Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell PowerEdge FC830 system overview
- Documentation resources
- Technical specifications
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Pre-operating system management applications
- Options to manage the pre-operating system applications
- System Setup
- Viewing System Setup
- System Setup details
- System BIOS
- iDRAC Settings utility
- Device Settings
- Dell Lifecycle Controller
- Boot Manager
- PXE boot
- Installing and removing sled components
- Safety instructions
- Recommended tools
- Sled
- Inside the sled
- Cooling shroud
- Cooling shroud retention bar
- System memory
- Processor blank and DIMM blank
- Processors
- PCIe mezzanine card
- PCIe mezzanine card support bracket
- Internal dual SD module (optional)
- rSPI card (optional)
- SD vFlash card
- Network daughter card
- Hard drives or SSDs
- Hard-drive or SSD bay numbering
- Hard drive or SSD installation guidelines
- Removing a hard drive or SSD
- Installing a hard drive or SSD
- Removing a hard drive or SSD blank
- Installing a hard drive or SSD blank
- Shutdown procedure for servicing a hard drive or SSD
- Configuring the boot drive
- Removing a 2.5-inch hard drive or SSD from a 2.5-inch hard drive or SSD carrier
- Installing a 2.5-inch hard drive or SSD in a 2.5-inch hard-drive or SSD carrier
- Removing a 1.8-inch SSD from a 1.8-inch SSD carrier
- Installing a 1.8-inch SSD in a 1.8-inch SSD carrier
- Hard-drive or SSD cage
- Hard drive or SSD backplane
- Removing a 2.5 inch (x8) SATA hard-drive or SSD backplane
- Installing a 2.5-inch (x8) SATA hard-drive or SSD backplane
- Removing a 2.5-inch (x8) SAS hard-drive or SSD backplane
- Installing a 2.5-inch (x8) SAS hard-drive or SSD backplane
- Removing a 2.5-inch (x6) SATA hard drive or SSD and 2.5-inch (x2) PCIe SSD backplane
- Installing a 2.5-inch (x6) SATA hard drive or SSD and 2.5-inch (x2) PCIe SSD backplane
- Removing a 1.8-inch (x16) SAS SSD backplane
- Installing a 1.8-inch (x16) SAS SSD backplane
- Storage controller card
- Expander card
- System battery
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Using system diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Troubleshooting your system
- Getting help
Table 8. Memory specifications
Memory module socket Memory capacity Minimum RAM Maximum RAM
Forty-eight 240-pin
● 4 GB single rank
(RDIMMs)
● 8 GB, 16 GB or 32 GB dual
rank (RDIMMs)
● 32 GB or 64 GB quad rank
(LRDIMMs)
4 GB with dual processor 1.5 TB with four processor
RAID controller specifications
The PowerEdge FC830 system supports PERC H330, PERC H730, and PERC H730P controllers.
Drive specifications
Hard drives
The PowerEdge FC830 system supports:
● Up to eight 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/PCIe SSDs or SAS/SATA hard drives
● Up to sixteen 1.8-inch SAS SSDs
Optical drives
The PowerEdge FC830 system supports external optional USB DVD optical drive.
NOTE: DVD devices support only data.
Flash drive
The PowerEdge FC830 system supports:
● Internal optional USB
● Internal optional SD card
● Optional vFlash card (with integrated iDRAC Enterprise)
Ports and connectors specifications
USB ports
The PowerEdge FC830 system supports:
● One 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant and one 9-pin, USB 3.0-compliant on the front panel
● Internal two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant
SD cards
The PowerEdge FC830 system supports two internal SD cards dedicated for the hypervisor.
NOTE: One SD card is dedicated for future vFlash support.
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