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Page 1: ... center to facilitate pollution prevention and benefit the mankind Inspur owns the copyright of this manual Without permission of Inspur any unit or individual shall not copy this manual in any form Inspur reserves the right to modify this manual at any time The contents in this manual may be changed without notice If you have any questions or comments on this manual please consult Inspur Inspur D...

Page 2: ...er or any hardware device in the case 3 As this server s memory CPU CPU radiator fan etc are of special specifications please do not mix with corresponding devices of any other model of machine 4 In case of any software problem during use of this server you shall first contact teh corresponding software provider and especially contact us to facilitate communication and jointly solve the problems A...

Page 3: ...rating instructions 2 If the system gets wet please follow the following steps Turn off the system and power supply disconnect power sockets and open the cover after 10 to 20 seconds Move the equipment to a place with good ventilation conditions and dry the system for at least 24 hours to ensure that the system is completely dry Close the host cover reconnect the system to the power socket and the...

Page 4: ...tatic electricity that can damage internal components 7 When disassembling internal components upon consent of Inspur please note the following matters Turn off the system power supply and disconnect cables and any connected component When disconnecting the cable please pull out the cable connector instead of pulling the cable Before removing the cover or touching internal components cool down the...

Page 5: ...gs view the rated values of extension cable and ensure that the total rated current of all products connected to extension cables do not exceed 80 of rated current limits of extension cables Warning 4 Be sure to use power supply components such as power lines and power sockets if attached and do not arbitrarily replace any power cable or plug to ensure the safety of equipment and user WARNING 5 To...

Page 6: ...es to ensure the stability and security of the cabinet Warning 10 Before installing the device in the cabinet please install front and side legs on a separate cabinet first for the cabinet connected to other cabinet please install front legs first If legs are not installed accordingly before installation of devices in a cabinet it may cause the cabinet turnover in some cases so as to cause persona...

Page 7: ...Raid System FAQ and troubleshooting We recommend that you read this manual carefully before using the main chassis of this server in order to avoid unnecessary operation mistakes Technical Service Tel 4008600011 Address 1036 Langchao Road Jinan City China Inspur Postal Code 250101 ...

Page 8: ... setup interface 13 BIOS System menu 13 Install the operating system 31 Manually install Windows Server2012 R2 31 Manually install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 4 35 Integrated RAID System 40 How to enter SATA RAID configuration interface 40 Control key applications 40 SATA RAID setting 40 FAQ and troubleshooting 44 Reboot 44 Boot problems 44 Other notes 47 Technical support 48 ...

Page 9: ...m type Grantley EP 2S Platform Memory Memory type Memory slots Total memory capacity DDR4 1600 1866 2133 ECC Registered 8 Supporting maximum 512GB Display controller Controller type Integrated display card Hard disk controller SATA controller supports 2 2 5 inch hot swap SATA SSD hard disks Views Views are as shown in Fig 1 1 Fig 1 1 Computing Blade ...

Page 10: ...blade module light on when normally working and green flickers when BMC is enabled C Reboot key fault indicator light Reboot blade module red flickers in case of any blade fault D USB interface Connecting USB equipment Use NX5440M4 computing blades must be installed in the Inspur I8000 server system for use For the installation method please refer to relevant parts of I8000 server user manual or t...

Page 11: ...low Fig 1 3 Jumper Setting Open the upper panel of chassis Any change of mainboard jumper shall be authorized by Inspur Open the upper panel of chassis according to the following steps 1 Close system pull out the blade module press and hold deblocking shrapnel 2 Push out towards the arrow direction to remove the upper panel of chassis Fig 1 4 Pin Jumper cap Setting Select pins 1 and 2 for short ci...

Page 12: ...er Pin 1 2 short circuit connection normal status Pin 2 3 short circuit connection Clear CMOS Notes Clear CMOS and wait for 5 seconds after short circuit connection of Pin2 3 then conduct short circuit connection of Pin1 and Pin2 stitches of CLR_CMOS jumper with the jumper cap again default setting status and recover original status ...

Page 13: ...in front of some option and press Enter key cascading menus namely sub menus will be displayed BIOS System menu This chapter mainly introduces the following function menus of BIOS and notes Function menus Menu Function Main Setting basic system options such as system time and system date and displaying the information of BIOS memory etc Advanced Setting advanced features of serial port redirection...

Page 14: ...hange the value of current menu option to the next option value This key only display the values related to this option rather than all option values F1 function key Help hotkey can display relevant description of current menu F9 function key Recover the default setting for the best performance F10 function key Save CMOS setting and exit Enter function key Execute current command or enter sub menu...

Page 15: ...S version BIOS change time Memory Information Display system memory capacity size System Date Setting system date in the format of week month day year System Time Set system time in the format of hour minute second 24 hours Advanced menu Fig 2 2 ...

Page 16: ...ol enabling of BIOS CSM module If some devices need Option Rom support do not disable CSM Support Filter BIOS startup options enabled for legacy or UEFI Control network card devices in enabling for UEFIPXE or Legacy PXE IntelRCSetup menu Fig 2 3 IntelRCSetup menu mainly includes the following sub menus Processor Configuration Advanced Power Management Configuration QPI Configuration Memory Configu...

Page 17: ... options are introduced as follows Processor Configuration View basic information of processor enable or disable some functions Fig 2 4 Per Socket Configuration Set single processor and control cores enabled Cores Enabled Control processor cores Fig 2 5 ...

Page 18: ...n setting options include Disabled and Enabled It is enabled by default Advanced Power Management Configuration Used for CPU power dissipation management Fig 2 6 Power Technology Disable Energy Efficient Custom CPU P State Control EIST P States Enable or disable Intel EIST technology Turbo Mode Enable or disable Intel overlocking technology ...

Page 19: ...trol C States of all treads in single CPU A user may select the following C states C0 C1 s t a t e C1 s t a t e C2 s t a t e C6 n o n R e t e n t i o n s t a t e C6 Retention state CPU C3 report Control reporting of CPU C3 status to the system CPU C6 report Control reporting of CPU C6 status to the system Fig 2 8 ...

Page 20: ...20 QPI Configuration It is used to view QPI status and set QPI Fig 2 9 QPI Status Used view current status of QPI bus Fig 2 10 Link Speed Mode Control QPI bus mode Link Frequency Select Select QPI bus speed ...

Page 21: ...y initialization and realize rapid startup Memory Topology It is used to view memory topology information Memory RAS Configuration It is used to set RAS function of memory controller RAS Mode Memory mode options include Disable Mirror Lockstep Mode It is Disabled by default Mirror Enable Mirroring function DIMM 0 1 2 3 in each CPU shall be equipped with the same memory After being Enabled CPU0 and...

Page 22: ...hold error rank will be mapped out and replaced by a standby rank selected before Afterwards this DIMM loses the sparing function Under sparing mode system memory seen is less than actual memory Error Threshold It is used to set accumulative error threshold Patrol Scrub After it is enabled CPU will read and check all memory chips installed one time within certain period Any ECC error discovered wi...

Page 23: ...2 IIO Configuration It is used to set CPU IIO Fig 2 13 IIO0 Configuration It is used to set CPU IIO PCIE Port including slots width slot work speed and current slot status IOU2 IIO PCIe Port 1 Control PCIe port width ...

Page 24: ...ig 2 14 Socket 0 PcieD00F0 Port 0 DMI It is used to view connecting status and to set Link Speed and DeEmphasis Link Speed setting PCIE Speed PCI E Port DeEmphasis It is used to set PCIE Port DeEmphasis Fig 2 15 ...

Page 25: ...power supply status after system power failure S5 indicates shutdown status and manual startup is needed Last State denotes the status at the time of previous power failure S0 denotes automatic startup status USB Ports Enable or disable USB devices on the whole board PCH SATA Configuration SATA Controller Enable or disable SATA controller Configure SATA as It is used to set the mode of integrating...

Page 26: ... control disabling of SATA port Fig 2 17 Server ME Configuration This menu is used to display relevant information of ME subsystem including the information of BIOS interface version FW status FW error code etc Fig 2 18 ...

Page 27: ... Support Enable and Disable are available for selection It is used to control the interaction of BIOS with BMC BMC network configuration This menu is used to display configuration information of BMC network interface Security menu Fig 2 20 ...

Page 28: ...neously in the BIOS Setup interface user will be inferior to administrator in authority Boot menu It is mainly used to set the priorities of system boot devices Fig 2 21 Quiet Boot Disabled and Enabled are available for selection If it is Disabled when booting the system will display normal self test information If it is enabled when booting the system will display OEM LOGO rather than self test i...

Page 29: ...up interface This menu function may be enabled through F10 shortcut key Discard Changes and Exit Select this option press Enter key and click Yes in the pop out prompt to exit the BIOS setup changes and the BIOS setup interface Save Changes and Reset Select this option press Enter key and click Yes in the pop out prompt to save the BIOS setup changes exit BIOS setup interface and reboot Discard Ch...

Page 30: ...ore Defaults Select this option press Enter key and click Yes to load the default optimal setting without exit of BIOS setup interface This menu function may be enabled through F9 shortcut key Save as User Defaults Select this option press Enter key and click Yes to save current setting values of BIOS options as default values Restore User Defaults Select this option press Enter key and click Yes ...

Page 31: ... configuration options The operating systems suitable for manual installation are all 64 bit systems Suggest confirming whether selected operating system is supported by your equipment in advance Manually install Windows Server2012 R2 Installation preparation Windows Server2012 R2 installing disc X86_64bit version Inspur driver disc Installing steps 1 Switch on and boot this server put Windows Ser...

Page 32: ...re to install Windows interface If the prompt of no drive is found appears it indicates that he disk controller drive program needs to be loaded through the Inspur drive U disk with details as follows Load the drive program with the Inspur drive U disk Load hard disk controller driver into the 3 5 floppy disk A partition of Inspur drive U disk Connect Inspur drive U disk to the USB interface of th...

Page 33: ...pt confirmation interface After formatting click Next to continue 10 The system will install Windows copy the files expand files and load functions and updates until installation completion In this process the system may automatically restart several times 11 After installation the system will enter the change password before first user login interface take out the installing disc and drive U disk...

Page 34: ...rogram and display installation progress After installation click Next continue to 9 In the installation completion interface click Finish 2 Install network card driver After installing the chipset driver continue to install the network card driver instead of removing the driver disc 1 Select Windows 2012 R2 in the Please select an operating system field 2 Select the network card driver _64bit in ...

Page 35: ...om CD 2 Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 4 interface will be displayed The options are as follows Install or upgrade an existing system Install system with basic video driver Rescue installed system Boot from local driver Up and down arrow key may be used to select options We think you install for the first time by default Select Install or upgrade an existing system and press the Enter key t...

Page 36: ... consisting of at least 6 numbers and then click Next If your password is not safe system will pop out the Weak Password prompt interface select according to actual conditions and then continue 11 Enter Which type of installation would you like interface Take the customized manual partition as an example select New Custom layout and click Next 12 Enter the select the hard disk for installing inter...

Page 37: ... prompt window pops out select Write changes to disk to format hard disk partition 15 Enter Boot Loader setting interface set according to needs and then click Next to continue the installation 16 Enter the select installation type and software package interface and customize installation according to actual conditions Select Customize now customize software package and click Next 17 Enter program...

Page 38: ...tting interface set according to actual conditions and then click Finish to complete installation 26 Input Username and Password to login in the system Load HCA card drive 1 Put Inspur driver disc into DVD ROM and left click Applications Accessories Terminal 2 In the terminal window input mount o ro loop MLNX_OFED_LINUX ver OS label iso mnt 3 Enter mnt directory and execute installation script to ...

Page 39: ...les access bus dev fn 02 00 0 addr reg 88 data reg 92 Chip revision is 01 dev mst mt4099_pci_cr0 PCI direct access bus dev fn 02 00 0 bar 0xdfb00000 size 0x100000 Chip revision is 01 Display of the above information indicates that HCA devices are normally identified and may be used 4 Driver unloading Execute usr sbin ofed_uninstall sh to automatically unload the driver ...

Page 40: ...Ctrl I to enter SATA RAID configuration interface Control key applications Key Description It is used to move cursors for different menus or change menu options TAB Select the next menu setting option Enter Select a menu Esc Exit menu or back to the previous menu from sub menus SATA RAID setting In the SATA RAID configuration interface menu list information will be displayed including the informat...

Page 41: ...tions Name please input less than 16 volume names not containing special characters RAID Level please select RAID volume level If any volume is not created currently please select RAID0 Stripe RAID1 Mirror RAID10 RAID0 1 or RAID5 Parity according to actual conditions RAID0 Allowing 2 or more hard disks RAID1 Allowing 2 hard disks RAID10 Allowing 4 or more hard disks RAID5 Parity Allowing 3 or hard...

Page 42: ...ID configuration interface Created RAID volume will be displayed in the list of RAID volumes Delete RAID Volume menu It is used to delete existing RAID volumes In the SATA RAID configuration interface select this menu with arrow key and then press the Enter key or directly input the number in front of the menu to enter the Delete RAID Volume menu System prompt Deleting a volume will reset the disk...

Page 43: ...bout whether to reset the hard disk again You can input Y or N according to prompt But be careful When hard disk is reset all data in it will be lost and this hard disk will not belong to RAID volume any longer Exit menu This option is used to exit SATA HostRAID configuration interface In the SATA RAID configuration interface select this menu with arrow key and then press the Enter key to enter th...

Page 44: ...ods Objective Operation method Reboot software clear system memory and reboot the operating system Ctrl Alt Del Clear system memory conduct POST self test again and reboot the operating system Reset button Conduct cold boot again close system power switch and reboot to clear system memory conduct POST self test again and reboot the operating system to make all peripheral equipment power up again P...

Page 45: ... it is displayed 4 Close system disconnect power lines and check whether contact pins of the displayer signal lines and host connectors are bending 5 If possible replace the displayer for testing 6 Remove any installed parts unauthorized by Inspur first 7 Upon permission of Inspur s technical support personnel unplug the memory chip and clear CMOS for testing Installation system can not find the h...

Page 46: ...In case of blue screen reboot or crash during the system use refer to the following treatment methods 1 If non Inspur parts are plugged in or some application software is installed before such failure suggest unloading for test 2 Use the latest antivirus software for anti virus testing 3 Suggest recording the code displayed in case of blue screen For example stop c000000218 stop 0x0000007b and oth...

Page 47: ...f power alarm you can press shield switch to stop warning If the alarm comes from chassis inside maybe it is given out by the mainboard RAID card or hard disk backboard In case of non display failure or power up failure the problem is most likely from the mainboard In this case try unplugging the memory chip or clearing CMOS If POST results show it is normal an alarm is given out when RAID card is...

Page 48: ...hat can not be solved in the process of using the server please take the following measures 1 If you have any question on product configuration and detailed specifications please contact your supplier 2 In case of any problem during use please directly contact the client service center of Inspur and record the product sequence number on your mainframe box Upon receipt of your service request our t...

Page 49: ...ide rail Presswork CD Packing container Packing cushion Packaging plastic bag Description 1 means the contents of toxic and harmful substances in all homogeneous materials of this component comply with Requirements for Concentration Limits for Certain Hazardous Substances in Electronic Information Products 2 means the contents of toxic and harmful substances in at least one homogeneous material of...

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