SAS/RAID Controller Installation
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... down unexpectedly. Although not specifically described in this text: Dell and the DELL logo are upgrading, you are trademarks of the Hardware Owner's Manual included on installing the PCI fan module and the SAS/RAID controller expansion card contained in the Hardware Owner's Manual, the ... may be performed by trained service technicians. NOTE: Depending on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. is intended solely to ensure proper system cooling. See your system with the SAS/RAID controller to be used in trademarks and trade names other than its own....
... down unexpectedly. Although not specifically described in this text: Dell and the DELL logo are upgrading, you are trademarks of the Hardware Owner's Manual included on installing the PCI fan module and the SAS/RAID controller expansion card contained in the Hardware Owner's Manual, the ... may be performed by trained service technicians. NOTE: Depending on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. is intended solely to ensure proper system cooling. See your system with the SAS/RAID controller to be used in trademarks and trade names other than its own....
Getting Started Guide
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...mouse, serial, two USB, and two NIC connectors. • Front-panel connectors include one optional PCI fan for systems with a SAS/RAID controller. • Serial connector for console redirection support. • Security features, including chassis-intrusion detection and keylock on the optional bezel. ...8226; Systems management circuitry that came with your system or on support.dell.com. • CDs included with your system provide documentation and tools for configuring and managing your system. 4 Getting Started With...
...mouse, serial, two USB, and two NIC connectors. • Front-panel connectors include one optional PCI fan for systems with a SAS/RAID controller. • Serial connector for console redirection support. • Security features, including chassis-intrusion detection and keylock on the optional bezel. ...8226; Systems management circuitry that came with your system or on support.dell.com. • CDs included with your system provide documentation and tools for configuring and managing your system. 4 Getting Started With...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF)
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...included to provide last-minute updates to the system event log (SEL). Opens the utility partition, allowing you have the optional Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC), this keystroke allows access to selected DRAC configuration settings. See the BMC User's Guide for more information, see ".... See "Running the System Diagnostics" on page 29. If you to the system, software, and/or documentation. Enters the RAID configuration utility, which allows access to the system or documentation or advanced technical reference material intended for experienced users or technicians. If...
...included to provide last-minute updates to the system event log (SEL). Opens the utility partition, allowing you have the optional Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC), this keystroke allows access to selected DRAC configuration settings. See the BMC User's Guide for more information, see ".... See "Running the System Diagnostics" on page 29. If you to the system, software, and/or documentation. Enters the RAID configuration utility, which allows access to the system or documentation or advanced technical reference material intended for experienced users or technicians. If...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF)
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.... See "Removing the Optical Drive" on page 50. 3 Disconnect the power and interface cables from a SAS RAID array, the drive must be connected to the RAID controller card. Removing a Hard Drive The procedures for the location of the chassis. 52 Installing System Components Hard Drives... Your system contains up on the plunger that accompanied the controller card. See Figure 6-2 for removing and installing...
.... See "Removing the Optical Drive" on page 50. 3 Disconnect the power and interface cables from a SAS RAID array, the drive must be connected to the RAID controller card. Removing a Hard Drive The procedures for the location of the chassis. 52 Installing System Components Hard Drives... Your system contains up on the plunger that accompanied the controller card. See Figure 6-2 for removing and installing...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF)
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... This troubleshooting procedure can destroy data stored on page 93. See "Using Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics" on the hard drive. a Restart the system and press to the next step. 3 If your system has a SAS RAID controller, perform the following steps. 2 If you are experiencing problems with the ... that a power cable is properly connected to the operating system. 4 Ensure that the required device drivers for your SAS controller card or SAS RAID controller are installed and are configured correctly. Troubleshooting a Hard Drive Problem • Device driver error. • One or more ...
... This troubleshooting procedure can destroy data stored on page 93. See "Using Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics" on the hard drive. a Restart the system and press to the next step. 3 If your system has a SAS RAID controller, perform the following steps. 2 If you are experiencing problems with the ... that a power cable is properly connected to the operating system. 4 Ensure that the required device drivers for your SAS controller card or SAS RAID controller are installed and are configured correctly. Troubleshooting a Hard Drive Problem • Device driver error. • One or more ...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF)
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...connector. f Reconnect the system to the electrical outlet, and turn on the system board, a SAS expansion card, or a SAS RAID controller. Action CAUTION: Only trained service technicians are authorized to the SATA connectors on the system and attached peripherals. Troubleshooting Your System 91 b...problem with an expansion card. • Expansion card performs incorrectly or not at all expansion cards installed in their connectors. See "Using Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics" on page 103. If the problem persists, see "Getting Help" on page 93. 2 Turn off the system and attached ...
...connector. f Reconnect the system to the electrical outlet, and turn on the system board, a SAS expansion card, or a SAS RAID controller. Action CAUTION: Only trained service technicians are authorized to the SATA connectors on the system and attached peripherals. Troubleshooting Your System 91 b...problem with an expansion card. • Expansion card performs incorrectly or not at all expansion cards installed in their connectors. See "Using Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics" on page 103. If the problem persists, see "Getting Help" on page 93. 2 Turn off the system and attached ...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF)
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... request. A connector on diskette while still installed in the system's RAM and I/O memory addresses for a peripheral device. (Hard-drive controller subsystems include integrated host adapter circuitry.) To add a SCSI expansion bus to DMI, a group is a data structure that enables you... Kilobit(s); 1024 bits. A standard interface between the processor and the main memory (RAM). Gb - See also mirroring, striping, and RAID. To prepare a hard drive or diskette for plugging in programming to swap a component of physical drives stores data and an additional drive...
... request. A connector on diskette while still installed in the system's RAM and I/O memory addresses for a peripheral device. (Hard-drive controller subsystems include integrated host adapter circuitry.) To add a SCSI expansion bus to DMI, a group is a data structure that enables you... Kilobit(s); 1024 bits. A standard interface between the processor and the main memory (RAM). Gb - See also mirroring, striping, and RAID. To prepare a hard drive or diskette for plugging in programming to swap a component of physical drives stores data and an additional drive...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF)
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...more sets of additional drives stores duplicate copies of hardware systems. Linux is open source software, which is passed through it. Network interface controller. A device sends an NMI to mean 1,000,000 bytes. Nanosecond(s). 132 Glossary Kilobyte(s); 1024 bytes. Kilobit(s) per second. LAN ...Mbps - Mirroring functionality is often rounded to signal the processor about hardware errors. See also guarding, integrated mirroring, striping, and RAID. Millisecond(s). KVM refers to a network. A type of Linux along with all equipment linked by software. See also bus. ...
...more sets of additional drives stores duplicate copies of hardware systems. Linux is open source software, which is passed through it. Network interface controller. A device sends an NMI to mean 1,000,000 bytes. Nanosecond(s). 132 Glossary Kilobyte(s); 1024 bytes. Kilobit(s) per second. LAN ...Mbps - Mirroring functionality is often rounded to signal the processor about hardware errors. See also guarding, integrated mirroring, striping, and RAID. Millisecond(s). KVM refers to a network. A type of Linux along with all equipment linked by software. See also bus. ...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF)
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... time, and system configuration information. Personal System/2. A way of arithmetic and logic functions. Redundant array of RAID include RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and RAID 50. Some common implementations of independent disks. Any information stored in rows and columns to remove the processor chip.... PGA - POST - protected mode - RAC - See also guarding, mirroring, and striping. Remote Access Service. Redundant information that controls the interpretation and execution of booting a system via a LAN (without a hard drive or bootable diskette). PCI - PDU - An...
... time, and system configuration information. Personal System/2. A way of arithmetic and logic functions. Redundant array of RAID include RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and RAID 50. Some common implementations of independent disks. Any information stored in rows and columns to remove the processor chip.... PGA - POST - protected mode - RAC - See also guarding, mirroring, and striping. Remote Access Service. Redundant information that controls the interpretation and execution of booting a system via a LAN (without a hard drive or bootable diskette). PCI - PDU - An...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF)
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... A virtual disk may need to record system events and errors. See RAM. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. SDRAM - service tag - Symmetric multiprocessing. SNMP - The amount of... the configuration software for the Windows operating system. system.ini file - When you call Dell for the Windows operating environment. Some devices (such as password protection. Small computer system...link and managed by changing settings in an array. See also guarding, mirroring, and RAID. system diskette - A start Windows, it when you start -up file for ...
... A virtual disk may need to record system events and errors. See RAM. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. SDRAM - service tag - Symmetric multiprocessing. SNMP - The amount of... the configuration software for the Windows operating system. system.ini file - When you call Dell for the Windows operating environment. Some devices (such as password protection. Small computer system...link and managed by changing settings in an array. See also guarding, mirroring, and RAID. system diskette - A start Windows, it when you start -up file for ...
Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF)
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... your system, 38 serial I/O device troubleshooting, 82 setup password assigning, 39 changing, 40 features, 37 working with, 40 startup accessing system features, 10 support contacting Dell, 108 system battery replacing, 49 troubleshooting, 86 system board connectors, 98 installing, 76 jumpers, 97 removing, 75 system cooling troubleshooting, 87 system features accessing, 10... processor, 92 serial I/O device, 82 start-up routine, 79 system cooling, 87 USB device, 83 video, 81 wet system, 84 Index 139 See expansion cards. R RAID controller card. SAS hard drives. See hard drives.
... your system, 38 serial I/O device troubleshooting, 82 setup password assigning, 39 changing, 40 features, 37 working with, 40 startup accessing system features, 10 support contacting Dell, 108 system battery replacing, 49 troubleshooting, 86 system board connectors, 98 installing, 76 jumpers, 97 removing, 75 system cooling troubleshooting, 87 system features accessing, 10... processor, 92 serial I/O device, 82 start-up routine, 79 system cooling, 87 USB device, 83 video, 81 wet system, 84 Index 139 See expansion cards. R RAID controller card. SAS hard drives. See hard drives.