Installation and Service Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R350 Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- About this document
- PowerEdge R350 system overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Minimum to POST and system management configuration validation
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Optional front bezel
- System cover
- Air shroud
- Cooling fans
- Intrusion switch
- Drive backplane
- Cable routing
- Drives
- Optional optical drive
- System memory
- Processor and heat sink
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Optional BOSS S2 card
- System battery
- Front mounting front PERC module
- Optional internal USB card
- Power supply unit
- Power interposer board
- Optional IDSDM module
- MicroSD card
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Control panel
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Figure 2. Front view of 4 x 3.5-inch drive system
Table 2. Features available on the front of the system
Item Ports, panels, and slots Icon Description
1 Left control panel with
iDRAC reset button
Contains the system health, and system ID indicator.
NOTE: To reset the iDRAC without changing any saved settings
press and hold the System Identification button for at least 16
seconds.
2 Optical drive N/A Enables you to install optical drive that is supported on your system.
3 Drive N/A Enables you to install drives that are supported on your system.
4 Right control panel N/A Contains the power button, USB port, iDRAC Direct micro port, and the
iDRAC Direct status LED.
5 Information tag N/A
The Information tag is a slide-out label panel that contains system
information such as Service Tag, NIC, MAC address, and so on. If you
have opted for the secure default access to iDRAC, the Information tag
will also contain the iDRAC secure default password.
For more information about the ports, see the Dell EMC PowerEdge R350 Technical Specifications on the product
documentation page.
For more information about the ports, see the www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals section.
Rear view of the system
Figure 3. Rear view of the system
Table 3. Rear view of the system
Item Ports, panels, or slots Icon Description
1 Serial connector Enables you to connect serial devices.
2 Ethernet ports The Ethernet ports that are integrated on the system board
provide network connectivity. These NIC ports can also be shared
with iDRAC when iDRAC network settings is set to shared mode.
3 PCIe expansion card slot 1 Enables you to connect PCI Express expansion cards.
4 PCIe expansion card slot
2
Enables you to connect PCI Express expansion cards.
5 BOSS riser slots Enables you to connect BOSS card.
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