Dell PowerEdge FC640 User Manual

Option Description
Option Description
Model Species the drive model of the selected device.
Drive Type Species the type of drive attached to the SATA port.
Capacity Species the total capacity of the drive. This eld is undened for removable media
devices such as optical drives.
NVMe Settings
The NVMe settings enable you to set the NVMe drives to either RAID mode or Non-RAID mode.
NOTE: To congure these drives as RAID drives, you must set the NVMe drives and the Embedded SATA option in the SATA
Settings menu to RAID mode. If not, you must set this eld to Non-RAID mode.
Viewing NVMe Settings
To view the NVMe Settings screen, perform the following steps:
1 Turn on, or restart your system.
2 Press F2 immediately after you see the following message:
F2 = System Setup
NOTE
: If your operating system begins to load before you press F2, wait for the system to nish booting, and then
restart your system and try again.
3 On the System Setup Main Menu screen, click System BIOS.
4 On the System BIOS screen, click NVMe Settings.
NVMe Settings details
The NVMe Settings screen details are explained as follows:
Option
Description
NVMe Mode Enables you to set the NVMe mode. This option is set to Non RAID by default.
Boot Settings
You can use the Boot Settings screen to set the boot mode to either BIOS or UEFI. It also enables you to specify the boot order.
• UEFI: The Unied Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a new interface between operating systems and platform rmware. The
interface consists of data tables with platform related information, also boot and runtime service calls that are available to the operating
system and its loader. The following benets are available when the Boot Mode is set to UEFI:
• Support for drive partitions larger than 2 TB.
• Enhanced security (e.g., UEFI Secure Boot).
• Faster boot time.
NOTE
: You must use only the UEFI boot mode in order to boot from NVMe drives.
• BIOS: The BIOS Boot Mode is the legacy boot mode. It is maintained for backward compatibility.
Pre-operating system management applications
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Dell PowerEdge FC640 Specifications

General

Management	iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller
Processor	Up to two Intel Xeon Scalable processors
Memory Slots	16 DIMM slots
Storage	Up to 2 x 2.5" SAS/SATA HDD/SSD
RAID Support	PERC H330
Chassis	Dell PowerEdge FX2/FX2s
Power Supply	Part of the FX2/FX2s chassis
Operating System Support	Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi
Network	2 x 10GbE