 260
Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 260
Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem. . . . . . . . . 260
Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device. . . . . . . . . . 261
Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Troubleshooting a Wet Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Troubleshooting a Damaged Enclosure . . . . . . . . 264
Troubleshooting the Enclosure Fan Modules . . . . . 265
Troubleshooting the Power Sled . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Troubleshooting a Hard-Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . 270