Owners Manual

Contents
1 Dell PowerEdge M830 (for PowerEdge VRTX) system overview................. 8
Supported configurations for the PowerEdge M830 system..............................................................8
Front panel.............................................................................................................................................9
Front panel view—2.5-inch hard drive or SSD system.................................................................10
Front panel view—1.8-inch SSD system........................................................................................11
Using USB diskette or USB DVD or CD drives.................................................................................... 11
Diagnostic indicators on the front panel............................................................................................12
Hard drive or SSD indicator patterns............................................................................................ 12
iDRAC Direct LED indicator codes................................................................................................13
Locating Service Tag of your system..................................................................................................14
2 Documentation resources.................................................................................15
3 Technical specifications.................................................................................... 18
Chassis dimensions............................................................................................................................. 18
Chassis weight.....................................................................................................................................18
Processor specification....................................................................................................................... 18
System battery specification............................................................................................................... 18
Memory specifications........................................................................................................................ 18
RAID controller specifications.............................................................................................................19
Drive specifications............................................................................................................................. 19
Hard drives..................................................................................................................................... 19
Optical drives................................................................................................................................. 19
Flash drive...................................................................................................................................... 19
Ports and connectors specifications.................................................................................................. 19
USB ports....................................................................................................................................... 19
SD cards......................................................................................................................................... 19
PCIe mezzanine card specification.................................................................................................... 19
Video specifications............................................................................................................................20
Environmental specifications............................................................................................................. 20
Particulate and gaseous contamination specifications ...............................................................21
Expanded operating temperature.................................................................................................22
Expanded operating temperature restrictions............................................................................. 22
4 Initial system setup and configuration...........................................................24
Setting up your system....................................................................................................................... 24
iDRAC configuration........................................................................................................................... 24
Options to set up iDRAC IP address.............................................................................................24
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