Dell PowerEdge M620 User manual

Dell PowerEdge

Modular Systems

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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March 2011 Rev. A06

Contents 3

Contents

1 About Your System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Accessing System Features During Start-up . . . . . . 13

System Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

System Control Panel Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

LCD Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

LCD Module Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Using the LCD Module Menus . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Blade Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Using USB Diskette or USB DVD/CD Drives . . . . 31

Hard-Drive Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Back-Panel Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Power Supply Indicator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Fan Module Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Identifying Midplane Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

iKVM Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Tiering the Avocent iKVM Switch From

an Analog KVM Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Tiering the Avocent iKVM Switch From

a Digital KVM Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

CMC Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

I/O Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

4Contents

Guidelines for Installing I/O Modules. . . . . . . . 52

Port Auto-Disablement in Quad-Port

Network Daughter Card

(PowerEdge M710HD Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Mezzanine Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

I/O Module Port Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Dell PowerConnect-KR 8024-k Switch . . . . . . . 69

Dell M8428-k 10 Gb Converged

Network Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Mellanox M3601Q QDR Infiniband

Switch I/O Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Mellanox M2401G Infiniband

Switch I/O Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Cisco SFS M7000e Infiniband

Switch Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Cisco Ethernet Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

PowerConnect M6348 1 Gb Ethernet

Switch I/O Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

PowerConnect M8024 10 Gb Ethernet

Switch I/O Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

PowerConnect M6220 Ethernet

Switch Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Dell 10 GbE KR Pass-Through I/O Module . . . . . 85

Dell 8/4 Gbps Fibre Channel

Pass-Through I/O Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

10 Gb Ethernet Pass-Through Module II . . . . . . 88

10 Gb Ethernet Pass-Through I/O Module . . . . . 90

4 Gbps Fibre Channel Pass-Through Module. . . . 92

Brocade M5424 FC8 I/O Module . . . . . . . . . . 95

Brocade M4424 SAN I/O Module . . . . . . . . . . 98

10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet

Pass-Through Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Viewing Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Removing LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . 103

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System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Diagnostics Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

2 Using the System Setup Program

and UEFI Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Choosing the System Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Responding to Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . 138

Using the System Setup Program

Navigation Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Memory Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Processor Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

SATA Settings Screen (PowerEdge

M610, M610x) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

PCI IRQ Assignments Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Power Management Screen (PowerEdge

M915, M910, M710, M710HD,

M610 and M610x Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Entering the UEFI Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

UEFI Boot Manager Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

UEFI Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

System Utilities Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

6Contents

System and Setup Password Features. . . . . . . . . 151

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

3 Installing Blade Components. . . . . . . . . 155

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Removing and Installing a Blade . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Removing a Blade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Installing a Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Removing and Installing a Blade Blank . . . . . . . . 158

Removing a Blade Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Installing a Blade Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Opening and Closing the Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Opening the Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Closing the Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Inside the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

System Memory – PowerEdge M915 . . . . . . . 171

System Memory – PowerEdge M910 . . . . . . . 177

System Memory – PowerEdge M905 . . . . . . . 181

System Memory – PowerEdge M805 . . . . . . . 184

System Memory – PowerEdge M710 . . . . . . . 188

System Memory – PowerEdge M710HD . . . . . 194

System Memory – PowerEdge

M610/M610x. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

System Memory – PowerEdge M605 . . . . . . . 204

System Memory – PowerEdge M600 . . . . . . . 210

Installing Memory Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Contents 7

Mezzanine Interface Card (PowerEdge

M610x Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Removing the Mezzanine Interface Card. . . . . . 215

Installing the Mezzanine Interface Card . . . . . . 217

I/O Module Mezzanine Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Installing a Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Removing a Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

SD Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

PowerEdge M905 and M805 . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

PowerEdge M915, M910, M710, M710HD,

M610, and M610x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

SD vFlash Card (PowerEdge M915, M910, M710,

M710HD, M610, and M610x Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Removing a RAID Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Installing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Integrated NIC Hardware Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Internal USB Key (PowerEdge M915, M910,

M710, M710HD, M610, and M610x Only). . . . . . . . . 232

Network Daughter Card/LOM Riser Card

(PowerEdge M915 and M710HD Only). . . . . . . . . . 233

Removing the LOM Riser Card . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Installing the LOM Riser Card . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Riser

(PowerEdge M610x Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines . . . . . . 235

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Expansion-Card Riser (PowerEdge M610x Only) . . . . 239

8Contents

Removing the Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . 239

Installing the Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . 243

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Processor Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . 243

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Installing a Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

FlexMem Bridge (PowerEdge M910 Only) . . . . 261

HT Bridge Card (PowerEdge M905 Only) . . . . . 262

Blade System Board NVRAM Backup Battery. . . . . 265

Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Hard Drive Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . 267

Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Configuring the Boot Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Removing a Hard Drive From a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Installing a Hard Drive in a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Video Controller (PowerEdge M905, M805,

M605, and M600 Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Hard-Drive Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Blade System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Installing the System Board. . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Removing the Storage Controller Board . . . . . 281

Installing the Storage Controller Board . . . . . 282

Midplane Interface Card (PowerEdge M610x) . . . . 283

Removing the Midplane Interface Card . . . . . 283

Contents 9

Installing the Midplane Interface Card. . . . . . . 285

4 Installing Enclosure Components . . . . . 287

Power Supply Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

System Power Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Power Supply Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Removing a Power Supply Module. . . . . . . . . 288

Installing a Power Supply Module . . . . . . . . . 291

Fan Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Removing a Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Installing a Fan Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

CMC Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Removing a CMC Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Installing an SD Card in the CMC Module . . . . . 294

Installing a CMC Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

iKVM Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Removing an iKVM Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Installing an iKVM Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

I/O Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Removing an I/O Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Installing an I/O Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Enclosure Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Removing the Enclosure Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Installing the Enclosure Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Enclosure Midplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Installing the Midplane and Front

Module Cage Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Enclosure Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . 303

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Removing the Enclosure Control Panel. . . . . . 303

Installing the Enclosure Control Panel . . . . . . 305

LCD Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Removing the LCD Module . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Installing the LCD Module . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

5 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 309

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . 309

Start-Up Routine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Checking the Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 310

Troubleshooting Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Troubleshooting the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . 311

Troubleshooting the Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Troubleshooting USB Devices . . . . . . . . . . 312

Responding to a Systems Management

Alert Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Troubleshooting a Wet Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Troubleshooting a Damaged Enclosure . . . . . . . . 313

Troubleshooting Enclosure Components . . . . . . . 314

Troubleshooting Power Supply Modules . . . . . 314

Troubleshooting Fan Modules . . . . . . . . . . 315

Troubleshooting the CMC Module . . . . . . . . 315

Troubleshooting the iKVM Module . . . . . . . . 317

Troubleshooting a Network

Switch Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Troubleshooting Blade Components. . . . . . . . . . 319

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