Inspur Yingxin NX 5440 User manual

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Statement
Please read the following statements before you use this server. Only when you
have read this statement hereinafter and agreed the following terms, you can formally
use this server. If you have any questions about the following terms, please contact our
supplier or us directly. If you have no questions about these terms and start to use this
server, it acquiesces that you have agreed the following terms.
1. We must call your attention that you must not alter any other parameters in the
motherboard BIOS of this server at any time, except for the parameters which we pro-
mote that you can alter.
2. If there are any hardware problems when you use this server, or you wish to up-
grade the hardware, please feed back the detailed hardware conguration of your server
to our Customer Service. Don’t disassemble the server case or any hardware compo-
nents in the case by yourself.
3. In this server, the MEMORY, CPU, CPU Fan, Fan, and so on are all in given
standard. Please don’t use them together with the corresponding components of any
other computers.
4. When you have any software problems during the application of this server,
we hope that you rstly contact the corresponding software supplier and then he will
contact us in favor of communication so as to solve your problem together, especially
for the software problems about the installation and operation of the database, network
management software or other networking products.
5. Please read carefully our user manual before you use Inspur Yingxin server. If
you have any doubt, please do not hesitate to contact our custom center.
6. We must call your attention that in the application process you should pay at-
tention to doing necessary backup of your le.
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Safety Information
For the sake of safety and to avoid potential dangers that may cause property loss
and personal injury or death, please read this part carefully before you use this server.
Notes: in order to help you use the equipment, the following considerations can
help avoid the occurrence of problems that may damage the components or cause data
loss:
1. In case of the following cases, please unplug the power line plug of products
from the power socket and contact the customer service department of Inspur:
- The power cables, extended cables or power plugs are damaged.
- The products get wet by water.
- The products have fallen off or been damaged.
- Objects fall into the products.
- When operating according to the operation instructions, the products cannot
function normally.
2. If the system becomes damp, please treat it according to the following steps:
- Switch off the power supplies of the system and the equipment, disconnect them
with the power socket, wait for 10 to 20 minutes, and then open the cover of the host.
- Move the equipment to the ventilation place to dry the system at least for 24
hours and make sure that the system is fully dried.
- Close the cover of the host, re-connect the system to the power socket, and then
start the equipment.
- In case of operation failure or abnormal situation, please contact Inspur and get
technical support.
3. Pay attention to the position of the system cables and power cables, wire them
in places not to be stepped on or knocked down and ensure not to place other objectives
on the cables.
4. Before dismounting the cover of host or contacting the internal components,
you shall cool down the equipment first; to avoid damaging the main-board, please
power off the system and wait for 5 seconds, and then dismount the components from
the main-board or disconnect the connection of peripheral equipment of the system.

5. If there are modulator-demodulator, telecommunication or local area network
options in the equipment, please pay attention to the following matters:
- In case of thunder and lightning weather, please do not connect or use the modu-
lator-demodulator. Otherwise, it may be subject to lightning strike.
- Never connect or use modulator-demodulator in moist environment.
- Never insert the modulator-demodulator or telephone cables to the socket of net-
work interface controller (NIC).
- Before unpacking the product package, contacting or installing internal compo-
nents or contacting un-insulated cables or jacks of the modulator-demodulator, please
disconnect the modulator-demodulator cables.
6. In order to prevent the electrostatic discharge from damaging the electronic
components in the equipment, please pay attention to the following matters:
- You shall conduct off the static electricity on the body before dismounting or
contacting any electronic component in the equipment. You can conduct off the static
electricity on the body by contacting the metal earthing objects (such as the unpainted
metal surface on the chassis) to prevent the static electricity on the body from conduct-
ing itself to the sensitive components.
- For electrostatic sensitive components not ready to be installed for application,
please do not take them out from the antistatic package materials.
- During the work, please touch the earthing conductor or the unpainted metal sur-
face on the cabinet regularly to conduct off the static electricity on the body that may
damage the internal components.
7. When dismounting the internal components with the approval of Inspur, please
pay attention to the following matters:
- Switch off the system power supply and disconnect the cables, including discon-
necting any connection of the system. When disconnecting the cables, please grab the
connector of cables and plug it out, and never pull the cables.
- Before dismounting the cover of cabinet or touching the internal components,
the products need to be cooled down.
- Before dismounting and touching any electronic component in the equipment,
you shall conduct off the static electricity on the body by touching the metal earthing
objectives.

- During the dismounting process, the operation shall not be too big, so as to pre-
vent damage to the components or scratching of the arms.
- Carefully deal with the components and plug-in cards, and please never touch
the components or connection points on the plug-in cards. When taking the plug-in
cards or components, you should grab the edges of the plug-in cards or components or
their metal xed supports.
8. During the process of cabinet installation and application, please pay attention
to the following matters:
- After the installation of cabinet is nished, please ensure that the supporting feet
have been xed to the rack and supported to the ground, and all weight of the rack have
been fell onto the ground.
- It shall install into the cabinet according to the sequences from the bottom to the
top, and rst install the heaviest component.
- When pulling out the components from the cabinet, it shall apply force slightly
to ensure the cabinet to keep balance and stabilization.
- When pressing down the release latch of the sliding rail of components and slid-
ing in or out, please be careful, as the sliding rail may hurt your gures.
- Never make the AC power branch circuit in the cabinet overload. The sum of
cabinet load shall not exceed 80% of the ratings of branch circuits.
- Ensure that components in the cabinet have good ventilation.
- When repairing components in the cabinet, never step on any other components.
Warning: the following warnings show that there are potential dangers that
may cause property loss, personal injury or death:
Warning 1: The power supply equipment in the system may generate high
voltage and dangerous electrical energy and thus cause personal injury. Please do
not dismount the cover of the host or to dismount and replace any component in
the system by yourself, unless otherwise informed by Inspur; only maintenance
technicians trained by Inspur have the right to disassemble the cover of the host,
dismount and replace the internal components.
Warning 2: Please connect the equipment to appropriate power supply, and
the power should be supplied by external power supply which is indicated on the

rated input label. To prevent your equipment from damages caused by momentary
spike or plunge of the voltage, please use relevant voltage stabilizing equipment or
uninterruptible power supply equipment.
Warning 3: If extended cables are needed, please use the three-core cables
matched with correct earthed plug, and check the ratings of the extended cables to
make sure that the sum of rated current of all products inserted into the extended
cables do not exceed 80% of the limits of the rated currents of the extended cables.
Warning 4: Please be sure to use the supplied power supply component, such
as power lines, power socket (if supplied with the equipment) etc.. For the safety of
equipment and the user, do not replace randomly power cables or plugs.
Warning 5: To prevent electric shock dangers caused by leakage in the sys-
tem, please make sure that the power cables of the system and peripheral equip-
ment are correctly connected to the earthed power socket. Please connect the
three-core power line plug to the three-core AC power socket that is well earthed
and easy to access, be sure to use the earthing pin of power lines and do not use
the patch plug or the earthing pin unplugged with cables. In case of the earthing
conductors not installed and it is uncertain whether there are appropriate earth-
ing protections, please do not operate or use the equipment. Contact and consult
with the electrician, please.
Warning 6: To avoid short circuit of internal components and re or electric
shock hazards, please do not ll any object into the open pores of the system.
Warning 7: Please place the system far away from the cooling plate and at
the place with heat sources, and be sure not to block the air vents.
Warning 8: Be sure not to scatter food or liquid in the system or on other
components, and do not use the product in humid and dusty environment.
Warning 9: The replacement of batteries with those of another model may
cause explosion. When replacement of batteries is required, please consult rst the
manufacturer and choose batteries of the same or a similar model recommended
by the manufacturer. Do not dismount, extrude and pink the batteries or make
the external connection point short circuit, and do not expose them in the environ-
ment over 60°C. Never throw them into re or water. Please do not try to open
or repair the batteries, and be sure to reasonably deal with the at batteries and

do not put the at batteries, the circuit boards that may include the batteries and
other components with other wastes. For relevant battery recovery, please contact
the local waste recovery and treatment mechanism.
If what you bought is the chassis, besides carefully read the installation de-
scription attached with the cabinet products and get known about the special
warning notices and installation process, you must abide by the following preven-
tive measures to guarantee the cabinet to be stable and safe:
Warning 10: Before installing equipment in the chassis, please install front
and side supporting feet on the independent chassis; for cabinet connecting with
other chassis, it shall install the front supporting foot rst. If you fail to install cor-
respondingly the supporting foot before installing equipment in the chassis, it may
cause the cabinet to turn over in some cases, and thus may cause personal injury.
Therefore, it is necessary to install supporting feet before installing equipment in
the chassis. After installing the equipment and other components in the chassis, it
can only pull out one component from the cabinet through its sliding component
at one time. Pulling out several components at the same time may lead the cabinet
to turn over and cause serious personal injury.
Warning 11: Please do not move the chassis. Considering the height and
weight of the chassis, at least two people are needed to complete its movement.
Warning 12: Declaration
The product is Grade A product, and in the living environment, it may cause
radio interference. In such case, it may need the user to take feasible measures for
the interference.

Regarding the Manual
● Product Introduction
● System BIOS
● Integrated Raid System
● Common Problems and Trouble-shooting
We suggest you read this manual seriously before you use this server for sake of
the unnecessary faults in your operation.
Technical Service Hot-line: 86-531-88546554
Address: NO.1036 Inspur Road, Jinan, China (Inspur Group)
Zip code: 250101

Content
Chapter 1 NX 5440 Computing Blade Introduction ..............................................
1.1 NX5440 Computing Blade Technical Specication ....................................
1.2 NX5440 Computing Blade View ..................................................................
1.3 Introduction of Unit Interfaces and Indicators in NX5440 Computing Blade....
1.4 NX5440 Computing Blade Application .......................................................
1.5 Jumper Settings .............................................................................................
Chapter 2 System BIOS ............................................................................................
2.1 How to Enter the BIOS Setup .......................................................................
2.2 BIOS System Menu Introduction..................................................................
Chapter 3 Operating System Installation................................................................
3.1 Manually Install Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition ....................
3.2 Manually Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 ............................................
Chapter 4 Integrated RAID System.........................................................................
4.1 How to Enter the Conguration Interface of SATA RAID ...........................
4.2 Control Key Application ...............................................................................
4.3 SATA RAID Conguration ...........................................................................
Chapter 5 Common Problems and Trouble-shooting.............................................
5.1 Restarting Server...........................................................................................
5.2 Problems When Starting the Machine...........................................................
5.3 Additional Notes............................................................................................
5.4 Technical Support Information......................................................................

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Chapter 1 NX 5440 Computing Blade Introduction
1.1 NX5440 Computing Blade Technical Specication
Processor
Type 1-2 processor(s) of Intel® Xeon Sandy Bridge-EP series
Platform
Type Romley-EP 2S(Socket-R)
Memory
Type DDR3-1600/1333/1066/800 ECC Registered
Memory Slots 8
Total Capacity Up to 256GB
Monitor Controller
Type Integrated graphics
HDD Controller
SATA Controller Support 2 pieces of 2.5” hot-swapping SATA SSD hard disks.
1.2 NX5440 Computing Blade View
The following 1-1 picture shows the view of NX5440 Computing Blade:
Figure 1-1 Computing Blade

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1.3 Introduction of Unit Interfaces and Indicators in NX5440 Comput-
ing Blade
Figure 1-2 Blade Unit Interface and Indicator
NO. NAME STATUS/FUNCTION
ABlade KVM Status Indica-
tor/KVM Button
Blue: it lights blue when KVM is acti-
vated; Blue: Manually activate the KVM
unit of current blade
BSwitch Button/ Power Indi-
cator
Open or close the blade unit/ it lights
when blade is under normal status and it
blinks when BMC is started, green.
CReboot Button/Fault Indi-
cator
It lights when the blade fails or is reboot-
ed, red.
D USB Interface For connecting USB devices.
1.4 NX5440 Computing Blade Application
NX 5440 Computing Blade should accompany Inspur I8000 server, namely, the
user should install the computing blade into the I8000 server system for proper applica-
tion. Please refer to the relevant parts in the I8000 server user manual or the illustration
pasted to the main chassis of the I8000 blade server for details about the installation.
1.5 Jumper Settings
Motherboard jumper setting is an operation that changes interface function by
short-cutting two pins, please refer to the following gure and adjust the motherboard

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function.
Figure 1-3 Jumper Setting View
Open Upper Panel of the Chassis
If you need to adjust the motherboard jumpers, please open the upper panel of the
chassis with the authorization of Inspur Group.
1. Close the system, extract the blade unit, and press the unlocking springs;
2. Pull outward to the direction as the arrow in the picture shows, remove the up-
per panel.
Figure 1-4
Pin
Short-cut 1-2 pinsSetting
Jumper Cap
1. Press the notches of unlocking springs
2. Pull the upper panel backwards to open it

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Introduction of Clear CMOS Jumper
Figure 1-5 Jumper Location View
Jumper NO. Description Function
J12 CMOS clear jumpers Short-cut pin 1-2, normal status: short-
cut pin 2-3, clear CMOS.
Notes:
When you short-cut Pin 2-3 to clear CMOS, please remain the shortcut for 5
seconds; then re-short-cut Pin 1 and Pin 2 (default status) of CLR-CMOS jumper with
jumper caps to recover the previous status.

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Chapter 2 System BIOS
2.1 How to Enter the BIOS Setup
Power up and start the server. When the picture of “Press <DEL> to SETUP or
<TAB> to POST” is displayed, press [DEL] and then the system enters BIOS setup.
If the system does not enter BIOS setup after previous steps, please press [Ctrl]-
[Alt]-[Del] at the same time to reset the system, and repeat operations above. (If the
prompt displays to press [DEL] again, please press it quickly.)
Notes: some items in BIOS cannot be congured, for examples, some system auto
detecting and conguring information. Some has a right pointed arrow, which means if
this item is selected and [Enter] is pressed, the screen will display its submenu.
2.2 BIOS System Menu Introduction
Next the following main function menus of BIOS are introduced.
Function Menu:
Menu name Menu Function
Main
Configuring the basic system settings, such as system time,
system date, super user and user password setup; displaying
version of BIOS, CPU, and memory information etc
Advanced
Conguring advanced characteristics, such as CPU congura-
tion, integrated SATA controller and SAS controller congura-
tion
Chipset Congure memory models, CPU characteristics and etc.
Server Mgmt Display the BMC network conguration index
Boot Congure the boot order of system devices
Security Congure system administrator and password
Save &Exit Save BIOS conguration, exit BIOS conguration and etc.

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Introduction of operational keys:
Key Description
↑ (up) For selecting the upper menu or value
↓ (down) For selecting the next menu or value
← (left) For selecting the left menu or value
→ (right) For selecting the right menu or value
Esc For returning to the superior menu or the main menu
+
For changing the item value
For changing the current menu item into the previous
item value
The key only displays the item values relevant to the
item itself rather than all the item values.
-
For changing the item value
For changing the current menu item into the next item
value
The key only displays the item values relevant to the
item itself rather than all the item values.
F1 The help key for displaying the relevant introduction of
current menu
F2 For restoring the value saved last time
F9 For back to the system default configuration with the
best performance
F10 For saving CMOS settings and exiting
Enter For executing current command or entering the submenu
Declaration:
We just introduce some common items in BIOS. It is unnecessary and we also do
not recommend you to change or congure the items. This declaration will not reap-
pear.
2.2.1 Main menu
Entering BIOS setup utility, you can see Main menu displayed firstly. In this
menu, you can do some operations, such as check BIOS version and set system time
and date.

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Figure 2-1
●BIOS Information
Display BIOS’s version and modication time
●Memory Information
Display the memory total capacity installed in system
●System Date
Set the system date, in format of [week month/date/year].
●System Time
Set the system time, adopting 24 hour system, in format of [hour/minute/second]
2.2.2 Advanced menu
Figure 2-2

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Advanced menu includes the following submenus or setting items.
Launch PXE OpROM
WHEA Conguration
CPU Conguration
SATA Conguration
SAS Conguration
Serial Port Console Redirection
Following are the introductions about main and common items.
◇Launch PXE OpROM
There two options, [Disabled] (defaulted) and [Enabled].
●WHEA Conguration
◇WHEA Support
WHEA provides a common infrastructure function to tackle hardware faults on
the Window platform. There two options, [Disabled] and [Enabled] (defaulted).
●CPU Conguration
◇Socket 0/1 CPU Information
It displays detailed information about CPU0/1, including CPU main frequency,
maximum frequency, minimum frequency, CPU cores, whether support hyper-threading
and VT-X, rst lever cache, second cache, and third cache.
◇Hyper-threading
CPU hyper-treading function setup includes [Enabled] (defaulted) and [Disabled]
two items.
◇Active Processor Cores
Activated all the cores in the CPU. It includes [All], [1], [2], [4], [6] (the items
may vary according to different CPU cores congured, for example, when the CPU is
congured with 4 core, the items are [All], [1], [2]), and [All] is the default option to
open all.
◇Intel(R) Virtualization Technology
CPU virtualization tech supports function setup, including [Enabled] (defaulted)
and [Disabled] two items.
◇CPU Power Management Conguration
This item is for CPU power consumption management.

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◇Conguration Power Technology
There are three items, namely, [Disable], [Energy Efcient] and [Custom].
● SATA Conguration
Enter this item and it will display the status of SATA devices connected to every
SATA port.
◇SATA Mode
The item is used to set onboard SATA controller modes. There are [Disabled], [IDE
Mode], [AHCI Mode], and [RAID Mode].
◇Serial-ATA Controller 0
This item only appears when SATA Mode is set to be [IDE Mode]. There are three
options, [Disabled], [Enhanced] and [Compatible].
●SAS Conguration
Enter this item to view the status of SAS devices connected to every SAS ports.
When “[Chipset]->[South Bridge]->[Scu devices]” is set to be [Disable], this item
will disappear.
●Serial Port Console Redirection
The item can be used to congure the serial port redirection.
2.2.3 Chipset Menu
Figure 2-3
The Chipset menu mainly includes the following submenus:

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North Bridge
South Bridge
ME Subsystem
Following are the introductions about the main and common items.
2.2.3.1 North Bridge
Figure 2-4
●IOH Conguration
The menu is used to open or close VT-d or set the rate of PCIE port.
Figure 2-5

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◇Intel(R) VT for Direct I/O Conguration
Whether the Directed I/0 supports Intel virtualization technology, including [En-
abled] and [Disabled] (defaulted) two items.
◇Link Speed
Used to set PCIE port rate, including [Gen1], [Gen2], [Gen3].
Note: if port rate is set to be Gen3, it requires to start [Gen3 Equalization WA’s]
simultaneously.
●QPI Conguration
This menu can be user to set items, such as QPI rate mode and frequency.
●Memory Mode
Set Memory mode, including [Independent] (default conguration), [Mirroring],
[Lock Step] and [Sparing] four items.
To realize <Mirroring> function, the user has to set the same memory of DIMM
0/1 and 2/3 under every CPU. After mirroring starts, the system will set CPU0,2 as mir-
ror master, and 1,3 as the mirror slave to the 0,2. When the system write the memory,
it will write into the master and slave. In this mode, system available memory capacity
reduces to half.
To realize [Lock Step] function, the user has to set the same memory of DIMM
0/1 and 2/3 under every CPU. Enabling this function can enhance the correction ability
of the memory.
To realize <Sparing> function, two pieces of 2 Rank memory or above should be
installed. After the enabling the function, the system will select a rank for spare, when
the faults in the other ranks on this memory reach a certain threshold number and the
fault rank is mapped out, the spare rank will replace it. After this, the DIMM has no
sparing function. If the model has been set as the [sparing] mode, the number viewed
under the system will be less than the practical memory number.
Notes: when the system is set to be [Sparing] or [Mirroring] mode, it requires to
set corresponding memory. At this time, the Sparing or Mirroring information on this
item will display “support”. This means the settings are effective, otherwise, it means
that the settings fail.
●Patrol Scrub
This function enables CPU to read and verify all the memories installed in the
system in a certain period (24 hours). If ECC fault is detected, the CPU will correct it
automatically.