Dell PowerEdge C8220X User manual

Dell PowerEdge C8220X

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model: B06B

Regulatory Type: B06B001

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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Regulatory Model B06B

Regulatory Type: B06B001

2014 - 01 P/N XXXXX Rev. A07

Contents 3

Contents

1 About Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Accessing System Features During Startup. . . . . . . 15

Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 16

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

Management Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Non-Central Independent Mode . . . . . . . . . . 22

Non-Central Consolidated Mode . . . . . . . . . . 24

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Hot-Plug Hard-Drive Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 27

Sled Hard-Drive LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Power and System Board Indicator Codes . . . . . . . 29

BMC Heartbeat Indicator Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Service Tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

POST Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Collecting System Event Log for

Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

System Event Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Processor Error. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Memory Ecc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

PCIe Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

IOH Core Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

SB Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

4Contents

POST Start Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

POST End Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

POST Error Code Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

BIOS Recovery Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

ME Fail Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

SEL Generator ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

BMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

2 Using the System Setup Program . . . . . 59

System Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

System Setup Options at Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Using the System Setup Program Navigation

Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

General Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Console Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Enabling and Configuring Console

Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

System Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Advanced Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

CPU Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Memory Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

SATA Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

PCI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

USB Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Contents 5

Security Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Server Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

View System Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Boot Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Exit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Command Line Interfaces for System Setup

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

IPMI Commands List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Power Management Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . 149

Safety Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

About the Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Sled Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Sled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Removing a Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Installing a Sled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Sled Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Removing a Double-Wide Sled Blank . . . . . . . 156

Installing a Double-Wide Sled Blank . . . . . . . . 157

Removing a Single-Wide Sled Blank . . . . . . . . 157

Installing a Single-Wide Sled Blank . . . . . . . . 157

6Contents

Hard-Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Hard-Drive Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Front-Access Hard-Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . 160

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . 162

Installing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . 163

Removing a Hard-Drive From

a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Hard-Drive Cage Hard-Drives . . . . . . . . . . 165

Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier

Located on the Sled Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Installing a Hard-Drive Carrier

on the Sled Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Removing a Hard-Drive From

a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Installing a Hard-Drive Into

a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Internal Hard-Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier

Located on the Sled Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Installing a Hard-Drive Carrier

on the Sled Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Removing a Hard-Drive From

a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Installing a Hard-Drive Into

a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Removing the Hard-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . 172

Installing the Hard-Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . 173

MicroSD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Removing a MicroSD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Installing a MicroSD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Contents 7

Sled Covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Removing the Front and Back

Sled Covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Installing the Front and Back

Sled Covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Removing the Sled Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Installing the Sled Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Hot-Plug Hard-Drive Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Removing the Hot-Plug Hard-Drive

Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Installing the Hot-Plug Hard-Drive

Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Hard-Drive LED Board Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Removing the Hard-Drive LED Board

Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Installing the Hard-Drive LED Board

Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Removing the Hard-Drive LED Board. . . . . . . . 190

Installing the Hard-Drive LED Board . . . . . . . . 191

Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Removing the MegaRAID SAS 9265-8i

RAID Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Installing the MegaRAID SAS 9265-8i

RAID Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Removing the MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e

RAID Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Installing the MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e

RAID Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Removing the MegaRAID SAS 9265-8i

RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Installing the MegaRAID SAS 9265-8i

RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

8Contents

Removing the MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e

RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Installing the MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e

RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Removing the RAID Battery Holder . . . . . . . . 205

Installing the RAID Battery Holder . . . . . . . . 207

Expansion Card Riser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Removing the Expansion Card Riser . . . . . . . 207

Installing the Expansion Card Riser. . . . . . . . 208

GPGPU/Xeon Phi Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Removing the NVIDIA Tesla M2090

GPGPU Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Installing the NVIDIA Tesla M2090

GPGPU Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Removing the NVIDIA Tesla K10

GPGPU Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Installing the NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPGPU

Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Removing the NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPGPU

Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Installing the NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPGPU

Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Removing the Xeon Phi 5110P/7120P

Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Installing the Xeon Phi 5110P/7120P

Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

GPGPU Card Risers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Removing the Front GPGPU Card Riser. . . . . . 265

Installing the Front GPGPU Card Riser . . . . . . 267

Removing the Back GPGPU Card Riser. . . . . . 267

Installing the Back GPGPU Card Riser . . . . . . 269

Contents 9

Hard-Drive Cage Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Removing the 2.5-inch Hard-Drive Cage

Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Installing the 2.5-inch Hard-Drive Cage

Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Removing the 3.5-inch Hard-Drive Cage

Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Installing the 3.5-inch Hard-Drive Cage

Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Installing the Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Heat Sink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Removing a Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Installing a Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Heat Sink Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Removing a Heat Sink Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Installing a Heat Sink Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Memory Module Installation Guidelines . . . . . . 286

Supported DIMM Configuration . . . . . . . . . . 287

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Installing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Mezzanine Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Removing the SAS Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . . 291

Installing the SAS Mezzanine Card. . . . . . . . . 297

10 Contents

Removing the Infiniband Mezzanine Card . . . . 298

Installing the Infiniband Mezzanine Card. . . . . 301

Removing the 10 GbE Mezzanine Card . . . . . . 302

Installing the 10 GbE Mezzanine Card . . . . . . 304

MicroSD Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Removing the MicroSD Card Reader . . . . . . . 305

Installing the MicroSD Card Reader . . . . . . . 308

Removing the MicroSD Card Reader

Support Bracket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Installing the MicroSD Card Reader

Support Bracket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Removing the Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . 311

Installing the Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . 312

BMC Management Cable (Optional). . . . . . . . . . 313

Removing the BMC Management Cable . . . . . 313

Installing the BMC Management Cable . . . . . 314

Node Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Removing the Node Power Distribution

Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Installing the Node Power Distribution

Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Removing the Node Power Distribution

Board Located on the Sled Cover. . . . . . . . . 318

Installing the Node Power Distribution

Board on the Sled Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Removing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 321

Installing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 322

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