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Using the Dashboard Health Options, Understanding DR Series System NICs And Ports

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• NIC • CPU • DIMM • NVRAM Enclosure - System Hardware Health components • Power Supplies • Fans • Temperature • Storage • Enclosure Management Module (EMM) Using the Dashboard Health Options To use the navigation panel to display the current system status of the DR Series system components (or any expansion shelf enclosure) that are installed, complete the following steps: 1. Click Dashboard → Health. The Health page is displayed. 2. Mouse over the chassis front and rear panel views on the Health page to display a dialog with the status, name, and state for the DR Series system disk drives and OS drives. Use the same process to display a similar dialog with the status and name for the power supplies and rear panel connectors for an expansion shelf enclosure. 3. View the status in the System Hardware Health summary table for all of the DR Series system or expansion shelf components (depending upon the tab selected, System or Enclosure). 4. To display additional information, click to expand each component in the corresponding summary table. Understanding DR Series System NICs And Ports The DR Series system supports the use of the following types of NICs: • 1-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) two-port (10-Base T); Dell recommends using CAT6a copper cabling • 10-GbE two-port (100-Base T); Dell recommends using CAT6a copper cabling • 10-GbE SFP+ two-port using LC fiber-optic transceivers or twin-axial cabling The 1-GbE, 10-GbE, and 10-GbE SFP+ NICs configurations bond multiple Ethernet ports into a single interface by default: • For the 1-GbE ports, this means that the four ports in the DR4000 system (or the six ports in the DR4100/DR6000 system) are bonded together to form one interface connection. • For the 10-GbE and 10-GbE SFP+ ports, this means that to operate at maximum speed, only the two high-speed Ethernet ports are bonded together to form one interface connection. The DR Series system supports configuring the NICs to use either of the following supported bonding configurations: • ALB-adaptive load balancing (ALB) is the default; this configuration does not require special switch support, but it does require the data source machine to be on the same subnet as the DR Series system. The ALB is mediated by the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP). • 802.3ad-also known as Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is used for copper-wired Ethernet applications; this configuration does require special switch management (the requirement being that it be managed from the switch). For more information, see Configuring Networking Settings. 83

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•
NIC
•
CPU
•
DIMM
•
NVRAM
Enclosure — System Hardware Health components
•
Power Supplies
•
Fans
•
Temperature
•
Storage
•
Enclosure Management Module (EMM)
Using the Dashboard Health Options
To use the navigation panel to display the current system status of the DR Series system components (or any expansion
shelf enclosure) that are installed, complete the following steps:
1.
Click
Dashboard
→
Health
.
The
Health
page is displayed.
2.
Mouse over the chassis front and rear panel views on the
Health
page to display a dialog with the status, name,
and state for the DR Series system disk drives and OS drives.
Use the same process to display a similar dialog with the status and name for the power supplies and rear panel
connectors for an expansion shelf enclosure.
3.
View the status in the System Hardware Health summary table for all of the DR Series system or expansion shelf
components (depending upon the tab selected,
System
or
Enclosure
).
4.
To display additional information, click to expand each component in the corresponding summary table.
Understanding DR Series System NICs And Ports
The DR Series system supports the use of the following types of NICs:
•
1-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) two-port (10-Base T); Dell recommends using CAT6a copper cabling
•
10-GbE two-port (100-Base T); Dell recommends using CAT6a copper cabling
•
10-GbE SFP+ two-port using LC fiber-optic transceivers or twin-axial cabling
The 1-GbE, 10-GbE, and 10-GbE SFP+ NICs configurations bond multiple Ethernet ports into a single interface by default:
•
For the 1-GbE ports, this means that the four ports in the DR4000 system (or the six ports in the DR4100/DR6000
system) are bonded together to form one interface connection.
•
For the 10-GbE and 10-GbE SFP+ ports, this means that to operate at maximum speed, only the two high-speed
Ethernet ports are bonded together to form one interface connection.
The DR Series system supports configuring the NICs to use either of the following supported bonding configurations:
•
ALB
—adaptive load balancing (ALB) is the default; this configuration does not require special switch support, but it
does require the data source machine to be on the same subnet as the DR Series system. The ALB is mediated by
the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP).
•
802.3ad
—also known as Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is used for copper-wired Ethernet applications;
this configuration does require special switch management (the requirement being that it be managed from the
switch).
For more information, see
Configuring Networking Settings
.
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