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Table 7. VxRail planning guides and technical notes  (continued)

Document

Description

Installing and Configuring VMware AppDefense on VxRail

This document describes the procedure for installing VMware
AppDefense on a VxRail cluster and for protecting the VxRail
Manager virtual machine.

VxRail Cluster Migration Package

(Download package) The VxRail Cluster Migration Package
provides the VxRail Cluster Migration User Guide and the
cluster migration PowerShell script that enables users to
migrate a VxRail cluster from the source VC to the target VC
without affecting running VMs.

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Introduction

Summary of Contents for E665

Page 1: ...Dell EMC VxRail Appliances on PowerEdge Servers E665 E665F and E665N Owner s Manual January 2021 Rev A02 ...

Page 2: ...tial 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 2020 2021 Dell Inc or its subsidiaries All rights reserved Dell EMC and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc or its subsidiaries Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners ...

Page 3: ...ontrol panel view 15 Drive indicator codes 15 Rear view of the system 16 NIC indicator codes 17 Power supply unit indicator codes 18 Inside the system 19 Chapter 3 Technical specifications 20 Chassis dimensions 21 System weight 22 Processor specifications 22 PSU specifications 22 Cooling fans specifications 22 Appliance battery specifications 22 Expansion card riser specifications 22 Memory specif...

Page 4: ...g system applications 30 iDRAC configuration 30 Log in to iDRAC 30 Chapter 6 Replacing and adding hardware 32 Using SolVe Online for VxRail Series procedures 32 Supported hardware components 32 System memory guidelines 33 General memory module installation guidelines 34 Expansion cards and expansion card risers 35 Expansion card installation guidelines 36 4 Contents ...

Page 5: ...e virtualization products Data center appliances and infrastructure Revision history The following table lists the revision history for this document Table 1 Revision history Date Revision Description of change January 22 2021 02 Minor updates and corrections June 23 2020 01 Initial release Support Create an Online Support account to get access to support and product resources for your VxRail Appl...

Page 6: ...l com support Using SolVe Online for VxRail Series procedures Instructions for procedures such as replacing hardware or performing system administrative tasks are available through SolVe Online and the SolVe Desktop application CAUTION To avoid potential data loss refer to the VxRail Series procedures in SolVe Online or the SolVe Desktop application before performing any hardware replacement or up...

Page 7: ...our VxRail appliance using the unique serial number service tag number or express service code located on the information tag of your appliance The information tag is located at the front of your appliance See Front view of the system for the location The information tag contains the following Product serial number tag PSNT which provides the 14 digit VxRail serial number Service tag OpenManage Mo...

Page 8: ...x These documents provide information about supported software firmware and hardware versions for Dell EMC VxRail appliances based on Dell PowerEdge hardware including the E Series P Series S Series and V Series VxRail Appliance Simple Support Matrix This document provides information about external software compatibility versions for VxRail appliances Table 4 VxRail API and Event guides Document ...

Page 9: ...cusses guidance for the various vCenter Server deployment options supported on VxRail appliances VxRail vSAN Stretched Cluster Planning Guide VxRail 7 0 vSAN Stretched Cluster Planning Guide These planning guides provide best practices and requirements for using stretched clusters with VxRail appliances vSAN 2 Node Cluster on VxRail Planning Guide This guide provides information for the planning o...

Page 10: ...re AppDefense on a VxRail cluster and for protecting the VxRail Manager virtual machine VxRail Cluster Migration Package Download package The VxRail Cluster Migration Package provides the VxRail Cluster Migration User Guide and the cluster migration PowerShell script that enables users to migrate a VxRail cluster from the source VC to the target VC without affecting running VMs 10 Introduction ...

Page 11: ...ront view of 8 x 2 5 inch drive system SAS SATA 1 Left control panel 2 Optical drive 3 VGA port 4 Right control panel 5 Information tag 6 Drive 8 Table 8 Features available on the front of the system Item Ports panels and slots Icon Description 1 Left control panel N A Contains the system health system ID and status LED indicators For more information see the LED section 2 Optical drive N A The op...

Page 12: ...nels and slots Icon Description 1 Left control panel N A Contains the system health system ID and status LED indicators For more information see the LED section 2 VGA port Enables you to connect a display device to the system For more information see the VGA ports and specifications section 3 Right control panel N A Contains the power button USB port iDRAC Direct micro port and the iDRAC Direct st...

Page 13: ...and descriptions Icon Description Condition Corrective action Drive indicator The indicator turns solid amber if there is a drive error Check the System Event Log to determine if the drive has an error If the problem persists see the Support section Temperature indicator The indicator turns solid amber if the system experiences a thermal error for example the ambient temperature is out of range or...

Page 14: ...amber if a PCIe card experiences an error See the Support section System health and system ID indicator codes Figure 6 System health and system ID indicators Table 12 System health and system ID indicator codes System health and system ID indicator code Condition Solid blue Indicates that the system is turned on system is healthy and system ID mode is not active Press the system health and system ...

Page 15: ... iDRAC Direct port is actively connected to a device 4 iDRAC Direct port Micro AB USB The iDRAC Direct port Micro AB USB enables you to access the iDRAC direct Micro AB USB features NOTE For more information on the ports see the Ports and connectors specifications section Drive indicator codes The LEDs on the drive carrier indicates the state of each drive Each drive carrier in your system has two...

Page 16: ...anels or slots Icon Description 1 Serial port Enables connecting a serial device to the system For more information see the Technical Specifications section 2 iDRAC dedicated port Enables remote access iDRAC 3 Ethernet ports 2 Provides two embedded Ethernet ports These NIC ports can also be shared with iDRAC when iDRAC network settings is set to shared mode For more information about the supported...

Page 17: ...uring POST press and hold the system ID button for more than five seconds to enter the BIOS progress mode For more information about the ports and connectors see the Technical Specifications section NIC indicator codes Each NIC on the back of the system has indicators that provide information about the activity and link status The activity LED indicator indicates if data is flowing through the NIC...

Page 18: ...date is interrupted the PSUs do not function Blinking green and powers 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 concerning efficiency feature set health status or supported voltage CAUTION If two PSUs are installed both the PSUs must have the same type of label for example Extended Power Performance EPP label M...

Page 19: ...PERC card 3 System board 4 Heat sink 5 Memory module slots 6 Fan 7 Information tag 8 Backplane cover 9 Backplane 10 Cable retention latch 11 Intrusion switch 12 Power interposer board 13 Air shroud 14 Riser 2 15 PSU 1 and PSU 2 VxRail E665 Series system overview 19 ...

Page 20: ...stem weight Processor specifications PSU specifications Cooling fans specifications Appliance battery specifications Expansion card riser specifications Memory specifications Storage controller specifications Drives Optical drives Ports and connectors specifications Video specifications Environmental specifications 3 20 Technical specifications ...

Page 21: ...ezel 35 84 mm 1 4 inches Without bezel 22 0 mm 0 87 inches 657 25 mm 25 87 inches 692 62 mm 27 26 inches 8 x 2 5 inches 482 0 mm 18 97 inches 434 0 mm 17 08 inches 42 8 mm 1 68 inches With bezel 35 84 mm 1 4 inches Without bezel 22 0 mm 0 87 inches 606 47 mm 23 87 inches 641 85 mm 25 26 inches NOTE Zb goes to the nominal rear wall external surface where the motherboard I O connectors reside Techni...

Page 22: ...o phase voltage not exceeding 230 V NOTE For certain premium configurations with high power consumption system PSU might stay with 2 0 mode only 1 1 redundant mode is not available Cooling fans specifications The VxRail E665 Series appliance supports both the Standard fan STD fan and High Performance fan HPR fan and requires all six fans to be installed NOTE Mixing of STD and HPR fans is not suppo...

Page 23: ...llers PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller PERC HBA330 NOTE There is no internal storage controller for the VxRail E665N NVMe configuration Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem BOSS S1 HWRAID 2x M 2 SSDs Onboard controller Software RAID SWRAID S140 Drives The VxRail E665 Series appliance supports the following configurations Hybrid Up to 8 x 2 5 inch SAS SATA or SSD front accessible drives in slot 0 t...

Page 24: ...upports 10 Gb or 25 Gb Ethernet through the LOM mezzanine Mezz card for VxRail management Access is through the back panel Serial connector specifications The VxRail E665 Series appliance supports one serial connector on the back panel which is a 9 pin connector Data Terminal Equipment DTE 16550 compliant VGA ports specifications The VxRail E665 Series appliance supports two 15 pin VGA ports one e...

Page 25: ...e platform Humidity percent ranges Non condensing at all times 8 RH with 12 C minimum dew point to 80 RH with 21 C 69 8 F maximum dew point Operational altitude de rating Maximum temperature is reduced by 1 C 300 meters 1 8 F 984 feet above 900 meters 2 953 feet Operational climatic range category A3 Table 29 Operational climatic range category A3 Allowable continuous operations Temperature ranges...

Page 26: ...ulses in the positive and negative x y and z axis one pulse on each side of the system of 71 G for up to 2 ms Particulate and gaseous contamination specifications The following table defines the limitations that help avoid any damages to the IT equipment and or or both failure from particulate and gaseous contamination If the levels of particulate or gaseous pollution exceed the specified limitati...

Page 27: ...er Class G1 as defined by ANSI ISA71 04 2013 Silver Coupon Corrosion rate 200 Å month as defined by ANSI ISA71 04 2013 NOTE Maximum corrosive contaminant levels measured at 50 relative humidity Thermal restriction matrix Table 35 Thermal restriction matrix for processor and fans Configuration 8 x 2 5 inch 10 x 2 5 inch drives NVMe Processor TDP Processor cTDP Max 120 W 150 W STD fan STD heat sink ...

Page 28: ...onment Processor TDP equal or greater than 180 W are not supported 128 GB or greater capacity LRDIMMs are not supported Redundant power supply configuration is required but PSU failure is not supported Non Dell qualified peripheral cards greater than 25 W are not supported GPU card is not supported PCIe SSD is not supported 28 Technical specifications ...

Page 29: ...his appliance or turn on the appliance without the initial configurations on your appliance Contact your Dell EMC Account Team or your reseller for installation services CAUTION 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 En...

Page 30: ...pliance and it is not recommended to 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 iDRAC alerts administrators to appliance issues helps them perform remote appliance management and reduces the need for physical access to the...

Page 31: ...atic IP address by logging into iDRAC NOTE To access iDRAC connect the network cable to the Ethernet connector 1 on the system board Ensure that you change the default user name and password after setting up the iDRAC IP address Pre operating system management applications 31 ...

Page 32: ...ough SolVe Online and the SolVe Desktop application CAUTION To avoid potential data loss refer to the VxRail Series procedures in SolVe Online or the SolVe Desktop application before performing any hardware replacement or upgrade activity Access SolVe Online for VxRail through your Web browser For more information about SolVe for VxRail refer to KB 525271 You must have an online support account to...

Page 33: ...Figure 14 Memory socket location Memory channels are organized as follows Table 38 Memory channels Processor Channel A Channel B Channel C Channel D Channel E Channel F Channel G Channel H AMD Processor Slots 6 and 12 Slots 5 and 11 Slots 2 and 10 Slots 1 and 9 Slots 8 and 16 Slots 7 and 15 Slots 4 and 14 Slots 3 and 13 Table 39 Supported memory matrix DIMM type Rank type Capacity DIMM rated volta...

Page 34: ...rocessor allowed Populate all the sockets with white release tabs first followed by the black release tabs Unbalanced or odd memory configuration results in a performance loss and system may not identify the memory modules being installed so always populate memory channels identically with equal DIMMs for best performance Minimum recommended configuration is to populate four equal memory modules p...

Page 35: ...ation of CS C D G H but does not have optimal performance Requires all populated channels in a socket to have equal size memory Single processor system creates a single NUMA node for the system the SRAT and SLIT table are not required CCX Last Level Cache LLC as NUMA domains In addition to selecting the number of NUMA domains via NPS option the processor allows for making memory per CCX as NUMA do...

Page 36: ...1A Riser 2 Location Width Length Height PCIe Slot 1 SW NA NONE X8 PCIe Slot 2 SW HL LP X16 PCIe Slot 3 SW HL LP X16 a The LAN on Motherboard LOM Mezzanine Mezz Riser contains the OCP network card Expansion card installation guidelines Figure 15 Riser 1A Figure 16 Riser 2 The following table describes the supported expansion cards 36 Replacing and adding hardware ...

Page 37: ... first using the slot priority indicated All the other expansion cards should be installed in the card priority and slot priority order Table 45 Riser configuration Card typea Slot priority Riser height Maximum number of cards supported Card length Card height Maximum PCIe width supported LOM riserb 2x 25 Gb 1 NONE 1 HL NONE x8 LOM riser 2x 10 Gb 10GBASE T SFP 1 NONE 1 HL NONE x8 BOSS M 2 SATA 2 L...

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