Silicon Graphics Rackable C1110-RP6 User manual

SGI®Rackable™C1110-RP6

System User Guide

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Contractor/manufacturer is Silicon Graphics, International, Inc., 46600 Landing Parkway, Freemont, CA 94538.

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Record of Revision

Version Description

001 October 2012

Original publication

002 September 2013

Added support for Intel®Xeon®E5-2600 and E5-2600v2 Series processors plus

miscellaneous front matter changes.

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Contents

Record of Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Related Publications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Product Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Reader Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

1 Introduction and Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

ESD and Safety Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

System Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Serverboard Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Quick Path Interconnect (QPI). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Serial ATA/SAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

PCI Expansion Slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

On-board Controllers/Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

IPMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Other Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

BMC Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

PCIe Sub-system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Server Chassis Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

System Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Disk Drive Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Cooling System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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2 System Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Unpacking the System and Choosing an Operating Location . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Preparing for Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Choosing a Setup Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Rack Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Server Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Rack Mounting Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Ambient Operating Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Reduced Airflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Mechanical Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Circuit Overloading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Reliable Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

System Warnings and Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Installing the System into a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Identifying the Sections of the Rack Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Installing the Inner Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Installing the Outer Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Locking Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Installing the Server into the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Installing the Server into a Telco Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Server Access After Rack Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Remove/Replace the Chassis Top Covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Checking the Components and Setup Before Power On . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Checking the Hard Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Checking the Airflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Providing Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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3 System Interfaces Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

System Interface Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Control Panel Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Control Panel LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Universal Information LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Disk Drive Carrier LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

4 Internal Component Replacement and Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

General Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Installing System DIMM Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Installing Memory DIMMs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Adding PCIe Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

System Fans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

System Fan Failure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Drive Bay Installation/Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Disk Drive Removal and Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Mounting a Drive in a Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Installing/Removing Hot-swap Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Power Supply Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Removing the 650-Watt Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Installing a New 650-Watt Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Removing the 450-Watt Non-Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Installing the 450-Watt Non-Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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Contents

A System Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

I/O Chipset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Memory Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Disk Drive Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Drive Bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Expansion Slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Serverboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

System Cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

System Input Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Environmental Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Regulatory Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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.About This Guide

This guide provides an overview of the SGI®Rackable™ C1110-RP6 servers along with

instructions for system installation and general operation. The appendices include technical

specifications and safety practices.

Audience

This guide is written for owners, installers, system administrators, and users of C1110-RP6

servers. It is written with the assumption that the reader has a good working knowledge of

computers and computer systems.

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About This Guide

Related Publications

Depending on your choice of system components and operating system, the following SGI

documents may be relevant to your server:

• SGI Foundation Software release notes

• SGI Performance Suite release notes

• SGI InfiniteStorage series documentation

• Man pages

You can obtain SGI documentation, release notes, or man pages in the following ways:

• Refer to the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats are

available. This library contains the most recent set of books and man pages.

• Refer to the SGI Supportfolio™ webpage for release notes and other documents whose

access require a support contract. See “Product Support” on page xi.

Note: For information on your motherboard and related system components, see the

documentation provided by the manufacturer/supplier.

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