hit counter script
NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Configuration Manual
NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Configuration Manual

NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Configuration Manual

Hide thumbs Also See for Express5800/R120f-2E:

Advertisement

NEC Express5800/R120f-2E
Configuration Guide
Standard model
Introduction
This document contains product and configuration information that will enable you to configure your system. The
guide will ensure fast and proper configuration of your NEC Express5800 server.
July 16, 2015
Revision 6.0
NEC Corporation

Advertisement

Table of Contents
loading

Summary of Contents for NEC Express5800/R120f-2E

  • Page 1 Configuration Guide Standard model Introduction This document contains product and configuration information that will enable you to configure your system. The guide will ensure fast and proper configuration of your NEC Express5800 server. July 16, 2015 Revision 6.0 NEC Corporation...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Contents TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION ..................3 Key Features ............................3 Specification ............................3 EXTERNAL VIEWS ......................7 Front and Rear Views ........................... 7 Dimensions (mm) ..........................9 CONFIGURATION DIAGRAM ..................10 EXPANSION SLOT ......................10 SERVER CONFIGURATION ..................11 Base Models ..........................
  • Page 3: Technical Specification

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Supported PCI Cards and Installable Slots ..................34 Copyright Notice and Liability Disclaimer ..................35 REVISION HISTORY ..................... 36 Technical Specification Key Features  High performance with the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 product family ...
  • Page 4 Noise emission was measured in accordance with ISO 7779. The actual value may vary by the operating environment. Not supported with E5-2650v3, E5-2660v3, E5-2680v3 and E5-2690v3. For Linux support, contact your sales representative or go to the NEC website at: http://www.nec.com/global/prod/express/linux/index.html 5GB or more memory is required.
  • Page 5 – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E (2/2) Model R120f-2E Part Number N8100-2271F, N8100-2272F, N8100-2273F Processor Type Intel® Xeon® Intel® Xeon® Intel® Xeon® processor processor processor E5-2660 v3 E5-2680 v3 E5-2690 v3 Clock speed 2.60 GHz 2.50 GHz 2.60 GHz Number of Processors...
  • Page 6 Noise emission was measured in accordance with ISO 7779. The actual value may vary by the operating environment. Not supported with E5-2650v3, E5-2660v3, E5-2680v3 and E5-2690v3. For Linux support, contact your sales representative or go to the NEC website at: http://www.nec.com/global/prod/express/linux/index.html 5GB or more memory is required.
  • Page 7: External Views

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E External Views Front and Rear Views Front View J K M N Legend 2.5-inch Drive Bays STATUS LED 2 2.5-inch Additional HDD Cage Bay Power Capping LED POWER Switch/ LED Display Connector UID Switch/LED LINK/ACT LED(LAN1)
  • Page 8: Rear View

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Rear View Legend PCI Slots (Low-Profile) Serial Port Connector Power Supply UID Switch/LED AC Inlet Management LAN Connector AC POWER LED LAN Connector Additional Power Supply Slot USB Connectors Display Connector Revision 6.0 – July 16, 2015...
  • Page 9: Dimensions (Mm)

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Dimensions (mm) Without Cable Arm 829.0 88.3 87.4 32.7 683.8 87.2 With Cable Arm 948.4 867.0 Revision 6.0 – July 16, 2015 NEC Corporation...
  • Page 10: Configuration Diagram

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Configuration Diagram CHASSIS CHASSIS CHASSIS FRONT INSIDE REAR 2.5-inch Slot5 Hot Plug Slot4 PCIe Drive Cage Slot3 Slot Slot2 Slot1 2.5-inch 4x DIMM Slots 4x DIMM Slots Hot Plug Drive Cage CPU 2 CPU 1...
  • Page 11: Server Configuration

     The base model must be ordered with a processor kit and a memory kit.  Use the NEC Power Supply Selector to select appropriate size for power units. For details, please visit the NEC website at: http://www.nec.com/en/global/prod/express/collateral/tools/PowerSelector_G01.xls 2 Processors and Heat Sink...
  • Page 12: Memory

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E The maximum number of logical processors supported by OS See the table below for the maximum number of logical processors that you can actually use on your system. Maximum Available Number of Logical Processors Supported by Operating Systems...
  • Page 13: Other Os Than Windows Server 2008 Standard

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Memory Configuration Feature Comparison See the table below for feature comparisons of memory configurations supported. Independent Memory Memory Memory Channel Sparing Lockstep Mirroring Performance Best Better Better Good Data Protection Multiple single bit Multiple single bit...
  • Page 14: Windows Server 2008 Standard

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E  The logical memory capacity becomes three-fourths of physical capacity. 3.2.3 Memory Mirroring / Memory Lockstep Configuration Available slots: 8 per processor Product Name / Description Part Number 16GB DDR4-2133 REG Memory Kit (2x8GB) N8102-650...
  • Page 15 – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Maximum Available Memory See the table below for the maximum memory size that you can actually use on your system. The maximum available memory is less than the maximum physical memory supported by your system because some chipsets require PCI resource space of about 750MB.
  • Page 16: Internal Hard Disk Drives

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E 4 Internal Hard Disk Drives RAID Configuration Refer to the section in accordance with your OS and RAID configuration. For example, when you would like to configure RAID 0/1/10 1GB cache with Windows Server 2012 R2, refer to the section 4.2.3...
  • Page 17: Required Components For Raid Configuration

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Required Components for RAID Configuration 4.2.1 Up to four Drives with Embedded SATA Controller Category Product Name / Description Part Number (Standard) Storage Controller Embedded SATA Controller 4 x 6Gb/s SATA Cable Internal SATA Cable...
  • Page 18 – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E and SATA SSDs can be mixed in each drive cage. 4.2.4 Up to sixteen Drives with RAID 5/6 Controller with 1GB Cache Category Product Name / Description Part Number Storage Controller RAID Controller (1GB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
  • Page 19: Supported Hdd/Sdd

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Supported HDD/SDD 4.3.1 For Embedded SATA Controller Category Product Name / Description Part Number Drive 2.5-inch 250GB 7.2K Hot Plug 2.5-inch SATA HDD N8150-487 SATA 4 slots 1 x 250 GB SATA HDD, 2.5-inch, 6Gb/s, 7,200 rpm,...
  • Page 20 – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E 450GB 15K Hot Plug 2.5-inch SAS HDD N8150-486 1x 450 GB SAS HDD, 2.5-inch, 12Gb/s, 15,000 rpm, 512B sector 600GB 15K Hot Plug 2.5-inch SAS HDD N8150-518 1x 600 GB SAS HDD, 2.5-inch, 12Gb/s, 15,000 rpm,...
  • Page 21  When you select 4KB sector HDD, confirm whether your applications support hard drives with 4 KB sector size. For more information, visit the NEC website at: http://www.nec.com/en/global/prod/express/svropt/hdd/collateral/4KHDD_Precautions_EN.pdf  512B sector HDD and 4KB sector HDD cannot be mixed.
  • Page 22: 2.5-Inch Pcie Ssd

    2.5-inch PCIeSSD Installation Kit is required to install this product.  Download the drivers and ESMPRO/ServerAgentService1.2 or later from NEC web site.  Warranty period is 3 years (36 months) or until the total bytes of written value (TBW) exceeds the limit value, whichever occurs first.
  • Page 23: Internal Rdx Drives

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E 7 Internal RDX Drives RDX Configuration Category Product Name / Description Part Number Controller Internal USB Controller (Standard) 1 x USB port Cable Internal USB cable (Standard) 1 x Internal USB to 1 x USB device, USB 3.0...
  • Page 24 – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Types and Number of Available NICs and FC HBAs when Running with VMware ESXi See the table below for the types and number of available NICs and FC HBAs when running with VMware ESXi. The condition depends on interrupt processes managed by the operating system and insufficient interrupt resources may lead to system failure.
  • Page 25: Infiniband

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Using iSCSI See the table below for supported network interfaces and OS combinations. Category Network Interface Operating Systems 1GbE Embedded 1GbE NIC/ Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, N8104-150/-151/-152 Windows Server 2012 R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware...
  • Page 26 – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E order to minimize the risk of becoming multiple hard drives failure during the RAID rebuilding process.  It is recommended to set RAID array configuration drives less than eight in order to minimize the risk of becoming multiple hard drives failure.
  • Page 27: Serial Port Adapter

    NOTE:  The power units must be the same to configure redundancy.  Use the NEC Power Supply Selector to select appropriate size for power units. For details, please visit the NEC website at: http://www.nec.com/en/global/prod/express/collateral/tools/PowerSelector_G01.xls Redundant Fan Kit Product Name / Description...
  • Page 28: Internal Flash Memory

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Internal Flash Memory Product Name / Description Part Number VMware ESXi support kit N8106-009 Internal USB flash memory to install VMware ESXi system NOTE:  The kit does not include VMware ESXi installation media and license.
  • Page 29: Kvm Switch

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E 10.2 KVM Switch Category Product Name / Description Part Number KVM Switch Server Switch Unit (8 server) N8191-14F 1U USB 8 port KVM switch Cable Switch Unit Connection Cable Set (USB,1.8m) K410-118(1A) 1.8 m, 1 x 15-pin mini D-sub to 1 x 15-pin mini D-sub / 1 x 4-pin...
  • Page 30 – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E RDX Cartridge (SSD/128GB) N8151-125 N8153-06 RDX Cartridge (SSD/256GB) N8151-125 N8153-07 Revision 6.0 – July 16, 2015 NEC Corporation...
  • Page 31: References

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E References Boot Mode Setting The server supports Legacy mode and UEFI mode (default) as an OS Boot Mode. See the table below for the Boot Mode and X2APIC setting for each Operating System. As the default settings at the factory, UEFI mode is set as OS Boot mode and X2APIC is enabled.
  • Page 32: Server Management

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Server Management The EXPRESSSCOPE Engine 3, integrated into the server, provides superior remote control and system management features listed in the table below. Standard With Remote KVM and Media License   Hardware Temperature/voltage/power/RAID/ monitoring...
  • Page 33: Os Support Matrix For Pci Cards And Embedded Controller

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E OS Support Matrix for PCI Cards and Embedded Controller Part number Product Name           Embedded SATA non-RAID Controller     - Embedded SATA RAID Controller ...
  • Page 34 – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Supported PCI Cards and Installable Slots Slots Prio Part Number Product Name rity N8103-176 RAID Controller (1 GB, RAID 0/1) (4) (2) N8103-177 RAID Controller (1 GB, RAID 0/1/5/6) (4) (2) N8103-178 RAID Controller (2 GB,RAID 0/1/5/6) (4)...
  • Page 35 All other products, brands, or trade names used in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. NEC shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. For hard drive capacity measurements, 1 GB = 1 billion bytes. Actual formatted capacity is less.
  • Page 36: Revision History

    – CONFIGURATION GUIDE NEC Express5800/R120f-2E Revision History Revision Date Description July 15, 2015 New products added: 2.5-inch PCIeSSD Installation Kit N8118-303 800GB Non-Hot Plug 2.5-inch PCIe SSD N8118-500 Discontinued product deleted: 100GB Hot Plug 2.5-inch SATA SSD N8150-724 PCIe SSD Adapter 365GB N8118-01...

Table of Contents