Introduction: Dell PowerEdge 6400 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide

Introduction: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 6400 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide

Dell PowerEdge 6400 computer systems are high-speed servers that offer significant service and upgrade features. These systems include the following service features to make troubleshooting and repair easy and effective:

Dell Diagnostics, which checks for hardware problems (if the system can boot)

Embedded server management hardware, which monitors temperatures and voltages throughout the system and notifies you if the system overheats, if a system cooling fan malfunctions, or a power supply fails

Redundant hot-plug power supplies and cooling fans
Hot-plug addition of replacement of many Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) expansion cards
Hot-plug addition or replacement of hard-disk drives (if a redundant arrays of independent disks [RAID] controller is installed)

The Dell PowerEdge 6400 system chassis simplifies removing and replacing computer components. You can perform processor and memory upgrades without removing the system board. The Dell-designed small computer system interface (SCSI) backplane board and hard-disk drive carriers eliminate the extensive cabling and drive configuration usually required for a SCSI subsystem.

The following upgrade options are offered for the Dell PowerEdge 6400 systems:

Additional microprocessors
Additional memory
A variety of expansion-card options
A choice of SCSI backplane boards, including a 2 x 4 split backplane for internal duplexing of hard-disk drives
Additional hard-disk drives
RAID controllers
A Dell OpenManage™ Remote Assistant Card 2 (DRAC 2), version 2.0, for advanced server management

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