Dell EMC PowerEdge XE8545

Installation and Service Manual

Part Number: B25S

Regulatory Type: B25S001

March 2021

Rev. A00

Notes, cautions, and warnings

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid

Front view of the system...................................................................................................................................................8

Left control panel view.................................................................................................................................................9

Right control panel view.............................................................................................................................................10

Rear view of the system................................................................................................................................................... 11

Inside the system .............................................................................................................................................................. 13

Locating the Express Service Code and Service Tag............................................................................................... 14

System information label..................................................................................................................................................14

Rail sizing and rack compatibility matrix.......................................................................................................................18

Chapter 3: Initial system setup and configuration........................................................................ 19

Setting up the system.......................................................................................................................................................19

Downloading drivers and firmware..........................................................................................................................22

Chapter 4: Installing and removing system components.............................................................. 23

Safety instructions............................................................................................................................................................23

Before working inside your system............................................................................................................................... 24

After working inside your system.................................................................................................................................. 24

Recommended tools......................................................................................................................................................... 24

Optional front bezel.......................................................................................................................................................... 25

Removing the front bezel..........................................................................................................................................25

Installing the front bezel............................................................................................................................................ 26

System cover..................................................................................................................................................................... 26

Removing the middle top cover............................................................................................................................... 30

Installing the middle top cover..................................................................................................................................31

Air shroud............................................................................................................................................................................ 33

Removing the air shroud............................................................................................................................................33

Installing the air shroud..............................................................................................................................................33

Removing the GPU air shroud..................................................................................................................................34

Installing the GPU air shroud.................................................................................................................................... 35

Contents

Contents 3

Cooling fan.......................................................................................................................................................................... 36

Installing the side wall bracket................................................................................................................................. 40

Drives.................................................................................................................................................................................... 41

Removing the drive carrier.........................................................................................................................................41

Installing the drive carrier..........................................................................................................................................42

Removing the drive from the drive carrier............................................................................................................ 43

Installing the drive into the drive carrier................................................................................................................44

Removing a drive blank.............................................................................................................................................. 45

Installing a drive blank................................................................................................................................................ 46

Drive backplane..................................................................................................................................................................46

Drive backplane............................................................................................................................................................46

Installing the Nvidia A100 GPU assembly.............................................................................................................. 54

Hot-plug fan board........................................................................................................................................................... 58

Hot-plug fan board view............................................................................................................................................58

Removing the hot-plug fan board........................................................................................................................... 58

Installing the hot-plug fan board............................................................................................................................. 59

System memory.................................................................................................................................................................60

System memory guidelines........................................................................................................................................60

General memory module installation guidelines.................................................................................................... 61

Removing a memory module.....................................................................................................................................63

Installing a memory module.......................................................................................................................................63

Expansion cards and expansion card risers.................................................................................................................73

Expansion card installation guidelines.....................................................................................................................73

Removing the expansion card risers....................................................................................................................... 75

Installing the expansion card risers......................................................................................................................... 78

Removing expansion card from the expansion card riser..................................................................................80

Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser................................................................................ 83

M.2 SSD module................................................................................................................................................................ 86

Removing the M.2 SSD module............................................................................................................................... 86

Installing the M.2 SSD module..................................................................................................................................87

System battery ................................................................................................................................................................. 88

Contents

Intrusion switch module...................................................................................................................................................90

Versabay board view.................................................................................................................................................. 93

Removing the Versabay assembly (Power Interposer Board)..........................................................................94

Installing the Versabay assembly (Power Interposer Board)............................................................................94

Power supply unit..............................................................................................................................................................95

Hot spare feature........................................................................................................................................................ 95

Removing a power supply unit................................................................................................................................. 96

Installing a power supply unit................................................................................................................................... 96

Removing a power supply unit blank.......................................................................................................................97

Installing a power supply unit blank.........................................................................................................................97

Trusted Platform Module................................................................................................................................................ 98

Restoring Service Tag using Easy Restore.......................................................................................................... 101

Rear IO and LOM card....................................................................................................................................................102

Removing the Rear IO card and LOM card......................................................................................................... 102

Installing the Rear IO card and LOM card........................................................................................................... 103

Power distribution board............................................................................................................................................... 105

Power distribution board view................................................................................................................................105

Removing the power distribution board (PDB).................................................................................................. 105

Installing the power distribution board (PDB)..................................................................................................... 110

Control panel..................................................................................................................................................................... 114

Removing the right control panel........................................................................................................................... 114

Chapter 6: System diagnostics and indicator codes................................................................... 125

Status LED indicators..................................................................................................................................................... 125

System health and system ID indicator codes..........................................................................................................126

GPU fan LED indicator codes....................................................................................................................................... 127

iDRAC Direct LED indicator codes...............................................................................................................................127

LCD panel.......................................................................................................................................................................... 128

Viewing Home screen............................................................................................................................................... 128

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Setup menu................................................................................................................................................................. 129

Chapter 7: Getting help..............................................................................................................133

Recycling or End-of-Life service information........................................................................................................... 133

Contacting Dell................................................................................................................................................................. 133

6 Contents

● Two AMD EPYC SP3 processors

● Thirty-two DIMM slots

● Four redundant AC power supply units

● Up to ten universal U.2/SAS/SATA hot-plug drives (maximum eight NVMe drives)

NOTE: For more information about how to hot swap NVMe PCIe SSD U.2 device, see the Dell Express Flash NVMe PCIe

SSD User's Guide at https://www.dell.com/support> Browse all Products > Data Center Infrastructure > Storage

Adapters & Controllers > Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD > Documentation > Manuals and

Documents.

NOTE: All instances of SAS, SATA drives are seen as drives in this document, unless specified otherwise.

• System information label

• Rail sizing and rack compatibility matrix

Figure 1. Front view of 10 x 2.5-inch drive system

Table 1. Features available on the front of the system

There are up to five status LEDs and a system health LED (Chassis

8 PowerEdge XE8545 system overview

Table 1. Features available on the front of the system (continued)