- 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
Removing a cooling fan
Prerequisites
NOTE: Opening
or removing the system cover when the system is on may expose you
to a risk of electric shock. Exercise utmost care while removing or
installing cooling fans.
NOTE: The cooling fan can continue to spin for some time after it has been
powered down. Allow time for the fan to stop spinning before removing
it from the system.
CAUTION: Many repairs may only
be done by a certified service technician. You should only perform
troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in your product documentation,
or as directed by the online or telephone service and support team.
Damage due to servicing that is not authorized by Dell is not covered
by your warranty. Read and follow the safety instructions that are
shipped with your product.
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.
CAUTION: The
cooling fans are hot-swappable. To maintain proper cooling while the
system is on, replace only one fan at a time.
NOTE: The procedure for removing
each fan is identical.
Steps
- Open the system.
- Press the fan release tab and lift the cooling fan out
of the cooling fan assembly.
Figure 1. Removing and installing a cooling fan 
- cooling fan assembly
- fan release tab
- cooling fans (6)
- cooling fan connectors (6)
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