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Dell PowerEdge C8000XD
Hardware Owner’s
Manual
Regulatory Model: B06B
Regulatory Type: B06B002
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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if instructions are not followed. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. ____________________ Information in this publication is subject to change without notice. © 2013 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of these materials in any manne
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Contents 1 About Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Hard-Drive Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Hard-Drive Bay Numbering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . 10 SAS Connectors Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Expander Configuration Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Service Tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Other Information You Ma
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Sled Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Removing a Sled Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Installing a Sled Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Hard-Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Hard-Drive Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Hard-Drive Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . 33 Standard Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Removing a Standard Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . 34 Installing a Standard Hard-Drive Carr
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Removing the Hard-Drive Backplane From an Expansion Hard-Drive Carrier. . . . . . . 50 Installing a Hard-Drive Backplane Into an Expansion Hard-Drive Carrier. . . . . . . . . . 51 3 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 53 Installation Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . . 54 Troubleshooting a Sled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Troubleshooting
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Cabling Configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Expander Firmware File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Expander Firmware Update Guidelines . . . . . . . . . 65 Updating the Expander Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 5 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Hard-Drive Backplane Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 71 SAS Expander Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Node Power Distribution Board Connectors . . . . . . 75 6 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . .
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1 About Your System Front-Panel Features and Indicators Figure 1-1. Front-Panel Features and Indicators 1 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 9 Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 1 Handle Hold to pull the hard-drive cage from the sled. About Your System 7
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Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 2 External mini-SAS Connects to a compute sled’s host bus connector A2 adapter (HBA) or RAID card. When you configure zoning for the storage sled, the external mini-SAS connector becomes zone group 0. 3 External mini-SAS Connects to a compute sled’s host bus connector A1 adapter (HBA) or RAID card. When you configure zoning for the storage sled, the external mini-SAS connector becomes zone group 1. 4, 8 Sled power/status The power/s
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Hard-Drive Features The C8000XD storage sled is available with 12-drive or 24-drive option. All hard-drives are mounted in special hard-drive carriers and connect to the hard-drive backplane inside the sled. • Standard hard-drive carrier supports 3.5-inch SAS/SATA/SSD hard-drive. • Flexible hard-drive carrier supports 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/SSD hard-drive. • Expansion hard-drive carrier supports two 2.5-inch SSD hard-drives. The 12-drive configuration installs 12 standard or flexible hard-drive
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Figure 1-3. 24-Drive Bay Numbering 3, 2, 1, 0 7, 6, 5, 4 11, 10, 9, 8 15, 14, 13, 12 19, 18, 17, 16 23, 22, 21, 20 Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns The C8000XD sled hard-drive backplanes include a hard-drive activity LED and two bi-colored hard-drive status and fault LEDs per drive. The state of the hard-drive backplane indicators alerts you to the condition of the hard- drives in the sled. You can view the status of the hard-drive indicators on the backplane by opening the sled (See "Opening th
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12-Drive Bay Hard-Drive Indicators Figure 1-4. 12-Drive Bay Hard-Drive Indicators—Left Side Hard-Drive Cage Group A Group A Group A Group A Group A Group A Figure 1-5. 12-Drive Bay Hard-Drive Indicators—Right Side Hard-Drive Cage Group A Group A Group A Group A Group A Group A NOTE: Group A in the illustrations indicate the grouping of the hard-drives in the single port mode configuration. The illustration above shows the location of the hard-drive indicators in a single port mode. About Your
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24-Drive Bay Hard-Drive Indicators Figure 1-6. 24-Drive Bay Hard-Drive Indicators—Left Side Hard-Drive Cage Group A Group A Group A Group B Group B Group B Group A Group A Group A Group B Group B Group B Figure 1-7. 24-Drive Bay Hard-Drive Indicators—Right Side Hard-Drive Cage Group A Group A Group A Group B Group B Group B Group A Group A Group A Group B Group B Group B NOTE: Group A and Group B in the illustrations indicate the grouping of the hard- drives in an expansion mode (zoning or non-
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Icon Indicator Hard-drive activity indicator Hard-drive status indicator Hard-drive fault indicator Table 1-1. Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns Condition Hard-Drive Activity Hard-Drive Indicator Status and Fault Indicators Green LED Green LED Amber LED Drive bay empty Off Off Off Drive idle Off Off Off Drive online/access On 50 ms On Off Off 50 ms Drive identify/Preparing On 100 ms On 250 ms Off for removal Off 100 ms Off 250 ms Drive rebuilding On 500 ms On 400 ms Off Off 500 ms Off 100 ms Drive
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SAS Connectors Features The storage sled has two SASx28 expander chips on the SAS expander. Each expander chip, labeled LSI 28 port 6 GB expander A/B port in Figure 1-8, has its own unique SAS address and connects to two internal mini-SAS connectors and two external mini-SAS connectors. The external mini-SAS connectors support direct cable connection, an external mini-SAS x4 cable (SFF-8088) connects the compute sled’s HBA/RAID card to the SAS expander. The external mini-SAS A1, A2, B1, an
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Figure 1-8. SAS Expander Board SAS Expander Board About Your System 15
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Expander Configuration Mode The C8000XD sled is equipped with a SAS expander to operate the hard- drives in single port, dual port, or expansion mode. Use mini-SAS x4 cable(s) to connect a compute sled to your C8000XD sled. The sled supports the following configuration modes. •Single port mode In single port mode, the storage sled supports 12 x 2.5 or 3.5-inch SAS/SATA/SSD hard-drives from a single cable connection. The figure below shows a single path connection from a single-HBA/RAID co
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The figure below shows a single path connection from single-HBA/RAID compute sled to two cascaded storage sleds. In this mode, the hard-drives in the two storage sleds are cascaded for extended storage capacity. Figure 1-10. Single Host to Cascaded Storage Sled Connection Single-HBA/RAID Storage Sled 2 Storage Sled 1 Compute Sled About Your System 17
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•Dual port mode In dual port mode, the storage sled SAS expander board supports 12 x 2.5 or 3.5-inch SAS hard-drives from a dual-cable connection. The figure below shows a dual path connection from a dual-HBA compute sled connected to the storage sled’s external mini-SAS A1 and B1 connectors. This mode delivers dual path functionality and redundant path capability. Figure 1-11. Dual Port Mode Configuration Storage Sled Dual-HBA Compute Sled 18 About Your System
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• Expansion mode (non-zoning) In expansion mode, the storage sled SAS expander board supports 24 x 2.5 SSD hard-drives from a dual-cable connection. The figure below shows a dual path connection from a single-RAID compute sled connected to the storage sled’s external mini-SAS A1 and A2 connectors. In this mode, the hard-drives in the storage sled are cascaded for extended storage capacity. Figure 1-12. Expansion Mode (Non-Zoning) Storage Sled Single-RAID Compute Sled About Your System 19
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Compute Compute Compute Compute Sled 4 Sled 1 Sled 2 Sled 3 • Expansion mode (four zones) In expansion mode with four zones configuration, the storage sled SAS expander board supports 24 x 2.5 SSD hard-drives from a single-cable connection. The SAS connections are grouped into four zones (A1/Zone 0, A2/Zone 1, B1/Zone 2, B2/Zone 3) and each zone allows the host/compute sled to access a group of hard-drives in the storage sled. The figure below shows four single-RAID compute sleds connecte
