Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- PowerVault NX3240 Network Attached Storage System Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- NX3240 system overview
- Technical specifications
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Pre-operating system management applications
- Options to manage the pre-operating system applications
- System Setup
- Viewing System Setup
- System Setup details
- System BIOS
- Viewing System BIOS
- System BIOS Settings details
- System Information
- Viewing System Information
- System Information details
- Memory Settings
- Viewing Memory Settings
- Memory Settings details
- Processor Settings
- Viewing Processor Settings
- Processor Settings details
- SATA Settings
- Viewing SATA Settings
- SATA Settings details
- Boot Settings
- Viewing Boot Settings
- Boot Settings details
- Choosing system boot mode
- Changing boot order
- Integrated Devices
- Viewing Integrated Devices
- Integrated Devices details
- Serial Communication
- Viewing Serial Communication
- Serial Communication details
- System Profile Settings
- Viewing System Profile Settings
- System Profile Settings details
- System Security
- Viewing System Security
- System Security Settings details
- Creating a system and setup password
- Using your system password to secure your system
- Deleting or changing system and setup password
- Operating with setup password enabled
- Miscellaneous Settings
- Viewing Miscellaneous Settings
- Miscellaneous Settings details
- iDRAC Settings utility
- Device Settings
- Dell Lifecycle Controller
- Boot Manager
- PXE boot
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Front bezel
- System cover
- Backplane cover
- Air shroud
- Cooling fan assembly
- Cooling fans
- Intrusion switch
- Mid drive tray
- Removing the mid drive tray
- Installing the mid drive tray
- Removing a drive blank from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive blank into the drive carrier
- Removing a drive carrier from the mid drive tray
- Installing a drive carrier into the mid drive tray
- Removing a 3.5-inch drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5-inch drive into the drive carrier
- Drives
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- Removing a drive carrier
- Installing a drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5-inch drive from the 3.5-inch drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5-inch drive into the 3.5-inch drive adapter
- Removing a 3.5-inch adapter from a 3.5-inch drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5-inch adapter into a 3.5-inch drive carrier
- Removing the drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive into the drive carrier
- Rear drive cage
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Opening and closing the PCIe card holder latch
- Removing the expansion card from the expansion card riser
- Installing the expansion card into the expansion card riser
- Removing the riser 2 blank
- Installing the riser 2 blank
- Removing the expansion card riser 1
- Installing the expansion card riser 1
- Removing the expansion card riser 2
- Installing the expansion card riser 2
- Network daughter card
- Integrated storage controller card
- Backplane
- System battery
- Power supply units
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Control panel
- Diagnostics and indicators
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
Storage controller specifications
The NX3240 system supports:
● Internal storage controller cards:
○ PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H730P mini
● External storage controller cards:
○ PERC H840
○ 12 Gbps SAS HBA
○ JBOD such as MD1400 and MD1420
○
SC series
○ LTO External drives such as PV114x, TL1000, TL2000, TL4000, ML6000
○ Dell EMC ML3 (Base Module) and Dell EMC ML3E (Expansion Module) Tape Libraries
Drive specifications
The NX3240 system supports 18 SAS and SATA hard drives.
● Up to 12 3.5-inch (SAS or SATA) front accessible drives in slots 0 to 11
● Up to four 3.5-inch (SAS or SATA) mid drives in slots 14 to 17
● Up to two 3.5-inch (SAS or SATA) rear accessible drives in slots 12 to 13
NOTE: The rear accessible drives can also be 2.5-inch (SAS or SATA) in a hybrid carrier.
NOTE: Universal slots are slots that support SAS, and SATA hard drives in the same slot.
Ports and connectors specifications
The NX3240 system supports USB ports, NIC ports, VGA ports, and a serial connector.
USB ports
The NX3240 supports both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0-compliant ports.
Location
Type Quantity
Front panel USB 2.0-compliant port Two
Front panel Micro USB 2.0-compliant port for iDRAC Direct One
Back panel USB 3.0-compliant port Two
Internal USB 3.0-compliant port One
NOTE: The micro USB 2.0-compliant port on the front panel can only be used as an iDRAC Direct or a management port.
NIC ports
The NX3240 system supports up to four Network Interface Controller (NIC) ports that are integrated on the network daughter
card (NDC). The ports are available in the following configurations.
● Four RJ-45 ports that support 10, 100 and 1000 Mbps
● Four RJ-45 ports that support 100 M, 1 G and 10 Gbps
● Four RJ-45 ports, where two ports support maximum of 10 G and the other two ports maximum of 1 G
● Two RJ-45 ports that support up to 1 Gbps and 2 SFP+ ports that support up to 10 Gbps
● Four SFP+ ports that support up to 10 Gbps
● Two SFP28 ports that support up to 25 Gbps
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Technical specifications