Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FX2s Enclosure Owner's Manual
- About your Dell PowerEdge FX2/FX2s
- Initial system configuration
- PowerEdge FX2/FX2s mapping configurations
- Installing and removing PowerEdge FX2/FX2s enclosure components
- Customer and field replaceable units—PowerEdge FX2/FX2s
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- System cover
- Sleds
- Inside the system
- CMC module
- I/O module
- PCIe module
- Expansion cards
- Power supply units
- Cooling fans
- Cooling-fan cage
- PCIe switch board
- Fan interface board
- Interposer module
- Midplane assembly
- Control panel
- KVM panel
- Troubleshooting your system
- Technical specifications—PowerEdge FX2/FX2s
- Getting help
About your Dell PowerEdge FX2/FX2s
The Dell PowerEdge FX2/FX2s is a 2U enclosure that can support up to four half-width compute sleds, up to eight quarter-
width compute sleds, up to two full-width compute sleds, or a mix of compute sled types. The PowerEdge FX2s enclosure also
supports half-width storage sleds mapped to the compute sleds.
NOTE: For information on mapping configurations from storage sleds to compute sleds in the PowerEdge FX2s enclosure,
see the Dell PowerEdge FD332 Owner’s Manual at Dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
NOTE: PowerEdge FX2 does not support storage sleds.
For the enclosure and sleds to function as a system, you must install the sleds in the enclosure. Enclosure components such
as power supply units, fan modules, Chassis Management Controller (CMC) module, KVM panel, and I/O modules for external
network connectivity are shared resources of the sleds installed in the enclosure.
PowerEdge FX2s supports eight low-profile PCIe slots assigned to the compute sleds in the enclosure.
NOTE: PowerEdge FX2 does not support PCIe slots.
Topics:
• Terms used in the document
• Sled slot numbering
• Front panel features and indicators—PowerEdge FX2/FX2s
• Back panel features and indicators—PowerEdge FX2s and FX2
• Cooling fan indicator codes
• Configuration wizard
• System messages
• Documentation matrix
• Accessing system information by using QRL
Terms used in the document
The following table describes the terms used in this document.
Table 1. Terms used in the document
Term Description
Enclosure, chassis, or system Refers to the Dell PowerEdge FX2 or FX2s system.
Storage sled Refers to the PowerEdge FD332 sled, which supports up to sixteen 2.5 inch
hot-swap hard drives/SSDs in a drive drawer.
NOTE: PowerEdge FX2 does not support the PowerEdge FD332 storage
sled.
Compute sled Refers to the half-width, quarter-width, or full-width servers, to which the
storage sleds are mapped.
NOTE: The PowerEdge FM120x4 half-width compute sled does not support
the storage sled.
NOTE: The PowerEdge FM120x4 half-width compute sled cannot be mixed
with the other half-width, quarter-width, or full-width compute sleds.
NOTE: For information on mapping of storage sleds to compute sleds
in PowerEdge FX2s, see the Dell PowerEdge FD332 Owner’s Manual at
Dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
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