Table 12. Hardware and software requirements for DM5500 and expansion enclosure installation
Component Description
Static rail Included with the DM5500. Designed to work in any data center rack.
Rack
Customer supplied. The DM5500 requires 2U. Each expansion enclosure requires
2U.
The DM5500 and expansion enclosures require front and rear access for servicing
and should be placed in the rack to accommodate these requirements.
See Install the DM5500 in the rack and Install the expansion enclosure in the rack
for more information.
Network switch
Customer supplied. One or more. 10 GbE support required. 25 GbE support is
optional.
The switch must support VLAN for external (public) communication. Two network
switches are recommended for redundancy.
The DM5500 requires four ports on the switch (10/25 GbE, optical, or copper). A 1
GbE NIC port connection to the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)
port is strongly recommended. See
Connect network cables and Connect iDRAC
cable for more information.
LC-to-LC multimode fiber (MMF) cables
or direct attach copper twinax network
cables
Supplied at no cost from Dell. The customer is given the choice of including
either LC-to-LC optical cables or direct attach (twinax) cables when ordering the
DM5500.
SFPs If LC-to-LC optical cables are used (instead of twinax cables), 4 x 10/25 GbE SFPs
can be ordered as a kit from Dell. Use the SFPs provided by Dell when connecting
the 4 GbE ports on the DM5500 to the customer network.
SFPs for switches Customer supplied if LC-to-LC optical cables are used.
LC-to-LC optical cables The LC-to-LC optical cables are an option and can be ordered from Dell or can be
customer supplied.
RJ45 iDRAC network cable CAT5e/CAT6 cable for connecting to iDRAC network connection. iDRAC
configuration and cabling provide an out-of-band method for remote management
and may be required for Customer Support engineers to debug and troubleshoot.
RJ45 network cables CAT6a/CAT7 cables for connecting the DM5500 10GBASE-T ports to the customer
network. These cables are required if the customer chooses the DM5500
configuration with the quad 10GBASE-T port HBA in slots 3 and 4.
SAS4 cables
Supplied at no cost from Dell with each expansion enclosure ordered.
For a DM5500 configuration with one expansion enclosure, two 1-meter long SAS
cables are supplied.
For a DM5500 configuration with two expansion enclosures, two 1-meter long SAS
cables are supplied to connect to the enclosure directly below the
DM5500 server,
and two 2-meter long SAS cables are supplied to connect to the lowest enclosure in
the rack.
For a DM5500 configuration with three expansion enclosures, two 1-meter long
SAS cables are supplied to connect to the enclosure directly below the DM5500
server, and two 2-meter long SAS cables are supplied to connect to the lower
enclosures in the rack. Two 0.5-meter long daisy cables are supplied to connect the
second and third enclosures.
Service computer A service computer is required for initial login. See Assign static IP address to the
service computer for initial DM5500 login.
DNS In the customer data center.
NTP server address The DM5500 requires access to an NTP server for time synchronization.
IP addresses See Collect external network information.
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