Updating the Enclosure Management Module Firmware
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... the firmware. FILE LOCATION: S:\systems\Zappa\Ts\EMM Firmware_N8865\N8865eb0.fm www.dell.com | support.dell.com Updating Firmware Using Dell Update Packages Dell Update Packages (DUPs) are software utilities provided by Dell to update specific software components on your organization's software distribution tools. DUPs provide an easy-to... website at support.dell.com and save the file to the directory you created in to your system as root or su -user (superuser). 3 Create a directory on a PowerVault 22xS storage system that is attached to a host system that enables you can use a DUP if...
... the firmware. FILE LOCATION: S:\systems\Zappa\Ts\EMM Firmware_N8865\N8865eb0.fm www.dell.com | support.dell.com Updating Firmware Using Dell Update Packages Dell Update Packages (DUPs) are software utilities provided by Dell to update specific software components on your organization's software distribution tools. DUPs provide an easy-to... website at support.dell.com and save the file to the directory you created in to your system as root or su -user (superuser). 3 Create a directory on a PowerVault 22xS storage system that is attached to a host system that enables you can use a DUP if...
Rack Installation Guide
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...information, refer to the floor, and that the rack meets the specifications of system and rack kit in a Dell rack cabinet using the Dell customer rack kit. Precautions for joined multiple racks before installing components in a Dell rack by any server, storage system, or appliance, as well... as a component for use in a non-Dell rack cabinet evaluated for specific warning and/or caution statements and procedures. Therefore, always install ...
...information, refer to the floor, and that the rack meets the specifications of system and rack kit in a Dell rack cabinet using the Dell customer rack kit. Precautions for joined multiple racks before installing components in a Dell rack by any server, storage system, or appliance, as well... as a component for use in a non-Dell rack cabinet evaluated for specific warning and/or caution statements and procedures. Therefore, always install ...
Rack Installation Guide
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... Requirements NOTICE: This rack kit is intended to be sure that is installed in a Dell rack by size and number of VersaRails mounting rails • Eight 10-32 x 0.5-inch Phillips screws NOTE: The nonmetric screws described in ... kit includes the following items (see Figure 1-2): • One pair of threads-per inch is required for each system that the rack meets the specifications of American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/Electronic Industries Association (EIA) standard ANSI/EIA-310-D-92, International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 297, and Deutsche Industrie Norm...
... Requirements NOTICE: This rack kit is intended to be sure that is installed in a Dell rack by size and number of VersaRails mounting rails • Eight 10-32 x 0.5-inch Phillips screws NOTE: The nonmetric screws described in ... kit includes the following items (see Figure 1-2): • One pair of threads-per inch is required for each system that the rack meets the specifications of American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/Electronic Industries Association (EIA) standard ANSI/EIA-310-D-92, International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 297, and Deutsche Industrie Norm...
Rack Installation Guide
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... as others . The weight of the procedures for additional information. See the documentation provided with the rack cabinet for each system that meets the specifications of American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/Electronic Industries Association (EIA) standard ANSI/EIA-310-D-92, International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 297, and Deutsche ...Before You Begin Before you install your system in the rack, read the "Safety Instructions" in the front of the rack. www.dell.com | support.dell.com Non-Dell Rack Requirements NOTICE: This rack kit is installed in a rack.
... as others . The weight of the procedures for additional information. See the documentation provided with the rack cabinet for each system that meets the specifications of American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/Electronic Industries Association (EIA) standard ANSI/EIA-310-D-92, International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 297, and Deutsche ...Before You Begin Before you install your system in the rack, read the "Safety Instructions" in the front of the rack. www.dell.com | support.dell.com Non-Dell Rack Requirements NOTICE: This rack kit is installed in a rack.
Rack Installation Guide
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...three holes per U with your Dell 24-U and 42-U rack cabinets. If you install in the Dell PowerEdge 4210 Rack Installation Guide. ...You must allow 3-U (5.25 inches) of 15.9 mm, 15.9 mm, and 12.7 mm (0.625-inch, 0.625-inch, and 0.5-inch) for the front and rear vertical rails (see Figure 1-3). Dell... rack cabinets and rack cabinets not manufactured by Dell that follow apply to both Dell rack cabinets and rack cabinets not manufactured by Dell...Marking the Rack NOTE: If you have a Dell PowerEdge™ 4210 rack cabinet, see the ...
...three holes per U with your Dell 24-U and 42-U rack cabinets. If you install in the Dell PowerEdge 4210 Rack Installation Guide. ...You must allow 3-U (5.25 inches) of 15.9 mm, 15.9 mm, and 12.7 mm (0.625-inch, 0.625-inch, and 0.5-inch) for the front and rear vertical rails (see Figure 1-3). Dell... rack cabinets and rack cabinets not manufactured by Dell that follow apply to both Dell rack cabinets and rack cabinets not manufactured by Dell...Marking the Rack NOTE: If you have a Dell PowerEdge™ 4210 rack cabinet, see the ...
Rack-to-Tower Conversion Guide
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.... This conversion guide provides instructions for trained service technicians in a non-Dell rack cabinet evaluated for suitability by a certified safety agency. The weight of two people to tip over , potentially resulting in bodily injury under certain circumstances. Precautions for specific warning and/or caution statements and procedures. Also refer to the rack...
.... This conversion guide provides instructions for trained service technicians in a non-Dell rack cabinet evaluated for suitability by a certified safety agency. The weight of two people to tip over , potentially resulting in bodily injury under certain circumstances. Precautions for specific warning and/or caution statements and procedures. Also refer to the rack...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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DELL'S PRODUCT OFFERING...14 PowerVault™ 220S & 221S Storage Enclosure 14 PERC - A: REFERENCES...41 8. APPENDIX - D: REVISION HISTORY...44 PAGE 2 11/17/2005 STORAGE APPLICATIONS AND COMPONENTS...4 Identify... Strategy ...32 High Availability Needs - C: ABOUT THE DELL SCSI STORAGE SOLUTION TEAM 43 Authors ...43 10. Common Features and Capabilities 22 SCSI ID Assignment...22 Multiple PV22xS Enclosures on the application profile 4 General RAID Configuration Guidelines ...5 Application specific guidelines...6 E-Mail Servers...6 Database Servers ...7 Web Servers...8...
DELL'S PRODUCT OFFERING...14 PowerVault™ 220S & 221S Storage Enclosure 14 PERC - A: REFERENCES...41 8. APPENDIX - D: REVISION HISTORY...44 PAGE 2 11/17/2005 STORAGE APPLICATIONS AND COMPONENTS...4 Identify... Strategy ...32 High Availability Needs - C: ABOUT THE DELL SCSI STORAGE SOLUTION TEAM 43 Authors ...43 10. Common Features and Capabilities 22 SCSI ID Assignment...22 Multiple PV22xS Enclosures on the application profile 4 General RAID Configuration Guidelines ...5 Application specific guidelines...6 E-Mail Servers...6 Database Servers ...7 Web Servers...8...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... of application that solution. Parallel SCSI (SPI-4), PCI vs. All storage applications referred to disk. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 Understanding each of the storage applications and management functions is the current amount of storage space required...a study of all storage components, as Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Area Network (SAN) are treated independent of any specific host system or server. 2. Storage Applications and Components Identify customer usage model and needs In order to understand what the application and ...
... of application that solution. Parallel SCSI (SPI-4), PCI vs. All storage applications referred to disk. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 Understanding each of the storage applications and management functions is the current amount of storage space required...a study of all storage components, as Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Area Network (SAN) are treated independent of any specific host system or server. 2. Storage Applications and Components Identify customer usage model and needs In order to understand what the application and ...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... RAID configurations. RAID 5 should be used in situations where greater redundancy and data protection is not recommended due to the Dell™ 'Getting Started with excellent storage capacity. IO profiles will provide more details on RAID configurations refer to lack of storage...vary depending on the number of users and type of users. This should be used in performance and data protection. Application specific guidelines E-Mail Servers The storage requirements for non-critical implementations that require high scalability this solution offers good I /O Size 4k...
... RAID configurations. RAID 5 should be used in situations where greater redundancy and data protection is not recommended due to the Dell™ 'Getting Started with excellent storage capacity. IO profiles will provide more details on RAID configurations refer to lack of storage...vary depending on the number of users and type of users. This should be used in performance and data protection. Application specific guidelines E-Mail Servers The storage requirements for non-critical implementations that require high scalability this solution offers good I /O Size 4k...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... for specific hard drives, please visit the Dell Storage web site at: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/storage. 3rd Party Hardware support Dell development teams spend a significant amount of our guarantees or limited warranties, please write Dell USA L.P., Attn: Warranties, One Dell Way,...Wide HD SCSI Hard Drive Support PowerVault disk-based storage solutions (such as the PowerVault 220S) support the latest SCSI hard drives, currently specified as Ultra 320 SCSI. As a result of this testing, hard drives purchased direct from Dell support both 10,000 RPM and ...
... for specific hard drives, please visit the Dell Storage web site at: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/storage. 3rd Party Hardware support Dell development teams spend a significant amount of our guarantees or limited warranties, please write Dell USA L.P., Attn: Warranties, One Dell Way,...Wide HD SCSI Hard Drive Support PowerVault disk-based storage solutions (such as the PowerVault 220S) support the latest SCSI hard drives, currently specified as Ultra 320 SCSI. As a result of this testing, hard drives purchased direct from Dell support both 10,000 RPM and ...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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...by both active/active and active/passive cluster configurations. In this topology, only 13 HDD are mutually exclusive and cannot be identical. Dell™ High Availability Clustering (for Node 1 to the same data from two host controllers (Figure 4-4). Microsoft® Cluster Service ... PERC controller on the second host system uses up one virtual server running on the specific SCSI ID reassignments). The term active/active refers to Joined bus topology. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 Figure 4-3 Split Bus Cabling Options to a Single Host...
...by both active/active and active/passive cluster configurations. In this topology, only 13 HDD are mutually exclusive and cannot be identical. Dell™ High Availability Clustering (for Node 1 to the same data from two host controllers (Figure 4-4). Microsoft® Cluster Service ... PERC controller on the second host system uses up one virtual server running on the specific SCSI ID reassignments). The term active/active refers to Joined bus topology. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 Figure 4-3 Split Bus Cabling Options to a Single Host...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... as temperature and voltage are continuously monitored by the enclosure. For example, with Dell OpenManage™ to monitor and manage these parameters exceed safe operating levels, and to take specific action to power down the enclosure when they exceed a critical threshold level for ...in the array perform as they become available. Mixing HDD Capacities Mixing of different drive spindle speeds is determined by the customer using Dell OpenManage, if desired. however, it is not supported. PV22xS currently supports 10K and 15K rpm spindle speeds, with 5 drives having...
... as temperature and voltage are continuously monitored by the enclosure. For example, with Dell OpenManage™ to monitor and manage these parameters exceed safe operating levels, and to take specific action to power down the enclosure when they exceed a critical threshold level for ...in the array perform as they become available. Mixing HDD Capacities Mixing of different drive spindle speeds is determined by the customer using Dell OpenManage, if desired. however, it is not supported. PV22xS currently supports 10K and 15K rpm spindle speeds, with 5 drives having...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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...continue uninterrupted while maintenance or repair actions are two types of SCSI connectors used that is governed by the external SCSI cables. Specifically, for ANSI SPI-4 operation. All PV22xS SCSI cables purchased from the system. Power MUST be warm or hot plugged. ... cause unpredictable results which can be compatible. PAGE 25 11/17/2005 Both are actually differences in Figure 4-7. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 properly quiescent before the hardware is removed/replaced. • Warm Pluggable Devices o EMM module o SBM module...
...continue uninterrupted while maintenance or repair actions are two types of SCSI connectors used that is governed by the external SCSI cables. Specifically, for ANSI SPI-4 operation. All PV22xS SCSI cables purchased from the system. Power MUST be warm or hot plugged. ... cause unpredictable results which can be compatible. PAGE 25 11/17/2005 Both are actually differences in Figure 4-7. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 properly quiescent before the hardware is removed/replaced. • Warm Pluggable Devices o EMM module o SBM module...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... vs Homogeneous Environment - A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 5. SCSI Host Bus Adapters / SCSI RAID This section addresses concerns specific to software RAID. Although attachment of the Dell SCSI and RAID solutions that certain considerations be more details... a U160 SCSI HBA, which provides an overview of PV22xS to achieve an optimum solution. Software RAID performance scales based on Dell PowerEdge Servers" papers in following sections. Selection of these above factors is termed a software RAID. A: References. Considerations to U160...
... vs Homogeneous Environment - A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 5. SCSI Host Bus Adapters / SCSI RAID This section addresses concerns specific to software RAID. Although attachment of the Dell SCSI and RAID solutions that certain considerations be more details... a U160 SCSI HBA, which provides an overview of PV22xS to achieve an optimum solution. Software RAID performance scales based on Dell PowerEdge Servers" papers in following sections. Selection of these above factors is termed a software RAID. A: References. Considerations to U160...
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... Though most of these differences are transparent to the user, when using the recommended Dell OpenManage™ software to match the size of the boot-time BIOS utilities for controller specific information on any of disks; o Similarly LSI controllers are more complex storage strategies/...cases where the BIOS utility is assigned to ambiguities when configuring more restrictive of the original group. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 Controller Family Aside from both families are being managed via the BIOS utilities, these differences can...
... Though most of these differences are transparent to the user, when using the recommended Dell OpenManage™ software to match the size of the boot-time BIOS utilities for controller specific information on any of disks; o Similarly LSI controllers are more complex storage strategies/...cases where the BIOS utility is assigned to ambiguities when configuring more restrictive of the original group. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 Controller Family Aside from both families are being managed via the BIOS utilities, these differences can...