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Dell EMC VxRail™ E Series Appliance
Owner's Manual
Regulatory Model: E26S Series
Regulatory Type: E26S001

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  • Page 1 Dell EMC VxRail™ E Series Appliance Owner's Manual Regulatory Model: E26S Series Regulatory Type: E26S001...
  • Page 2 Notes, cautions, and warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents 1 Overview................................5 Supported configurations..............................5 Front panel ..................................7 10 x 2.5-inch hard drive chassis..........................7 Back panel...................................8 Three-riser chassis...............................8 Hard drive indicator codes...............................10 NIC indicator codes................................11 Power supply unit indicator codes...........................11 iDRAC Direct LED indicator codes..........................14 Locating serial number of your appliance........................15 Looking up your appliance serial number in VxRail Manager.................15 Locating your physical VxRail™...
  • Page 4 Using SolVe Desktop application for VxRail Series hardware tasks................26 Memory..................................... 26 General memory module installation guidelines......................28 Expansion cards and expansion card riser........................28 Expansion card guidelines............................28 7 Getting help..............................30 Contacting Dell EMC............................... 30 Registering for online support............................30 Accessing support resources............................30 Contents...

  • Page 5: Overview

    Overview The VxRail ™ E Series appliance is a hyper-converged appliance that supports: • Up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors • Up to 24 DIMM slots supporting up to 1536 GB of memory • Storage capacity of up to 10 drive slots •...
  • Page 6 Figure 1. Supported configurations Cooling fan in the cooling fan assembly (6) Processor (2) DIMMs (24) PSU connector PSU (2) Expansion card riser 3 Network daughter card Expansion card riser 1 Expander board Hard drive Overview...

  • Page 7: Front Panel

    Front panel The front panel provides access to the features available on the front of the appliance, such as the power button, NMI button, appliance identification tag, appliance identification button, and USB ports. The diagnostic LEDs are prominently located on the front panel. The hot swappable hard drives are accessible from the front panel.

  • Page 8: Back Panel

    Item Indicator, Button, or Connector Icon Description NOTE: Use this button only if directed to do so by qualified support personnel or by the operating system documentation. Appliance identification button The identification buttons on the front and back panels can be used to locate a particular appliance within a rack.
  • Page 9 Video connector USB port (2) LP PCIe expansion card slot (riser 3) Ethernet connectors (4) Power supply (PSU1) Power supply (PSU2) Table 2. Back panel features (three PCIe expansion cards) Item Indicator, Button, or Connector Icon Description Appliance identification button The identification buttons on the front and back panels can be used to locate a particular appliance within a rack.

  • Page 10: Hard Drive Indicator Codes

    Hard drive indicator codes Each hard drive carrier has an activity indicator and a status indicator. The indicators provide information about the current status of the hard drive. The activity LED indicates whether hard drive is currently in use or not. The status LED indicates the power condition of the hard drive.

  • Page 11: Nic Indicator Codes

    NOTE: If the hard drive is in the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) mode, the status indicator (on the right side) does not turn on. Table 3. Hard drive indicator codes Drive-status indicator pattern Condition Flashes green twice per second Identifying drive or preparing for removal.
  • Page 12 Figure 7. AC PSU status indicator AC PSU status indicator/handle Table 5. AC PSU status indicators Convention Power indicator Condition pattern Green A valid power source is connected to the PSU and the PSU is operational. Flashing green When the firmware of the PSU is being updated, the PSU handle flashes green. Flashing green and When hot-adding a PSU, the PSU handle flashes green five times at 4 Hz rate and turns turns off...
  • Page 13 Convention Power indicator Condition pattern Not lit Power is not connected. Figure 8. DC PSU status indicator DC PSU status indicator Table 6. DC PSU status indicators Convention Power indicator pattern Condition Green A valid power source is connected to the PSU and that the PSU is operational. Flashing green When hot-adding a PSU, the PSU indicator flashes green.

  • Page 14: Idrac Direct Led Indicator Codes

    iDRAC Direct LED indicator codes The iDRAC Direct LED indicator lights up to indicate that the port is connected and is being used as a part of the iDRAC subsystem. NOTE: The iDRAC Direct LED indicator does not turn on when the USB port is used in the USB mode. Figure 9.

  • Page 15: Locating Serial Number Of Your Appliance

    Your hardware is identified by a unique Service Tag number. The Service Tag is found on the front of the appliance by pulling out the information tag. Alternatively, the information may be on a sticker on the chassis of the appliance. This information is used by Dell EMC to route support calls to the appropriate personnel.

  • Page 16: Documentation Matrix

    Documentation matrix The documentation matrix provides information on documents that you can refer to for setting up and managing your appliance. Table 9. Documentation matrix Document Provides information about... Location Software Documents Online help in the VxRail All admin tasks, licensing, and product architecture VxRail Manager Online Help Manager UI information.

  • Page 17: Technical Specifications

    Technical specifications The technical and environmental specifications of your appliance are outlined in this section. Chassis dimensions Figure 11. Chassis dimensions Table 10. Dimension details Appliance Za (with Za (without bezel) bezel) 482.4 mm 444.0 mm 87.3 mm 32.0 mm 18.0 mm 684.0 mm 723.0 mm...

  • Page 18: Chassis Weight

    Chassis weight ™ The VxRail E Series appliance supports 10 x 2.5-inch hard drive with maximum weight of 18.5 kg (40.79 lb) Processor specifications The VxRail ™ E Series appliance supports two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 product family processors. PSU specifications ™...

  • Page 19: Hard Drive Specifications

    Table 13. Memory specifications Memory module Memory capacity Minimum RAM Maximum RAM sockets Twenty-four 288- • 64 GB quad rank (LRDIMMs) • 64 GB with single processor • LRDIMM: up to 768 GB with pins (minimum of four memory single processor •...

  • Page 20: Environmental Specifications

    Environmental specifications Table 14. Temperature specifications Temperature Specifications Storage –40°C to 65°C (–40°F to 149°F) Continuous operation (for altitude less than 950 m or 3117 ft) 10°C to 35°C (50°F to 95°F) with no direct sunlight on the equipment. Maximum temperature gradient (operating and storage) 20°C/h (36°F/h) Table 15.

  • Page 21: Particulate And Gaseous Contamination Specifications

    Operating temperature de-rating Specifications 40°C to 45°C (104°F to 113°F) Maximum temperature is reduced by 1°C/125 m (1°F/228 ft) above 950 m (3,117 ft). Particulate and gaseous contamination specifications The following table defines the limitations that help avoid any equipment damage or failure from particulates and gaseous contamination. If the levels of particulates or gaseous pollution exceed the specified limitations and result in equipment damage or failure, you may need to rectify the environmental conditions.

  • Page 22: Expanded Operating Temperature

    Expanded operating temperature Table 22. Expanded operating temperature specifications Expanded operating temperature Specifications Continuous operation 5°C to 40°C at 5% to 85% RH with 29°C dew point. NOTE: Outside the standard operating temperature (10°C to 35°C), the appliance can operate continuously in temperatures as low as 5°C and as high as 40°C.

  • Page 23: Initial Setup And Configuration

    Initial setup and configuration This appliance requires installation and deployment services. Contact your Dell EMC account team or your reseller for installation services. WARNING: During the VxRail deployment process, an iDRAC account is created called either vxadmin or PTAdmin, which provides hardware information to VxRail Manager.

  • Page 24: Pre-Operating Systems

    Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) NOTE: Dell EMC has optimized your appliance and recommends that you do not change any of these settings. iDRAC configuration The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) is designed to make appliance administrators more productive and improve the overall availability of Dell EMC appliances.
  • Page 25 For more information about logging in to iDRAC and iDRAC licenses, see the latest Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller User's Guide at Dell.com/idracmanuals. The iDRAC IP address is pre-configured for DHCP. This can be changed to a static IP address by logging into iDRAC. NOTE: •...

  • Page 26: Replacing And Adding Hardware

    ™ appliance, such as hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state drives (SSDs), and power supplies. Only Dell EMC certified service technicians should perform these procedures. For certain hardware components, you may need to contact Customer Support for repair or replacement.
  • Page 27 Figure 12. Memory socket locations Memory channels are organized as follows: Table 23. Memory channels Processor Channel 0 Channel 1 Channel 2 Channel 3 Processor 1 Slots A1, A5, and A9 Slots A2, A6, and A10 Slots A3, A7, and A11 Slots A4, A8, and A12 Processor 2 Slots B1, B5, and B9 Slots B2, B6, and B10...

  • Page 28: General Memory Module Installation Guidelines

    DIMM Type DIMMs Populated/ Operating Frequency (in Maximum DIMM Rank/Channel Voltage Channel MT/s) LRDIMM 2400, 2133, 1866 Quad rank 1.2 V 2400, 2133, 1866 Quad rank 2133, 1866 Quad rank General memory module installation guidelines NOTE: Memory configurations that fail to observe these guidelines can prevent your appliance from booting, stop responding during memory configuration, or operating with reduced memory.
  • Page 29 Table 25. Guidelines for appliance supporting three PCIe expansion cards Riser PCIe Slot Processor Connection Height Length Link Width Slot Width Processor 2 Low Profile Half Length Processor 2 Low Profile Half Length Processor 1 Low Profile Half Length NOTE: Both the processors must be available for use in riser 1 slots.

  • Page 30: Getting Help

    Download Dell EMC VxRail Series product documentation. • Download the SolVe Desktop Procedure Generator. • Browse the Dell EMC VxRail Series community and support information. • Link your support account for access to resources from within VxRail Manager. To register for online support: Point your Web browser to emc.com/vxrailsupport or support.emc.com.

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