Dell PowerEdge R720xd manuals
PowerEdge R720xd
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- New technologies
- Specifications
- Chassis features
- Processors
- Chipset
- Memory
- Supported memory
- Memory configurations
- Memory RAS features
- Storage
- External storage
- Optical drives
- Select Network Adapters
- PCIe expansion
- Power supply units
- Cable management arm
- Supported operating systems
- Systems management solutions
- Power supply specifications
- USB peripherals
PowerEdge R720xd
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- New technologies
- Specifications
- Chassis features
- Processors
- Chipset
- Memory
- Supported memory
- Memory configurations
- Memory RAS features
- Storage
- External storage
- Optical drives
- Select Network Adapters
- PCIe expansion
- Power supply units
- Cable management arm
- Supported operating systems
- Dell OpenManage systems management
- OpenManage systems management
- Power supply specifications
- USB peripherals
PowerEdge R720xd
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- New technologies
- Specifications
- Chassis features
- Processors
- GPU support
- Memory
- Supported memory
- Memory configurations
- Memory RAS features
- Storage
- External storage
- Optical drives
- Select Network Adapters
- PCIe expansion
- Power supply units
- Cable management arm
- Supported operating systems
- Dell OpenManage systems management
- OpenManage systems management
- Environmental specifications
- Power supply specifications
- USB peripherals
PowerEdge R720xd
Table of contents
- Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- About Your System
- LCD Panel Features
- Home Screen
- Diagnostic Indicators
- Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns
- NIC Indicator Codes
- Other Information You May Need
- Using The System Setup And Boot Manager
- Entering System Setup
- System Setup Main Screen
- Memory Settings Screen
- SATA Settings Screen
- Boot Settings Screen
- Serial Communications Screen
- System Profile Settings Screen
- System Security Screen
- Miscellaneous Settings
- Operating With A Setup Password Enabled
- Using The Boot Manager Navigation Keys
- UEFI Boot Menu
- Installing System Components
- Installing The Front Bezel
- Closing The System
- Cooling Shroud
- Installing The Cooling Shroud
- General Memory Module Installation Guidelines
- Mode-Specific Guidelines
- Sample Memory Configurations
- Removing Memory Modules
- Installing Memory Modules
- Hard Drives
- Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
- Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank (Back)
- Installing A Hot-Swap Hard Drive
- Removing A Hard Drive From A Hard-Drive Carrier
- Optical Drive (Optional)
- Installing The Optical Drive
- Cooling Fans
- Installing A Cooling Fan
- Installing The Cooling-Fan Assembly
- Internal USB Memory Key (Optional)
- Removing The PCIe Card Holder
- Installing The PCIe Card Holder
- Cable Retention Bracket
- Installing The Cable Retention Bracket
- Removing Expansion-Card Risers
- Installing Expansion-Card Risers
- Removing The vFlash Media Unit
- Installing The vFlash Media Unit
- Internal Dual SD Module
- Installing The Internal Dual SD Module
- Internal SD Card
- Removing The Integrated Storage Controller Card
- Installing The Integrated Storage Controller Card
- Installing The Network Daughter Card
- Removing A Processor
- Installing A Processor
- Power Supplies
- Hot Spare Feature
- Installing An AC Power Supply
- Wiring Instructions For A DC Power Supply
- Removing A DC Power Supply
- Installing A DC Power Supply
- Removing The Power Supply Blank
- Hard-Drive Backplane
- Removing The Hard-Drive Backplane
- Installing The Hard-Drive Backplane
- Removing The Control Panel (PowerEdge R720)
- Installing The Control Panel (PowerEdge R720)
- Installing The Control Panel (PowerEdge R720xd)
- Removing The I/O Panel (PowerEdge R720xd)
- Installing The I/O Panel (PowerEdge R720xd)
- Installing The System Board
- Troubleshooting Your System
- Troubleshooting A Serial I/O Device
- Troubleshooting A Damaged System
- Troubleshooting The System Battery
- Troubleshooting Cooling Fans
- Troubleshooting An Internal USB Key
- Troubleshooting An Optical Drive
- Troubleshooting A Hard Drive
- Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
- Troubleshooting Processors
- Using System Diagnostics
- system diagnostic controls
- Jumpers And Connectors
- System Board Connectors
- Disabling A Forgotten Password
- Technical Specifications
- LCD Messages
- Hwc1001/hwc2003/hwc2005
- Pci1308/pci1320/pci1342/pci1348/pci1360
- Sel1204
- Warning Messages
- Getting Help
PowerEdge R720xd
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- NFS storage solution (baseline)
- Figure 2. NFS server
- Dell Fluid Cache for DAS based solution
- I/O clients test bed
- Table 5. I/O cluster details
- Solution tuning
- Storage
- Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
- Figure 4. PCIe SSD health
- Dell Fluid Cache for DAS health and monitoring
- Sequential writes and reads
- Figure 5. Large sequential write performance
- Random writes and reads
- Metadata tests
- Figure 9. Metadata file create performance
- Cold-cache tests
- Figure 12. Cold-cache sequential reads
- Figure 14. CacheIO-DiskIO on cold-cache reads
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Step-by-step configuration of Dell Fluid Cache for NFS
- A.2. NFS server set up
- A.3. NFS server configuration and tuning
- A.4. Virtual disk configuration
- A.5. XFS and DFC configuration
- A.6. Useful commands and references
- Appendix B: Benchmarks and tests
- B.2. mdtest
PowerEdge R720xd
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Figure 1. Windows DUP
- Figure 2. After DUP installation, a system reboot is required for the update to be staged
- Figure 3. System reboots to Lifecycle Controller
- Linux DUP
- DOS-based BIOS Flash Utility
- UEFI-based BIOS Flash Utility
- Figure 7. BIOS Boot Manager
- Figure 8. Flash BIOS in UEFI shell
- Figure 9. UEFI-based BIOS flash utility
- Load the BIOS Flash Utility from BIOS Boot Manager
- Figure 11. BIOS Update File Explorer
- Update BIOS via Lifecycle Controller (F10)
- Figure 13. Lifecycle Controller screen after pressing F10 during POST
- Figure 15. Select Update Repository in Platform Update
- Many Updates
- Before you Begin
- Performing a firmware update on your system
- Bios update using Repository Manager
PowerEdge R720xd
Table of contents
- Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- About Your System
- LCD Panel Features
- Home Screen
- Diagnostic Indicators
- Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns
- Back-Panel Features And Indicators
- NIC Indicator Codes
- Power Indicator Codes
- Other Information You May Need
- Using The System Setup And Boot Manager
- Entering System Setup
- System Setup Main Screen
- Processor Settings Screen
- SATA Settings Screen
- Integrated Devices Screen
- Serial Communications Screen
- System Security Screen
- Miscellaneous Settings
- System And Setup Password Features
- Deleting Or Changing An Existing System And/Or Setup Password
- Operating With A Setup Password Enabled
- Boot Manager Screen
- iDRAC Settings Utility
- Installing System Components
- Installing The Front Bezel
- Closing The System
- Cooling Shroud
- Installing The Cooling Shroud
- System Memory
- General Memory Module Installation Guidelines
- Mode-Specific Guidelines
- Sample Memory Configurations
- Removing Memory Modules
- Installing Memory Modules
- Hard Drives
- Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
- Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank (Back)
- Installing A Hot-Swap Hard Drive
- Removing A Hard Drive From A Hard-Drive Carrier
- Installing A Hard Drive Into A Hard-Drive Carrier
- Installing The Optical Drive
- Cooling Fans
- Installing A Cooling Fan
- Installing The Cooling-Fan Assembly
- Internal USB Memory Key (Optional)
- Removing The PCIe Card Holder
- Installing The PCIe Card Holder
- Cable Retention Bracket
- Installing The Cable Retention Bracket
- Removing An Expansion Card From The Expansion-Card Riser 2 Or 3
- Installing An Expansion Card Into The Expansion-Card Riser 2 Or 3
- Removing An Expansion Card From The Expansion-Card Riser 1
- Installing An Expansion Card Into The Expansion-Card Riser 1
- Removing Expansion-Card Risers
- Installing Expansion-Card Risers
- Installing A GPU Card
- Removing A GPU Card
- SD vFlash Card
- Removing The vFlash Media Unit
- Installing The vFlash Media Unit
- Internal Dual SD Module
- Installing The Internal Dual SD Module
- Internal SD Card
- Removing The Integrated Storage Controller Card
- Installing The Integrated Storage Controller Card
- Installing The Network Daughter Card
- Removing A Processor
- Installing A Processor
- Power Supplies
- Hot Spare Feature
- Installing An AC Power Supply
- Wiring Instructions For A DC Power Supply
- Removing A DC Power Supply
- Installing A DC Power Supply
- Removing The Power Supply Blank
- Hard-Drive Backplane
- Removing The Hard-Drive Backplane
- Installing The Hard-Drive Backplane
- Removing The Optional Hard-Drive Backplane (Back)
- Installing The Optional Hard-Drive Backplane (Back)
- Control Panel
- Installing The Control Panel (PowerEdge R720)
- Installing The Control Panel (PowerEdge R720xd)
- Removing The I/O Panel (PowerEdge R720xd)
- Installing The I/O Panel (PowerEdge R720xd)
- Installing The System Board
- Troubleshooting Your System
- Troubleshooting A Serial I/O Device
- Troubleshooting A Damaged System
- Troubleshooting The System Battery
- Troubleshooting Cooling Fans
- Troubleshooting An Internal USB Key
- Troubleshooting An Optical Drive
- Troubleshooting A Hard Drive
- Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
- Troubleshooting Processors
- Using System Diagnostics
- System Diagnostic Controls
- Jumpers And Connectors
- System Board Connectors
- Disabling A Forgotten Password
- Technical Specifications
- System Messages
- Warning Messages
- Getting Help
PowerEdge R720xd
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Executive summary
- Objectives
- Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AVG)
- Most common HA and DR deployments for SQL databases
- Dell reference configuration for AVG
- Major advantages and limitations of implementing AVG on non-shared storage
- AVG deployments on shared storage
- Figure 5. Creating AVG with FCI
- Advantages and limitations of implementing AVG on shared storage
- Advantages and limitations of implementing AVG on hybrid (SSDs and HDDs) storage
- Summary
PowerEdge R720xd
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Hardware Component Architecture
- Figure 2. Memory Slot Locations
- Internal Storage Controller (PERC H710P Mini) Settings
- Figure 4. Internal Storage Controller Settings
- Application Configuration
- Performance Benchmarking
- Fast Track Database Validation
- Fast Track Database Validation with Column Store Index (CSI)
- Conclusion
- References
PowerEdge R720xd
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- System overview
- Key technologies
- System features
- Specifications
- Chassis views and features
- Figure 3. R720xd front view (with bezel)
- Figure 6. R720xd back view
- Chassis features
- Figure 9. R720 LCD control panel
- Figure 10. R720xd LED panel
- Table 5. Security features
- Processors
- Supported processors
- GPU support
- Chipset
- Supported memory
- Memory configurations
- Memory RAS features
- Storage
- Table 12. Supported hard drives
- External storage
- Table 14. RAID controllers
- Optical drives
- Networking and PCIe
- Table 15. Supported Select Network Adapter options and features
- PCIe expansion
- Power, thermal, and acoustics
- Power supply units
- Thermal and acoustics
- Table 21. R720 acoustical performance (2.5-inch chassis)
- Rack rails and cable management
- For detailed information about rail dimensions, see the
- Cable management arm
- Operating systems and virtualization
- Supported virtualization
- Dell OpenManage systems management
- OpenManage systems management
- Dell server management operations
- Figure 17. Systems management server lifecycle
- Chassis dimensions
- Environmental specifications
- Power supply specifications
- Rack rail specifications
- Appendix B. Standards compliance
- Table 35. Additional resources
- Appendix D. System board block diagram
- Figure 20. R720xd system board block diagram
PowerEdge R720xd
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- system overview
- new technologies
- system features
- specifications
- chassis views and features
- chassis features
- quick resource locator
- security features
- processor features
- supported processors
- supported memory
- memory configurations
- memory speed
- memory ras features
- internal storage
- supported hard drives
- external storage
- optical drives
- networking and pcie
- system management integration
- pcie expansion
- power consumption and energy efficiency
- power supply units
- thermal and acoustics
- acoustical design
- rack rails and cable management
- cable management arm
- operating systems and virtualization
- supported virtualization
- systems management solutions
- openmanage systems management
- dell consoles
- dell server management operations
- chassis dimensions
- environmental specifications
- power supply specifications
- rack rail specifications
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