Administrator Guide

• NIC

• CPU

• DIMM

• NVRAM

Enclosure — System Hardware Health components

• Power Supplies

• Fans

• Temperature

• Storage

• Enclosure Management Module (EMM)

Using the Dashboard Health Options

To use the navigation panel to display the current system status of the DR Series system components (or any expansion

shelf enclosure) that are installed, complete the following steps:

1. Click Dashboard → Health.

The Health page is displayed.

2. Mouse over the chassis front and rear panel views on the Health page to display a dialog with the status, name,

and state for the DR Series system disk drives and OS drives.

Use the same process to display a similar dialog with the status and name for the power supplies and rear panel

connectors for an expansion shelf enclosure.

3. View the status in the System Hardware Health summary table for all of the DR Series system or expansion shelf

components (depending upon the tab selected, System or Enclosure).

4. To display additional information, click to expand each component in the corresponding summary table.

Understanding DR Series System NICs And Ports

The DR Series system supports the use of the following types of NICs:

• 1-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) two-port (10-Base T); Dell recommends using CAT6a copper cabling

• 10-GbE two-port (100-Base T); Dell recommends using CAT6a copper cabling

• 10-GbE SFP+ two-port using LC fiber-optic transceivers or twin-axial cabling

The 1-GbE, 10-GbE, and 10-GbE SFP+ NICs configurations bond multiple Ethernet ports into a single interface by default:

• For the 1-GbE ports, this means that the four ports in the DR4000 system (or the six ports in the DR4100/DR6000

system) are bonded together to form one interface connection.

• For the 10-GbE and 10-GbE SFP+ ports, this means that to operate at maximum speed, only the two high-speed

Ethernet ports are bonded together to form one interface connection.

The DR Series system supports configuring the NICs to use either of the following supported bonding configurations:

• ALB—adaptive load balancing (ALB) is the default; this configuration does not require special switch support, but it

does require the data source machine to be on the same subnet as the DR Series system. The ALB is mediated by

the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP).

• 802.3ad—also known as Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is used for copper-wired Ethernet applications;

this configuration does require special switch management (the requirement being that it be managed from the

switch).

For more information, see Configuring Networking Settings.