Dell G560F, G560 User Manual
Dell EMC VxRail G560 and G560F Appliance
Owner's Manual
Regulatory Model: E43S Series
Regulatory Type: E43S001
Notes, cautions, and warnings
NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product.
CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential 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.
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2018 - 07
Rev. A00
Contents
1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................5
Supported congurations..................................................................................................................................................5
Front view of the appliance...............................................................................................................................................7
Front view of the control panels................................................................................................................................ 8
Back view of the appliance...............................................................................................................................................9
Diagnostic indicators.........................................................................................................................................................11
Drive indicator codes...................................................................................................................................................11
Power supply unit indicator codes.............................................................................................................................11
Locating serial number of your appliance...................................................................................................................... 12
Looking up your appliance serial number in VxRail Manager.................................................................................13
Locating your physical VxRail Service Tag number and PSNT ............................................................................ 13
2 Technical specications................................................................................................................................14
Dimensions of the VxRail G Series appliance................................................................................................................15
Chassis weight..................................................................................................................................................................16
Processor specications..................................................................................................................................................16
PSU specications............................................................................................................................................................16
System battery..................................................................................................................................................................17
Expansion bus specications...........................................................................................................................................17
Memory specications..................................................................................................................................................... 17
Hard drives and storage specications.......................................................................................................................... 17
Video specications..........................................................................................................................................................18
Environmental specications...........................................................................................................................................18
Temperature specications........................................................................................................................................18
Relative humidity specications................................................................................................................................19
Maximum vibration specications............................................................................................................................ 19
Maximum shock specications................................................................................................................................. 19
Maximum altitude specications...............................................................................................................................19
Operating temperature de-rating specications.................................................................................................... 20
Particulate and gaseous contamination specications..........................................................................................20
Standard operating temperature specications......................................................................................................21
Expanded operating temperature specications ...................................................................................................24
3 Documentation resources............................................................................................................................ 25
4 Initial setup and conguration......................................................................................................................26
5 Pre-operating system management applications..........................................................................................27
Options to manage the pre-operating system applications........................................................................................27
iDRAC conguration.........................................................................................................................................................27
Log in to iDRAC.......................................................................................................................................................... 27
Contents
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6 Replacing and adding hardware................................................................................................................... 29
Using the SolVe Desktop application for VxRail Series hardware tasks....................................................................29
Supported hardware components................................................................................................................................. 29
System memory...............................................................................................................................................................30
General memory module installation guidelines......................................................................................................30
Expansion cards................................................................................................................................................................31
PCIe slot priority ........................................................................................................................................................ 31
7 Getting help.................................................................................................................................................33
Contacting Dell EMC.......................................................................................................................................................33
Registering for online support........................................................................................................................................33
Accessing support resources..........................................................................................................................................33
4 Contents
Overview
The VxRail G Series appliance is an ultra-dense 2U enclosure that can support up to four independent one-socket (1S) or two-socket (2S)
sleds. Each sled supports up to two Intel Xeon Scalable product family processors up to 28 cores per processor. The sled also supports 16
memory modules, dedicated mezzanine, PCIe and Open Compute Project (OCP) adapters for expansion and connectivity. The appliance
supports up to 24 x 2.5 inch SAS or SATA drives including up to 4 NVMe SSDs.
Topics:
• Supported congurations
• Front view of the appliance
• Back view of the appliance
• Diagnostic indicators
• Locating serial number of your appliance
Supported congurations
The VxRail G Series appliance supports the following congurations:
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Overview 5
Figure 1. Supported congurations for enclosure
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Overview
Figure 2. Supported congurations for sled
Front view of the appliance
Figure 3. Front view of the enclosure with 24 x 2.5 inch drives
left control panel 2 drives 0–5 mapped to sled 1
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Overview 7
3 drives 6-11 mapped to sled 2 4 drives 12-17 mapped to sled 3
5 drives 18-23 mapped to sled 5 6 right control panel
7 EST tag 8 (optional) NVMe hard drive location
Front view of the control panels
Figure 4. Front view of the left and right control panels
Table 1. Control panel
Item Indicator or button Icon Description
1 left control panel - The power-on indicator and system identication LED for sleds 1 and
2 are located on the left control panel.
2 right control panel - The power-on indicator and system identication LED for sleds 3 and
4 are located on the right control panel.
3 power-on indicator or system
state indicator or power button
for sleds 1 and 3
4 system identication button for
sleds 1 and 3
Press the power button to turn the sled on or o.
The power-on indicator turns amber when a critical system event
occurs.
NOTE: To gracefully shut down an ACPI-compliant
operating system, press the power button.
Press the system ID button:
• To locate a particular sled within the enclosure.
• To turn the system ID on or o.
NOTE: If the sled stops responding during POST, press and
hold the system ID button (for more than ve seconds) to
enter the BIOS progress mode.
5 power-on indicator or system
state indicator or power button
for sleds 2 and 4
8 Overview
Press the power button to turn the sled on or o.
The power-on indicator turns amber when a critical system event
occurs.
Item Indicator or button Icon Description
NOTE: To gracefully shut down an ACPI-compliant
operating system, press the power button.
6 system identication button for
sleds 2 and 4
Back view of the appliance
Figure 5. Back view of the enclosure with sleds
Press the system ID button:
• To locate a particular sled within the enclosure.
• To turn the system ID on or o.
NOTE: If the sled stops responding during POST, press and
hold the system ID button (for more than ve seconds) to
enter the BIOS progress mode.
1
sled 3 2 power supply unit (2)
3 sled 1 4 sled 2
5 sled 4
Figure 6. Back view of the sled
Overview
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Table 2. Back panel features
Item Indicator, button, or connector Icon Description
1 mezzanine card slot N/A
Enables you to connect mezzanine expansion cards.
For more information, see Technical specications.
2 sled release handle N/A
3 Low Prole PCIe card slot N/A
4 sled release lock N/A
5 rear power button N/A
6 iDRAC or NIC port Enables you to remotely access iDRAC.
7 mini display port Enables you to connect a display device to the
8 iDRAC Direct micro USB port
9 OCP card slot N/A
10 EST pull out tab N/A This tab has the unique Express Service Code,
11 system id indicator The System Identication (ID) LED is available on the
Enables you to remove the sled from the enclosure.
Enables you to connect PCI Express expansion cards.
For more information, see Technical specications.
Enables you to remove the sled from the enclosure.
Enables you to power on the sled while accessing it
from the rear.
system. For more information, see Technical
specications.
Enables you to connect a portable device to the sled.
Enables you to connect Open Compute Project
(OCP) expansion cards. For more information, see
Technical specications.
Service Tag, and MAC address labels.
back of the system. Press the system ID button on
the front of the enclosure to identify a system in a
rack.
12 USB 3.0 port (2) The USB ports are 9-pin and 3.0-compliant. These
ports enable you to connect USB devices to the
system.
10 Overview
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