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Dell PowerVault NX200
Systems
Hardware Owner’s
Manual
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book.book Page 2 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM 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. © 2010 Dell Inc. All rights res
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book.book Page 3 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM Contents 1 About Your System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Accessing System Features During Startup. . . . . . . 11 Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 12 LCD Panel Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Setup Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 View Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . .
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book.book Page 4 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM Diagnostics Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 2 Using the System Setup Program and UEFI Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Choosing the System Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Responding to Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . 52 Usin
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book.book Page 5 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM UEFI Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 System Utilities Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 System and Setup Password Features . . . . . . . . . 65 Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Embedded System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Baseboard Management Controller Configuration . . . 70 Entering the BMC Setup Module. . . . . . . . . . 70 iDRAC
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book.book Page 6 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM Expansion Card Stabilizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Removing the Expansion Card Stabilizer . . . . . . 81 Installing the Expansion Card Stabilizer . . . . . . 81 Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Installing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . .
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book.book Page 7 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Expansion Card Installation Guidelines . . . . . . 103 Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 107 iDRAC6 Express Card (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Installing an iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . . 108 Removing an iDRAC6 Express Card (Optional) . . . 109 Internal USB Memory Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 8 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM 4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 129 Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . 129 Troubleshooting System Startup Failure. . . . . . . . 129 Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 130 Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem. . . . . . . . . 130 Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device. . . . . . . . . . 131 Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 9 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM 5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . 147 Using Online Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Embedded System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . . 147 When to Use the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . 148 Running the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . . . 148 System Diagnostics Testing Options . . . . . . . . . . 149 Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Selecting Devices for Testing . . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 10 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM 10 Contents
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book.book Page 11 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM 1 About Your System Accessing System Features During Startup The following keystrokes provide access to system features during startup. Keystroke Description Enters the System Setup program. See "Using the System Setup Program and UEFI Boot Manager" on page 51. Enters System Services, which opens the Unified Server Configurator. The Unified Server Configurator allows you to access utilities such as embedded system diagnostics. For
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book.book Page 12 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM Front-Panel Features and Indicators Figure 1-1. Front Panel Features and Indicators 9 8 1 7 6 5 4 3 2 Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 1 Optical drive Optional internal SATA DVD-ROM (optional) or DVD+/-RW NOTE: DVD devices are data only. 2 Front bezel lock Secures the front bezel to the system. 3 Front bezel Covers the system's front-loading hard drives. 4 USB connectors (2) Connects USB devices to the system. The ports
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book.book Page 13 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 6Power-on indicator, The power-on indicator lights when the system power button power is on. The power button controls the DC power supply output to the system. NOTE: When powering on the system, the video monitor can take several seconds up to over 2 minutes to display an image, depending on the amount of memory installed in the system. NOTE: On ACPI-compliant operating systems, tur
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book.book Page 14 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM LCD Panel Features The system's LCD panel provides system information and status and error messages to signify when the system is operating correctly or when the system needs attention. See "LCD Status Messages" on page 23 for information about specific status codes. The LCD backlight lights blue during normal operating conditions and lights amber to indicate an error condition. When the system is in standby mode, the LCD backlight is off
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book.book Page 15 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM Item Buttons Description 1 Left Moves the cursor back in one-step increments. 2 Select Selects the menu item highlighted by the cursor. 3 System identification Turns the system ID mode on (LCD panel flashes blue) and off. Press quickly to toggle the system ID on and off. If the system hangs during POST, press and hold the system ID button for more than five seconds to enter BIOS Progress mode. 4 Right Moves the cursor forward in one-step in
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book.book Page 16 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM Setup Menu NOTE: When you select an option in the Setup menu, you must confirm the option before proceeding to the next action. Option Description BMC or iDRAC Select DHCP or Static IP to configure the network mode. If Static IP is selected, the available fields are IP, NOTE: If an iDRAC6 Express Subnet (Sub), and Gateway (Gtw). Select Setup DNS card is installed on the to enable DNS and to view domain addresses. Two system, the BMC opt
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book.book Page 17 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM View Menu Option Description BMC IP or DRAC IP Displays the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses for the iDRAC6. Addresses include DNS (Primary and Secondary), NOTE: If an iDRAC6 Express Gateway, IP, and Subnet (IPv6 does not have Subnet). card is installed on the system, the BMC IP option NOTE: BMC IP supports only IPv4 addresses. is replaced by DRAC IP. MAC Displays the MAC addresses for DRAC, iSCSIn, or NETn. NOTE: If the iDRAC Express card is not in
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book.book Page 18 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns 2 1 1 hard-drive activity indicator (green) 2 hard-drive status indicator (green and amber) Drive-Status Indicator Pattern (RAID Only) Condition Blinks green two times per second Identify drive/preparing for removal Off Drive ready for insertion or removal NOTE: The drive status indicator remains off until all hard drives are initialized after system power is applied. Drives are not ready for insertion or remo
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book.book Page 19 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM Drive-Status Indicator Pattern (RAID Only) Condition Blinks amber four times per second Drive failed Blinks green slowly Drive rebuilding Steady green Drive online Blinks green three seconds, amber three Rebuild aborted seconds, and off six seconds. Back-Panel Features and Indicators Figure 1-3. Back-Panel Features and Indicators 1 2 3 4 7 5 6 About Your System 19
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book.book Page 20 Monday, August 9, 2010 3:07 PM Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 1 Power supply Power supply — 375 W 2USB connectors (4) Connects USB devices to the system. The ports are USB 2.0-compliant. 3 Ethernet connectors (2) Integrated 10/100/1000 NIC connectors. 4 video connector Connects a VGA display to the system. 5 serial connector Connects a serial device to the system. 6PCIe expansion card Connects up to five PCI Express. slots (5) Generation 2 expansion
