- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- About your system
- Initial system configuration
- Configuring enclosure components
- Installing enclosure components
- Recommended tools
- Front bezel (optional)
- System feet—tower mode
- Wheel assembly (optional)—tower mode
- System cover
- Inside the system
- Hard drives
- Removing a 2.5 inch hard drive blank
- Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
- Removing a 3.5 inch hard drive blank
- Installing a 3.5-inch hard drive blank
- Removing a hot-swap hard drive
- Installing a hot-swap hard drive
- Removing a hard drive from a hard drive carrier
- Installing a hard drive or solid state drives into a hard drive carrier
- Server modules
- Server module partitions
- Power supply units
- Cooling shroud
- Cooling fans
- Cooling fan assembly
- Blower modules
- I/O module
- Optical drive (optional)
- CMC cards
- PCIe cage
- Expansion cards
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Expansion card operational power status
- PCIe slot indicators
- Removing a low profile expansion card
- Installing a low profile expansion card
- Removing the low profile expansion card divider unit
- Installing the low profile expansion card divider unit
- Removing a full height expansion card
- Installing a full height expansion card
- Removing the full-height expansion card divider unit
- Installing the full height expansion card divider unit
- Removing the expansion card riser
- Installing the expansion card riser
- Double-wide GPGPU card (optional)
- Integrated storage controller cards
- Shared PERC 8 External card
- System battery
- System top and base covers
- Mounting ears
- Control panel assembly
- Backplane expander boards
- Hard drive backplane
- Power distribution board
- System board
- Power pass-through board
- Midplane
- Converting the system from tower mode to rack mode
- Troubleshooting your system
- Responding to a systems management alert message
- Troubleshooting external connections
- Troubleshooting a damaged enclosure
- Troubleshooting enclosure components
- Troubleshooting a wet enclosure
- Troubleshooting power supply units
- Troubleshooting power supply unit mismatch
- Troubleshooting blower modules
- Troubleshooting the system battery
- Troubleshooting cooling problems
- Troubleshooting cooling fans
- Troubleshooting an optical drive
- Troubleshooting a storage controller
- Troubleshooting hard drives
- Troubleshooting expansion cards
- Troubleshooting the I/O module
- System board connectors
- Technical specifications
- Enclosure dimensions and weight — Tower
- Enclosure dimensions and weight — Rack
- Server module specifications
- Expansion bus specifications
- Power specifications
- Drive specifications
- Chassis Management Controller specifications
- Enclosure control panel specifications
- I/O Module specifications
- Environmental specifications
- Expanded operating temperature
- Getting help
Dell PowerEdge VRTX Enclosure Owner's Manual
Initial setup sequence
Prerequisites
CAUTION: To maintain
optimum thermal conditions, ensure that there are no obstructions
to airflow on the front and back of the enclosure. The front and back
of the enclosure must have at least 30 cm (12-inches) and 61 cm (24
inches) of unobstructed space respectively.
- Unpack the enclosure and the server module(s) and identify each item. For more information, see the Getting Started Guide and Rack Installation Guide at Dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
- The tower system has four feet on its bottom panel
that can be extended outward to help properly stabilize the system.
You can also install the optional wheel assembly. For more information,
see Installing The Wheel Assembly. NOTE: Failure to extend the system feet outward poses the risk of having the system tip over, possibly causing bodily injury or damage to the system.CAUTION: Rolling the system on its wheels can cause vibrations that can damage the system.
- If you are using the optional rack configuration, assemble the rails and install the system in the rack following the safety instructions and the rack installation instructions provided with your system. For more information about converting the system to rack mode, see Converting The System From Tower Mode To Rack Mode.
Steps
- Install the server module(s).
CAUTION: Do not turn on the server module(s) until you have configured the I/O module.
- Connect the network cable to the I/O module
to provide network connection to the server.
NOTE: If you have a pass-through module installed in the enclosure, each server module requires its own network cable.
- Connect the power supply units to a PDU or electrical outlet using the power cables.
- Optionally, connect the keyboard, video, and mouse to the enclosure.
- Press the power button on the enclosure's
front panel.
Alternatively, you can also turn on the chassis from the CMC Web interface after completing step 7.
- Using the LCD panel on the front of the system,
provide CMC with a static IP address or configure it for DHCP.
The LCD configuration wizard allows you to quickly configure the CMC and iDRAC management interfaces and manage the enclosure remotely. You can also use a management station and the RACADM CLI to configure the CMC.NOTE: For a detailed description on configuring the CMC settings, see the Dell Chassis Management Controller for Dell PowerEdge VRTX User’s Guide at Dell.com/esmmanuals.
- Connect to the CMC IP address through the Web
browser using the default logon credentials.
The default user name is root and password is calvin.
- Provide each iDRAC with an IP address in the
CMC Web interface and enable the LAN and IPMI interface.
NOTE: iDRAC LAN interface on some server modules are disabled by default.
- Provide the switch module with an IP address
in the CMC Web interface.
NOTE: No configuration is required if you are installing a pass-through module.
- Connect to each iDRAC through the Web browser
and provide final configuration of iDRAC.
The default user name is root and password is calvin.
- Connect to the switch module through the Web
browser and provide final configuration of the switch module.
NOTE: No configuration is required if you are installing a pass-through module.
- Turn on the server modules and install the operating system.
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