Dell PowerVault DL2000 User manual

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Dell™ PowerVault™ DL2000

Hardware Owner’s Manual

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Notes, Notices, and Cautions

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Model EMS01

September 2009 Rev. A01

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Contents 3

Contents

1 About Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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

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

Hard-Drive Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Back-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting External Devices . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Power Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Solving Problems Described by LCD

Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Removing LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . 31

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Diagnostics Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

2 Using the System Setup Program . . . . . . 45

Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . 45

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Responding to Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . 46

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Memory Information Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

CPU Information Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 53

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

System and Setup Password Features . . . . . . . . . 56

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Disabling a Forgotten Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Baseboard Management Controller Configuration . . . 61

Entering the BMC Setup Module . . . . . . . . . . 61

BMC Setup Module Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 63

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Replacing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Removing a Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Installing a Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Removing a Hot-Plug Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . 70

Installing a Hot-Plug Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . 70

Replacing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Removing a Hard Drive From a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Installing a SATA Hard Drive Into a SATA

Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Installing a SATA Hard Drive and Interposer

Card Into a SATAu Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . 73

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Removing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Replacing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Removing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . 78

Installing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 78

System Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Removing a System Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Replacing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Installing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Fan Brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Removing the Fan Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Replacing the Fan Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Cable Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Removing the Cable Retention Bracket . . . . . . 83

Installing the Cable Retention Bracket . . . . . . 84

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SAS Controller Daughter Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Installing a SAS Controller Daughter Card . . . . . 85

SAS Controller Daughter Card

Cabling Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Removing a SAS Controller Daughter Card . . . . 87

Configuring the Boot Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines . . . . . . 88

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Expansion-Card Cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Removing the Expansion-Card Cage . . . . . . . . 91

Replacing the Expansion-Card Cage . . . . . . . . 93

DRAC Card and Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing the DRAC Card and Cables . . . . . . . 93

Removing the DRAC Card and Cables . . . . . . . 95

Optical Drive and Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Removing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Installing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Removing the Optical Drive Cable . . . . . . . . . 99

Installing the Optical Drive Cable . . . . . . . . . 99

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

General Memory Module Installation

Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Non-Optimal Memory Configurations . . . . . . . 101

Memory Sparing Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Memory Mirroring Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Installing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

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Activating the Integrated NIC TOE . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Expansion-Card Riser Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Removing the Left Expansion-Card

Riser Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Installing the Left Riser Board . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Removing the Central Riser Board . . . . . . . . . 114

Installing the Central Riser Board . . . . . . . . . 115

Sideplane Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Removing the Sideplane Board . . . . . . . . . . 116

Installing the Sideplane Board . . . . . . . . . . . 118

SAS Backplane Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Removing the SAS Backplane Board . . . . . . . 118

Installing the SAS Backplane Board . . . . . . . . 120

Control Panel Assembly (Service-only Procedure) . . 122

Removing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . 122

Installing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . 123

System Board (Service-only Procedure) . . . . . . . . 124

Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Installing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 129

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 129

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Start-Up Routine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Checking the Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Troubleshooting IRQ Assignment Conflicts . . . . 130

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . 131

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem . . . . . . . 131

Troubleshooting the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Troubleshooting the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Troubleshooting Basic I/O Functions . . . . . . . . . . 133

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device . . . . . . . . 134

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Troubleshooting a Wet System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Troubleshooting a Damaged System . . . . . . . . . . 138

Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 138

Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 140

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Troubleshooting an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Troubleshooting an External SCSI Tape Drive . . . . . 144

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Troubleshooting a SAS Controller Daughter Card . . . 147

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Troubleshooting the Microprocessors . . . . . . . . . 150

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5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . 153

Using Server Administrator Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 153

System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

When to Use the System Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . 154

Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

System Diagnostics Testing Options . . . . . . . . . . 154

Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Selecting Devices for Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . 156

6 Jumpers and Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 157

System Board Jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

SAS Backplane Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Sideplane Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Expansion-Card Riser-Board Components and

PCI Buses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Disabling a Forgotten Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

7 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

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Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

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