Dell Poweredge c8220 User manual

Dell PowerEdge C8220

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model: B05B

Regulatory Type: B05B001

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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Regulatory Model B05B

Regulatory Type: B05B001

2014 - 01 P/N XXXXX Rev. A05

Contents 3

Contents

1 About Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Accessing System Features During Startup. . . . . . . 11

Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 12

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Management Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Non-Central Independent Mode . . . . . . . . . . 16

Non-Central Consolidated Mode . . . . . . . . . . 18

Power and System Board Indicator Codes . . . . . . . 21

BMC Heartbeat Indicator Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Service Tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

POST Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Collecting System Event Log for

Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

System Event Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Processor Error. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Memory Ecc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

PCIe Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

IOH Core Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

SB Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

POST Start Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

POST End Event. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

POST Error Code Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

4Contents

BIOS Recovery Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

ME Fail Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

SEL Generator ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

BMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

2 Using the System Setup Program . . . . . 49

System Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

System Setup Options at Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using the System Setup Program Navigation Keys . . . 50

General Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Console Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Enabling and Configuring Console Redirection. . . 51

Serial Port Connection List . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

System Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Advanced Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

CPU Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Memory Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

SATA Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

PCI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

USB Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Security Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Contents 5

Server Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

View System Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Boot Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Exit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Command Line Interfaces for System Setup

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

IPMI Command List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Power Management Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . 139

Safety Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

About the Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Sled Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Sled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Removing a Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Installing a Sled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Sled Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Removing a Single-Wide Sled Blank . . . . . . . . 144

Installing a Single-Wide Sled Blank . . . . . . . . 145

Removing a Double-Wide Sled Blank . . . . . . . 146

Installing a Double-Wide Sled Blank . . . . . . . . 146

6Contents

MicroSD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Removing a MicroSD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Installing a MicroSD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Sled Covers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Removing the Front Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Installing the Front Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Removing the Back Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Installing the Back Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . 151

Installing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Removing a Heat Sink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Installing a Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Heat Sink Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Removing a Heat Sink Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Installing a Heat Sink Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Installing a Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Memory Module Installation Guidelines . . . . . 160

Supported DIMM Configuration . . . . . . . . . 161

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Installing Memory Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Expansion Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Removing the Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . 165

Installing the Expansion Card. . . . . . . . . . . 166

Contents 7

Removing the RAID Controller Card . . . . . . . . 167

Installing the RAID Controller Card. . . . . . . . . 168

RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Removing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Installing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Removing the RAID Battery Holder. . . . . . . . . 172

Installing the RAID Battery Holder . . . . . . . . . 174

Expansion Card Riser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Removing the Expansion Card Riser . . . . . . . . 174

Installing the Expansion Card Riser . . . . . . . . 175

Mezzanine Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Removing the Infiniband Mezzanine Card . . . . . 176

Installing the Infiniband Mezzanine Card . . . . . 179

Removing the 10 GbE Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . 180

Installing the 10 GbE Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . 182

MicroSD Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Removing the MicroSD Card Reader. . . . . . . . 183

Installing the MicroSD Card Reader . . . . . . . . 185

Removing the MicroSD Card Reader

Support Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Installing the MicroSD Card Reader

Support Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Internal Hard-Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . 188

Installing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Removing a Hard-Drive From the

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Installing a Hard-Drive Into a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Removing the Hard-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Installing the Hard-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . . 192

8Contents

Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Removing the Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . 192

Installing the Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . 194

BMC Management Cable (Optional). . . . . . . . . . 194

Removing the BMC Management Cable . . . . . 195

Installing the BMC Management Cable . . . . . 196

Node Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Removing the Node Power Distribution

Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Installing the Node Power Distribution

Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Removing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 199

Installing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 200

System Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Installing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . 205

4 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . 209

Installation Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure. . . . . . . . 210

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 210

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem. . . . . . . . . 210

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device. . . . . . . . . . 211

Contents 9

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Troubleshooting a Wet Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Troubleshooting a Damaged Enclosure . . . . . . . . . 214

Troubleshooting the Power Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Troubleshooting a Hard-Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . . 218

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Troubleshooting Processors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Identifying System Board Model Number . . . . . . . . 221

Troubleshooting the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Troubleshooting the System Battery. . . . . . . . . . . 222

IRQ Assignment Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

5 Jumpers and Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 225

System Board Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

System Board Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

System Board V1.0 Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . 226

System Board V1.1 Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . 227

System Board V1.2 Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . 229

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

System Board V1.0 Connectors . . . . . . . . . . 231

System Board V1.1 Connectors . . . . . . . . . . 232

System Board V1.2 Connectors . . . . . . . . . . 234

10 Contents

Expansion Card Riser Connector . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Interposer Extender Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Interposer Extender Types . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

MicroSD Card Reader Connectors . . . . . . . . . . 239

Node Power Distribution Board Connectors . . . . . 240

6 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

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