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
Option Description
Power Button Enables or disables the power button on the front of the system. This option is set to Enabled by default.
AC Power
Recovery
Sets how the system behaves after AC power is restored to the system. This option is set to Last by
default.
AC Power
Recovery Delay
Sets the time delay for the system to power up after AC power is restored to the system. This option is
set to Immediate by default.
User Defined
Delay (60 s to
240 s)
Sets the User Defined Delay option when the User Defined option for AC Power Recovery Delay is
selected.
UEFI Variable
Access
NOTE: The NX3240 system does not support UEFI mode. This option cannot be used.
Provides varying degrees of securing UEFI variables. When set to Standard (the default), UEFI variables
are accessible in the operating system per the UEFI specification. When set to Controlled, selected UEFI
variables are protected in the environment and new UEFI boot entries are forced to be at the end of the
current boot order.
Secure Boot Enables Secure Boot, where the BIOS authenticates each pre-boot image by using the certificates in the
Secure Boot Policy. Secure Boot is set to Disabled by default.
Secure Boot
Policy
When Secure Boot policy is set to Standard, the BIOS uses the system manufacturer’s key and
certificates to authenticate pre-boot images. When Secure Boot policy is set to Custom, the BIOS uses
the user-defined key and certificates. Secure Boot policy is set to Standard by default.
Secure Boot
Mode
Configures how the BIOS uses the Secure Boot Policy Objects (PK, KEK, db, dbx).
If the current mode is set to Deployed Mode, the available options are User Mode and Deployed
Mode. If the current mode is set to User Mode, the available options are User Mode, Audit Mode, and
Deployed Mode.
● User Mode — In User Mode, PK must be installed, and BIOS performs signature verification on
programmatic attempts to update policy objects. The BIOS allows unauthenticated programmatic
transitions between modes.
● Audit Mode — In Audit mode, PK is not present. The BIOS does not authenticate programmatic
updates to the policy objects, and transitions between modes. Audit Mode is useful for
programmatically determining a working set of policy objects. BIOS performs signature verification on
pre-boot images and logs results in the image Execution Information Table, but executes the images
whether they pass or fail verification.
● Deployed Mode — Deployed Mode is the most secure mode. In Deployed Mode, PK must be
installed and the BIOS performs signature verification on programmatic attempts to update policy
objects. Deployed Mode restricts the programmatic mode transitions.
Secure Boot
Policy Summary
Specifies the list of certificates and hashes that secure boot uses to authenticate images.
Secure Boot
Custom Policy
Settings
Configures the Secure Boot Custom Policy. To enable this option, set the Secure Boot Policy to Custom
option.
Creating a system and setup password
Prerequisites
Ensure that the password jumper is enabled. The password jumper enables or disables the system password and setup password
features. For more information, see the Jumpers and connectors section.
NOTE:
If the password jumper setting is disabled, the existing system password and setup password are deleted and you
need not provide the system password to boot the system.
Steps
1. To enter System Setup, press F2 immediately after turning on or rebooting your system.
2. On the System Setup Main Menu screen, click System BIOS > System Security.
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