Dell Poweredge c8000 User manual

Dell PowerEdge C8220X

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model: B06B

Regulatory Type: B06B001

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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Regulatory Model B06B

Regulatory Type: B06B001

2012 - 08 P/N XXXXX Rev. A00

Contents 3

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

4Contents

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

Contents 5

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

6Contents

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

Contents 7

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

8Contents

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

Contents 9

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

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