Fujitsu Primergy CX250 S2 User manual

Operating Manual - English
PRIMERGY CX250 S2
Server Node
Operating Manual
Edition July 2013

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CX250 S2 Operating Manual
Before reading this manual
For your safety
This manual contains important information for safely and correctly using this
product.
Carefully read the manual before using this product. Pay particular attention to
the accompanying manual "Safety Notes and Regulations" and ensure these
safety notes are understood before using the product. Keep this manual and the
manual "Safety Notes and Regulations" in a safe place for easy reference while
using this product.
Radio interference
This product is a "Class A" ITE (Information Technology Equipment). In a
domestic environment this product may cause radio interference, in which case
the user may be required to take appropriate measures. VCCI-A
Aluminum electrolytic capacitors
The aluminum electrolytic capacitors used in the product's printed circuit board
assemblies and in the mouse and keyboard are limited-life components. Use of
these components beyond their operating life may result in electrolyte leakage
or depletion, potentially causing emission of foul odor or smoke.
As a guideline, in a normal office environment (25°C) operating life is not
expected to be reached within the maintenance support period (5 years).
However, operating life may be reached more quickly if, for example, the
product is used in a hot environment. The customer shall bear the cost of
replacing replaceable components which have exceeded their operating life.
Note that these are only guidelines, and do not constitute a guarantee of
trouble-free operation during the maintenance support period.
High safety use
This product has been designed and manufactured to be used in commercial
and/or industrial areas as a server.
When used as visual display workplace, it must not be placed in the direct field
of view to avoid incommoding reflections (applies only to TX server systems).
The device has not been designed or manufactured for uses which demand an
extremely high level of safety and carry a direct and serious risk of life or body
if such safety cannot be assured.

Operating Manual CX250 S2
These uses include control of nuclear reactions in nuclear power plants,
automatic airplane flight control, air traffic control, traffic control in mass
transport systems, medical devices for life support, and missile guidance
control in weapons systems (hereafter, "high safety use"). Customers should
not use this product for high safety use unless measures are in place for
ensuring the level of safety demanded of such use. Please consult the sales
staff of Fujitsu if intending to use this product for high safety use.
Measures against momentary voltage drop
This product may be affected by a momentary voltage drop in the power supply
caused by lightning. To prevent a momentary voltage drop, use of an AC
uninterruptible power supply is recommended.
(This notice follows the guidelines of Voltage Dip Immunity of Personal
Computer issued by JEITA, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology
Industries Association.)
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Control Law of Japan
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the above law.
Harmonic Current Standards
This product conforms to harmonic current standard JIS C 61000-3-2.
Only for the Japanese market:
About SATA hard disk drives
The SATA version of this server supports hard disk drives with SATA / BC-SATA
storage interfaces. Please note that the usage and operation conditions differ
depending on the type of hard disk drive used.
Please refer to the following internet address for further information on the
usage and operation conditions of each available type of hard disk drive:
http://jp.fujitsu.com/platform/server/primergy/harddisk/

CX250 S2 Operating Manual
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.1 Concept and target groups for this manual . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2 Documentation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.3 Notational conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2 Functional overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.1 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.2 Server node specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3 Installation steps, overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4 Important information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.1 Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.2 CE conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.3 FCC Class A Compliance Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.4 Transporting the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.5 Environmental protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
5 Hardware installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.1 Unpacking the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.2 Installing an additional server node to the server enclosure 35
5.3 Connecting devices to the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
5.4 Notes on connecting/disconnecting cables . . . . . . . . . 39

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6 Starting up and operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
6.1 Controls and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
6.1.1 Controls of the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
6.1.1.1 Control elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
6.1.1.2 Indicators on the control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
6.1.1.3 LAN indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6.2 Switching the server node on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6.3 Configuring the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.3.1 Configuring the onboard SATA controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.3.2 Configuring the SAS/SATA RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.3.3 Operating system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
6.4 Cleaning the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
7 Property and data protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
7.1 BIOS Setup security functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
8 Troubleshooting and tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
8.1 Power-on indicator remains unlit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
8.2 Server node switches itself off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
8.3 Screen remains blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
8.4 Flickering stripes on monitor screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
8.5 No screen display or display drifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
8.6 Incorrect date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
8.7 System will not boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
8.8 Error message on screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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1 Introduction
Four PRIMERGY CX250 S2 server nodes, each in a half-wide, 1U form-factor,
are embedded as a set into a single 2U PRIMERGY CX400 Multi-Node server
enclosure, thus providing an aggregated scale-out performance of a total of 8
CPUs of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600v2 product family. The dual
socket server nodes combine high performance and attractive purchase costs
with high energy efficiency while coming without any local fans or power supply
units. With up to 16 high bandwidth memory modules for up to 1024 GB capacity
and two top-bin CPUs out of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600v2 family,
CX250 S2 server nodes have a great versatility to match very ambitious server
profiles and workload scenarios. Two main usage scenarios are high
performance computing and virtual client computing, the latter utilizing e. g.
Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View Premier, or Microsoft Windows VDS as
enabling software bases.
Besides two onboard 1 GbE ports, two PCIe Gen3 I/O slots are provided, one
for an x8 mezzanine card and the other for an x16 low profile card. Diverse
interfaces from 1 to 10 Gb Ethernet, 10 Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet, up to
56 Gb FDR Infiniband may be used with LP cards, while the mezzanine slot
either holds a 10 GbE or a RAID controller.
Access to local storage drives is granted by assignment of up to six HDDs or
SSDs that are physically located in the PRIMERGY CX400 server enclosure.
Four SATA drives can flexibly be accessed via onboard controller with software
RAID 0, 1 (six w/o RAID); more drives, SAS drives, or additional RAID 5 is
realized via mezzanine card with cache and optional BBU. Local system boot
for VMware ESXi is possible via USB Flash Module.
The highly compact server node occupies one height unit (HU) in the server
enclosure.

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1.1 Concept and target groups for this manual
This operating manual describes how to install, set up and operate your server
node.
This operating manual is intended for those responsible for installing the
hardware and ensuring that the system runs smoothly. It contains all the
information you need to put your PRIMERGY CX250 S2 server node into
operation.
To understand the various expansion options, you will need to be familiar with
the fields of hardware and data transmission and you will require a basic
knowledge of the underlying operating system.

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Introduction
1.2 Documentation overview
More information on your PRIMERGY CX250 S2 server node can be found in
the following documents:
– "Quick Start Hardware - PRIMERGY CX250 S2 Server Node"
– "Quick Start Software - Quick Installation Guide"
– "Safety Notes and Regulations" manual
"安全上のご注意 " for the Japanese market
– "Warranty" manual
"保証書 " for the Japanese market
– "Returning used devices" manual and "Service Desk" leaflet
"サポート＆サービス " for the Japanese market
– "PRIMERGY CX250 S2 Server Node Upgrade and Maintenance Manual"
– "D3196-B100 BIOS Setup Utility for PRIMERGY CX250 S2 Server Node
Reference Manual"
Further information
The PRIMERGY CX250 S2 Server Node is a multi-node system. For
information on the server enclosure please refer to the following manuals:
– PRIMERGY CX400 S2 Server Enclosure Operating Manual
– PRIMERGY CX400 S2 Server Enclosure Upgrade and Maintenance
manual
IAll documentation on PRIMERGY hardware and ServerView software is
available online from the Fujitsu manuals server at:
–http://manuals.ts.fujitsu.com (global market)
–http://jp.fujitsu.com/platform/server/primergy/manual (Japanese market)
The complete PRIMERGY documentation set can also be downloaded
as a DVD ISO image at:
–ftp://ftp.ts.fujitsu.com/images/serverview/manuals (global market)
–http://jp.fujitsu.com/primergy/downloads (Japanese market)

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IFor the Japanese market:
Before using the product, please check for additional information that
may be available under the following URL:
http://jp.fujitsu.com/platform/server/primergy/products/note/
Further sources of information:
– ServerView Suite Glossary
– Manual for the monitor
– Documentation for the boards and drives
– Operating system documentation
– Information files in your operating system
1.3 Notational conventions
The following notational conventions are used in this manual:
Text in italics indicates commands or menu items.
"Quotation marks" indicate names of chapters and terms that are being
emphasized.
Êdescribes activities that must be performed in the order
shown.
VCAUTION! pay particular attention to texts marked with this symbol.
Failure to observe this warning may endanger your life,
destroy the system or lead to the loss of data.
Iindicates additional information, notes and tips.

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2 Functional overview
2.1 Features
This section provides information on the features and technical data of the
PRIMERGY CX250 S2 Server Node. For information on key characteristics and
layout of the system board, see "PRIMERGY CX250 S2 Server Node Upgrade
and Maintenance Manual".
System board
The features of the system board are described in the "D3196-B100 BIOS
Setup Utility for PRIMERGY CX250 S2 Reference Manual" for the firmware.
Slots for expansion cards
The server node can be flexibly expanded via riser card for PCIe 3.0 x16.
Onboard SATA controller
A SATA controller is integrated on the system board; up to four SATA hard disk
drives can be connected to the controller. The LSI Embedded MegaRAID
software (SATA Software RAID) supports RAID levels 0, 1 and 10.
For more information on configuring the controller, see section "Configuring the
SAS/SATA RAID controller" on page 47.
SAS/SATA RAID controller
The server node is available with the following SAS/SATA RAID controllers for
operating the internal SAS/SATA hard disk drives:
– Modular RAID 5/6 controller with "MegaRAID functionality"
(SAS MegaRAID) for SAS1.0 and SAS2.0
RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 1E and 5 are supported for internal hard disk drive
configurations.
IFor more information on configuring the controller, see section
"Configuring the SAS/SATA RAID controller" on page 47.

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Further information on SAS/SATA RAID controllers is provided in the
"Modular RAID Controller Installation Guide" (on the Fujitsu manuals
server under Industry Standard Servers - Expansion Cards - Storage Adapters
- LSI SAS / SCSI RAID Controllers).
Further information on other SAS/SATA RAID controllers (e.g. for
operating external SAS/SATA hard disk drives or tape drives) is available
on the Fujitsu manuals server under Industry Standard Servers - Expansion
Cards - Storage Adapters - LSI SAS / SCSI RAID Controllers.
USB connectors
The two USB connectors of the server node support activities carried out by the
service technician. The maximum length of the external cable are three meters.
High level of availability and data security
When memory data is accessed, 1-bit errors are identified in the main memory
and automatically corrected with the error correcting code (ECC) method.
A RAID controller supports different RAID levels and increase the availability
and data security of the system.
The hot-plug HDD modules provide additional availability.
BMC (Baseboard Management Controller)
In a server system, BMC is an independent system of host server system. This
independent system has its own processor and memory; the host system can
be managed by this BMC system even if host hardware or OS hang or went
down.
Major functions supported by the BMC include the following:
●Browser access via BMC-s own Web server
●Support of IPMI v1.5 and v2.0
●Out-of-band monitoring and control for sever management over LAN
●Share NIC for remote management via network
●FRU information report includes main board part number, product name,
and manufacturer, etc.
●Health status/hardware monitoring report
●Events log, view, and clear

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●Platform Event Filtering (PEF) to take selected action for selected events,
including NMI
●Watchdog and auto server re-start and recovery
●Support of multi-session user, and alert destination for LAN channel

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2.2 Server node specification
This section explains the specifications for the server node. The specifications
for this server node are liable to be updated without any notice. Please be
forewarned.
System Board
Processor
Memory Modules Configuration
Interfaces
System board type D3196-B100
Chipset Intel®C600
Processor quantity and
type
2 x Intel®Xeon®processor E5-2600v2 product
family
Memory slots 16 (4 channels per CPU with 8 DIMMs per CPU = 16
DIMM in total)
Memory slot type DDR3 (uDIMM, regDIMM, LR-DIMM)
Memory capacity
(min. - max.)
32 GB - 1024 GB
Memory protection Advanced ECC; SDDC (only for registered DIMMs)
Memory notes Supports uDIMM, regDIMM and LR-DIMM
USB connectors 2 x USB 2.0
Graphics (15-pin) 1 x VGA (1 x rear)
Serial connector 1 x serial RS-232-C
LAN / Ethernet (RJ-45) 2x Gbit/s Ethernet + 1x 100Mbit Management LAN
Onboard
Management LAN
(RJ45)
Management LAN traffic can be switched to shared
onboard Gbit LAN port

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Onboard or integrated controllers
Slots
Drives
Operating Panel
LAN Controller Intel® Ethernet Controller I350, 2 x 10/100/1000
Mbit/s Ethernet (TCP/IP acceleration)
Remote Management
Controller
Baseboard management controller (BMC), IPMI 2.0
compatible
SATA Controller Intel®C600, for 4x SATA HDD Non-Raid or 4x SATA
HDD SW Raid 0/1
Mezzanine Cards Ethernet Mezzanine Card 2 x 10 Gb, PCIe Gen2 x8
SAS HBA Mezzanine Card 8 ports int. x 6 Gb, PCIe
Gen2 x8
PCI-Express 3.0 x16 1x via riser card
PCI-Express 3.0 x16 1x CX Mezzanine card
Hard disk bays 6x 2.5-inch or 3x 3.5-inch
Operating buttons ID (blue)
On/Off (green/orange)
Operating LEDs On/Off (green)
System status (green)
LAN speed (green / yellow)
LAN connection (green)
Identification (blue)

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Dimensions / Weight
Ambient conditions
Condensation during operation must be avoided!
Rack (W x D x H) 165.1 mm (bezel) / 492.25 mm (body) x 59.44 mm
Mounting depth rack 492.25 mm
Height unit rack 2 U
19" rackmount Yes
Mounting cable
depth rack
200 mm (1000 mm rack recommended)
Weight 4 kg (full populated incl. mezzanine + 1 x PCI ctrl.)
SKD: 2 kg
Weight notes actual weight may vary depending on configuration
Rack mounting kit rack mounting kit as option;
the rack mounting kit is standard for the Japanese
market
Environment class 3K2
Environment class 2K2
EN 60721 / IEC 721 Part 3-3
EN 60721 / IEC 721 Part 3-2
Temperature:
Operation (3K2) 10 °C ... +35 °C
Transport (2K2) -25 °C ... +60 °C
Humidity 10% ... 85% (non condensing)

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Compliance with regulations and standards
Product safety and ergonomics
International IEC 60950-1 2ed.
Europe
Safety EN 60950-1 2ed.
EN 50371
EN 50392
Ergonomics ISO 9241-3
EN 2941-3
EK1-ITB 2003:2007
USA / Canada CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1-07 2ed.
UL 60950-1 2ed.
Taiwan CNS 14336
China GB 4943
Electromagnetic compatibility
International CISPR 22
Europe EN 55022 Class A
EN 55024
EN 61000-3-2
EN 61000-3-3
ETSI 300386
USA / Canada 47CFR part 15 Class A / ICES-003
Taiwan CNS 13438 Class A
China GB 9245 / GB 17625
Japan VCCI Class A / JEITA
Korea KN 22 / KN 24
CE marking to EU
directives
Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC
Electromagnetic compatibility 2004/108/EC

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3 Installation steps, overview
This chapter contains an overview of the steps necessary to install your server
node. Links take you to sections where you can find more detailed information
about the respective steps:
ÊFirst of all, carefully read the safety instructions in "Important information" on
page 21.
ÊTransport the server node to the place where you want to set it up.
ÊUnpack the system, check the contents of the package for visible transport
damage and check whether the items delivered match the details on the
delivery note (see section "Unpacking the server node" on page 34).
ÊMake sure that you have all necessary manuals (see "Documentation
overview" on page 9); print out the PDF files if required.
ÊComponents that have been ordered additionally may be delivered loose
with the server node. For mounting refer to the original component
documentation.
ÊWire the server node. Follow the instructions in sections "Connecting
devices to the server node" on page 37 and "Notes on
connecting/disconnecting cables" on page 39.
ÊFamiliarize yourself with the controls and indicators on the front and rear of
the server node (see section "Controls and indicators" on page 41).

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ÊConfigure the server node and install the desired operating system and
applications. The following options are available:
– Remote installation with the ServerView Installation Manager:
With the ServerView Suite DVD provided, you can configure the server
node and install the operating system in a convenient manner.
Details on how to operate the ServerView Installation Manager, as well
as some additional information, are included in the "ServerView Suite
Installation Manager" user’s guide (on the Fujitsu manuals server under
Industry Standard Servers - Software - ServerView Suite - Server Installation
and Deployment).
Configuration information can also be found in section "Operating
system installation" on page 48.
– Local configuration and installation with or without the ServerView
Installation Manager (see section "Configuring the server node" on
page 47).
IYou will find more information on installing the server node remotely
or locally in the "ServerView Suite Installation Manager" user’s guide
(on the Fujitsu manuals server under Industry Standard Servers -
Software - ServerView Suite - Server Installation and Deployment).