Dell PowerEdge C8000XD User manual

Dell PowerEdge C8000XD

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model: B06B

Regulatory Type: B06B002

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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your computer.

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instructions are not followed.

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injury, or death.

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Regulatory Model B06B

Regulatory Type: B06B002

2013 - 10 P/N XXXXX Rev. A02

Contents 3

Contents

1 About Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Hard-Drive Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Hard-Drive Bay Numbering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . 10

SAS Connectors Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Expander Configuration Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Service Tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

2 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 25

Safety Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Sled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Opening the Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Closing the Sled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Removing a Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Installing a Sled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4Contents

Sled Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Removing a Sled Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Installing a Sled Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Hard-Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Hard-Drive Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Hard-Drive Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . 33

Standard Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Removing a Standard Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . 34

Installing a Standard Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . 35

Removing a 3.5-inch Hard-Drive From

a Standard Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Installing a 3.5-inch Hard-Drive Into

a Standard Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Flexible Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Removing a Flexible Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . 38

Installing a Flexible Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . 39

Removing a 2.5-inch Hard-Drive From

a Flexible Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Installing a 2.5-inch Hard-Drive Into

a Flexible Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Expansion Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Removing an Expansion Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . 42

Installing an Expansion Hard-Drive Carrier. . . . . 43

Removing a SSD Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . 44

Installing a SSD Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . 45

Removing a 2.5-inch SSD Hard-Drive

From a SSD Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Installing a 2.5-inch SSD Hard-Drive

Into a SSD Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Removing a SSD Hard-Drive Carrier

From an Expansion Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . 48

Installing a SSD Hard-Drive Carrier

Into an Expansion Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . 49

Contents 5

Removing the Hard-Drive Backplane

From an Expansion Hard-Drive Carrier. . . . . . . 50

Installing a Hard-Drive Backplane Into

an Expansion Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . 51

3 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 53

Installation Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . . 54

Troubleshooting a Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Troubleshooting a Hard-Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Hard-Drive Not Recognized . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Hard-Drive Indicator Does Not Light . . . . . . . . 55

Troubleshooting the SAS Expander Board . . . . . . . 56

Troubleshooting the External SAS Connection . . . . . 56

Troubleshooting the Hard-Drive Backplane . . . . . . 57

Troubleshooting the Node Power Distribution

Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Checking the Expander Firmware Version . . . . . . . 58

4 Using the Expander Flash Utility . . . . . . . 59

Hardware and Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . 59

SAS Expander Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Command Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Command Line Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

6Contents

Cabling Configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Expander Firmware File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Expander Firmware Update Guidelines . . . . . . . . . 65

Updating the Expander Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

5 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Hard-Drive Backplane Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 71

SAS Expander Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Node Power Distribution Board Connectors . . . . . . 75

6 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

About Your System 7

About Your System

Front-Panel Features and Indicators

Figure 1-1. Front-Panel Features and Indicators

Item Indicator, Button, or

Connector

Icon Description

1 Handle Hold to pull the hard-drive cage from the

sled.

910

8About Your System

2 External mini-SAS

connector A2

Connects to a compute sled’s host bus

adapter (HBA) or RAID card. When you

configure zoning for the storage sled, the

external mini-SAS connector becomes

zone group 0.

3 External mini-SAS

connector A1

Connects to a compute sled’s host bus

adapter (HBA) or RAID card. When you

configure zoning for the storage sled, the

external mini-SAS connector becomes

zone group 1.

4, 8 Sled power/status

indicator

The power/status indicator lights green

when the sled power is on and power is

applied to the SAS expander board.

The power/status indicator alternately

lights green and blinks amber when a

critical event occurs.

5, 9 Sled identification

indicator

Lights blue to identify a particular mini-

SAS connector and sled.

6 External mini-SAS

connector B2

Connects to a compute sled’s host bus

adapter (HBA) or RAID card. When you

configure zoning for the storage sled, the

external mini-SAS connector becomes

zone group 2.

7 External mini-SAS

connector B1

Connects to a compute sled’s host bus

adapter (HBA) or RAID card. When you

configure zoning for the storage sled, the

external mini-SAS connector becomes

zone group 3.

10 Sled release tab Press to release the sled from the

enclosure.

11 Hard-drive cage release

latch

Press to release the hard-drive cage from

the sled.

Item Indicator, Button, or

Connector

Icon Description

About Your System 9

Hard-Drive Features

The C8000XD storage sled is available with 12-drive or 24-drive option. All

hard-drives are mounted in special hard-drive carriers and connect to the

hard-drive backplane inside the sled.

• Standard hard-drive carrier supports 3.5-inch SAS/SATA/SSD hard-drive.

• Flexible hard-drive carrier supports 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/SSD hard-drive.

• Expansion hard-drive carrier supports two 2.5-inch SSD hard-drives.

The 12-drive configuration installs 12 standard or flexible hard-drive carriers.

The 24-drive configuration installs 12 expansion hard-drive carriers. See

"Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns" on page 10 for information on the hard-drive

indicators on the sled. Different patterns are displayed as drive events occur

in the sled.

Hard-Drive Bay Numbering

Figure 1-2. 12-Drive Bay Numbering

11, 10

1, 0

9, 8

7, 6

5, 4

3, 2

10 About Your System

Figure 1-3. 24-Drive Bay Numbering

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns

The C8000XD sled hard-drive backplanes include a hard-drive activity LED

and two bi-colored hard-drive status and fault LEDs per drive. The state of

the hard-drive backplane indicators alerts you to the condition of the hard-

drives in the sled. You can view the status of the hard-drive indicators on the

backplane by opening the sled (See "Opening the Sled" on page 28). The

hard-drive indicators are visible on both sides of the bottom edge of the hard-

drive cage.

The following illustrations show the location of the hard-drive indicators in a

12-drive or 24-drive bay sled.

23, 22, 21, 20

3, 2, 1, 0

19, 18, 17, 16

15, 14, 13, 12

11, 10, 9, 8

7, 6, 5, 4

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