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
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About the Dell XC6320
About your system
The Dell XC6320 system is a web-scale converged appliance based on the Dell PowerEdge C6320 and
supports 512 GB memory (with 32 GB RDIMMs), six hard drives per node, and up to four nodes per
chassis.
Accessing system features during startup
The following keystrokes provide access to system features during startup.
NOTE: The hot keys of SAS or SATA card or PXE support are available in BIOS boot mode only.
There is no hot key to boot in the the UEFI mode.
F2 Enters the System Setup program.
F11 Enters the BIOS Boot Manager.
F12 Starts Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)/iSCSI boot.
Ctrl +C Enters the LSI 2008 SAS Mezzanine Card Configuration Utility. For more
information, see the SAS adapter documentation.
Ctrl+R Enters the PERC 9 Card Configuration Utility. For more information, see the
documentation for your SAS RAID card.
Ctrl+Y Enters the MegaPCLI SAS RAID Management Tool.
Ctrl+S Enters the utility to configure onboard LAN settings for PXE boot. For more
information, see the documentation for your integrated LAN.
Ctrl+I Enters onboard SATA Controller’s Configuration Utility.
Ctrl+D Enters the Intel iSCSI setup menu.
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