Dell PowerEdge C8000 User manual

Dell PowerEdge C8000

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model: B10S

Regulatory Type: B10S001

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Regulatory Model B10S

Regulatory Type: B10S001

2014 - 01 P/N XXXXX Rev. A08

Contents 3

Contents

1 About the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Accessing System Features During Startup. . . . . . . 12

Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 13

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

Server Enclosure Indicator Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . 18

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Sled Bay Numbering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Fan Bay Numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Sled Module Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Sled Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Compute Sleds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Storage Sleds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Power Sleds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Service Tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Server Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Sleds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

POST Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Collecting System Event Log for

Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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System Event Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Processor Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Memory Ecc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

PCIe Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

IOH Core Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

SB Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

POST Start Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

POST End Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

POST Error Code Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

BIOS Recovery Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

ME Fail Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

SEL Generator ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

BMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

2 Using the System Setup Program . . . . . 67

System Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

System Setup Options at Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Using the System Setup Program Navigation

Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

General Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Console Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Enabling and Configuring Console

Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

System Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Contents 5

Advanced Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

CPU Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Memory Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

SATA Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

PCI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

USB Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Security Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Server Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

View System Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Boot Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Exit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Command Line Interfaces for System Setup

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

IPMI Command List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Power Management Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

About MIB and Traps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

SNMP Support for the Server Enclosure

Fan Controller Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

FCB Firmware Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

MIB Tree Diagram for FCB . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

FCB SNMP MIB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

SNMP Support for the External PDU Power

Management Controller Board . . . . . . . . . . . 168

PMC Firmware Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

MIB Tree Diagram for PMC . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

PMC SNMP MIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

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3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . 187

Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

About the Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Inside the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Sled Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Removing a Double-Wide Sled Blank . . . . . . 190

Installing a Double-Wide Sled Blank . . . . . . . 190

Removing a Single-Wide Sled Blank . . . . . . . 191

Installing a Single-Wide Sled Blank . . . . . . . 191

Compute Sleds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Removing a Compute Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Installing a Compute Sled. . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Storage Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Removing a Storage Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Installing a Storage Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Power Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Inside a Power Sled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Removing a Power Sled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Installing a Power Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Removing the PSU1/3 Module Assembly . . . . . 201

Installing the PSU1/3 Module Assembly . . . . . 203

Removing the PSU2/4 Module Assembly . . . . . 203

Installing the PSU2/4 Module Assembly . . . . . 204

Removing the PSU Module . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Installing the PSU Module . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Contents 7

Fan Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Removing a Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Installing a Fan Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Front Panel Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Removing the Front Panel Board . . . . . . . . . . 209

Installing the Front Panel Board . . . . . . . . . . 210

Fan Controller Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Removing the Fan Controller Board . . . . . . . . 211

Installing the Fan Controller Board . . . . . . . . . 212

Backplane/Fan Bay Cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Removing the Backplane/Fan Bay Cage . . . . . . 212

Installing the Backplane/Fan Bay Cage . . . . . . 216

PDU Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

PDU Power Supply Indicator Code . . . . . . . . . 217

Removing a PDU Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . 217

Installing a PDU Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . 219

4 Rack Mount Configuration . . . . . . . . . . 221

Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Installation Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Installing the Tool-Less Rail Solution

in the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Removing Sled Modules from the Server

Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Installing the Server Enclosure into the Rack . . . . . 228

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Replacing Sled Modules in the Server

Enclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Installing the External PDU into the Rack . . . . . . . 231

Connecting the Power Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Connecting the Power Cables to the

Server Enclosure with Internal Power

Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Connecting the Power Cable to the

Server Enclosure with External Power

Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Connecting the Server Enclosure to a Rack

PDU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Connecting a Network Switch to a Rack PDU . . . . 242

Connecting the PDU to the Network. . . . . . . . . . 243

Powering Up the Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

5 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . 251

Installation Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure. . . . . . . . 252

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 252

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem. . . . . . . . . 252

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device. . . . . . . . . . 253

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Contents 9

Troubleshooting a Wet Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Troubleshooting a Damaged Enclosure . . . . . . . . . 256

Troubleshooting Enclosure Fan Modules . . . . . . . . 257

Troubleshooting Cooling Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Troubleshooting Sled Components . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . 267

Troubleshooting a Hard-Drive . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . 270

Troubleshooting Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Troubleshooting the System Board . . . . . . . . 271

Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . 272

IRQ Assignment Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

6 Updating Firmware Images

and Monitoring the PDU Power

Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Verifying and Updating the Fan Controller

Board Firmware Via the Compute Sled . . . . . . . . . 275

Viewing the Fan Controller Board

Firmware Version Information . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Updating the Fan Controller Board

Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Verifying and Updating the Fan Controller

Board Firmware Via SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Checking FCB Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Resetting the FCB Network Connection . . . . . . 277

Viewing or Changing the FCB Configuration

Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

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Configuring the SNMP Traps . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Updating the FCB Firmware. . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Viewing the FCB Firmware Version

Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Monitoring the External PDU Power Status

and Updating the PDU PMC Firmware. . . . . . . . . 280

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Checking PDU Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Resetting the PDU Network Connection . . . . . 281

Viewing or Changing the PMC

Configuration Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Configuring the SNMP Traps . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Updating the PMC Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Viewing the PMC Firmware Version

Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

7 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Server Enclosure Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Front Panel Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . 285

Fan Controller Board Connectors. . . . . . . . . 286

Power Management Board Connectors . . . . . 287

8 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

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