Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell PowerEdge R930 Owner's Manual
- Contents
- About the PowerEdge R930
- 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
- Viewing System BIOS
- System BIOS Settings details
- Boot Settings
- Network Settings
- System Security
- System Information
- Memory Settings
- Processor Settings
- SATA Settings
- Integrated Devices
- Serial Communication
- System Profile Settings
- Miscellaneous Settings
- iDRAC Settings utility
- Device Settings
- Dell Lifecycle Controller
- Boot Manager
- PXE boot
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Front bezel (optional)
- System cover
- Inside the system
- System memory
- Memory riser
- Memory riser and fan cage
- Cooling fans
- Cable management tray
- Hard drives
- Optical drive (optional)
- Internal USB memory key (optional)
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Removing the left or right expansion card riser blank
- Installing the left or right expansion card riser blank
- Removing the left or right expansion card riser
- Installing the left or right expansion card riser
- Removing an expansion card from expansion card risers
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card risers
- Network Daughter Card riser
- Network daughter card
- Chassis intrusion switch
- SD vFlash card (optional)
- Internal dual SD module (optional)
- Integrated storage controller card
- Processors and heat sinks
- Power supply units
- Power distribution board
- System battery
- Hard drive backplane
- SAS expander daughter card
- Control panel
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Troubleshooting your system
- Troubleshooting system startup failure
- Troubleshooting external connections
- Troubleshooting the video subsystem
- Troubleshooting a USB device
- Troubleshooting a serial input and output device
- Troubleshooting a NIC
- Troubleshooting a wet system
- Troubleshooting a damaged system
- Troubleshooting the system battery
- Troubleshooting power supply units
- Troubleshooting cooling problems
- Troubleshooting cooling fans
- Troubleshooting system memory
- Troubleshooting an internal USB key
- Troubleshooting a micro SD card
- Troubleshooting an optical drive
- Troubleshooting a drive or SSD
- Troubleshooting a storage controller
- Troubleshooting expansion cards
- Troubleshooting processors
- Using system diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
Table 15. Supported hard drive and SSD options for the PowerEdge R930 system (continued)
Hard drive system Description
● 6 Gbps and 12 Gbps I/O operations on SAS drives.
● 6 Gbps on SATA drives.
Twenty four hard drive systems (SAS/SATA) Up to twenty four 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS/SATA hard drives.
This configuration supports:
● 6 Gbps and 12 Gbps I/O operations on SAS drives.
● 6 Gbps on SATA drives.
NOTE: With a single Unified mode daughter card and PERC 9 card the
hard drives are located in hard drive slots 0 through 24 (bay 1).
NOTE: With two Performance mode daughter cards and two PERC 9
cards the hard drives are located in hard drive slots 0 through 11 (bay 1)
and 0 through 11 (bay 2)
Twenty four or sixteen plus eight hard drive
systems
Up to sixteen 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS drives and up to eight
Dell PowerEdge Express Flash devices (PCIe SSDs) hard drives in hard drive
slots 0 through 4 (bay 1), 0 through 4 (bay 2), and 0 through 15 (bay 3) for
SAS/SATA with 2 PCIe Extender Cards, one Unified Mode Daughter Card,
and one PERC 9 Card.
NOTE: Performance mode daughter cards (hard drive slots 0 through 7
on SAS/SATA) are not supported.
Twenty four hard drive systems (SAS-3 (12
Gbps))
Performance Mode (split-capable)
Up to twenty four 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS hard drives.
NOTE: When the backplane is NOT in the split mode with single internal
PERC, the maximum number of SATA/SSDs are 12 in the right bay (hard
drives slots 12 through 23).
Twenty four or sixteen plus eight hard drive
systems (SATA SSD)
Up to sixteen 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SATA drives and up to eight
Dell PowerEdge Express Flash devices (PCIe SSDs) hard drives in hard drive
slots 0 through 4 (bay 1), 0 through 4 (bay 2), and 8 through 15 (bay 3) for
SAS/SATA.
NOTE: Initial status LED of PCIe SSDs may vary based on the actual
drive status and server components populated.
Optical drive
The PowerEdge R930 system supports one optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW drive.
Ports and connectors specifications
USB ports
The PowerEdge R930 system supports:
● USB 2.0-compliant ports on the front panel
● USB 2.0-compliant ports on the back panel
● USB 2.0-compliant internal port
The following table provides more information about the USB specifications:
Table 16. USB specifications
System Front panel Back panel Internal
PowerEdge R930 Two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant
port
Two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant
port
One 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant
port
26 Technical specifications