Silicon Graphics Rackable C1110-RP6 User manual

SGI® Rackable™ C1110-RP6

System User Guide

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Record of Revision

Version Description

001 October 2012

Original publication

002 September 2013

Added support for Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 and E5-2600v2 Series processors plus

miscellaneous front matter changes.

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Contents

Record of Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Related Publications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Product Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Reader Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

1 Introduction and Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

ESD and Safety Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

System Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Serverboard Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Quick Path Interconnect (QPI). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Serial ATA/SAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

PCI Expansion Slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

On-board Controllers/Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

IPMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Other Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

BMC Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

PCIe Sub-system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Server Chassis Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

System Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Disk Drive Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Cooling System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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2 System Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Unpacking the System and Choosing an Operating Location . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Preparing for Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Choosing a Setup Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Rack Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Server Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Rack Mounting Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Ambient Operating Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Reduced Airflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Mechanical Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Circuit Overloading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Reliable Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

System Warnings and Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Installing the System into a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Identifying the Sections of the Rack Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Installing the Inner Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Installing the Outer Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Locking Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Installing the Server into the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Installing the Server into a Telco Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Server Access After Rack Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Remove/Replace the Chassis Top Covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Checking the Components and Setup Before Power On . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Checking the Hard Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Checking the Airflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Providing Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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3 System Interfaces Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

System Interface Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Control Panel Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Control Panel LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Universal Information LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Disk Drive Carrier LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

4 Internal Component Replacement and Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

General Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Installing System DIMM Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Installing Memory DIMMs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Adding PCIe Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

System Fans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

System Fan Failure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Drive Bay Installation/Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Disk Drive Removal and Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Mounting a Drive in a Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Installing/Removing Hot-swap Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Power Supply Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Removing the 650-Watt Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Installing a New 650-Watt Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Removing the 450-Watt Non-Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Installing the 450-Watt Non-Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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A System Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

I/O Chipset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Memory Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Disk Drive Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Drive Bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Expansion Slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Serverboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

System Cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

System Input Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Environmental Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Regulatory Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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.About This Guide

This guide provides an overview of the SGI® Rackable™ C1110-RP6 servers along with

instructions for system installation and general operation. The appendices include technical

specifications and safety practices.

Audience

This guide is written for owners, installers, system administrators, and users of C1110-RP6

servers. It is written with the assumption that the reader has a good working knowledge of

computers and computer systems.

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Related Publications

Depending on your choice of system components and operating system, the following SGI

documents may be relevant to your server:

• SGI Foundation Software release notes

• SGI Performance Suite release notes

• SGI InfiniteStorage series documentation

• Man pages

You can obtain SGI documentation, release notes, or man pages in the following ways:

• Refer to the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats are

available. This library contains the most recent set of books and man pages.

• Refer to the SGI Supportfolio™ webpage for release notes and other documents whose

access require a support contract. See “Product Support” on page xi.

Note: For information on your motherboard and related system components, see the

documentation provided by the manufacturer/supplier.

About This Guide

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Product Support

SGI provides a comprehensive product support and maintenance program for its products. SGI

also offers services to implement and integrate Linux applications in your environment.

• Refer to http://www.sgi.com/support/

• If you are in North America, contact the Technical Assistance Center at

+1 800 800 4SGI or contact your authorized service provider.

• If you are outside North America, contact the SGI subsidiary or authorized distributor in

your country.

Be sure to have the following information before you call Technical Support:

• Product serial number

• Product model name and number

• Applicable error messages

• Add-on boards or hardware

• Third-party hardware or software

• Operating system type and revision level

• Motherboard BIOS revision

Reader Comments

If you have comments about the technical accuracy, content, or organization of this document,

contact SGI. Be sure to include the title and document number of the manual with your comments.

(Online, the document number is located in the front matter of the manual. In printed manuals, the

document number is located at the bottom of each page.)

You can contact SGI in any of the following ways:

• Send e-mail to the following address: techpu[email protected]

• Contact your customer service representative and ask that an incident be filed in the SGI

incident tracking system:

http://www.sgi.com/support/supportcenters.html

SGI values your comments and will respond to them promptly.

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Chapter 1

1. Introduction and Overview

This chapter provides an overview of your server’s main features.

Operating precautions are provided in this chapter, followed by a general overview of the product.

Before operating your system, familiarize yourself with the safety information that follows:

ESD and Safety Precautions

Caution: Observe all ESD precautions. Failure to do so can result in damage to the equipment.

Wear an approved grounding wrist strap when you handle any ESD-sensitive device to eliminate

possible ESD damage to equipment. Connect the wrist strap cord directly to earth ground.

Warning: Before operating or servicing any part of this product, read the safety

precautions.

Danger: Keep fingers and conductive tools away from high-voltage areas. Failure to

follow these precautions will result in serious injury or death. The high-voltage areas of the

system are indicated with high-voltage warning labels.

Caution: Power off the system only after the system software has been shut down in an orderly

manner. If you power off the system before you halt the operating system, data may be corrupted.

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Warning: If a lithium battery is installed in your system as a soldered part, only qualified

SGI service personnel should replace this lithium battery. For a battery of another type,

replace it only with the same type or an equivalent type recommended by the battery

manufacturer, or an explosion could occur. Discard used batteries according to the

manufacturer’s instructions.

System Overview

The SGI® Rackable™ C1110-RP6 system is a compute-optimized server comprised of two main

subsystems: the 1U chassis and a serverboard (motherboard). Check with your sales or service

representative before loading any operating system on your server not provided by the SGI factory

or service organization.

Various hardware components may be included as part of your SGI Rackable C1110-RP6 system

configuration as listed below:

• Serverboard with:

–Two Intel

® Xeon® E5-2600 or E5-2600v2 Series processors in LGA2011 sockets

– Intel C602 chipset and Quick Path Interconnect system bus support the processors

– Sixteen DDR3 memory DIMM slots

– Two external Gen3 x16 PCIe slots (one full-height and one low-profile)

• Two disk drive configurations include:

– Four 3.5-inch hard disk drives plus DVD option drive

– Ten 2.5-inch hard disk drives (no DVD option available)

• Seven 4-cm counter-rotating cooling fans for the serverboard

• One 450 Watt auto-ranging power supply (with single power connector)

• Optional 650 Watt redundant auto-ranging power supply (with dual power connectors)

Note: The TYAN S7056 serverboard is the standard C1110-RP6 motherboard offering.

Other customized offerings may be available for specific system or clustering needs. Check

with your SGI sales or service representative for additional information.

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Figure 1-1 Four-Drive C1110-RP6 System Chassis Front View Example

Figure 1-2 Ten-Drive C1110-RP6 System Chassis Front View Example

Serverboard Features

The SGI Rackable C1110-RP6 system has a dual processor serverboard based on the Intel C602

chipset. The following subsections describe the main features of the serverboard. See Figure 1-3

on page 6 for a functional block diagram of the serverboard.

Processors

Each serverboard supports two Intel Xeon series processors. Each processor sits in an LGA2011

socket and is interconnected via Intel QPI link support, see the next subsection for more

information on the QPI bus. Four-core, six-core and eight-core processors are available.

The exact type of processors provided with your system depends on the specific configuration you

ordered. Check with your SGI sales or service representative for information on processor

upgrades.

Quick Path Interconnect (QPI)

Separate QPI link pairs connect the two processors in an 8.0-GT/s network on the serverboard.

Each QPI comprises two 20-lane point-to-point data links, one in each direction (full duplex), with

a separate clock pair in each direction, for a total of 42 signals. Each signal is a differential pair,

so the total number of pins is 84. The 20 data lanes are divided onto four “quadrants” of 5 lanes

each. The basic unit of transfer is the 80-bit “flit”, which is transferred in two clock cycles (four

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20 bit transfers, two per clock.) The 80-bit “flit” has 8 bits for error detection, 8 bits for “link-layer

header” and 64 bits for “data”. QPI bandwidths are advertised by computing the transfer of 64 bits

(8 bytes) of data every two clock cycles in each direction

Memory

The SGI Rackable C1110-RP6 system has 16 DIMM slots that support registered ECC

DDR3-1600/1333/1066/800 SDRAM. Memory DIMMs of the same size and speed are highly

recommended for best overall system performance. A minimum of two DIMMs are required for

the server to be functional. For best memory performance, install DIMMs in multiples of eight.

See “Installing System DIMM Memory” in Chapter 4, for more details on installing memory.

Serial ATA/SAS

A Serial ATA controller is integrated into the system serverboard to provide a SATA subsystem

with transfer rates up to 6 Gb/second. The optionally hot-swappable SATA drives are connected

to a backplane that provides power, bus termination and configuration settings. Optional SAS or

SATA RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10 are supported (RAID 5 and 6 require optional hardware). Note that

RAID functionality is required for hot-swap capability.

Note: Your operating system must support RAID functionality in order to use RAIDed drives.

The Intel C600 chipset provides BIOS-assisted software RAID only, not hardware RAID.

Hardware RAID support is available as an optional configuration.

Contact your SGI sales or service provider to order a specific RAID upgrade if your system was

not ordered with that option.

PCI Expansion Slots

The serverboard has two external PCI-Express Gen3 x16 slots.One slot is a low-profile form

factor, the other is a (half-length) full-height PCIe slot.

On-board Controllers/Ports

The rear-mounted I/O ports include one COM port, a VGA (monitor) port, two USB 2.0 ports, and

three Gigabit Ethernet ports (LAN3 is a shared IPMI port). A special serial port is included for

system management.

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IPMI

The IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is a hardware-level interface specification

that provides remote access, monitoring and administration for the SGI Rackable C1110-RP6

system. IPMI allows server administrators to view a server’s hardware status remotely, receive an

alarm automatically if a failure occurs, and power cycle a system that is non-responsive.

Other Features

Other on-board features that promote system health include voltage monitors, auto-switching

voltage regulators, chassis and CPU overheat sensors, virus protection and BIOS rescue.

BMC Features

The baseboard management controller (BMC) has the following features:

• The platform management subsystem uses the BMC to communicate with buses, sensors,

system BIOS, and server management firmware via the Server Management Bus (SMBUS)

• Enables serial-over-LAN (SOL) functionality via serial port B only

• Supports serial-console redirection in BIOS

• The BMC LAN may be configured in BIOS or via ipmitool.

• The ipmitool command is used to communicate with the BMC via an SOL session or by

using the web-based BMC interface.

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Figure 1-3 Functional Block Diagram of SGI Rackable C1110-RP6 System Server Board

PCIe Sub-system

The primary I/O bus for the serverboard is PCI Express.

Server Chassis Features

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Server Chassis Features

The following sections provide a general outline of the main features of the 1U system chassis.

Figure 1-4 shows an example of the rear panel features of the SGI Rackable C1110-RP6 system.

Figure 1-4 SGI Rackable C1110-RP6 System Rear Panel and I/O Ports

System Power

Your SGI Rackable C1110-RP6 system uses a single-cord high-efficiency 450-Watt cold-swap

power supply (shown on the left side of Figure 1-4). Optionally, a dual-cord 650-Watt redundant

power supply is available. Both types of supply are 80+ Gold rated.

The AC power supply cord(s) should always be removed from the system before servicing or

replacing the power supply.

Disk Drive Subsystem

The SGI Rackable C1110-RP6 system chassis includes four 3.5-inch drive bays or ten 2.5-inch

drive bays. These drives can be JBOD disks, or software RAID, or BIOS-assisted software RAID,

or optional hardware RAID disks. An optional SAS disk controller is also supported.

RAID support levels are as follows:

Low-profile x16 PCIe Slot

LAN1

UID LED

button

LAN2

Power

HDD

activity

IPMI

LAN/LAN3

COM

Port

VGA Port

Full-height x16 PCIe slot

USB

Ports

Serial Port

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• Hardware RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 and 6 (with optional SAS HBA or Megaraid card)

• BIOS-assisted software RAID 0, 1 and 10 when configured as a standalone server

• Linux software RAID 0 and 1 when configured as a compute node

Note: A cluster head node will only support hardware RAID options.

Control Panel

The SGI Rackable C1110-RP6 system control panel provides a system monitoring and control

interface. The main power button included on the control panel will boot-up or shut down the

system when pressed - it does not remove all power inputs to the system. Remove the power

cord(s) from the system power supply if you need to remove power completely. LEDs on the

control panel (from top to bottom) indicate HDD activity, system power status and system UID.

Figure 1-5 SGI Rackable C110-RP6 Control Panel Example

Cooling System

The server chassis has an innovative cooling design that includes seven 4-cm counter-rotating

pulse width modulated (PWM) fans located in the middle section of the chassis. Additional

cooling fans are incorporated into each power supply module. All chassis and power supply fans

operate continuously while the system is on to efficiently cool the processors, memory and other

system components.

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