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Dell EMC VxRail appliances on PowerEdge
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P570, P570F, V570, V570F, and S570 Owner's
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April 2021
Rev. A05
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  • Page 1 Dell EMC VxRail appliances on PowerEdge Servers P570, P570F, V570, V570F, and S570 Owner's Manual April 2021 Rev. A05...
  • Page 2 A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2018 - 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: Table Of Contents

    Contents Chapter 1: Introduction......................... 5 About this guide................................... 5 Revision history..................................5 Support....................................5 Registering for online support............................ 6 Where to go for support resources...........................6 Using SolVe Online for VxRail procedures....................... 6 Locating your appliance serial number........................... 6 Looking up your VxRail appliance serial number in VxRail Manager..............6 Locating the serial number and service tag number on your appliance............7 VxRail documentation.................................8 Chapter 2: Overview........................11...
  • Page 4 Chapter 4: Initial setup and configuration................... 30 Chapter 5: Pre-operating system management applications............31 Options to manage the pre-operating system applications..................31 iDRAC configuration................................31 Log in to iDRAC................................31 Chapter 6: Replacing and adding hardware.................. 33 Using SolVe Online for VxRail procedures........................33 Supported hardware components..........................33 System memory.................................
  • Page 5: Chapter 1: Introduction

    Introduction The VxRail appliances P570, P570F, V570, V570F, and S570 Owner's Manual provides an overview about the system, technical specifications, diagnostic tools, and guidelines describing high-level operations. Topics: • About this guide • Revision history • Support • Locating your appliance serial number •...
  • Page 6: Registering For Online Support

    Locating your appliance serial number To get support for your appliance, use the VxRail appliance serial number, also called the Product Serial Number Tag (PSNT). The PSNT is a 14-digit number used to identify individual appliances to Dell EMC support. NOTE: Only use the VxRail appliance serial number to contact Customer Support.
  • Page 7: Locating The Serial Number And Service Tag Number On Your Appliance

    To view the PSNT and other labels, pull out the information tag in the front of the appliance. Alternatively, information may be on a sticker on the chassis of the appliance. The mini Enterprise Service Tag (EST) is found on the back of the appliance. This information is used by Dell to route support calls to the appropriate personnel.
  • Page 8: Vxrail Documentation

    Description These documents provide information about supported VxRail 7.0.x Support Matrix software, firmware, and hardware versions for Dell EMC VxRail 4.7.x Support Matrix VxRail appliances based on Dell PowerEdge hardware, including the D Series, E Series, P Series, S Series, and V VxRail 4.5.x Support Matrix...
  • Page 9 (Not for VCF on VxRail solution deployments.) VxRail Networking Guide with Dell EMC S4148-ON Switches The deployment guide covers the process of connecting a cluster of VxRail nodes to Dell EMC Networking S4148-ON switches in a high-availability configuration. VxRail Network Planning Guide This is a network planning and consideration guide for the VxRail.
  • Page 10 Table 7. VxRail planning guides and technical notes (continued) Document Description Edition SmartFabric services. (Not for VCF on VxRail solution deployments.) 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.
  • Page 11: Chapter 2: Overview

    All instances of SAS, SATA drives, and SSDs are referred to as drives in this document, unless specified otherwise. Topics: • Supported configurations • Front view of the appliances • Back view of the appliance • Hard drive indicator codes Supported configurations The VxRail P570, P570F, V570, V570F, and S570 appliances support the following configurations: Overview...
  • Page 12 Figure 2. Supported configuration of VxRail P570, P570F, V570, and V570F 1. drive backplane 2. backplane expander card 3. cooling fan in the cooling fan assembly (6) 4. memory module 5. CPU2 processor and heat sink module socket (with dust 6.
  • Page 13: Front View Of The Appliances

    The diagnostic LEDs are prominently located on the front panel. The hot-swappable hard drives are accessible from the front panel. Figure 4. Front view of VxRail P570, P570F, V570, and V570F – 24 x 2.5 inch drive appliance Overview...
  • Page 14: Left Control Panel View

    Figure 5. Front view of VxRail S570 –12 x 3.5 inch drive appliance Table 9. Features available on the front of the appliance Item Panels and slots Icon Description Left control panel Contains appliance health and appliance ID, status LED. Hard drives Enable you to install drives that are supported on your appliance.
  • Page 15 Table 11. Status LED indicators and descriptions Icon Description Condition Corrective action Hard drive The indicator turns solid amber if Check the System Event Log to determine if the indicator there is a hard drive error. drive has an error. If the problem persists, see Support.
  • Page 16: Right Control Panel View

    Direct port The iDRAC Direct port is micro USB 2.0-compliant. This port enables you to access the iDRAC Direct features. For more information, see the iDRAC User’s Guide at Dell.com/ idracmanuals. iDRAC Direct LED The iDRAC Direct LED indicator lights up to indicate that the iDRAC Direct port is connected.
  • Page 17: Back View Of The Appliance

    Technical specifications. iDRAC9 dedicated port Enables you to remotely access iDRAC. For more information, see the iDRAC User’s Guide at Dell.com/idracmanuals. appliance identification The appliance Identification (ID) button is available on the front and button back of the appliances. Press the button to identify an appliance in a rack by turning on the appliance ID button.
  • Page 18: Nic Indicator Codes

    Table 15. Features available on the back view (continued) Item Panels, ports and slots Icon Description appliance ID button to reset iDRAC and to access BIOS using the step through mode. NIC indicator codes Each NIC on the back panel has indicators that provide information about the activity and link status. The activity LED indicator indicates if data is flowing through the NIC, and the link LED indicator indicates the speed of the connected network.
  • Page 19 Table 17. AC PSU status indicator codes Power indicator codes Condition Green A valid power source is connected to the PSU and the PSU is operational. Blinking amber Indicates a problem with the PSU. Not illuminated Power is not connected to the PSU. Blinking green When the firmware of the PSU is being updated, the PSU handle blinks green.
  • Page 20: Hard Drive Indicator Codes

    Table 18. DC PSU status indicator codes (continued) Power indicator codes Condition When hot-plugging a PSU, the PSU indicator blinks green. This indicates that there is a PSU Blinking green mismatch with respect to efficiency, feature set, health status, or supported voltage. CAUTION: If two PSUs are installed, both the PSUs must have the same type of label;...
  • Page 21 Table 19. Hard drive indicator codes (continued) Hard drive status indicator code Condition NOTE: The hard drive status indicator remains off until all drives are initialized after the appliance is turned on. Hard drives are not ready for removal during this time. Flashes green, amber, and then turns off Predicted drive failure.
  • Page 22: Chapter 3: Technical Specifications

    Technical specifications The technical and environmental specifications of your appliance are outlined in this section. Topics: • Chassis dimensions • Chassis weight • Processor specifications • PSU specifications • Battery specifications • Expansion bus specifications • Memory specifications • Storage controller specifications •...
  • Page 23: Chassis Weight

    VxRail P570, P570F, and S570 Up to two Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family processors appliances PSU specifications The VxRail P570, P570F, V570, V570F, and S570 appliances supports two AC or DC redundant power supply units (PSUs). Table 23. PSU specifications Supported VxRail Class...
  • Page 24: Battery Specifications

    Expansion bus specifications The VxRail P570, P570F, V570, V570F, and S570 appliances support PCI express (PCIe) generation 3 expansion cards, that can be installed on the system board by using expansion card risers. These appliances support three types of expansion card risers.
  • Page 25: Storage Controller Specifications

    ● Two USB 3.0-compliant ports on the back of the appliance NIC ports The VxRail P570, P570F, V570, V570F, and S570 appliances supports up to four Network Interface Controller (NIC) ports that are integrated on the network daughter card (NDC), and are available in the following configurations: ●...
  • Page 26: Vga Ports

    VGA ports The Video Graphic Array (VGA) port enables you to connect the appliance to a VGA display. The VxRail P570, P570F, V570, V570F, and S570 appliances supports two 15-pin VGA ports on the front and back panels. Serial connector The VxRail P570, P570F, V570, V570F, and S570 appliances supports one serial connector on the back panel, which is a 9-pin connector, Data Terminal Equipment (DTE), 16550-compliant.
  • Page 27: Standard Operating Temperature

    Table 29. Relative humidity specifications Relative humidity Specifications Storage 5% to 95% RH with 33°C (91°F) maximum dew point. Atmosphere must be non-condensing at all times. Operating 10% to 80% relative humidity with 29°C (84.2°F) maximum dew point. Table 30. Maximum vibration specifications Maximum vibration Specifications Operating...
  • Page 28 ● 150 W/8 core, 165 W/12 core and higher wattage processor [Thermal Design Power (TDP)>165 W] are not supported. ● Redundant power supply units are required. ● Non-Dell EMC qualified peripheral cards and/or peripheral cards greater than 25 W are not supported. ● Mid drive tray is not supported.
  • Page 29: Particulate And Gaseous Contamination Specifications

    Table 35. Thermal restrictions configuration (continued) Supported Number Heatsink Processor/DIMM DIMM Type of air VxRail of proc blank blanks shroud Config VxRail V Two 1U high performance Not required GPU air shroud Six high Series heat sink required performance appliance fans Particulate and gaseous contamination specifications The following table defines the limitations that help avoid any equipment damage or failure from particulates and gaseous...
  • Page 30: Chapter 4: Initial Setup And Configuration

    Initial setup and configuration For assistance on installation and deployment, contact your Dell EMC account team or your reseller for installation services. CAUTION: This appliance requires installation and deployment services by Dell EMC or a certified deployment reseller. Do not rack this appliance, or turn on the appliance without the initial configurations on your appliance.
  • Page 31: Chapter 5: Pre-Operating System Management Applications

    NOTE: ● This appliance requires installation and deployment services. Do not rack the appliance, or turn on the appliance without the initial configurations on your appliance. Contact your Dell EMC account team or your reseller for setting up your appliance.
  • Page 32 The iDRAC IP address is pre-configured for DHCP. This can be changed to a static 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...
  • Page 33: Chapter 6: Replacing And Adding Hardware

    000022572. You must have an online support account to use SolVe Online. Supported hardware components The following table describes the supported hardware components for VxRail P570, P570F, V570, V570F, and S570 appliances. Table 38. Supported hardware components Hardware component V570 and V570F...
  • Page 34: System Memory

    Table 38. Supported hardware components (continued) Hardware component V570 and V570F P570 and P570F S570 Customer Field Customer Field Customer Field Replaceable Replaceable Replaceable Replaceable Replaceable Replaceable Unit (CRU) Unit (FRU) Unit (CRU) Unit (FRU) Unit (CRU) Unit (FRU) System Motherboard...
  • Page 35: General Memory Module Installation Guidelines

    Figure 15. Memory socket locations Memory channels are organized as follows: Table 39. Memory channels Proc Channel 0 Channel 1 Channel 2 Channel 3 Channel 4 Channel 5 Processor Slots A1 and Slots A2 and A8 Slots A3 and A9 Slots A4 and Slots A5 and A11 Slots A6 and A12...
  • Page 36: Expansion Cards And Expansion Card Riser

    Expansion card installation guidelines The VxRail P570, P570F, V570, V570F, and S570 appliance support PCI express (PCIe) generation 3 expansion cards, that can be installed on the system board using expansion card risers. The following table provides detailed information about the expansion card riser specifications: Table 40.
  • Page 37 Table 40. Expansion card riser specifications (continued) Supported Riser config Slot desc PCIe slots Proc conn PCIe slots Proc conn PCIe Proc conn VxRail config on riser 1 on riser 2 slots on supported (Height and (Height riser 3 risers length) and length) (Height...

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