Dell PowerEdge R810 User manual

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R810

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model: E05S

Regulatory Type: E05S001

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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Regulatory Model: E05S

Regulatory Type: E05S001

February 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

LCD Panel Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Setup Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

View Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Back-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 18

Guidelines for Connecting External Devices . . . . . . 20

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

Power Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Viewing Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Removing LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . 23

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Diagnostics Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

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Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

2 Using the System Setup Program

and UEFI Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Choosing the System Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Responding to Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . 60

Using the System Setup Program

Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Memory Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Processor Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

SATA Settings Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

PCI IRQ Assignments Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Embedded Server Management Screen . . . . . . 68

Power Management Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Entering the UEFI Boot Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Using the UEFI Boot Manager

Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

UEFI Boot Manager Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

UEFI Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

System Utilities Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

System and Setup Password Features. . . . . . . . . . 74

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Embedded System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

iDRAC6 Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Entering the iDRAC6 Configuration Utility . . . . . 79

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 81

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . 87

Installing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Removing a Hard Drive From a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Installing a Hard Drive Into a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Removing an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Installing an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

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Removing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Installing a Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Removing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 96

Installing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 96

Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Installing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Front-Chassis Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Sliding the Front-Chassis Assembly . . . . . . . . 98

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

General Memory Module

Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Installing Memory Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Removing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Installing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Removing the Cooling Fan Assembly . . . . . . . 110

Installing the Cooling Fan Assembly . . . . . . . 111

Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Internal NIC Hardware Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers . . . . . 114

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines. . . . . . 114

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Removing an Expansion Card. . . . . . . . . . . 118

Expansion-Card Risers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Removing Expansion-Card Riser 1 . . . . . . . . 119

Installing Expansion-Card Riser 1. . . . . . . . . 121

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Removing Expansion-Card Riser 2 . . . . . . . . . 121

Installing Expansion-Card Riser 2 . . . . . . . . . 122

iDRAC6 Enterprise Card (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Installing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 123

Removing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 125

Integrated Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Removing the Integrated Storage

Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Installing the Integrated Storage

Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

VFlash Media (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Installing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Removing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . 129

RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Removing a RAID Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Installing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Internal Dual SD Module (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . 131

Removing the Internal Dual SD Module . . . . . . 131

Installing the Internal Dual SD Module. . . . . . . 132

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

FlexMem Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Installing a FlexMem Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Removing a FlexMem Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 144

SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

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Removing the SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . 146

Installing the SAS Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . 148

Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Removing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . 149

Replacing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . 151

Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Removing the Control Panel

Display Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Installing the Control Panel

Display Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Removing the Control Panel Board . . . . . . . . 154

Installing the Control Panel Board . . . . . . . . 154

System Board Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Removing the System Board Assembly. . . . . . 155

Installing the System Board Assembly . . . . . . 158

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 161

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . 161

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure. . . . . . . . 161

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 161

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem. . . . . . . . . 162

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device. . . . . . . . . . 163

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Troubleshooting a Wet System. . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Troubleshooting a Damaged System. . . . . . . . . . 165

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Troubleshooting the System Battery. . . . . . . . . . . 166

Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 167

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key . . . . . . . . . . 171

Troubleshooting an SD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Troubleshooting an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Troubleshooting a Tape Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . 174

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . . 176

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Troubleshooting the Processors. . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . 181

Using Online Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Embedded System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . . 181

When to Use the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . 182

Running the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . . . 182

System Diagnostics Testing Options . . . . . . . . . . 182

Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Selecting Devices for Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . . 183

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Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . 183

6 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 185

System Board Jumper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

SAS Backplane Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . 189

Power Distribution Board Connectors. . . . . . . . . 190

Expansion-Card Riser-Board Components

and PCIe Buses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Disabling a Forgotten Password. . . . . . . . . . . . 193

7 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Contacting Dell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

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