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HP ProLiant DL380 Generation 5 Server
User Guide
Part Number 403166-004
January 2007 (Fourth Edition)
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Contents Component identification...............................................................................................................7 Front panel components.............................................................................................................................7 Front panel LEDs and buttons......................................................................................................................8 Systems Insight Display LEDs.......................
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Installing the server into the rack............................................................................................ ....................32 Installing the operating system...................................................................................................................34 Powering up and conf iguring the server.....................................................................................................34 Registering the server..............................
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Internal USB functionality................................................................................................................67 Diagnostic tools ......................................................................................................................................68 HP Insight Diagnostics....................................................................................................................68 Survey Utility.............................................
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Taiwan battery recycling notice.................................................................................................................94 Power cord statement for Japan.................................................................................................................94 Electrostatic discharge.................................................................................................................95 Preventing electrostatic discharge.............................
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Component identification In this section Front panel components............................................................................................................................7 Front panel LEDs and buttons.....................................................................................................................8 Systems Insight Display LEDs......................................................................................................................9 Rear pane
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Front panel LEDs and buttons Item Description Status 1 UID LED button Blue = Activated Flashing = System being remotely managed Off = Deactivated 2 Internal health LED Green = Normal Amber = System degraded. To i entify component in degra d ded state, refer to Systems Insight Display LEDs. Red = System critical. To identify component in critical state, refer to Systems Insight Display LEDs. 3 External health LED (power Green = Normal supply) Amber = Power redundancy failu
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Systems Insight Display LEDs Item Description Status 1 Online spare Off = No protection Green = Protection enabled Amber = Memory failure occurred Flashing amber = Memory configuration error 2 Mirror Off = No protection Green = Protection enabled Amber = Memory failure occurred Flashing amber = Memory configuration error All other LEDs Off = Normal Amber = Failure IMPORTANT: If more than one FBDIMM slot LED is illuminated, further troubleshooting is required. Test
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Rear panel components Item Description Color 1 Expansion slot 1 — 2 Expansion slot 2 — 3 Expansion slot 3 — 4 Expansion slot 4 — 5 Expansion slot 5 — 6 T-10/T-15 Torx screwdriver — 7 External option blank — 8 NIC 2 connector — 9 NIC 1 connector — 10 Power supply bay 2 — 11 Power cord connector Black 12 Power supply bay 1 (populated) — 13 iLO 2 connector — 14 Video connector Blue 15 USB connectors (2) Black 16 Serial connector — 17 Mouse connector Green 18 Keyboard connec
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Item PCIe Mixed PCIe/PCI-X 4 x8, slot 4, bus D 64-bit/133-MHz, slot 4, bus D 5 x8, slot 5, bus E 64-bit/133-MHz, slot 5, bus D x4 slots: x8 cards are support ed, but will run at x4 speeds. x8 slots: x16 cards are suppo ed, but will run at x8 speeds. rt All slots are non-hot-plug. Rear panel LEDs and buttons Item Description Status 1 Power supply LED Green = Normal Off = System is off or power supply has failed 2 UID LED button Blue = Activated Flashing = System being remotel
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System board System board components (6-fan configuration) Item Description 1 Fan board connector 2 PPM 1 3 PPM 2 4 Power supply backplane connector 5 PCIe slot 1 6 PCIe slot 2 7 NMI jumper 8 iLO 2 diagnostic LEDs 9 System maintenance switch 10 Internal USB connector* 11 System battery 12 PCI riser cage connector 13 Fan 2 connector 14 Fan 1 connector 15 FBDIMM slots (1-8) 16 Multibay interface connector 17 Processor socket 1 18 Processor socket 2 * The lower USB conn
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System board components (12f-an configuration) Item Description 1 Fan board connector 2 PPM 1 3 PPM 2 4 Power supply backplane connector 5 PCIe slot 1 6 PCIe slot 2 7 NMI jumper 8 iLO 2 diagnostic LEDs 9 System maintenance switch 10 Internal USB connector* 11 System battery 12 PCI riser cage connector 13 Fan 4 connector 14 Fan 2 connector 15 Fan 3 connector 16 Fan 1 connector 17 FBDIMM slots (1-8) 18 Multibay interface connector 19 Processor socket 1 20 Process
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System maintenance switch Position Default Function S1 Off Off = iLO 2 security is enabled. On = iLO 2 security is disabled. S2 Off Off = System configuration can be modified. On = System configuration is locked and cannot be modified. S3 Off Reserved S4 Off Reserved S5 Off Off = Power-on password is enabled. On = Power-on password is disabled. S6 Off Off = Normal On = ROM treats system configuration as invalid. S7 Off Reserved S8 Off Reserved When the system maintenance sw
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FBDIMM slots FBDIMM slots are numbered sequentially (1 through 8) and the paired banks are identified by the letters A, B, C, and D. Systems Insight Display LEDs and internal health LED combinations When the internal health LED on the front panel illumin tes eith a er amber or red, the server is experiencing a health event. Combinations of illuminated system LEDs and the internal health LED indicate system status. Systems Insight Display Internal health Status LED and color LED
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Systems Insight Display Internal health Status LED and color LED color FBDIMM failure, all slots in Red One or more FBDIMMs has fa iled. Test each bank of all banks (amber) FBDIMMs by removing all other FBDIMMs. Isolate the failed FBDIMM by replacing each FBDIMM in a bank with a known working FBDIMM. Online spare memory Amber Bank X failed over to the online spare memory bank. (amber) Online spare memory Red Invalid online spare memory configuration. (flashing amber) Online spare mem
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SAS and SATA hard drive LEDs Item Description 1 Fault/UID LED (amber/blue) 2 Online LED (green) SAS and SATA hard drive LED combinations Online/activity Fault/UID LED Interpretation LED (green) (amber/blue) On, off, or Alternating amber and The drive has failed, or a pred ictive failure alert has been flashing blue received for this drive; it also has been selected by a management application. On, off, or Steadily blue The drive is operating normally, and it has be
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Online/activity Fault/UID LED Interpretation LED (green) (amber/blue) Flashing Off The drive is active, and it is operating normally. irregularly Off Steadily amber A critical fault condition has been identified for this drive, and the controller has placed it offlin e. Replace the drive as soon as possible. Off Amber, flashing A predictive failure alert has b een received for this drive. regularly (1 Hz) Replace the drive as soon as possible. Off Off The drive is offline, a spare, or
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Battery pack LEDs Item ID Color Description 1 Green System Power LED. This LED glows steadily when the system is powered up and 12 V system power is available. This power supply is used to maintain the battery charge and provide supplementary power to the cache microcontroller. 2 Green Auxiliary Power LED. This LED glows steadily when 3.3V auxiliary voltage is detected. The auxiliary voltage is used to preserve BBWC data and is available any time that the system power cords ar
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LED3 pattern LED4 pattern Interpretation — One blink per The battery pack is below the mi nimum charge level and is being second charged. Features that require a battery (such as write cache, capacity expansion, stripe size migration, and RAID migration) are temporarily unavailable until charging is complete. The recharge process takes between 15 minutes and two hours, depending on the initial capacity of the battery. — Steady glow The battery pack is fully charged, and posted write dat
