Dell EMC PowerEdge R750xs Service Manual

Chapter 1: About this document.................................................................................................... 7
Chapter 2: PowerEdge R750xs system overview............................................................................8
Front view of the system...................................................................................................................................................8
Left control panel view................................................................................................................................................11
Right control panel view............................................................................................................................................. 12
Rear view of the system.................................................................................................................................................. 12
Inside the system .............................................................................................................................................................. 14
System information label..................................................................................................................................................15
Rail sizing and rack compatibility matrix.......................................................................................................................18
Locating the Express Service Code and Service Tag............................................................................................... 19
Chapter 3: Initial system setup and configuration........................................................................20
Setting up the system......................................................................................................................................................20
iDRAC configuration......................................................................................................................................................... 20
Options to set up iDRAC IP address.......................................................................................................................20
Options to log in to iDRAC.........................................................................................................................................21
Resources to install operating system......................................................................................................................... 22
Options to download firmware ................................................................................................................................22
Options to download and install OS drivers .........................................................................................................23
Downloading drivers and firmware..........................................................................................................................23
Chapter 4: Minimum to POST and system management configuration validation......................... 24
Minimum configuration to POST ..................................................................................................................................24
Configuration validation................................................................................................................................................... 24
Error messages............................................................................................................................................................ 25
Chapter 5: Installing and removing system components.............................................................. 26
Safety instructions............................................................................................................................................................26
Before working inside your system............................................................................................................................... 27
After working inside your system.................................................................................................................................. 27
Recommended tools......................................................................................................................................................... 27
Optional front bezel.......................................................................................................................................................... 28
Removing the front bezel..........................................................................................................................................28
Installing the front bezel............................................................................................................................................ 29
System cover..................................................................................................................................................................... 29
Removing the system cover..................................................................................................................................... 29
Installing the system cover....................................................................................................................................... 30
Drive backplane cover.......................................................................................................................................................31
Removing the drive backplane cover...................................................................................................................... 31
Installing the drive backplane cover........................................................................................................................32
Optional optical drive........................................................................................................................................................33
Removing the optical disk drive............................................................................................................................... 33
Installing the optical disk drive................................................................................................................................. 34
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Dell EMC PowerEdge R750xs Specifications

General

Management	iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller
Processor	Up to two 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, with up to 32 cores per processor
Memory	Up to 1TB DDR4 at 3200MT/s; 16 DIMM slots
Storage	Up to 12 x 3.5" drives (SAS/SATA/NVMe)
RAID Support	H355
Power Supply	800W, 1100W, 1400W Platinum
Network	OCP 3.0 Network Daughter Card options, up to 2x 25GbE
Form Factor	2U rack
Dimensions	Height: 86.8 mm (3.41 inches), Width: 482.0 mm (18.98 inches)
Expansion Slots	Up to 5 PCIe Gen4 slots
GPU Support	Supports up to 2 single-width GPUs
Operating System Support	Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server