Dell PowerFlex Custom Node R6525 User Manual

Chapter 1: About this guide........................................................................................................... 5
Chapter 2: System overview..........................................................................................................6
Front view of the system.................................................................................................................................................. 6
Right control panel view.............................................................................................................................................. 8
Left control panel view.................................................................................................................................................9
Rear view of the system.................................................................................................................................................. 10
Inside the system .............................................................................................................................................................. 12
Locating the Express Service Code and Service Tag............................................................................................... 12
System information label..................................................................................................................................................12
Rail sizing and rack compatibility matrix.......................................................................................................................15
Chapter 3: Component installation guidelines.............................................................................. 16
Cable routing.......................................................................................................................................................................16
Drive backplane.................................................................................................................................................................. 19
Expansion card installation guidelines.......................................................................................................................... 20
Supported GPU cards...................................................................................................................................................... 29
System memory................................................................................................................................................................. 29
System memory guidelines........................................................................................................................................29
General memory module installation guidelines.....................................................................................................31
Chapter 4: Upgrade kits.............................................................................................................. 35
BOSS S2 kit........................................................................................................................................................................ 35
PCIe Gen 4 NVMe enablement Kit................................................................................................................................36
Serial COM port kit........................................................................................................................................................... 36
Chapter 5: Jumpers and connectors............................................................................................ 37
System board connectors............................................................................................................................................... 37
System board jumper settings....................................................................................................................................... 39
Disabling a forgotten password..................................................................................................................................... 39
Chapter 6: System diagnostics and indicator codes.....................................................................40
Status LED indicators.......................................................................................................................................................40
System health and system ID indicator codes............................................................................................................ 41
iDRAC Quick Sync 2 indicator codes.............................................................................................................................41
iDRAC Direct LED indicator codes................................................................................................................................ 42
LCD panel............................................................................................................................................................................ 42
NIC indicator codes.......................................................................................................................................................... 43
Power supply unit indicator codes................................................................................................................................ 44
Drive indicator codes........................................................................................................................................................45
Using system diagnostics................................................................................................................................................ 46
Dell Embedded System Diagnostics........................................................................................................................46
Chapter 7: Getting help............................................................................................................... 48
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Dell PowerFlex Custom Node R6525 Specifications

General

Processor	Up to 2x AMD EPYC 7002/7003 series processors, up to 64 cores per processor
Memory	32 DDR4 DIMM slots
Drive Bays	Up to 24 x 2.5" SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD)
RAID Support	PERC H745P
Networking	1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE
Power Supply	1100W Platinum