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Updating the Fan Control Board firmware
The following section outlines the steps needed to update the Fan Control Board (FCB) firmware on the PowerEdge C6300
enclosure and set the chassis type sticky bits. This procedure is only applicable for the PowerEdge C6300 2U chassis with 2.5-inch
x24 hard drives backplane without an expander.
NOTE: Mixing the PowerEdge C6320 and PowerEdge C6320p sleds in the same PowerEdge C6300 chassis is not
supported.
In the event that PowerEdge C6320 and PowerEdge C6320p sleds are installed in the same PowerEdge C6300 chassis, the
following error conditions are noticed:
•
The system state LED on the unsupported sled blinks with an amber color.
•
On the front panel of the enclosure the power indictor blinks with an amber color.
•
The system state LED of the unsupported sled blinks blue on the front panel.
•
The fans will run at high speed.
•
A System Event Log (SEL) is generated in the unsupported sleds iDRAC logs. For example:
Unable to control the fan
speed because a sled mismatch or hardware incompatiblity is detected.
Fan control board firmware
The fan control board (FCB) firmware update can be initiated from any sled installed in the C6300 chassis.
NOTE: The FCB firmware can be updated only from a sled that uses a supported Linux operating system.
NOTE: When the FCB firmware is updated through RACADM, the updated process will take at least 20 minutes to
complete.
Updating the fan control board firmware using Racadm
Prerequisites
Prepare Network File Share (NFS) environment and share folder to place the update file. For more information see,
Steps
1.
The
rpcbind
and
nfs-util
tools should be installed in the operating system.
2.
Set the NFS configuration. For example: vim /etc/exports or
/MyDocument 192.168.0.0/125(rw)
3.
Start the NFS service using any one of these commands:
/etc/init.d/rpcbind start
/etc/init.d/nfs start
/etc/init.d/nfslock start
chkconfig rpcbind on
chkconfig nfs on
chkconfig nfslock on
4.
Check the connection status of the share folder. showmount [-ae] [hostname|IP] For example: showmount –e localhost
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Summary of Contents for PowerEdge C6320p
Page 1: ...Dell PowerEdge C6320p Owner s Manual Regulatory Model B08S Series Regulatory Type B08S004 ...
Page 10: ...Figure 2 Supported configuration for the C6320p sled with an Intel Phi 72xx processor 10 ...
Page 11: ...Figure 3 Supported configuration for the C6320p sled with an Intel Phi 72xx F processor 11 ...
Page 25: ...Figure 16 Enclosure Service Tag location on the left front panel 25 ...
Page 106: ...Figure 55 Removing an expansion card filler bracket 106 ...
