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1. ensure air flow is such that card temperature sensors reading do not go above 80 C as these high temperatures may cause damage to the board and will certainly result in lower lifespan In extreme cases the board will shut itself off to prevent damage If you should run into any questions or issues with the PCIE 8120 with the HP DL380p please contact your local Emerson Field Application Engineer FAE EMERSON2. CENTOS 6 TFTP server tftp dhcp gnu c tcl expect telnet wireshark vconfig xinetd net tools pciutils ethtool policycoreutils python Disable firewalls ex service iptables stop Unzip and install Emerson Basic Blade Services BBS package pcie8120 lt version gt zip Unzip and install Octasic Software package octasic sdk lt version gt zip Proceed with software installation as documented in the PCIE 8120 Installation and User Manual found in pcie8120 doc lt version gt zip PCIE 8 120 documentation Emerson BBS and Octasic software packages can be obtained via Emerson SWORDS portal or through local Emerson support personnel Photo 3 Card Guides and End Support Technology Partner EMERSON Verified a Ei 7 p9 tp um omn a e Ts ase n p Photo 4 Hot Swappable Fans PCI EXPRESS Emerson Business Critical Continuity and Emerson Network Power are trademarks of Emerson Electric Co or one of its affiliated companies Intel and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U S and or other countries PCI Express PCle is a registered trademark of PCI SIG Dell and the DELL logo are trademarks of Dell Inc 2013 Emerson Electric Co PCIE8120DELL APO 3 2013 SYSTEM OPERATION AND THERMAL OPTIMIZATION The Dell R720 system fans produce direct air within the system to cool the PCI Express cards There is a black plastic shroud that channels the air from six hot swappable fan
3. So You Want to Install Emerson Network Power s PCIE 8120 into a DELL R720 Server Sr This document covers aspects of fitting the Emerson PCIE 8120 media 4 processing accelerator card into a DELL PowerEdge R720 server The DELL PowerEdge R720 server is a new generation 2U rack mount server based on Intel s E5 26xx Sandy Bridge Xeon technology The server is available in several configurations However the application note only covers integration within R720 configuration For more details visit www DELL com us enterprise p poweredge r720 pd Hardware Installation Dependencies Dual CPU configuration mandatory for installation due to central riser card top slot slot 4 is connected to CPU 2 PCI express x 16 3 and or 2 slot PCI Express riser card PN 653206 B21 3 Slots 653208 B21 2 slots The R720 features 7 PCle expansion slots Photo 2 Slots 4 5 6 and 7 can accommodate full height full length cards and are therefore potentially suitable for PCIE 8120 Only the central riser top slot has been tested with the PCIE 8120 to date and so is the recommended position for one board The R720 has PCI express card guides for ease of installation of the PCIE8120 Photo 3 denotes the end support which can be retracted by simply lifting the blue tab The mid card support for the top edge swings into place when the card is installed Software Installation Dependencies Server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 3 or
4. s Photo 4 This also ensures air flows across the rest of the motherboard components and through the PCle section once it has gone through the CPU heatsinks We highly recommend monitoring both the PCIE 8120 air inlet and outlet temperatures This can be done using the read sensors tool provided with the Emerson BBS package If either temperature sensor reports a temperature of higher than 60 C you may want to check whether anything mechanically is disrupting the system air flow or your system environment conditions have changed If neither situation has occurred then you should consider adjusting the system fan profile The Dell R720 has three system fan profiles high fan speed offset low fan speed offset maximum air exhaust temperature 50 C which control the system fans behavior These profiles can be found under iDRAC Settings under the thermal section In data center environments 20 C ambient the low fan speed offset profile is the default setting and Emerson testing indicates the PCIE 8120 should operate properly under these conditions During normal operation you can expect the card temperature readings to be anywhere between 30 and 55 C If any temperature reading should go above 60 C you should use the high fan speed offset profile and or apply additional CPU loading to increase fan speeds Do not use the maximum air exhaust temperature 50 C setting this is currently incompatible with PCIE 8120 Please
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