Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6400 Installation and Service Manual
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6400 overview
- Installing and removing enclosure components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled
- Drives
- Power supply units
- System cover
- Backplane cover
- Cooling fans
- Power interposer board
- Chassis management board
- Linking board
- Midplane
- Drive cage
- Backplanes and expander board
- Control panel
- Thermal sensor board
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Chapter 1: Dell EMC PowerEdge C6400 overview.......................................................................... 5
Supported configurations.................................................................................................................................................. 5
Front view of the Dell EMC PowerEdge C6400 enclosure....................................................................................... 7
Front view of the control panels......................................................................................................................................7
Back view of the enclosure with sleds........................................................................................................................... 9
Sled to hard drive mapping............................................................................................................................................... 9
Expander zoning.................................................................................................................................................................10
Diagnostic indicators..........................................................................................................................................................11
Drive indicator codes................................................................................................................................................... 11
Power supply unit indicator codes........................................................................................................................... 12
Locating the Service Tag of your system.................................................................................................................... 13
System information label..................................................................................................................................................14
Chapter 2: Installing and removing enclosure components........................................................... 18
Safety instructions.............................................................................................................................................................18
Before working inside your system................................................................................................................................19
After working inside your system...................................................................................................................................19
Recommended tools..........................................................................................................................................................19
Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled..................................................................................................................................19
Sled Installation Guidelines.........................................................................................................................................19
Removing a sled ..........................................................................................................................................................20
Installing a sled ............................................................................................................................................................22
Drives................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
Removing a drive blank.............................................................................................................................................. 24
Installing a drive blank................................................................................................................................................ 25
Removing a drive carrier............................................................................................................................................25
Installing a drive carrier.............................................................................................................................................. 26
Removing the drive from the drive carrier............................................................................................................ 27
Installing a drive into the drive carrier....................................................................................................................28
Power supply units............................................................................................................................................................29
Fault tolerant redundancy......................................................................................................................................... 29
Removing a power supply unit................................................................................................................................. 30
Installing a power supply unit.................................................................................................................................... 31
System cover......................................................................................................................................................................32
Removing the system cover..................................................................................................................................... 32
Installing the system cover....................................................................................................................................... 33
Backplane cover................................................................................................................................................................ 34
Removing the backplane cover................................................................................................................................34
Installing the backplane cover.................................................................................................................................. 35
Cooling fans .......................................................................................................................................................................36
Removing a cooling fan..............................................................................................................................................36
Installing a cooling fan................................................................................................................................................36
Removing the cooling fan cage................................................................................................................................ 37
Installing the cooling fan cage.................................................................................................................................. 38
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