Operating Manual RX2510 M2
6 Starting up and operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6.1 Control elements and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6.1.1 Front of the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6.1.1.1 Control elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.1.1.2 Indicators on the control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.1.1.3 ID card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
6.1.1.4 Indicators on the components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
6.1.2 Rear of the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6.1.3 Indicators of the hot-plug system fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6.2 Switching the server on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
6.3 Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.3.1 Configuring the onboard SATA controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.3.2 Configuring the SAS/SATA RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
6.3.3 Configuring the server and installing the operating system
with the ServerView Installation Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
6.3.4 Configuring the server and installing the operating system
without the ServerView Installation Manager . . . . . . . . . . . 64
6.4 Cleaning the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
7 Property and data protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
7.1 BIOS Setup security functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
8 Troubleshooting and tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
8.1 Power-on indicator remains unlit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
8.2 Server switches itself off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
8.3 Screen remains blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
8.4 Flickering stripes on monitor screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
8.5 No screen display or display drifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
8.6 Incorrect date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
8.7 System will not boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
8.8 Drives reported as “dead” when starting system . . . . . . . 72
8.9 Added drive reported as defective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73