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
Capacity Specifies the total capacity of the hard drive. This field is
undefined for removable media devices such as optical
drives.
Boot Settings details
The Boot Settings screen details are explained as follows:
Boot Mode Enables you to set the boot mode of the system.
CAUTION: Switching the boot mode may prevent the system from booting if
the operating system is not installed in the same boot mode.
If the operating system supports UEFI, you can set this option to UEFI. Setting this
field to BIOS allows compatibility with non-UEFI operating systems. This option is
set to BIOS by default.
NOTE: Setting this field to UEFI disables the BIOS Boot Settings menu. Setting
this field to
BIOS disables the UEFI Boot Settings menu.
Boot Sequence
Retry
Enables or disables the Boot Sequence Retry feature. If this option is set to Enabled
and the system fails to boot, the system reattempts the boot sequence after 30
seconds. This option is set to Enabled by default.
Hard-Disk Failover Specifies the hard drive that is booted in the event of a hard drive failure. The
devices are selected in the Hard-Disk Drive Sequence on the Boot Option Setting
menu. When this option is set to Disabled, only the first hard drive in the list is
attempted to boot. When this option is set to Enabled, all hard drives are attempted
to boot in the order selected in the
Hard-Disk Drive Sequence. This option is not
enabled for UEFI Boot Mode.
Boot Option
Settings
Configures the boot sequence and the boot devices.
BIOS Boot
Settings
Enables or disables BIOS boot options.
NOTE: This option is enabled only if the boot mode is BIOS.
UEFI Boot Settings Enables or disables UEFI Boot options. The Boot options include IPv4 PXE and IPv6
PXE. This option is set to IPv4 by default.
NOTE: This option is enabled only if the boot mode is UEFI.
Network Settings screen details
The Network Settings screen details are explained as follows:
PXE Device n
(n =
1 to 4)
Enables or disables the device. When enabled, a UEFI boot option is created for the
device.
PXE Device n
Settings (n = 1 to
4)
Enables you to control the configuration of the PXE device.
Integrated Devices details
The Integrated Devices screen details are explained as follows:
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