Dell EMC VxRail P Series Owner's Manual
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- Page 1 Dell EMC VxRail Appliances on PowerEdge Servers P Series, V Series, and S Series Owner's Manual...
- 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.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents 1 Overview............................. 5 Supported configurations..............................5 Front view of the appliances..............................7 Left control panel view..............................8 Right control panel view..............................10 Back view of the appliance..............................11 NIC indicator codes................................12 Power supply unit indicator codes..........................12 Hard drive indicator codes..............................14 Locating the serial number of your appliance........................ - Page 4 System memory................................... 27 General memory module installation guidelines......................28 Expansion cards and expansion card riser........................29 Expansion card installation guidelines......................... 29 6 Getting help..........................31 Contacting Dell EMC................................31 Registering for online support............................31 Accessing support resources..............................31 VxRail documentation................................. 32 Contents...
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Page 5: Overview
Front view of the appliances • Back view of the appliance • Hard drive indicator codes • Locating the serial number of your appliance Supported configurations The VxRail P Series, V Series, and S Series appliances support the following configurations: Overview... - Page 6 Figure 1. Supported configuration of VxRail P Series and V Series 1. drive backplane 2. backplane expander card 3. cooling fan in the cooling fan assembly (6) 4. memory module 5. CPU2 processor and heat sink module socket (with dust cover) 6. expansion card riser 3 7.
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Page 7: Front View Of The Appliances
The diagnostic LEDs are prominently located on the front panel. The hot-swappable hard drives are accessible from the front panel. Figure 3. Front view of VxRail P Series, and V Series – 24 x 2.5 inch drive appliance Overview... -
Page 8: Left Control Panel View
Figure 4. Front view of VxRail S Series –12 x 3.5 inch drive appliance Table 2. Features available on the front of the appliance Item Panels and slots Icon Description Left control panel Contains appliance health and appliance ID, status LED. Hard drives Enable you to install drives that are supported on your appliance. - Page 9 Table 4. Status LED indicators and descriptions Icon Description Condition Corrective action Hard drive The indicator turns solid amber if Check the System Event Log to determine if the drive indicator there is a hard drive error. has an error. If the problem persists, see Getting help.
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Page 10: Right Control Panel View
Right control panel view Figure 7. Right control panel view Table 6. Right control panel features Item Indicator, button, or Icon Description connector Power button Indicates if the appliance is turned on or off. Press the power button to manually turn on or off the appliance. NOTE: Press the power button to gracefully shut down an ACPI-compliant operating system. -
Page 11: Back View Of The Appliance
Back view of the appliance The back view displays the features available on the back of the appliance. Figure 8. Back view of VxRail S Series 2 – x 3.5 inch drive appliance Table 8. Features available on the back view Item Panels, ports and slots Icon... -
Page 12: Nic Indicator Codes
NIC indicator codes Each NIC on the back panel has indicators that provide information about the activity and link status. The activity LED indicator indicates if data is flowing through the NIC, and the link LED indicator indicates the speed of the connected network. Figure 9. - Page 13 Power indicator codes Condition CAUTION: Do not disconnect the power cord or unplug the PSU when updating firmware. If firmware update is interrupted, the PSUs do not function. Blinking green and turns off When hot-plugging a PSU, the PSU handle blinks green five times at a rate of 4 Hz and turns off. This indicates a PSU mismatch with respect to efficiency, feature set, health status, or supported voltage.
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Page 14: Hard Drive Indicator Codes
Locating the serial number of your appliance To get support for your appliance, use the VxRail Appliance serial number, also called the Product Serial Number Tag (PSNT). The PSNT is a 14-digit number used to identify your appliance to Dell EMC support. Overview... -
Page 15: Looking Up Your Appliance Serial Number In Vxrail Manager
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: Technical Specifications
(3.42 inches) (1.41 inches) (0.87 inches) inches) (28.17 inches) inches) Chassis weight Table 14. Chassis weight Appliance Maximum weight (with all hard drives/SSDs) VxRail P Series and V Series – 2.5 inch 28.1 kg (61.95 lb) drive appliances Technical specifications... -
Page 17: Processor Specifications
Expansion bus specifications The VxRail P Series, V Series, and S Series appliances support PCI express (PCIe) generation 3 expansion cards, that can be installed on the system board by using expansion card risers. These appliances support three types of expansion card risers. The following table... -
Page 18: Memory Specifications
Memory specifications The VxRail P Series, V Series, and S Series appliances support up to twenty four 288-pins RDIMMs, and LRDIMMs with speeds of 2666 MT/s, 2400 MT/s and 2133 MT/s with support for memory optimized operation. Table 18. Memory specifications... -
Page 19: Ports And Connectors Specifications
VGA ports The Video Graphic Array (VGA) port enables you to connect the appliance to a VGA display. The VxRail P Series, V Series, and S Series appliances supports two 15-pin VGA ports on the front and back panels. -
Page 20: Environmental Specifications
Table 20. Supported video resolution options Resolution Refresh rate (Hz) Color depth (bits) 1024 x 768 8, 16, 32 1280 x 800 8, 16, 32 1280 x 1024 8, 16, 32 1360 x 768 8, 16, 32 1440 x 900 8, 16, 32 1600 x 900 8, 16, 32... -
Page 21: Standard Operating Temperature
150 W/8 core, 165 W/12 core and higher wattage processor [Thermal Design Power (TDP)>165 W] are not supported. • Redundant power supply units are required. • Non-Dell EMC qualified peripheral cards and/or peripheral cards greater than 25 W are not supported. • Mid drive tray is not supported. •... -
Page 22: Particulate And Gaseous Contamination Specifications
Heatsink Processor/DIMM DIMM Type of air VxRail of proc blank blanks shroud Config VxRail P Series One 1U standard heat sink for Required Standard Four standard appliance CPU ≤ 125 W required fans and one blank to cover One 2U standard heat sink two fan slots for CPU >... - Page 23 Table 30. Gaseous contamination specifications Gaseous contamination Specifications Copper coupon corrosion rate <300 Å/month per Class G1 as defined by ANSI/ISA71.04-1985. Silver coupon corrosion rate <200 Å/month as defined by AHSRAE TC9.9. NOTE: Maximum corrosive contaminant levels measured at ≤50% relative humidity. Technical specifications...
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Page 24: Initial Setup And Configuration
Initial setup and configuration For assistance on installation and deployment, contact your Dell EMC account team or your reseller for installation services. WARNING: During the VxRail deployment process, an iDRAC account named vxadmin or PTAdmin is created. This account provides hardware information the VxRail Manager and is required for VxRail Manager and cluster to function properly. -
Page 25: Pre-Operating Systems
• This appliance requires installation and deployment services. Do not rack the appliance, or turn on the appliance without the initial configurations on your appliance. Contact your Dell EMC account team or your reseller for setting up your appliance. •... -
Page 26: Replacing And Adding Hardware
WARNING: The VxRail Series procedures in the SolVe Desktop application for replacing hardware or any upgrade procedures must be performed only by Dell EMC certified service technicians. CAUTION: To avoid data loss, ensure that you refer to the VxRail Series procedures in the SolVe Desktop application before replacing hardware or performing any upgrade procedures. -
Page 27: System Memory
Hardware component V series P series S series Customer Field Customer Field Customer Field Replaceable Replaceable Replaceable Replaceable Replaceable Replaceable Unit (CRU) Unit (FRU) Unit (CRU) Unit (FRU) Unit (CRU) Unit (FRU) Network Daughter Card (NDC) NOTE: The preceding table provides a non-exhaustive list of FRUs that reflects the common top-level assembly parts. System memory The appliance supports DDR4 registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) and load reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs). -
Page 28: General Memory Module Installation Guidelines
Figure 15. Memory socket locations Memory channels are organized as follows: Table 32. Memory channels Proc Channel 0 Channel 1 Channel 2 Channel 3 Channel 4 Channel 5 Processor 1 Slots A1 and A7 Slots A2 and A8 Slots A3 and A9 Slots A4 and A10 Slots A5 and A11 Slots A6 and A12... -
Page 29: Expansion Cards And Expansion Card Riser
Expansion card installation guidelines The VxRail P Series, V Series, and S Series appliance support PCI express (PCIe) generation 3 expansion cards, that can be installed on the system board using expansion card risers. The following table provides detailed information about the expansion card riser specifications: Table 33. - Page 30 Slot priority Maximum number of cards BOSS Table 35. VxRail P series dual processor and VxRail V series configurations — Riser configurations with greater than 4 PCIe slots [Riser configuration 4 (1A+2A+3A), and Riser configuration 5 (1B+2A+3A)] Card Type Slot priority Maximum number of cards GPU (double width) –...
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Page 31: Getting Help
• Access SolVe Online for VxRail or 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: 1. -
Page 32: Vxrail Documentation
• VxRail E Series Appliance Getting Started With Your Appliance • VxRail P Series, S Series, and V Series Appliances Getting Started With Your Appliance VxRail Appliance API User Guide This document describes the API for the VxRail Appliance versions 4.5.x and 4.7.x. - Page 33 Description VxRail Networking Guide with Dell EMC S4148-ON Switches The deployment guide covers the process of connecting a cluster of VxRail nodes to Dell EMC Networking S4148-ON switches in a high-availability configuration. VxRail Network Planning Guide This is a network planning and consideration guide for the VxRail. It provides valuable insight into supported switch requirements and the networking required to support VxRail.
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