Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell XC6320 Web-Scaled Hyperconverged Appliance Owner's Manual
- About the Dell XC6320
- About your system
- Accessing system features during startup
- Front panel features and indicators
- Hard drive indicator patterns
- Back panel features and indicators
- System-board assembly configurations
- LAN indicator codes
- Power and system board indicator codes
- Power Supply Unit indicator codes
- iDRAC heart beat LED
- Documentation references
- Performing initial system configuration
- Pre-operating system management applications
- Navigation keys
- System Setup
- Entering System Setup
- System Setup details
- System BIOS Settings details
- System Information details
- Memory Settings details
- Processor Settings details
- SATA Settings details
- Boot Settings details
- Network Settings screen details
- Integrated Devices details
- Serial Communication details
- System Profile Settings details
- System Security Settings details
- Miscellaneous Settings details
- System setup options at boot
- About Boot Manager
- Changing the boot order
- Choosing the system boot mode
- Assigning a system and setup password
- Deleting or changing system and setup password
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Recommended tools
- Opening and closing the system
- Inside the system
- Cooling fans
- Hard drives
- SATADOM
- Power supply units
- System board assembly
- Air baffle
- Heat sinks
- Processors
- Expansion card assembly and expansion card
- Riser card
- LSI 2008 Mezzanine Card
- Mezzanine card bridge board
- System memory
- System battery
- System board
- Troubleshooting your system
- Safety first—for you and your system
- Minimum configuration to POST
- Safety first – for you and your system
- Installation-related issues
- Troubleshooting system startup failure
- Troubleshooting external connections
- Troubleshooting the video subsystem
- Troubleshooting a USB device
- Troubleshooting a serial I/O device
- Troubleshooting a NIC
- Troubleshooting a wet system
- Troubleshooting a damaged system
- Troubleshooting the system battery
- Troubleshooting PSUs
- Troubleshooting system cooling issues
- Troubleshooting a fan
- Troubleshooting system memory
- Troubleshooting a hard drive
- Troubleshooting a storage controller
- Troubleshooting expansion cards
- Troubleshooting processors
- IRQ assignment conflicts
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
System Memory
Testing
Specifies whether the system memory tests are run during system boot. Options
are Enabled and Disabled. This option is set to Disabled by default.
Memory
Operating Mode
Specifies the memory operating mode. The options available are Optimizer Mode,
Advanced ECC Mode, Mirror Mode, Spare Mode, Spare with Advanced ECC Mode,
Dell Fault Resilient Mode and Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Mode. This option is set
to Optimizer Mode by default.
NOTE: The Memory Operating Mode option can have different default and
available options based on the memory configuration of your system.
NOTE: The Dell Fault Resilient Mode option establishes an area of memory
that is fault resilient. This mode can be used by an operating system that
supports the feature to load critical applications or enables the operating
system kernel to maximize system availability.
Node Interleaving Specifies if Non-Uniform Memory architecture (NUMA) is supported. If this field is
set to Enabled, memory interleaving is supported if a symmetric memory
configuration is installed. If the field is set to Disabled, the system supports NUMA
(asymmetric) memory configurations. This option is set to Disabled by default.
Snoop Mode Specifies the Snoop Mode options. The Snoop Mode options available are Home
Snoop, Early Snoop, and Cluster on Die. This option is set to Early Snoop by
default. This field is available only when the Node Interleaving is set to Disabled.
Processor Settings details
The Processor Settings screen details are explained as follows:
Logical Processor
Enables or disables the logical processors and displays the number of logical
processors. If this option is set to Enabled, the BIOS displays all the logical
processors. If this option is set to Disabled, the BIOS displays only one logical
processor per core. This option is set to Enabled by default.
QPI Speed Enables you to control QuickPath Interconnect data rate settings.
Alternate RTID
(Requestor
Transaction ID)
Setting
Modifies Requestor Transaction IDs, which are QPI resources. This option is set to
Disabled by default.
NOTE: Enabling this option may negatively impact the overall system
performance.
Virtualization
Technology
Enables or disables the additional hardware capabilities provided for virtualization.
This option is set to Enabled by default.
Address
Translation
Service (ATS)
Defines the Address Translation Cache (ATC) for devices to cache the DMA
transactions. This option provides an interface between CPU and DMA Memory
Management to a chipset's Address Translation and Protection Table to translate
DMA addresses to host addresses. This option is set to Enabled by default.
Adjacent Cache
Line Prefetch
Optimizes the system for applications that need high utilization of sequential
memory access. This option is set to Enabled by default. You can disable this
option for applications that need high utilization of random memory access.
Hardware
Prefetcher
Enables or disables the hardware prefetcher. This option is set to Enabled by
default.
DCU Streamer
Prefetcher
Enables or disables the Data Cache Unit (DCU) streamer prefetcher. This option is
set to Enabled by default.
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