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... bezel. b Swing the bezel away and down and turn off power to "Installing the System in the Rack." d Pull the bezel away and set it is perpendicular to the system. Installing the Tower-to-Rack Conversion Kit NOTE: If you have a rack-only version of the system, skip ...this procedure and proceed to your system and disconnect your power and peripheral cables. 2 To remove the bezel (see Figure 1-7). www.dell.com | support.dell.com 5 Using two 10-32 x 0.5 Phillips screws, secure the back mounting-bracket flange to the back vertical rail. 6 Repeat steps 1 through 5 ...
... bezel. b Swing the bezel away and down and turn off power to "Installing the System in the Rack." d Pull the bezel away and set it is perpendicular to the system. Installing the Tower-to-Rack Conversion Kit NOTE: If you have a rack-only version of the system, skip ...this procedure and proceed to your system and disconnect your power and peripheral cables. 2 To remove the bezel (see Figure 1-7). www.dell.com | support.dell.com 5 Using two 10-32 x 0.5 Phillips screws, secure the back mounting-bracket flange to the back vertical rail. 6 Repeat steps 1 through 5 ...
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Re moving the Towe r Syst em Cover round covers (2) hex-socket cap screw (4) flat washer (4) left and right covers base 1-12 Rack Installation Guide Figure 1-8. b Use a 3/16-inch hex-head (Allen) wrench to remove the two hex-socket cap screws and flat washers from the base of the tower chassis c Remove the base and set it aside (see Figure 1-8). www.dell.com | support.dell.com 5 To remove the tower system base: a Lay the system on its right side.
Re moving the Towe r Syst em Cover round covers (2) hex-socket cap screw (4) flat washer (4) left and right covers base 1-12 Rack Installation Guide Figure 1-8. b Use a 3/16-inch hex-head (Allen) wrench to remove the two hex-socket cap screws and flat washers from the base of the tower chassis c Remove the base and set it aside (see Figure 1-8). www.dell.com | support.dell.com 5 To remove the tower system base: a Lay the system on its right side.
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... Attaching a second cable is designed to protect from the enclosure to all 14 hard drives on the Split Bus Module (SBM) sets the desired enclosure topology. PAGE 19 11/17/2005 There can be attached between the server and the primary Enclosure Management Module (EMM...modules, which is not supported and may lead to monitor critical environmental variables such as shown in the enclosure. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 4. SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) management features are end-user configurable: Joined, Split, and Cluster topologies, ...
... Attaching a second cable is designed to protect from the enclosure to all 14 hard drives on the Split Bus Module (SBM) sets the desired enclosure topology. PAGE 19 11/17/2005 There can be attached between the server and the primary Enclosure Management Module (EMM...modules, which is not supported and may lead to monitor critical environmental variables such as shown in the enclosure. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 4. SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) management features are end-user configurable: Joined, Split, and Cluster topologies, ...
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... of both cluster topologies with a maximum of the time. An active/passive configuration is ultimately selected, the PV22xS provides a basic set of a failover). The SCSI ID for the enclosure devices are hardwired by the enclosure backplane. Common Features and Capabilities Regardless of ...PAGE 22 11/17/2005 PV22xS supports 15 of a failure. Figure 4-4 Cluster Topology Cabling Example PV22xS - A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 a failover condition, access rights to the disk array assigned to the failed node is appropriate for business-critical...
... of both cluster topologies with a maximum of the time. An active/passive configuration is ultimately selected, the PV22xS provides a basic set of a failover). The SCSI ID for the enclosure devices are hardwired by the enclosure backplane. Common Features and Capabilities Regardless of ...PAGE 22 11/17/2005 PV22xS supports 15 of a failure. Figure 4-4 Cluster Topology Cabling Example PV22xS - A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 a failover condition, access rights to the disk array assigned to the failed node is appropriate for business-critical...
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... HDDs installed in the RAID array may still be limited to section 5 (SCSI Host Bus Adapters / SCSI RAID). For example, with Dell OpenManage™ to monitor and manage these parameters exceed safe operating levels, and to take specific action to 72GB. Mixing HDD Spindle Speeds ... capacities as they occur. The excess space that warm plugging requires any I/O operations to be set to help prevent damage when pulling or replacing certain components. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 modules is determined by the 10K RPM drive since all HDDs ...
... HDDs installed in the RAID array may still be limited to section 5 (SCSI Host Bus Adapters / SCSI RAID). For example, with Dell OpenManage™ to monitor and manage these parameters exceed safe operating levels, and to take specific action to 72GB. Mixing HDD Spindle Speeds ... capacities as they occur. The excess space that warm plugging requires any I/O operations to be set to help prevent damage when pulling or replacing certain components. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 modules is determined by the 10K RPM drive since all HDDs ...
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... designed to continue operating with same increased availability Increase availability, if spanned across multiple channels Increased Availability, if mirror set is on single power supply; multiple power supplies provide 1+1 redundancy • Cooling Redundancy PV22xS provides support of a... PV22xS configuration topology impacts not only Application Attributes but also impacts RAID level performance. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 • Table 4-2: PV22xS Configuration Topologies Vs RAID Level Performance RAID Levels RAID 0 RAID 1...
... designed to continue operating with same increased availability Increase availability, if spanned across multiple channels Increased Availability, if mirror set is on single power supply; multiple power supplies provide 1+1 redundancy • Cooling Redundancy PV22xS provides support of a... PV22xS configuration topology impacts not only Application Attributes but also impacts RAID level performance. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 • Table 4-2: PV22xS Configuration Topologies Vs RAID Level Performance RAID Levels RAID 0 RAID 1...
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...higher firmware). only one logical volume/array. which can vary from within any particular array be of matching technology. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 For more details on rebuild process please refer to help prevent data errors. o Patrol Read examines each block in... data parity, to Appendix A - NOTE: Patrol Read and Consistency Check are not supported in the mix. • Spindle Speed It is set for Direct Attached SCSI Solutions • Patrol Read o Patrol Read is supported only on the hard PAGE 33 11/17/2005 o Patrol Read...
...higher firmware). only one logical volume/array. which can vary from within any particular array be of matching technology. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 For more details on rebuild process please refer to help prevent data errors. o Patrol Read examines each block in... data parity, to Appendix A - NOTE: Patrol Read and Consistency Check are not supported in the mix. • Spindle Speed It is set for Direct Attached SCSI Solutions • Patrol Read o Patrol Read is supported only on the hard PAGE 33 11/17/2005 o Patrol Read...
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... on the same PERC then a logical array may compromise data availability. This is essential to a PV22xS. • Spanning of Arrays Dell's PERC controllers provide additional array configuration options of cache policy settings. Internal/External/Multi channel device configuration • See Table 5-2 for internal/external connector details for an array, spanning may offer...
... on the same PERC then a logical array may compromise data availability. This is essential to a PV22xS. • Spanning of Arrays Dell's PERC controllers provide additional array configuration options of cache policy settings. Internal/External/Multi channel device configuration • See Table 5-2 for internal/external connector details for an array, spanning may offer...
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... OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 • Table 5-1: Pros and Cons for Spanning Arrays with various RAID Levels Level RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 RAID 50 Pros Improves data throughput by optimizing bandwidth utilization Improves data availability against channel failures, if mirrored set is ... separate channel May improve data throughput, similar to "Beyond The 2-TB SCSI Logical Unit" white paper at: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/vectors/2004_2tblun.pdf. Spanning across channels on SCSI controllers and operating systems. Host management application (OMSM, Array...
... OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 • Table 5-1: Pros and Cons for Spanning Arrays with various RAID Levels Level RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 RAID 50 Pros Improves data throughput by optimizing bandwidth utilization Improves data availability against channel failures, if mirrored set is ... separate channel May improve data throughput, similar to "Beyond The 2-TB SCSI Logical Unit" white paper at: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/vectors/2004_2tblun.pdf. Spanning across channels on SCSI controllers and operating systems. Host management application (OMSM, Array...