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Heartfelt thanks for your use of Inspur Yingxin Server!
This manual introduces the technical characteristics, the system instal-
lation and setup of the server to help you to fully understand and expediently
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August, 2012

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  • Page 1 Ltd. reserves the right of revising this manual momentarily. Any alteration about the content of this manual will not be informed. Please contact Inspur Group Co., Ltd. if you have any questions or ad- vice about this manual. Inspur Group Co., Ltd.
  • Page 2 Statement Please read the following statements before you use this server. Only when you have read this statement hereinafter and agreed the following terms, you can formally use this server. If you have any questions about the following terms, please contact our supplier or us directly.
  • Page 3 9. The copyright of the marks and names of all the software and hardware prod- ucts involved in this manual is reserved by the relevant companies. 10. In the statements above, “us” indicates Inspur Group Co., Ltd; Inspur Group Co., Ltd. holds the right of final explanation about the above statements.
  • Page 4 In this chapter, how to install the server into the cabinet through rails is intro- duced. We suggest you read this manual seriously before you use this server in case of the unnecessary faults in your operation. Address: NO.1036 Langchao Road, Jinan, China, Inspur Group Co., Ltd Post Code: 250101...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Chapter Six SATA HostRAID Setup ..............31 6.1 How to Enter the Configuration Interface of SATA .........31 6.2 Application of Control Keys ..............31 6.3 Setup of SATA HostRAID ................31 Chapter Seven Operating System Installation ...........35 7.1 Application Instructions for Inspur Driver U Disk ........35...
  • Page 6 7.2 Manually Install Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition .....40 7.3 Manually Install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition .....45 7.4 Manually Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 ........49 Chapter Eight Common Problems and Trouble-shooting .........54 8.1 Restarting the Server ................54 8.2 Problems When Starting the Machine ............54 8.3 Ruijie Server Kit and Other Machine-attached Software Problem ..57 8.4 Additional Notes ..................58 8.5 Technical Support Information ..............59...

  • Page 7: Chapter One Safety Information

    Inspur; only maintenance technicians trained by Inspur have the right to disassemble the cover of the host, dismount and replace the internal components.
  • Page 8 Chapter One Safety Information Warning 6: To avoid short circuit of internal components and fire or electric shock hazards, please do not fill any object into the open pores of the system. Warning 7: Please place the system far away from the cooling plate and at the place with heat sources, and be sure not to block the air vents.
  • Page 9 - Close the cover of the host, re-connect the system to the power socket, and then start the equipment. - In case of operation failure or abnormal situation, please contact Inspur and get technical support. 3. Pay attention to the position of the system cables and power cables, wire them in places not to be stepped on or knocked down and ensure not to place other objectives on the cables.
  • Page 10 7. When dismounting the internal components with the approval of Inspur, please pay attention to the following matters: - Switch off the system power supply and disconnect the cables, including discon- necting any connection of the system.
  • Page 11 Chapter One Safety Information 8. During the process of cabinet installation and application, please pay attention to the following matters: - After the installation of cabinet is finished, please ensure that the supporting feet have been fixed to the rack and supported to the ground, and all weight of the rack have been fell onto the ground.

  • Page 12: Server Technical Specification

    Chapter Two Product Description Chapter Two Product Description 2.1 Server Technical Specification Processors Processor Type Intel Sandy Bridge-EN E5-2400 series CPU Processor Number Interface Socket 1356 Chipset Chipset Type Intel C600 chipset Memory Memory Type DDR3 ECC Unbuffered/Registered Number of memory slots Up to 12 When single 8G memory is adopted, it can support up to 96GB.
  • Page 13 Chapter Two Product Description HDD Controller 8 onboard SAS interfaces, all ROM supported, various SAS Controller RAID levels supported. South bridge integrates SATA controller. The motherboard has 4 SATA II interfaces and 2 SATA III interfaces. When SATA Controller standard optical drive is configured, 1 SATA interface is used to connect SATA optical drive.
  • Page 14 2.5-inch*24HDD configuration with Optical drive (Optional) over 16 hard disks configured do not support built-in opti- cal drive.) Optional Inspur driver U disk, used to load hard disk con- Inspur driver U disk troller driver when installing the operating system manu- ally...

  • Page 15: Front Panel View

    Chapter Two Product Description Front panel view of 3.5-inch*8HDD Front panel view of 3.5-inch*12HDD Front panel view of 2.5-inch*24HDD Number Name Descriptions Turn green when server is on; turn off when server Power Status Indicators is off Power Button Server on/off button ID button System ID identification button 82574/82576 Network card 2nd indicator light...
  • Page 16 Chapter Two Product Description Alarms when the system is working abnormally, for example, system overheat (amber) Abnormal system indi- (When the system operates normally, the indicator cator is off, but it is normal that indicator is on during AC power connection and BMC initialization.) 82574/82576 Network card 1st indicator light Network card 1st indi- Blinking: network connected or transferring data...
  • Page 17 Chapter Two Product Description 2.3 Rear Panel View Rear Panel View Number Name Function and Introduction For connecting the power cord (the picture above uses Power input interface the double power configuration as illustrations) Serial interface For connecting serial interface devices IPMI management in- Exclusive onboard IPMI management interface terface...

  • Page 18: Chapter Three System Setup

    Chapter Three System Setup Chapter Three System Setup In this chapter, the regular jumper of motherboard and BIOS function setup of this server are introduced. Only operator or administrator with qualification of system maintenance can implement these operations described in this part. 3.1 System BIOS Setup BIOS is a basic input and output system.
  • Page 19 Chapter Three System Setup on the screen. 3.1.2 BIOS System Menu Introduction Next the following main function menus of BIOS are introduced. Menu Name Menu Function Configuring the basic system settings, such as system time, system Main date, displaying BIOS information, etc. Configuring CPU, integrated SATA controller and other advanced Advanced characteristics...
  • Page 20 Chapter Three System Setup 1. Main menu In BIOS setup utility, Main menu first displays. In this menu, BIOS version and memory capacity can be viewed. System time, date, etc. also can be set up in this menu. ● BIOS Information It displays the version of system BIOS and when the BIOS is altered.
  • Page 21 Chapter Three System Setup main frequency, maximum frequency, minimum frequency, the number of CPU inner cores, whether supporting hyper-threading and VT-X technology, level-1cache, level-2 cache and level-3 cache capacity, etc. * Hyper-threading CPU hyper-treading function setup includes [Disabled] and [Enabled] two items. And the default configuration is [Enabled].
  • Page 22 Chapter Three System Setup please set this item to [RAID Mode] . * Serial-ATA Controller 0 This item only appears when SATA Mode option is set to [IDE Mode]. When set to <Enhanced>, it can support 4 SATA 3.0Gb/s devices. Under the Windows 98/ NT/2000/MS-DOS system, this item needs to be set to [Compatible], which can sup- port maximum 4 serial devices at this point.
  • Page 23 Chapter Three System Setup ▼ Intel(R) I/OAT This item is used to open or close Intel I/O acceleration technology, including [Enabled] and [Disabled] two items. ▼ VGA Priority Set priority order of integrated graphic card and external graphic card, including [Offboard] and [Onboard] two items.
  • Page 24 Chapter Three System Setup <Power on> is the automatic startup status. * SCU devices This item is used to open or close onboard SAS controller. It includes the follow- ing setup items: <Enabled> (default configuration): open onboard SAS controller <Disabled>: close onboard SAS controller * Onboard SAS Oprom This item is used to open or close integrated SAS controller ROM, including [En- abled] and [Disabled] two items.
  • Page 25 Chapter Three System Setup nothing] and [Erase Immediately] two options. Note: all the configuration of System Event Log will be effective after system re- boot. ● BMC Network Configuration This menu is used to set up the configuration information of BMC network inter- face.
  • Page 26 Chapter Three System Setup and the system will display optional boot device table. Then select a device through ar- row key in the table and press [Enter] to finish the setting of the boot order item. ● Hard Drive BBS Priority Press <Enter>...

  • Page 27: Motherboard Jumper Settings

    Chapter Three System Setup Select this item and press [Enter]. After you select <Yes> for confirmation, the changes in the BIOS settings will be saved and the system will not exit the BIOS setup. ● Discard Changes Select this item and press [Enter]. After you select <Yes> for confirmation, the changes in the BIOS settings will be discarded and the system will not exit the BIOS setup.
  • Page 28 Chapter Three System Setup 3.2.2 Open the Chassis Upper Panel If motherboard jumper change is needed, please get the authorization of Inspur Group Co., Ltd. according to the methods as follows to open the chassis upper panel: 1. Power off the system (turn off the AC power).
  • Page 29 Chapter Three System Setup Jumper name Function description Jumper function Short-cutting pin1 and 2 to connect 4 system fans J101 fan jumper System fan jumper Short-cutting pin2 and 3 to connect 3 system fans Short-cutting pin1 and 2, normal state CLR_CMOS jumper CLR_CMOS jumper (default) Short-cutting pin2 and 3, clear CMOS...

  • Page 30: Control Key Application

    Chapter Four Setup of SATA RAID Chapter Four Setup of SATA RAID This chapter mainly introduces the configuration of onboard Intel SATA controller HostRaid and its application method. If the server you purchased does not use onboard SATA HostRaid, you can skip this chapter. If it does use onboard SATA HostRaid, please enter BIOS and set Advanced→SATA Configuration→SATA Mode option to [RAID Mode] .
  • Page 31 Chapter Four Setup of SATA RAID The executable menus of the configuration interface of SATA HostRAID are the following four: ● Create RAID Volume Create RAID volume. ● Delete RAID Volume Delete existing RAID volume. ● Reset Disks to Non-RAID Reset HDDs in volume to non-RAID state.
  • Page 32 Chapter Four Setup of SATA RAID RAID0: it allows 2 or more than 2 hard disks to form this RAID volume. RAID1: it allows 2 hard disks to form this RAID volume. RAID10: it allows 4 hard disks to form this RAID volume with 4 or more hard disks.
  • Page 33 Chapter Four Setup of SATA RAID ume, please enter “N”. III Reset Disks to Non-RAID menu After entering the configuration interface of SATA HostRAID, you can select the menu by up and down arrows, and then press [Enter] key to enter the menu. The system will display all hard disks in RAID volume.
  • Page 34 Chapter Five SAS RAID Setup Chapter Five SAS RAID Setup This chapter mainly introduces the configuration and using method of onboard SAS RAID controller. If the server you purchased doesn’t use onboard SAS RAID, it is not necessary to refer to this chapter. If you want to use onboard SAS RAID, you need to enter BIOS and set Chipset→PCH→Onboard SAS Oprom to <Enabled>.
  • Page 35 Chapter Five SAS RAID Setup The executable menus of the configuration interface of SAS RAID are the follow- ing four: ● Create RAID Volume Create RAID volume. ● Delete RAID Volume Delete existing RAID volume. ● Reset Disks to Non-RAID Reset HDDs in volume to non-RAID state.
  • Page 36 Chapter Five SAS RAID Setup RAID10: it allows 4 hard disks to form this RAID volume with 4 or more hard disks. RAID5 (Parity): it allows 3 and more than 3 hard disks to form this RAID vol- ume. Disks: select hard disks to be used to form RAID volume, select this option and press [Enter] key.
  • Page 37 Chapter Five SAS RAID Setup III Reset Disks to Non-RAID menu After entering the configuration interface of SAS RAID, you can select the menu by up and down arrows, and then press [Enter] key to enter the menu or input directly. The system will display all hard disks in RAID volume.
  • Page 38 During manual setup of the operating system, some operating system may need the floppy drive or Inspur driver U disk to load the driver of hard disk controller. Re- fer to the readme.pdf file under the root directory in Inspur driver CD for the making method of the driver floppy disk.

  • Page 39: Application Instructions For Inspur Driver U Disk

    U disk to load the drive of hard disk controller (at present, the operating systems that use Inspur driver U disk to load the hard disk controller support Windows XP or above versions, Red Hat Linux 4.5 or above versions, and Suse Linux 9.0 SP2 or above versions).
  • Page 40 If the system forbids the automatic operation of CD, please enter CD directory and operate dolphin. bat (Inspur system driver CD) in CD or setup.exe (RAID card driver CD) in CD direc- tory.
  • Page 41 Chapter Six Install Operating System There are two ways to enter interface of driver making software. They are as fol- lows respectively: ● Input the navigation code in the text box below “Please input navigation No.:” (the navigation code is shown in CD box), click [OK] button, and it can log in the main interface of driver making software.
  • Page 42 The system will display a prompt as shown in the following picture. Please con- firm that Inspur driver U disk is well connected. Format the virtual floppy drive A: of Inspur driver U disk, and then click [OK] to start the driver making.

  • Page 43: Manually Install Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

    Inspur driver U disk, entering the interface of disk parti- tion, Inspur driver U disk will occupy a disk letter. If the disk is not partitioned, U disk will occupy disk C:. If the disk has other partitions, U disk will occupy other disk letter (please distinguish according to the actual hard disk partition).
  • Page 44 Chapter Six Install Operating System the driver into floppy disk; if you use Inspur drive U disk, please make the driver into Inspur driver U disk. 6.2.2 Installation Steps 1. Connect USB floppy drive or Inspur driver U disk to the USB interface of the server, power up to start the server, put the installation CD of Windows Server 2003 into optical drive and select to boot from CD.
  • Page 45 Chapter Six Install Operating System ⊙ If AHCI configuration of onboard SATA controller is used, select “Intel(R) C600 Series Chipset SATA AHCI Controller” from the list of drivers and then press [Enter] to load the driver. 4. The system displays: Welcome to Setup.
  • Page 46 Chapter Six Install Operating System 8. The system displays the interface of Step 6, here select the partition of “Partition1 [New <Raw>]” and press [Enter] key to continue the installation. 9. System displays: ⊙ Format the partition using the NTFS file system <Quick> ⊙...
  • Page 47 CD of operating system with integrated SP2 patch. 22. Install Chipset patch (1) Put Inspur driver CD into optical drive, enter the interface of “Welcome to use Inspur driver CD”, input the navigation code (refer to the driver CD cover) or select machine type (refer to host machine nameplate label), click <OK>...
  • Page 48 CD and restart the system. 23. Install Network card driver (1) Put Inspur driver CD into optical drive, enter the interface of “Welcome to use Inspur driver CD”, input the navigation code (refer to the driver CD cover) or select machine type (refer to host machine nameplate label), click <OK>...
  • Page 49 (Advanced)”, and click to continue; (5) Put Inspur driver CD into optical drive, select “Search for the best driver in these locations”, select “Include this location in the search”, then select the path of driver :\driver\IPMI\driver\win03_64, and click <OK>...

  • Page 50: Manually Install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition

    (Advanced)” item, and click <Next> to continue; (5) Put the Inspur system driver CD in the optical drive and select “Search for the best driver in these locations” and click “Include this location in the search”, then select the path of the drive in the CD: \driver\Expander\driver, then click <OK>, and click...
  • Page 51 ● As for the above mentioned drivers, if USB floppy drive is used, please make the driver into floppy disk; if Inspur driver U disk is used, please make the driver into Inspur driver U disk; if general driver U disk is used, input the disk letter occupied by general U disk and the directory for saving the driver to make the driver into general U disk.
  • Page 52 Chapter Six Install Operating System 7. In “Type your product key for activation” interface, input your product key (25 character), and then click <Next> to continue. 8. In “Select the edition of Windows that you purchased” interface, select the operating system version to be installed, then select “I have selected the edition of Win- dows that I purchased”, and click <Next>...
  • Page 53 16. Install Chipset patch (1) Insert Inspur system driver CD into the optical drive, click the blue dolphin icon under the installation or operation procedure item in the automatically playing in- terface popped out after the disk’s running. Enter “Welcome to use Inspur driver CD”...
  • Page 54 Chapter Six Install Operating System (1) Insert Inspur system driver CD into the optical drive, click the blue dolphin icon under the installation or operation procedure item in the automatically playing in- terface popped out after the disk’s running. Enter “Welcome to use Inspur driver CD”...

  • Page 55: Manually Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2

    (4) The system prompts “Browse for driver software on your computer”, after put- ting the Inspur system driver CD into the optical drive, and click the <Browse> button in the back of “Search for driver software in this location:”select the path of the driver in the CD: \driver\SCU\driver\win_64 (if it is 32bit system, please select \driver\SCU\ driver\win_32), and then click <OK>.
  • Page 56 Chapter Six Install Operating System taking using DVD installation disk as example), and enter BIOS to set, let the server can boot from the CD. 2. The system enter the interface of “Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1!” which includes the following items: Install or upgrade an existing system Install system with basic video driver Rescue installed system...
  • Page 57 Chapter Six Install Operating System Here we select Basic Storage Device, and click <Next> to continue the installa- tion. 8. The system enters Please name this computer. The hostname identifies the com- puter on a network. Please enter: Hostname. Here we also can select <Configure Network> on the left bottom of the window to configure the network.
  • Page 58 512MB, set as twice of it. If the memory exceeds 512MB, you can set it as 2GB), and click <OK> to finish the creating of swap partition. Note: when you create partition, please distinguish Inspur driver U disk and local disk and do not create new partition on the Inspur driver U disk You can also create other partitions as needed, and click <Next>...
  • Page 59 1. Installation of onboard 82574 network card driver (1) Insert Inspur system driver CD into the optical drive; click the Terminal menu in Applications→System Tools; input the following in the windows:...
  • Page 60 (3) Log in the system, connect the network wires and configure the network. 2. Installation of onboard 82576 network card driver (1) Insert Inspur system driver CD into the optical drive; click the Terminal menu in Applications→System Tools; input the following in the windows:...

  • Page 61: Restarting The Server

    Chapter Seven Common Problems and Trouble-shooting Chapter Seven Common Problems and Trouble-shooting This chapter focuses on the common problems and trouble-shooting of the server. If you are not sure about the cause of a failure and its removal method, please contact our customer service center for solution.
  • Page 62 ● If you are using the system CD to boot and install the operating system directly, the hard disk drive is generally added through the floppy driver or Inspur driver U disk. When using USB floppy driver to add the drive, please set the BIOS first and close the onboard floppy driver controller.
  • Page 63 ● Please check whether the driver having been made is correct or not (the drive for external RAID card should be made directly from the attached RAID card driver CD) and whether there is fault in the floppy disk or Inspur driver U disk. 7.2.4 Instruction of Onboard SATA Controller If it is configured onboard SATA HostRAID, it only supports windows system of above Windows XP versions and connects 6 SATA devices at most.

  • Page 64: Additional Notes

    3. After having collected the basic information, please feedback the detailed alarm information to Inspur technical support personnel in a timely manner. We will make further analysis and judgment and help you solve the problem as soon as possible.
  • Page 65 RAID volume to 97% of the minimum physical disk volume. Because of the different suppliers, physical disk capacity may vary. 6. For more notices of our products, please refer to the FAQ for server in the of- ficial website of Inspur: http://www.inspur.com/support/Channel_Home/support_sv.asp...

  • Page 66: Management Chip Bmc Ip

    Chapter Eight Instruction of Integrated Management Card Management Function Chapter Eight Instruction of Integrated Management Card Management Function This product integrates IPMI management card, by which the user can remote log in the server. The following will describe the application of management function that management controller integrates.

  • Page 67: Function Menu Introduction

    Chapter Eight Instruction of Integrated Management Card Management Function You can use Inspur system driver CD to enter the java directory in the CD root directory (here is the Java SE Runtime Environment 6,Update 18 plug-in module based on Windows system) and directly install browser plug-in module.
  • Page 68 Chapter Eight Instruction of Integrated Management Card Management Function The following function menu can be found on the top of the interface: Dashboard, FRU Information, Server Health, Configuration, Remote Control and Maintenance. 1. Dashboard menu In this menu, the information of management chip Firmware version, modification time and MAC address, etc.
  • Page 69 Chapter Eight Instruction of Integrated Management Card Management Function according to category or display uniformly. The user can view logs anytime and also can clear logs. (3) System and Audit Log menu: displays system log and check Log. System log needs displaying according to category.
  • Page 70 Chapter Eight Instruction of Integrated Management Card Management Function 4~32 and a password of at least 8 character size. 5. Remote Control Menu This section allows you to perform various remote operations on the server, in- cluding operating remote console, system switch and other control operations. (1) Console Redirection menu: log in console.
  • Page 71 Chapter Eight Instruction of Integrated Management Card Management Function B. Remote desktop: Keyboard menu Menu Function Select this option, equal to click the “Ctrl” key on the right Hold Right Ctrl Key side of the keyboard when operating. Select this option, equal to click the “Alt” key on the right Hold Right Alt Key side of the keyboard when operating.
  • Page 72 Chapter Eight Instruction of Integrated Management Card Management Function C. Remote desktop: Mouse menu Menu Function Select this option to display local mouse and redirection Show Cursor mouse on remote desktop at the same time. D. Remote desktop: Options menu Menu Function Bandwidth...
  • Page 73 Chapter Eight Instruction of Integrated Management Card Management Function Select image type to load. If to load floppy disk image, please select <Floppy Im- age>. And if to load CD image, please select <ISO Image>, then click <Browse> to se- lect image location, and click the corresponding <Connect>...
  • Page 74 Chapter Nine Server Installation Guide Server Power Control menu: displays the current power state of server, providing reset server, power off server immediately, power off server orderly, power on server and power cycle server. After selecting the option to execute, click <Perform Action> to execute.
  • Page 75 Chapter Nine Server Installation Guide 6. Maintenance menu This function menu can realize remote update of BMC firmware and restart of IPMI card. (1) Firmware Update menu This menu can realize remote update of IPMI management card Firmware. We recommend users not updating it by themselves. If it really needs to be updated, the up- date file must have been approved by us.

  • Page 76: Chapter Ten Server Installation Guide

    We recommend you to use the cabinet specially designed by Inspur for the server. If so, the internal of the cabinet should be already grounded. Please don’t change the ground joint in the cabinet unless it is of absolute necessity.
  • Page 77 Chapter Nine Server Installation Guide with requirements of the server. 9.2 Components Needed in Server Installation Accompanying guide rail suit of 2U server includes the following objects: 1. Guide rail 1 set (one for left and one for right rail) 2.
  • Page 78 Chapter Nine Server Installation Guide 3. Fix the inner rail on the four screws on the cabinet, the fix position shown in (picture 4). Picture 4 4. Make the smooth side of the inner rail confront the side of cabinet, get the holes on the inner rail and screws on cabinet corresponding with each other well, let the inner rail cling to the cabinet closely, then push the inner rail in the direction (rear of the ma- chine) of red arrows shown in (picture 5), and clamp tightly the inner rail with double-...
  • Page 79 Chapter Nine Server Installation Guide Picture 6 2. Find out the screw accompanied with guide rail (picture 7); fix well the second hole (picture 6) on the front and back frame corresponding to angle rail. Picture 7 3. Repeat the above operation; install the other guide rail to the cabinet. 9.5 Install the Server to Cabinet 1.
  • Page 80 Chapter Nine Server Installation Guide er with the front of the cabinet. 2. Clamp the inner rail at both sides of the server into the outer rail groove of the cabinet (the sliding bead of the outer rail must be moved to the front end of the outer rail). 3.

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