Owners Manual

Contents
1 XC6420 Series XC Core System overview......................................................................................................7
Back view of the XC6420 Series sled..............................................................................................................................7
Network ports indicator codes.........................................................................................................................................8
Sled to hard drive mapping..............................................................................................................................................10
Locating the Service Tag of your system....................................................................................................................... 11
2 Documentation resources.............................................................................................................................12
3 Technical specications................................................................................................................................13
Dimensions of the XC6420 Series sled..........................................................................................................................13
Chassis weight.................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Processor specications.................................................................................................................................................. 14
System battery..................................................................................................................................................................14
Expansion bus specications...........................................................................................................................................14
Memory specications.....................................................................................................................................................14
Hard drives and storage specications..........................................................................................................................15
Video specications..........................................................................................................................................................15
Environmental specications...........................................................................................................................................16
Temperature specications........................................................................................................................................16
Relative humidity specications................................................................................................................................16
Maximum vibration specications............................................................................................................................ 16
Maximum shock specications................................................................................................................................. 17
Maximum altitude specications...............................................................................................................................17
Operating temperature de-rating specications..................................................................................................... 17
Particulate and gaseous contamination specications...........................................................................................18
Standard operating temperature specications......................................................................................................18
Expanded operating temperature specications ...................................................................................................22
4 Initial system setup and conguration.......................................................................................................... 24
Setting up your system................................................................................................................................................... 24
iDRAC conguration........................................................................................................................................................ 24
Options to set up iDRAC IP address........................................................................................................................24
Log in to iDRAC..........................................................................................................................................................25
Methods to download rmware and drivers.................................................................................................................25
Downloading drivers and rmware.......................................................................................................................... 25
5 Pre-operating system management applications..........................................................................................27
Options to manage the pre-operating system applications........................................................................................ 27
System Setup................................................................................................................................................................... 27
Viewing System Setup...............................................................................................................................................27
System Setup details.................................................................................................................................................28
System BIOS...............................................................................................................................................................28
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