Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX270 S1 User manual

Operating Manual - English
PRIMERGY CX270 S1
Server Node
Operating Manual
Edition May 2012

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CX270 S1 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 for general uses such as
general office use, personal use, domestic use and normal industrial use. It has
not been designed or manufactured for uses which demand an extremely high
level of safety and carry a direct and serious risk to life or body if such safety
cannot be ensured.

Operating Manual CX270 S1
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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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/

CX270 S1 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2 Functional overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.1 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2 Server node specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3 Installation steps, overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4 Important information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.1 Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.2 CE conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.3 FCC Class A Compliance Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
4.4 Transporting the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4.5 Environmental protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5 Hardware installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
5.1 Unpacking the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
5.2 Installing a server node to the server enclosure . . . . . . . 37
5.3 Connecting devices to the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.4 Notes on connecting/disconnecting cables . . . . . . . . . 41
6 Starting up and operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Operating Manual CX270 S1
Contents
6.1 Controls and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6.1.1 Controls of the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6.1.1.1 Control elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6.1.1.2 Indicators on the control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6.1.1.3 LAN indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
6.2 Switching the server node on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.3 Configuring the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.3.1 Configuring the onboard SATA controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.3.2 Configuring the SAS/SATA RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.3.3 Operating system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.4 Cleaning the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
7 Property and data protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
7.1 BIOS Setup security functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
8 Troubleshooting and tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
8.1 Power-on indicator remains unlit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
8.2 Server node switches itself off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
8.3 Screen remains blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
8.4 Flickering stripes on monitor screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
8.5 No screen display or display drifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
8.6 Incorrect date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
8.7 System will not boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
8.8 Error message on screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

CX270 S1 Operating Manual 7
1 Introduction
Two PRIMERGY CX270 S1 server nodes, each in a half-wide, 2U 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 4
CPUs of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 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 512 GB capacity
and two top-bin CPUs out of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 family,
CX270 S1 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, three PCIe Gen3 I/O slots are provided, one
for an x16 GPGPU card and the other for two x8 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, 50, 6
is realized via RAID card with cache and optional BBU. Local system boot for
VMware ESXi is possible via USB Flash Module.
The highly compact server node occupies two height units (HU) in the server
enclosure.

8 Operating Manual CX270 S1
Introduction
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 CX270 S1 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.

CX270 S1 Operating Manual 9
Introduction
1.2 Documentation overview
More information on your PRIMERGY CX270 S1 server node can be found in
the following documents:
– "Quick Start Hardware - PRIMERGY CX270 S1 Server Node" leaflet
(only included as a printed copy)
– "Quick Start Software - Quick Installation Guide" DVD booklet
(only included with the ServerView Suite as a printed copy)
– "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 CX270 S1 Server Node Upgrade and Maintenance Manual"
– "D3196 BIOS Setup Utility for PRIMERGY CX270 S1" Reference Manual
Further information
The PRIMERGY CX270 S1 Server Node is a multi-node system. For
information on the server enclosure please refer to the following manuals:
– PRIMERGY CX400 S1 Server Enclosure Operating Manua
– PRIMERGY CX400 S1 Server Enclosure Upgrade and Maintenance
manual

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Introduction
IPRIMERGY manuals are available in PDF format on the
ServerView Suite DVD 2. The ServerView Suite DVD 2 is part of the
ServerView Suite supplied with every server node.
If you no longer have the ServerView Suite DVDs, you can obtain the
relevant current versions using the order number U15000-C289 (the
order number for the Japanese market: please refer to the configurator
of the server node http://jp.fujitsu.com/platform/server/primergy/system/).
The PDF files of the manuals can also be downloaded free of charge
from the Internet. The overview page showing the online documentation
available on the Internet can be found using the URL (for EMEA market):
http://manuals.ts.fujitsu.com. The PRIMERGY server node documentation
can be accessed using the Industry standard servers navigation option.
For the Japanese market:
Please refer to the following URL for the latest product manuals:
http://jp.fujitsu.com/platform/server/primergy/manual/
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 on the ServerView Suite DVD 2
– Manual for the monitor
– Documentation for the boards and drives
– Operating system documentation
– Information files in your operating system