User`s guide
Chapter 1: Introduction
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1-3 Server Chassis Features
The following is a general outline of the main features of the 1U chassis. Details
on the chassis can be found in Chapter 6.
System Power
The NovaScale R422-E2 chassis includes a single 980W cold-swap power supply,
which provides the power to both serverboards housed in the chassis.
SATA Subsystem
The NovaScale R422-E2 chassis was designed to support four SATA hard drives,
which are hot-swappable units.
Control Panel
The NovaScale R422-E2 chassis features two independant control panels associ-
ated with each serverboard in the chassis. Each control panel has LEDs to indicate
power on, network activity, hard disk drive activity and system overheat conditions.
Each control panel also includes a main power button and a system reset button.
Rear I/O Panel
The NovaScale R422-E2 chassis is a 1U rackmount chassis. Its I/O panel provides
a slot for two low-prole PCI-E x16 expansion cards, two COM ports, four USB
ports, two VGA ports and four Gb Ethernet ports. The NovaScale R422-INF-E2
also provides two InniBand ports. See Chapter 6 for details.
Cooling System
The NovaScale R422-E2 chassis has an innovative cooling design that features two
sets of triple (for a total of six) 4-cm high-performance fans. A fan speed control
setting in BIOS allows fan speed to be determined by system temperature.