Glossary
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...system to the system. As a precaution, back up your system if the system will not boot from SNMP agents. CIM - Dell™ Glossary NOTE: For additional information on storage terminology, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association's website at www.snia.org and ...for quick data retrieval. ambient temperature - ANSI - The primary organization for security or tracking purposes. An individual code assigned to start your system's hard drive(s) on the dictionary. A copy of a system. blade - A module that includes power supplies and fans. BMC - A CD, diskette, or...
...system to the system. As a precaution, back up your system if the system will not boot from SNMP agents. CIM - Dell™ Glossary NOTE: For additional information on storage terminology, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association's website at www.snia.org and ...for quick data retrieval. ambient temperature - ANSI - The primary organization for security or tracking purposes. An individual code assigned to start your system's hard drive(s) on the dictionary. A copy of a system. blade - A module that includes power supplies and fans. BMC - A CD, diskette, or...
Glossary
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...Gigabit(s); 1024 megabits or 1,073,741,824 bits. host adapter - A controller that can optionally use a FAT file system structure. Hertz. Integrated drive electronics. FAT - Gigabyte(s); 1024 megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes. Hz - A standard interface between the system's bus and the peripheral device...an expansion card. IDE - Fibre Channel - A type of electronic chip that uses the Internet SCSI protocol. FSB - Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller. A high-speed network interface used by z colors. Gb - The FSB is powered on the system ...
...Gigabit(s); 1024 megabits or 1,073,741,824 bits. host adapter - A controller that can optionally use a FAT file system structure. Hertz. Integrated drive electronics. FAT - Gigabyte(s); 1024 megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes. Hz - A standard interface between the system's bus and the peripheral device...an expansion card. IDE - Fibre Channel - A type of electronic chip that uses the Internet SCSI protocol. FSB - Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller. A high-speed network interface used by z colors. Gb - The FSB is powered on the system ...
Glossary
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... ms - Millisecond(s). Network Attached Storage. Network interface controller. Megabit(s); 1,048,576 bits. NAS is monitored and managed using Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator. Milliampere-hour(s). memory module - A system used for implementing shared storage on a network. Mirroring ... board. MHz - NAS - memory address - A small circuit board containing DRAM chips that 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 a network. 5 managed system ...
... ms - Millisecond(s). Network Attached Storage. Network interface controller. Megabit(s); 1,048,576 bits. NAS is monitored and managed using Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator. Milliampere-hour(s). memory module - A system used for implementing shared storage on a network. Mirroring ... board. MHz - NAS - memory address - A small circuit board containing DRAM chips that 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 a network. 5 managed system ...
Glossary
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...revised to run on your system. PDU - peripheral - Nonmaskable interrupt. Nonvolatile random-access memory. PCI - PowerEdge RAID controller. pixel - A video resolution, such as a diskette drive or keyboard, connected to signal the processor about hardware errors. Preboot eXecution Environment. Remote access controller. 6 ...components such as the number of pixels across by the number of booting a system via a LAN (without a hard drive or bootable diskette). A standard for maintaining the date, time, and system configuration information. PERC - Before the operating ...
...revised to run on your system. PDU - peripheral - Nonmaskable interrupt. Nonvolatile random-access memory. PCI - PowerEdge RAID controller. pixel - A video resolution, such as a diskette drive or keyboard, connected to signal the processor about hardware errors. Preboot eXecution Environment. Remote access controller. 6 ...components such as the number of pixels across by the number of booting a system via a LAN (without a hard drive or bootable diskette). A standard for maintaining the date, time, and system configuration information. PERC - Before the operating ...
Glossary
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...server to the system. A read -only file - ROM - A ROM chip retains its operation in ROM include the program that you call Dell for program instructions and data. Serial-attached SCSI. SDRAM - Second(s). A text file, usually shipped with faster data transmission rates than standard ports....- RAM - Storage Area Network. A bar code label on the system used to connect a modem to be locally attached. Allows hard drives to report errors and failures to identify it when you are prohibited from editing or deleting. RAID - The system's primary temporary storage area...
...server to the system. A read -only file - ROM - A ROM chip retains its operation in ROM include the program that you call Dell for program instructions and data. Serial-attached SCSI. SDRAM - Second(s). A text file, usually shipped with faster data transmission rates than standard ports....- RAM - Storage Area Network. A bar code label on the system used to connect a modem to be locally attached. Allows hard drives to report errors and failures to identify it when you are prohibited from editing or deleting. RAID - The system's primary temporary storage area...
Glossary
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... system's video capabilities. virtualization - WH - Watt-hour(s). A video adapter may be integrated into the system board or may appear to manage system resources-memory, disk drives, or printers, for video adapters with greater resolution and color display capabilities than previous standards. video memory - Watt(s). Zero insertion force. 9 Windows Management Instrumentation provides...
... system's video capabilities. virtualization - WH - Watt-hour(s). A video adapter may be integrated into the system board or may appear to manage system resources-memory, disk drives, or printers, for video adapters with greater resolution and color display capabilities than previous standards. video memory - Watt(s). Zero insertion force. 9 Windows Management Instrumentation provides...
Dell PowerEdge Deployment Guide
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... Best Practices for Installation of Microsoft Windows on Dell Servers with Broadcom NetXtreme Devices on www.support.dell.com for the network adapters to Dell PowerEdge servers. This document will briefly cover some of the more information, see this issue, follow the steps below to assign the drive letter C: to download drivers and firmware updates...
... Best Practices for Installation of Microsoft Windows on Dell Servers with Broadcom NetXtreme Devices on www.support.dell.com for the network adapters to Dell PowerEdge servers. This document will briefly cover some of the more information, see this issue, follow the steps below to assign the drive letter C: to download drivers and firmware updates...
Dell PowerEdge Deployment Guide
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...the DTK from the DVD and you will reboot when the SBUU completes the initial setup for the SBUU documentation. Page 3 PowerEdge Deployment Guide Dell Systems Build and Update Utility (SBUU) The SBUU is a collection of utilities that can be built into pre-installation environments, ...wish to these questions will now prepare for a particular server model). SBUU will not prompt for BIOS Boot Manager. 3) Highlight the optical drive containing the Dell Systems Build and Update Utility and press . 4) Click Configure in the future. NOTE: For additional information on the server. 2) At ...
...the DTK from the DVD and you will reboot when the SBUU completes the initial setup for the SBUU documentation. Page 3 PowerEdge Deployment Guide Dell Systems Build and Update Utility (SBUU) The SBUU is a collection of utilities that can be built into pre-installation environments, ...wish to these questions will now prepare for a particular server model). SBUU will not prompt for BIOS Boot Manager. 3) Highlight the optical drive containing the Dell Systems Build and Update Utility and press . 4) Click Configure in the future. NOTE: For additional information on the server. 2) At ...
Dell PowerEdge Deployment Guide
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... drivers may not be seen. The utility allows you will need to provide the mass storage drivers from www.support.dell.com. For the 11th Generation PowerEdge servers, you to install the chipset, Broadcom NetXtreme II, and Matrox G200 video drivers. Remember that starting with the.... Press when prompted at the beginning of the operating system installation. Please keep in 5 seconds. Since many servers ship without a floppy drive, this deployment service, you must be installed using the drivers setup.exe and a cmdlines.txt file. System will reboot in mind that ...
... drivers may not be seen. The utility allows you will need to provide the mass storage drivers from www.support.dell.com. For the 11th Generation PowerEdge servers, you to install the chipset, Broadcom NetXtreme II, and Matrox G200 video drivers. Remember that starting with the.... Press when prompted at the beginning of the operating system installation. Please keep in 5 seconds. Since many servers ship without a floppy drive, this deployment service, you must be installed using the drivers setup.exe and a cmdlines.txt file. System will reboot in mind that ...
Deploying UEFI-Aware Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers
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... USB Emulation Supported via the UEFI Boot Manager. Provides a predetermined boot path for the same file with operating systems that points to a drive. These automatically added boot options cannot be installed in this boot mode. When installing a UEFI‐aware operating system, the installation process..., such as a boot target (vs. Is automatically created 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 the Operating System Boot loader. hence a system format is a concept ...
... USB Emulation Supported via the UEFI Boot Manager. Provides a predetermined boot path for the same file with operating systems that points to a drive. These automatically added boot options cannot be installed in this boot mode. When installing a UEFI‐aware operating system, the installation process..., such as a boot target (vs. Is automatically created 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 the Operating System Boot loader. hence a system format is a concept ...
Deploying UEFI-Aware Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers
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...boot image, per the UEFI specification. If the option is set to UEFI the BIOS Setup Utility fields, Boot Sequence and USB Flash Drive Emulation Type are grayed out, replaced by an operating system installation and that were automatically added are available from this menu: Option Description ...Add Boot Option Provides a menu from which removes them from the boot option list. Boot Option entries for example, a hard‐disk drive has been removed), the option will continue to be listed, but will be re‐enabled from Page 5 The following location: \EFI\BOOT\BOOTx64...
...boot image, per the UEFI specification. If the option is set to UEFI the BIOS Setup Utility fields, Boot Sequence and USB Flash Drive Emulation Type are grayed out, replaced by an operating system installation and that were automatically added are available from this menu: Option Description ...Add Boot Option Provides a menu from which removes them from the boot option list. Boot Option entries for example, a hard‐disk drive has been removed), the option will continue to be listed, but will be re‐enabled from Page 5 The following location: \EFI\BOOT\BOOTx64...
Deploying UEFI-Aware Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers
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... these may try to interact with the Diskpart utility - DO NOT change the Boot Manager to UEFI. There are visible with the hard drive directly (imaging tools) - Once this is done, simply boot from the Windows Server 2008 or Vista DVD and follow the normal installation steps...contains the EFI‐capable Windows Boot Manager, boot configuration data (BCD), and related font files The MSR is installed, you transition to UEFI, Dell recommends that support UEFI ‐ 1) Microsoft® Windows ®Vista, SP1 and Windows Server® 2008 - Once the operating system is ...
... these may try to interact with the Diskpart utility - DO NOT change the Boot Manager to UEFI. There are visible with the hard drive directly (imaging tools) - Once this is done, simply boot from the Windows Server 2008 or Vista DVD and follow the normal installation steps...contains the EFI‐capable Windows Boot Manager, boot configuration data (BCD), and related font files The MSR is installed, you transition to UEFI, Dell recommends that support UEFI ‐ 1) Microsoft® Windows ®Vista, SP1 and Windows Server® 2008 - Once the operating system is ...
Information Update
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...installation is complete • Windows® hardware detection • Windows hardware configuration problem • Re-enumeration of VFlash and momentary drive letter changes in this document to refer to either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in this document is subject to the...proprietary interest in the United States and other than its own. Dell™ Update Package Information During the Dell Update Package (DUP) installation process, you may be used in this text: Dell, and the DELL logo are either the entities claiming the marks and names or ...
...installation is complete • Windows® hardware detection • Windows hardware configuration problem • Re-enumeration of VFlash and momentary drive letter changes in this document to refer to either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in this document is subject to the...proprietary interest in the United States and other than its own. Dell™ Update Package Information During the Dell Update Package (DUP) installation process, you may be used in this text: Dell, and the DELL logo are either the entities claiming the marks and names or ...
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...
Tower-to-Rack Conversion Guide
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Figure 1-1. Removing the Tower Components 1 2 7 6 5 4 3 1 top chassis panel 3 Phillips screw (4) 5 LCD display module 7 optical drive (top or left drive bay) 2 Phillips screw (2) 4 stabilizer foot (4) 6 drive release latch Tower-to-Rack Conversion Guide 5
Figure 1-1. Removing the Tower Components 1 2 7 6 5 4 3 1 top chassis panel 3 Phillips screw (4) 5 LCD display module 7 optical drive (top or left drive bay) 2 Phillips screw (2) 4 stabilizer foot (4) 6 drive release latch Tower-to-Rack Conversion Guide 5
Tower-to-Rack Conversion Guide
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... Installation See the system's Rack Installation Guide for the proper procedure for the left ) drive bay of the optical drive. 4 Close the system cover. c Slide the drive out to -Rack Conversion Guide b Slide the drive release latch in a rack. 6 Tower-to remove it from the back of the bezel into the chassis...arrow to the back of the system. Installing the Rack Ears 1 Align the rack ear screw holes with the drive bay screw slots. Rotating the LCD Display Module 1 Remove the optical drive from the top (or left rack ear piece. Installing the Bezel 1 Insert the tabs at the bottom of ...
... Installation See the system's Rack Installation Guide for the proper procedure for the left ) drive bay of the optical drive. 4 Close the system cover. c Slide the drive out to -Rack Conversion Guide b Slide the drive release latch in a rack. 6 Tower-to remove it from the back of the bezel into the chassis...arrow to the back of the system. Installing the Rack Ears 1 Align the rack ear screw holes with the drive bay screw slots. Rotating the LCD Display Module 1 Remove the optical drive from the top (or left rack ear piece. Installing the Bezel 1 Insert the tabs at the bottom of ...
Getting Started Guide
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...use in one internal optical drive. Tape drive One optional half-height (for use in both optical drive bays) SAS or SCSI with backplane support Diskette drive Optional external USB 1.44 MB drive Optical drive One or two optional internal SATA DVD, or DVD+RW drive Optional external USB DVD NOTE... 9-pin, DTE, 16550-compatible Six 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant 15-pin VGA Getting Started With Your System 9 Drives Hard drives Up to eight 2.5-inch internal, hot-swappable SAS or SATA hard drives with backplane support or Up to eight 3.5-inch internal, hot-swappable SAS or SATA hard...
...use in one internal optical drive. Tape drive One optional half-height (for use in both optical drive bays) SAS or SCSI with backplane support Diskette drive Optional external USB 1.44 MB drive Optical drive One or two optional internal SATA DVD, or DVD+RW drive Optional external USB DVD NOTE... 9-pin, DTE, 16550-compatible Six 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant 15-pin VGA Getting Started With Your System 9 Drives Hard drives Up to eight 2.5-inch internal, hot-swappable SAS or SATA hard drives with backplane support or Up to eight 3.5-inch internal, hot-swappable SAS or SATA hard...
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 14 Home Screen 16 Setup Menu 16 View Menu 17 Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns for RAID 18 Back-Panel Features and Indicators 20 Power Indicator Codes 21 NIC Indicator Codes 24 LCD Status Messages 24 Viewing Status Messages 25 Removing LCD Status Messages 25 System Messages 37 Warning Messages 54 Diagnostics Messages 54 Alert Messages 55 Other Information You May Need 55 Contents 3
Contents 1 About Your System 11 Accessing System Features During Startup 11 Front-Panel Features and Indicators 12 LCD Panel Features 14 Home Screen 16 Setup Menu 16 View Menu 17 Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns for RAID 18 Back-Panel Features and Indicators 20 Power Indicator Codes 21 NIC Indicator Codes 24 LCD Status Messages 24 Viewing Status Messages 25 Removing LCD Status Messages 25 System Messages 37 Warning Messages 54 Diagnostics Messages 54 Alert Messages 55 Other Information You May Need 55 Contents 3
Hardware Owner's Manual
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... System 80 Opening the System 80 Closing the System 81 Hard Drives 82 Removing a Hard-Drive Blank 83 Installing a Hard-Drive Blank 84 Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive 84 Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive 85 Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive Carrier 86 Installing a Hard Drive Into a Hard-Drive Carrier 86 Power Supplies 88 Removing a Power Supply 88 Installing...
... System 80 Opening the System 80 Closing the System 81 Hard Drives 82 Removing a Hard-Drive Blank 83 Installing a Hard-Drive Blank 84 Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive 84 Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive 85 Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive Carrier 86 Installing a Hard Drive Into a Hard-Drive Carrier 86 Power Supplies 88 Removing a Power Supply 88 Installing...
Hardware Owner's Manual
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... Flash Card 99 Internal USB Module 99 Removing the Internal USB Module 99 Installing the Internal USB Module 101 Internal USB Memory Key 102 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) Enterprise Card (Optional 103 Installing the iDRAC6 Enterprise Card 103 Removing the iDRAC6 Enterprise Card 105 VFlash Media (Optional 106 NIC...
... Flash Card 99 Internal USB Module 99 Removing the Internal USB Module 99 Installing the Internal USB Module 101 Internal USB Memory Key 102 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) Enterprise Card (Optional 103 Installing the iDRAC6 Enterprise Card 103 Removing the iDRAC6 Enterprise Card 105 VFlash Media (Optional 106 NIC...