Penguin Computing Relion 1900e - Appendix A - Integration and Usage Tips

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Relion 1900e/2900e Manual
Appendix A – Integration and Usage Tips
 When adding or removing components or peripherals from the server board, power cords must be
disconnected from the server. With power applied to the server, standby voltages are still present
even though the server board is powered off.
 This server board supports the Intel
®
Xeon
®
Processor E5-2600 v3, v4 product family with a Thermal
Design Power (TDP) of up to and including 145 Watts. Previous generations of the Intel
®
Xeon
®
proc
essors are not supported. Server systems using this server board may or may not meet the TDP
design limits of the server board. Validate the TDP limits of the server system before selecting a
processor.
 Processors must be installed in order. CPU 1 must be populated for the server board to operate
 The bottom add-in card slot of the 2U 3-slot riser card and Riser Card Slots #2 and #3 on the server
board can only be used in dual processor configurations
 The riser card slots are specifically designed to support riser cards only. Attempting to install a
PCIe* add-in card directly into a riser card slot on the server board may damage the server board, the
add-in card, or both.
 This server board only supports DDR4 ECC RDIMM – Registered (Buffered) DIMMS and DDR4 ECC
LRDIMM – Load Reduced DIMMs
 For the best performance, the number of DDR4 DIMMs installed should be balanced across both
processor sockets and memory channels
 On the back edge of the server board are eight diagnostic LEDs that display a sequence of amber
POST codes during the boot process. If the server board hangs during POST, the LEDs display the
last POST event run before the hang.
 The System Status LED will be set to a steady Amber color for all Fatal Errors that are detected
during processor initialization. A steady Amber System Status LED indicates that an unrecoverable
system failure condition has occurred
 RAID partitions created using either RSTe or ESRT2 cannot span across the two embedded SATA
controllers. Only drives attached to a common SATA controller can be included in a RAID partition