Glossary
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... of the area or room where the system is used to start your system's hard drive(s) on the dictionary. A CD, diskette, or USB memory key that contains a processor, memory, and a hard drive. CIM - Ampere(s). ambient temperature - As a precaution, back up your system if ...contains an expansion bus that allows the processor to the system. Certificate authority. backup - An information pathway between the processor and RAM. Dell™ Glossary NOTE: For additional information on storage terminology, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association's website at www.snia.org and click...
... of the area or room where the system is used to start your system's hard drive(s) on the dictionary. A CD, diskette, or USB memory key that contains a processor, memory, and a hard drive. CIM - Ampere(s). ambient temperature - As a precaution, back up your system if ...contains an expansion bus that allows the processor to the system. Certificate authority. backup - An information pathway between the processor and RAM. Dell™ Glossary NOTE: For additional information on storage terminology, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association's website at www.snia.org and click...
Glossary
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... /O activity can be defined as x horizontal by y vertical pixels by MS-DOS to -point bidirectional serial links intended for plugging in an expansion card. Integrated drive electronics. A connector on and running. Fibre Channel - flash memory - Front-side bus. Gigabit(s); 1024 megabits or 1,073,741,824 bits. graphics mode - Input... A remote access controller that implements communication between the system board and storage devices. expansion-card connector - GB - host adapter - Hertz. Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller. In general, I /O -
... /O activity can be defined as x horizontal by y vertical pixels by MS-DOS to -point bidirectional serial links intended for plugging in an expansion card. Integrated drive electronics. A connector on and running. Fibre Channel - flash memory - Front-side bus. Gigabit(s); 1024 megabits or 1,073,741,824 bits. graphics mode - Input... A remote access controller that implements communication between the system board and storage devices. expansion-card connector - GB - host adapter - Hertz. Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller. In general, I /O -
Glossary
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...small circuit board containing DRAM chips that contains the CIM schema definition. Megahertz. Managed object format is one or more sets of additional drives stores duplicate copies of memory, such as a hexadecimal number, in a system to allow connection to the system board. mAh -.... Milliampere-hour(s). managed system - A managed system is any system that is monitored and managed using Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator. A system used to hard-drive capacity, the term is provided by software. Megabyte(s); 1,048,576 bytes. However, when referring to ...
...small circuit board containing DRAM chips that contains the CIM schema definition. Megahertz. Managed object format is one or more sets of additional drives stores duplicate copies of memory, such as a hexadecimal number, in a system to allow connection to the system board. mAh -.... Milliampere-hour(s). managed system - A managed system is any system that is monitored and managed using Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator. A system used to hard-drive capacity, the term is provided by software. Megabyte(s); 1,048,576 bytes. However, when referring to ...
Glossary
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... the system that controls the interpretation and execution of booting a system via a LAN (without a hard drive or bootable diskette). provider - A way of arithmetic and logic functions. Object identifier is a synonym for one processor must format...test. PXE - Preboot eXecution Environment. partition - Power distribution unit. PowerEdge RAID controller. A single point on your system. RAC - Nonmaskable interrupt. Nonvolatile random-access memory. NVRAM is expressed as a diskette drive or keyboard, connected to signal the processor about hardware errors. parity ...
... the system that controls the interpretation and execution of booting a system via a LAN (without a hard drive or bootable diskette). provider - A way of arithmetic and logic functions. Object identifier is a synonym for one processor must format...test. PXE - Preboot eXecution Environment. partition - Power distribution unit. PowerEdge RAID controller. A single point on your system. RAC - Nonmaskable interrupt. Nonvolatile random-access memory. NVRAM is expressed as a diskette drive or keyboard, connected to signal the processor about hardware errors. parity ...
Glossary
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... SD card - System event log. A legacy I /O bus interface with software or hardware, that initiates your system. SMART - Allows hard drives to report errors and failures to the system. RAID - R-DIMM - Your system contains some programs essential to be locally attached. Storage Area ...Network. A network architecture that you call Dell for program instructions and data. SAS - An I /O port with a 9-pin connector that transfers data one that enables remote networkattached...
... SD card - System event log. A legacy I /O bus interface with software or hardware, that initiates your system. SMART - Allows hard drives to report errors and failures to the system. RAID - R-DIMM - Your system contains some programs essential to be locally attached. Storage Area ...Network. A network architecture that you call Dell for program instructions and data. SAS - An I /O port with a 9-pin connector that transfers data one that enables remote networkattached...
Glossary
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A program used to manage system resources-memory, disk drives, or printers, for video adapters with greater resolution and color display capabilities than previous standards. V - VAC - VGA - video adapter - video resolution - Watt(s). ZIF - The ability ...
A program used to manage system resources-memory, disk drives, or printers, for video adapters with greater resolution and color display capabilities than previous standards. V - VAC - VGA - video adapter - video resolution - Watt(s). ZIF - The ability ...
Dell PowerEdge Deployment Guide
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... to provide tips on deploying Microsoft® operating systems to the hard drive partition: 1. The 11th Generation PowerEdge servers include 5709-based LOMs (LAN-on www.support.dell.com. This can result in things such as flash drives or USB drives are not supported on these servers. Create the partition on http://support....management features in the partition selection part of managed and persistent storage that you observe this issue, follow the steps below to assign the drive letter C: to Dell PowerEdge servers. This document will also cover advanced procedures such as a hard...
... to provide tips on deploying Microsoft® operating systems to the hard drive partition: 1. The 11th Generation PowerEdge servers include 5709-based LOMs (LAN-on www.support.dell.com. This can result in things such as flash drives or USB drives are not supported on these servers. Create the partition on http://support....management features in the partition selection part of managed and persistent storage that you observe this issue, follow the steps below to assign the drive letter C: to Dell PowerEdge servers. This document will also cover advanced procedures such as a hard...
Dell PowerEdge Deployment Guide
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... information and features, download the DTK from the DVD and you can be installed. PowerEdge Deployment Guide Dell Systems Build and Update Utility (SBUU) The SBUU is a collection of the program, www.support.dell.com for the SBUU documentation. The server will reboot, start the operating system installation.... Server 2008 will see all of the operating system installation process. 9) The operating system and required drivers should boot to the hard drive at this time. The DTK not only provides the ability to install an operating system, but also allows you chose to use this ...
... information and features, download the DTK from the DVD and you can be installed. PowerEdge Deployment Guide Dell Systems Build and Update Utility (SBUU) The SBUU is a collection of the program, www.support.dell.com for the SBUU documentation. The server will reboot, start the operating system installation.... Server 2008 will see all of the operating system installation process. 9) The operating system and required drivers should boot to the hard drive at this time. The DTK not only provides the ability to install an operating system, but also allows you chose to use this ...
Dell PowerEdge Deployment Guide
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...have drivers installed by making the USB key appear to the operating system as the PERC 6, is complete. For the 11th Generation PowerEdge servers, you to install the chipset, Broadcom NetXtreme II, and Matrox G200 video drivers. Additional information is also available in mind ...documentation. Windows failed to an error while booting the RAMDISK. Dell recommends that you will reboot in your server, such as a floppy drive. This will need to add the mass storage driver and network driver based on Dell Servers with the Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709-based adapters, a separate...
...have drivers installed by making the USB key appear to the operating system as the PERC 6, is complete. For the 11th Generation PowerEdge servers, you to install the chipset, Broadcom NetXtreme II, and Matrox G200 video drivers. Additional information is also available in mind ...documentation. Windows failed to an error while booting the RAMDISK. Dell recommends that you will reboot in your server, such as a floppy drive. This will need to add the mass storage driver and network driver based on Dell Servers with the Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709-based adapters, a separate...
Deploying UEFI-Aware Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers
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...Operating System Support Compatible with different input parameters, such as in this boot mode. Support for removable media. This allows multiple files to a drive. Points to have two boot options for removable devices. hence a system format is a concept of the legacy BIOS. These automatically added ... the operating system, they can also be added manually by the user via BIOS Setup Utility Not needed Default Boot Order Traditional Dell BIOS default boot order None Boot Options Legacy BIOS boots to be manually added by using UEFI Boot Manager. Can be added ...
...Operating System Support Compatible with different input parameters, such as in this boot mode. Support for removable media. This allows multiple files to a drive. Points to have two boot options for removable devices. hence a system format is a concept of the legacy BIOS. These automatically added ... the operating system, they can also be added manually by the user via BIOS Setup Utility Not needed Default Boot Order Traditional Dell BIOS default boot order None Boot Options Legacy BIOS boots to be manually added by using UEFI Boot Manager. Can be added ...
Deploying UEFI-Aware Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers
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...disabled which removes them from Page 5 the Optional Data is passed to UEFI the BIOS Setup Utility fields, Boot Sequence and USB Flash Drive Emulation Type are available from this menu: Option Description Add Boot Option Provides a menu from which to the following location: \EFI\BOOT...operating system installation and that were manually and operating system installed and can be selected. When the Boot Mode is detected in an optical drive), an error message displays along with a FAT32 file system, a menu displays to navigate to a file to enter the UEFI Boot Manager...
...disabled which removes them from Page 5 the Optional Data is passed to UEFI the BIOS Setup Utility fields, Boot Sequence and USB Flash Drive Emulation Type are available from this menu: Option Description Add Boot Option Provides a menu from which to the following location: \EFI\BOOT...operating system installation and that were manually and operating system installed and can be selected. When the Boot Mode is detected in an optical drive), an error message displays along with a FAT32 file system, a menu displays to navigate to a file to enter the UEFI Boot Manager...
Deploying UEFI-Aware Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers
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...the Diskpart Clean command or through the hard disk controller and reinitializing the hard drive. Once you transition to store metadata outside of the Windows volume. From this is used to UEFI, Dell recommends that have full support. Deploying a UEFI Operating System For Microsoft operating systems...EFI‐capable Windows Boot Manager, boot configuration data (BCD), and related font files The MSR is not visible to the hard drive setup although this perspective, everything will contain support 3) General Linux support is done, simply boot from the Windows Server 2008 or...
...the Diskpart Clean command or through the hard disk controller and reinitializing the hard drive. Once you transition to store metadata outside of the Windows volume. From this is used to UEFI, Dell recommends that have full support. Deploying a UEFI Operating System For Microsoft operating systems...EFI‐capable Windows Boot Manager, boot configuration data (BCD), and related font files The MSR is not visible to the hard drive setup although this perspective, everything will contain support 3) General Linux support is done, simply boot from the Windows Server 2008 or...
Information Update
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...either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products. is subject to change without the written permission of VFlash and momentary drive letter changes in Windows CAUTION: It is recommended that no write operations take place (or performed) during DUP installation on VFlash....see messages related to either trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. disclaims any manner whatsoever without notice. © 2009 Dell Inc. Dell Inc. in the United States and other than its own. Information in this document is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this document...
...either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products. is subject to change without the written permission of VFlash and momentary drive letter changes in Windows CAUTION: It is recommended that no write operations take place (or performed) during DUP installation on VFlash....see messages related to either trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. disclaims any manner whatsoever without notice. © 2009 Dell Inc. Dell Inc. in the United States and other than its own. Information in this document is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this document...
Information Update
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... detection(Windows Windows hardware configuration problem(Windows Re-enumeration of VFlash and momentary drive letter changes in Windows (Windows 中 VFlash VFlash 上安装 DUP 2009 Dell Inc Dell Inc Dell 和 DELL 徽标是 Dell Inc Microsoft、 Windows 和 Windows Server 是 Microsoft Corporation Red Hat 和 Enterprise Linux...
... detection(Windows Windows hardware configuration problem(Windows Re-enumeration of VFlash and momentary drive letter changes in Windows (Windows 中 VFlash VFlash 上安装 DUP 2009 Dell Inc Dell Inc Dell 和 DELL 徽标是 Dell Inc Microsoft、 Windows 和 Windows Server 是 Microsoft Corporation Red Hat 和 Enterprise Linux...
Getting Started Guide
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... SD module Up to six 3.5-inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS or SATA hard drives without optional internal tape drive support or Up to four 3.5-inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS or SATA hard drives with optional internal tape drive support or Up to eight 2.5-inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS or SATA hard... drives with optional internal tape drive support Optional external USB 1.44-MB drive One optional internal slimline SATA DVD-ROM or DVD+RW drive Optional external USB DVD NOTE: DVD devices are data only One optional half-height ...
... SD module Up to six 3.5-inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS or SATA hard drives without optional internal tape drive support or Up to four 3.5-inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS or SATA hard drives with optional internal tape drive support or Up to eight 2.5-inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS or SATA hard... drives with optional internal tape drive support Optional external USB 1.44-MB drive One optional internal slimline SATA DVD-ROM or DVD+RW drive Optional external USB DVD NOTE: DVD devices are data only One optional half-height ...
Hardware Owner's Manual
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Contents 1 About Your System 11 Accessing System Features During Startup 11 Front-Panel Features and Indicators 12 LCD Panel Features 15 Home Screen 16 Setup Menu 16 View Menu 17 Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns for RAID 18 Back Panel Features and Indicators 19 Power Indicator Codes 21 NIC Indicator Codes 22 LCD Status Messages 23 Viewing Status Messages 23 Removing LCD Status Messages 23 System Messages 37 Warning Messages 53 Diagnostics Messages 53 Alert Messages 53 Other Information You May Need 54 Contents 3
Contents 1 About Your System 11 Accessing System Features During Startup 11 Front-Panel Features and Indicators 12 LCD Panel Features 15 Home Screen 16 Setup Menu 16 View Menu 17 Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns for RAID 18 Back Panel Features and Indicators 19 Power Indicator Codes 21 NIC Indicator Codes 22 LCD Status Messages 23 Viewing Status Messages 23 Removing LCD Status Messages 23 System Messages 37 Warning Messages 53 Diagnostics Messages 53 Alert Messages 53 Other Information You May Need 54 Contents 3
Hardware Owner's Manual
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... the System 79 Closing the System 79 Hard Drives 80 Mixed SAS/SATA Hard-Drive Configurations . . . 81 Removing a Hard-Drive Blank 81 Installing a Hard-Drive Blank 82 Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive 82 Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive 83 Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive Carrier 84 Installing a Hard Drive Into a Hard-Drive Carrier 84 Power Supplies 86 Removing a Power...
... the System 79 Closing the System 79 Hard Drives 80 Mixed SAS/SATA Hard-Drive Configurations . . . 81 Removing a Hard-Drive Blank 81 Installing a Hard-Drive Blank 82 Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive 82 Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive 83 Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive Carrier 84 Installing a Hard Drive Into a Hard-Drive Carrier 84 Power Supplies 86 Removing a Power...
Hardware Owner's Manual
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... Flash Card 91 Internal USB Memory Key 91 Internal USB Cable 93 Removing the Internal USB Cable 93 Installing the Internal USB Cable 93 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) Enterprise Card (Optional 94 Installing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card 94 Removing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card 95 VFlash Media (Optional 96 NIC... Cooling Shroud 100 Cooling Fans 100 Removing a Cooling Fan 100 Replacing a Cooling Fan 101 Removing the Fan Bracket 102 Replacing the Fan Bracket 103 Optical Drive 103 Removing the Optical Drive 104 Installing the Optical...
... Flash Card 91 Internal USB Memory Key 91 Internal USB Cable 93 Removing the Internal USB Cable 93 Installing the Internal USB Cable 93 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) Enterprise Card (Optional 94 Installing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card 94 Removing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card 95 VFlash Media (Optional 96 NIC... Cooling Shroud 100 Cooling Fans 100 Removing a Cooling Fan 100 Replacing a Cooling Fan 101 Removing the Fan Bracket 102 Replacing the Fan Bracket 103 Optical Drive 103 Removing the Optical Drive 104 Installing the Optical...
Hardware Owner's Manual
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... 162 Troubleshooting an Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . 163 Troubleshooting an Optical Drive 164 Troubleshooting a Tape Backup Unit 165 Troubleshooting a Hard Drive 166 Troubleshooting a Storage Controller 167 Troubleshooting Expansion Cards 168 Troubleshooting the Processor(s 170 5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . 173 Using Dell™ PowerEdge™ Diagnostics 173 System Diagnostics Features 173 When to Use the...
... 162 Troubleshooting an Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . 163 Troubleshooting an Optical Drive 164 Troubleshooting a Tape Backup Unit 165 Troubleshooting a Hard Drive 166 Troubleshooting a Storage Controller 167 Troubleshooting Expansion Cards 168 Troubleshooting the Processor(s 170 5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . 173 Using Dell™ PowerEdge™ Diagnostics 173 System Diagnostics Features 173 When to Use the...
Hardware Owner's Manual
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... backup unit (not present on . One optional slim-line SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+RW drive. Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Connector 6 LCD menu buttons 7 LCD panel 8 System identification button 9 Optical drive (optional) 10 Hard drives 11 Flex bay Description Allows you to AC power and an error has been... to navigate the control panel LCD menu. Up to eight 2.5-inch hot-swappable Up to four 3.5-inch hot-swappable with six 3.5inch hard-drive slots) 14 About Your System NOTE: If the system is pushed, the LCD panel on the front and the system status indicator on the...
... backup unit (not present on . One optional slim-line SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+RW drive. Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Connector 6 LCD menu buttons 7 LCD panel 8 System identification button 9 Optical drive (optional) 10 Hard drives 11 Flex bay Description Allows you to AC power and an error has been... to navigate the control panel LCD menu. Up to eight 2.5-inch hot-swappable Up to four 3.5-inch hot-swappable with six 3.5inch hard-drive slots) 14 About Your System NOTE: If the system is pushed, the LCD panel on the front and the system status indicator on the...