- 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
Before you begin
CAUTION:The
enclosure power supply units (PSUs) must be connected to a PDU or
to an electrical outlet. The PSUs require a 100 V to 120 V or 200
V to 240 V power source. You can select only one AC power input, as
the system does not operate at both ranges simultaneously.
NOTE:Ensure that all the
component software are upgraded to the latest versions. For information
on the latest supported firmware and driver versions, see the Drivers & Downloads link on Dell.com/support/drivers, for your system.
- Your system supports server modules that are specifically configured for the enclosure, and can be identified by a label marked PCIe on the server module. If you install server modules that are not configured for the enclosure, an error message is displayed. For more information on configuring a server module for the enclosure, see Configuring A Server Module.
- Ensure that you have downloaded the latest BIOS on the server module(s) from Dell.com/support.
- Update all PCIe mezzanine card firmware and iDRAC firmware on the server module(s).
- Download the latest version of CMC firmware from Dell.com/support. Also, make sure that you have the Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD that was included with your system.
- If your network uses static addressing, you need the IP address, subnet mask, and gateway to configure the CMC and other modules in the enclosure.
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