Dell PowerVault NX3100 Manuale utente

Dell™ PowerVault™

NX3100 Systems

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of

your computer.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if

instructions are not followed.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage,

personal injury, or death.

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trade names other than its own.

Regulatory Model E13S Series

Regulatory Type E13S001

March 2010 Rev. A00

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Contents

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

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

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

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Back-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 15

Guidelines for Connecting Optional

External Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Power Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Diagnostic Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Diagnostics Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

2 Using the System Setup Program and

UEFI Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Choosing the System Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Responding to Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using the System Setup

Program Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Main Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Memory Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Processor Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

SATA Settings Screen (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . 46

Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

PCI IRQ Assignments Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Power Management Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Entering the UEFI Boot Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using the UEFI Boot Manager

Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

UEFI Boot Manager Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

UEFI Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

System Utilities Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

System and Setup Password Features. . . . . . . . . . 56

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Embedded System Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Entering the iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . 61

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3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 63

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Installing the Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . 70

Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . 71

Removing a Hard Drive From

a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Installing a Hard Drive Into

a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Internal Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Removing an Internal Hard Drive Bay . . . . . . . 73

Installing an Internal Hard Drive Bay. . . . . . . . 75

Removing an Internal Hard Drive From the

Internal Hard-Drive Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Installing a Hard Drive Into a Hard-Drive Bay . . . 76

Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Removing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

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Replacing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Removing a Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . . 80

Installing a Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . . 81

Removing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 82

Installing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 82

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

General Memory Module

Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Mode-Specific Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Installing Memory Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers . . . . . . 90

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines. . . . . . . 90

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Removing an Expansion Card. . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Removing an Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . . 95

Installing an Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . . . 96

Integrated Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Removing the Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . 97

Installing the Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . 99

iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Installing an iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . 100

Removing an iDRAC6 Express Card. . . . . . . . 101

iDRAC6 Enterprise Card (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . 102

Installing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card. . . . . . . 102

Removing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . 104

VFlash Media (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Installing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . 105

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Removing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . 105

Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 111

RAID Battery (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Removing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Installing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Removing the Control-Panel Module. . . . . . . . 115

Installing the Control-Panel Module . . . . . . . . 117

SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Removing the SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Installing the SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Removing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . . 121

Installing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . . 123

System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Installing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 129

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 129

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure . . . . . . . . 129

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Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 129

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem. . . . . . . . . 130

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device. . . . . . . . . . 131

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Troubleshooting a Wet System. . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Troubleshooting a Damaged System. . . . . . . . . . 134

Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 134

Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . 136

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key . . . . . . . . . 139

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Troubleshooting an Internal Hard Drive . . . . . . . . 141

Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . 142

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Troubleshooting Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . 147

Using Online Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Embedded System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . 147

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When to Use the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . 148

Running the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . . . 148

Embedded System Diagnostics Testing Options . . . . 149

Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Selecting Devices for Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . . 150

6 Jumpers and Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 151

System Board Jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Disabling a Forgotten Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

7 Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

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