Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX270 S1 User manual

Operating Manual - English

PRIMERGY CX270 S1

Server Node

Operating Manual

Edition May 2012

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CX270 S1 Operating Manual

Before reading this manual

For your safety

This manual contains important information for safely and correctly using this

product.

Carefully read the manual before using this product. Pay particular attention to

the accompanying manual "Safety Notes and Regulations" and ensure these

safety notes are understood before using the product. Keep this manual and the

manual "Safety Notes and Regulations" in a safe place for easy reference while

using this product.

Radio interference

This product is a "Class A" ITE (Information Technology Equipment). In a

domestic environment this product may cause radio interference, in which case

the user may be required to take appropriate measures. VCCI-A

Aluminum electrolytic capacitors

The aluminum electrolytic capacitors used in the product's printed circuit board

assemblies and in the mouse and keyboard are limited-life components. Use of

these components beyond their operating life may result in electrolyte leakage

or depletion, potentially causing emission of foul odor or smoke.

As a guideline, in a normal office environment (25°C) operating life is not

expected to be reached within the maintenance support period (5 years).

However, operating life may be reached more quickly if, for example, the

product is used in a hot environment. The customer shall bear the cost of

replacing replaceable components which have exceeded their operating life.

Note that these are only guidelines, and do not constitute a guarantee of

trouble-free operation during the maintenance support period.

High safety use

This product has been designed and manufactured for general uses such as

general office use, personal use, domestic use and normal industrial use. It has

not been designed or manufactured for uses which demand an extremely high

level of safety and carry a direct and serious risk to life or body if such safety

cannot be ensured.

Operating Manual CX270 S1

These uses include control of nuclear reactions in nuclear power plants,

automatic airplane flight control, air traffic control, traffic control in mass

transport systems, medical devices for life support, and missile guidance

control in weapons systems (hereafter, "high safety use"). Customers should

not use this product for high safety use unless measures are in place for

ensuring the level of safety demanded of such use. Please consult the sales

staff of Fujitsu if intending to use this product for high safety use.

Measures against momentary voltage drop

This product may be affected by a momentary voltage drop in the power supply

caused by lightning. To prevent a momentary voltage drop, use of an AC

uninterruptible power supply is recommended.

(This notice follows the guidelines of Voltage Dip Immunity of Personal

Computer issued by JEITA, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology

Industries Association.)

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Harmonic Current Standards

This product conforms to harmonic current standard JIS C 61000-3-2.

Only for the Japanese market:

About SATA hard disk drives

The SATA version of this server supports hard disk drives with SATA / BC-SATA

storage interfaces. Please note that the usage and operation conditions differ

depending on the type of hard disk drive used.

Please refer to the following internet address for further information on the

usage and operation conditions of each available type of hard disk drive:

http://jp.fujitsu.com/platform/server/primergy/harddisk/

CX270 S1 Operating Manual

Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

1.1 Concept and target groups for this manual . . . . . . . . . . 8

1.2 Documentation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.3 Notational conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2 Functional overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.1 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.2 Server node specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3 Installation steps, overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4 Important information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

4.1 Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

4.2 CE conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4.3 FCC Class A Compliance Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

4.4 Transporting the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

4.5 Environmental protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5 Hardware installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

5.1 Unpacking the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

5.2 Installing a server node to the server enclosure . . . . . . . 37

5.3 Connecting devices to the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

5.4 Notes on connecting/disconnecting cables . . . . . . . . . 41

6 Starting up and operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Operating Manual CX270 S1

Contents

6.1 Controls and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

6.1.1 Controls of the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

6.1.1.1 Control elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

6.1.1.2 Indicators on the control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

6.1.1.3 LAN indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

6.2 Switching the server node on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

6.3 Configuring the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

6.3.1 Configuring the onboard SATA controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

6.3.2 Configuring the SAS/SATA RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

6.3.3 Operating system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

6.4 Cleaning the server node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

7 Property and data protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

7.1 BIOS Setup security functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

8 Troubleshooting and tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

8.1 Power-on indicator remains unlit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

8.2 Server node switches itself off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

8.3 Screen remains blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

8.4 Flickering stripes on monitor screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

8.5 No screen display or display drifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

8.6 Incorrect date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

8.7 System will not boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

8.8 Error message on screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

CX270 S1 Operating Manual 7

1 Introduction

Two PRIMERGY CX270 S1 server nodes, each in a half-wide, 2U form-factor,

are embedded as a set into a single 2U PRIMERGY CX400 multi-node server

enclosure, thus providing an aggregated scale-out performance of a total of 4

CPUs of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family. The dual socket

server nodes combine high performance and attractive purchase costs with

high energy efficiency while coming without any local fans or power supply

units. With up to 16 high bandwidth memory modules for up to 512 GB capacity

and two top-bin CPUs out of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 family,

CX270 S1 server nodes have a great versatility to match very ambitious server

profiles and workload scenarios. Two main usage scenarios are high

performance computing and virtual client computing, the latter utilizing e. g.

Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View Premier, or Microsoft Windows VDS as

enabling software bases.

Besides two onboard 1 GbE ports, three PCIe Gen3 I/O slots are provided, one

for an x16 GPGPU card and the other for two x8 low profile card. Diverse

interfaces from 1 to 10 Gb Ethernet, 10 Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet, up to

56 Gb FDR Infiniband may be used with LP cards, while the mezzanine slot

either holds a 10 GbE or a RAID controller.

Access to local storage drives is granted by assignment of up to six HDDs or

SSDs that are physically located in the PRIMERGY CX400 server enclosure.

Four SATA drives can flexibly be accessed via onboard controller with software

RAID 0, 1 (six w/o RAID); more drives, SAS drives, or additional RAID 5, 50, 6

is realized via RAID card with cache and optional BBU. Local system boot for

VMware ESXi is possible via USB Flash Module.

The highly compact server node occupies two height units (HU) in the server

enclosure.

8 Operating Manual CX270 S1

Introduction

1.1 Concept and target groups for this manual

This operating manual describes how to install, set up and operate your server

node.

This operating manual is intended for those responsible for installing the

hardware and ensuring that the system runs smoothly. It contains all the

information you need to put your PRIMERGY CX270 S1 server node into

operation.

To understand the various expansion options, you will need to be familiar with

the fields of hardware and data transmission and you will require a basic

knowledge of the underlying operating system.

CX270 S1 Operating Manual 9

Introduction

1.2 Documentation overview

More information on your PRIMERGY CX270 S1 server node can be found in

the following documents:

– "Quick Start Hardware - PRIMERGY CX270 S1 Server Node" leaflet

(only included as a printed copy)

– "Quick Start Software - Quick Installation Guide" DVD booklet

(only included with the ServerView Suite as a printed copy)

– "Safety Notes and Regulations" manual

"安全上のご注意 " for the Japanese market

– "Warranty" manual

"保証書 " for the Japanese market

– "Returning used devices" manual and "Service Desk" leaflet

"サポート＆サービス " for the Japanese market

– "PRIMERGY CX270 S1 Server Node Upgrade and Maintenance Manual"

– "D3196 BIOS Setup Utility for PRIMERGY CX270 S1" Reference Manual

Further information

The PRIMERGY CX270 S1 Server Node is a multi-node system. For

information on the server enclosure please refer to the following manuals:

– PRIMERGY CX400 S1 Server Enclosure Operating Manua

– PRIMERGY CX400 S1 Server Enclosure Upgrade and Maintenance

manual

10 Operating Manual CX270 S1

Introduction

IPRIMERGY manuals are available in PDF format on the

ServerView Suite DVD 2. The ServerView Suite DVD 2 is part of the

ServerView Suite supplied with every server node.

If you no longer have the ServerView Suite DVDs, you can obtain the

relevant current versions using the order number U15000-C289 (the

order number for the Japanese market: please refer to the configurator

of the server node http://jp.fujitsu.com/platform/server/primergy/system/).

The PDF files of the manuals can also be downloaded free of charge

from the Internet. The overview page showing the online documentation

available on the Internet can be found using the URL (for EMEA market):

http://manuals.ts.fujitsu.com. The PRIMERGY server node documentation

can be accessed using the Industry standard servers navigation option.

For the Japanese market:

Please refer to the following URL for the latest product manuals:

http://jp.fujitsu.com/platform/server/primergy/manual/

Before using the product, please check for additional information that

may be available under the following URL:

http://jp.fujitsu.com/platform/server/primergy/products/note/

Further sources of information:

– ServerView Suite Glossary on the ServerView Suite DVD 2

– Manual for the monitor

– Documentation for the boards and drives

– Operating system documentation

– Information files in your operating system

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