Dell R710 manual

DELL ™ PO WEREDGE ™ R7 10 TECHNIC AL GUIDEBOOK INSIDE THE PO WEREDGE R710[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook SECTION 1. S Y STEM O VERVIEW 6 A. Ov erview / Description 6 B. Product F eatures Summary 6 SECTION 2. MECHANIC AL 7 A. Chassis Description 7 B. Dimensions and W eight 8 C. Front P anel Vie w and Features 8 D . Back Panel Vie w and Featur es 8 E. Po wer Supply Indicat ors 9 F . NIC Indicators 9 G. Sid[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook SECTION 5. BL OCK DIA GRAM 19 SECTION 6. PROCESSORS 21 A. Ov erview / Description 21 B. Featur es 21 C. Supported Pr ocessors 21 D . Proc essor Congur ations 22 SECTION 7 . MEMOR Y 23 A. Ov erview / Description 23 B. DIMMs Supported 23 C. Speed 2 4 D . Slots / Risers 27 E. Supported Congur ation[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook D . Stor age Controllers 39 I. SA S 6/iR 39 II. PERC 6i 40 E. LED Indicators 41 F . Optical Driv es 41 G. T ape Drives 41 SECTION 13. VIDEO 42 A. Ov erview / Description 42 SECTION 14. A UDIO 43 A. Ov erview / Description 43 SECTION 15. R A CK INFORMA TION 43 A. Ov erview / Description 43 B. Cable Man[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 5 THE DELL ™ PO WEREDGE™ R710 The Dell Po werE dge R7 10 is designed t o be the cornerstone of t oday’ s competitiv e enterprise. Engineered in r esponse to input from IT pr ofessionals, it is the ne xt-generation 2U r ack serv er creat ed to eciently addres s a wide range of k ey business ap[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 6 SECTION 1. S Y STEM O VERVIEW A. Ov erview / Description The Po w erEdge R710 will lead Dell's 11th Generation Po werEdge portf olio in ke y areas of dier entiation, primarily:  • Virtualiza tion  • Po wer ,thermal,eciency  • Sy stemsmanagem[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 7 Fr om view 2.5" HDD Chassis (without be zel) FEA TURE DET AILS RAID PERC 6i utilizing battery back ed 256MB DDRII 667 NIC/L OM Broadc om 5809C (2 cards/ 4ports) USB Fiv e (two fr ont, two r ear , one int ernal) Po wer Supplies T wo hot-plug high-efcient 5 70W PSU OR T wo hot-plug 87 0W PSUs [...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 8 B. Dimensions and W eight Height 8.64cm (3.40") Width 44.31cm (17 .44") Depth 68. 07cm (26.80") W eight (maximum c onfig) 26. 1k g (57 .54lbs ) . C. Front P anel View and Featur es Fr ont I/O panel ac cess including USB and V GA interf aces. The f ollowing components ar e located on [...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 9 INDICA T OR INDICA T OR CODE Link and activity indicators ar e off The NIC is not c onnected to the netw ork Link indicator is gr een The NIC is c onnected to a v alid network link at 1000 Mbps Link indicator is amber The NIC is c onnected to a v alid network link at 1000 Mbps Activity indica tor is[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 10 I. F ans F ans Fiv e hot-swappable f ans are mounted in a f an gantry that is located in the chassis betw een the har d driv e bay and the pr ocessors. Each fan has a blind mat e 2x2 connector that plugs dir ectly into the planar . Ther e is an additional fan integr ated in each po wer supply t o c[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 11 J. Contr ol Panel / L CD The c ontrol panel boar d is connected t o the planar via a 60-wire ribbon cable and a separ ate 5- wire cable for USB signals only . The L CD plugs into the c ontrol panel thr ough a 20-pin ZIF connector and fle x cable. The s yst em control panel is loca ted on the front[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 12 II. Bez el A metal bez el is mounted to the chassis fr ont to pr ovide the Dell ID . A lock on the be zel is used to prot ect un-authorized acc ess to s ystem peripher als and the contr ol panel. Sy stem status via the L CD is vie wable ev en when the bez el is installed. III. Hard Driv e The optio[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 13 Section 3. Electrical A. V olatility See Appendix A of this T echnical Guidebook B. ePPID (Electronic Piece P art Identification) ePPID is an electr onic repository f or information from the PPID label that is s tored in non- vola tile RAM. The BIOS r eports the ePPID information using SMBIOS da t[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 14 SECTION 4. PO WER, THERMAL, A COUS TIC A. Po wer Eciencies One of the main featur es of the 11th generation of P ow erEdge servers is enhanc ed pow er eciency . Po werEdge R710 achie ves higher po wer eciency b y implementing the follo wing features:  • User-selectablepo wer?[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 15 C. Po wer Supply Specifications A C PO WER SUPPL Y (PER PO WER SUPPL Y) W a ttage 870 W att (High Output) 5 70 W a tt (Energy Smart) V oltage 90-264 V A C, autor anging, 47 -63Hz Heat Dissipation 2968.6 BTU /hr maximum (High Output) 1944.9 BTU /hr maximum (Energy Smart) Maximum Inrush Current Unde[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 16 D. En vironmental Specifications TEMPERA TURE Opera ting 10° to 35°C (50° t o 95°F) with a maximum temper ature gr adation of 10°C per hour . Note: For altitudes abo v e 2950 feet, the maximum oper ating tempera ture is der ated 1°F / 550 ft. Stor age -40° to 65°C (-40° t o 149°F) with a[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 17 1 Does not include the pow er supply handle or ejection tab F . Maximum Input Amps Maxinputcurrent(HighOutput):12A@90V AC,6A@180V AC Maxinputcurrent(Ener gySmart):7 .8A@90V A C,3.9A@180V A C G. Energy SMART Enablement The 11th gen[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 18 H. Ac oustics The ac oustical design of the Po werEdge R710 r eflects the following:  • A dherencet oDell’shighsoundqualitystandar ds.Soundqualityisdier entfromsoundpo wer le vel and sound pr essure le vel in tha t it describes how humans r[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 19 SECTION 5. BL OCK DIA GRAM Figure: Po werEdge R710 Main Components[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 20 1. Embedded Network Int erface P orts (4) 2. PCIe Gen2 Riser / Slots 3. Broadc om 57 09c Network Int erface Chip 4. PCIe Gen2 Riser / Slots 5. iDRA C6 Enterprise ( Optional) 6. iDRA C6 Express / Lif ecycle C ontroller 7 . Heat Sink / Pr ocessor Sock et 8. DIMM Slots 9. Hot plug, r edundant fans 10.[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 21 B. Featur es K eyfeatur esofthe5500series2Sproc essor(NehalemEP)include:  • Fourortw ocor esperproces sor  • T w opoint-to-pointQuickPathInter connectlinksatupt o6.4GT / s  • 1366-pi[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 22 MODEL SPEED PO WER CA CHE CORES E5530 2.40GHz 80W 8M 4 E5520 2.26GHz 80W 8M 4 L5520 2.26GHz 60W 8M 4 E5506 2. 13GHz 80W 4M 4 L5506 2. 13GHz 60W 4M 4 E5504 2.00GHz 80W 4M 4 E5502 1.86GHz 80W 4M 2 MODEL SPEED PO WER CA CHE CORES X55 70 2.93GHz 95W 8M 4 X5560 2.80GHz 95W 8M 4 X5550 2.66GHz 95W 8M 4 E5[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 23 SECTION 7 . MEMOR Y A. Ov erview / Description The Po w erEdge R710 utilizes DDR3 memory pro viding a high performance , high-speed memory interf ace capable of low la tency response and high thr oughput. The PE R710 supports Regis tered ECC DDR3 DIMMs (RDIMM) or Unbu ered EC C DDR3 DIMMs (UDIMM[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 24  • OnechannelperCPUpopulated:   • ThisisasimpleMemoryOptimiz edmode.Mirroringisnotsupport ed. The Po w erEdge R710 memory interface supports memory demand and pa trol scrubbing, single-bit corr ection and multi-bit error det ection.[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 25 The table belo w show s the memory populations and the maximum frequency achie vable f or that configur ation. DIMM TYPE DIMM 0 DIMM 1 DIMM 2 # OF DIMMS 800 1066 1333 UDIMM SR 1 DR 1 SR SR 2 SR DR 2 DR DR 2 RDIMM SR 1 DR 1 QR 1 SR SR 2 SR DR 2 DR DR 2 QR SR 2 QR DR 2 QR QR 2 SR SR SR 3 SR SR DR 3 [...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 26 CPUs NHM-EP Platf orm Memory Ov ervie w • Platform capability (18 DIMMs ): – Up to 3 channels per CPU – Up to 3 DIMMS per channel • Memory T ypes Supported: – DDR 1333, 1066, and 800 – Regist ered (RDIMM) and unbuered (UDIMM) – Single-rank (SR), dual-r ank (DR), quad-rank ( QR) •[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 27 E. Supported C onfigurations MEMOR Y MODE RDIMM MEMOR Y MODULE SIZE MEMOR Y SOCKETS SINGLE PROCESSOR DUAL PROCESSOR 1 2 3 PHY SICAL MEMOR Y ( GB) A V AILABLE MEMOR Y ( GB) PHY SICAL MEMORY ( GB) A V AILABLE MEMOR Y ( GB) 4 5 6 OPTIMIZER 2GB x 2 All 4 All x x 4 8 x x x x 6 12 x x 4 8 xxxx 8 16 xxxx[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 28 MEMOR Y MODE RDIMM MEMOR Y MODULE SIZE MEMOR Y SOCKETS SINGLE PROCESSOR DUAL PROCESSOR 1 2 3 PHY SICAL MEMOR Y ( GB) A V AILABLE MEMOR Y ( GB) PHY SICAL MEMORY ( GB) A V AILABLE MEMOR Y ( GB) 4 5 6 MIRRORING 1GB None x x 2 1 4 2 xxxx 4 2 8 4 2GB None x x 4 2 8 4 xxxx 8 4 16 8 a When av ailable b Re[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 29 SECTION 8. CHIPSET A. Ov erview / Description The Po w erEdge R710 planar incorporat ed the Intel 5520 chipset ( code named T ylersbur g) for I/ O and proc essor interf acing. T ylersburg is designed t o support Intel's 5500 series proc essors (c ode named Nehalem-EP),QPIinter connect,?[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 30 Intel Dir ect Media Interfac e (DMI) The DMI (pr eviously called the Ent erprise Southbridge Interfac e) c onnects the T ylersburg IOH with the Intel I/ O Contr oller Hub (ICH). The DMI is equiv alent to a x4 PCIe Gen1 link with a tr ansfer rat e of 1 Gb/ s in each direction. PCI Expres s Generatio[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 31 B. Supported A CPI S tates A dvanced C onfiguration and Po wer Int erface – A standar d interf ace for enabling the oper ating sys tem to dir ect configur ation and pow er management. TheNehalempr ocessorsupportsthef ollowingC-Sta tes:C0,C1,C1E,C3,andC6.R7[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 32 T able: Nehalem P-State Pr ojections C. I 2 C (Inter-Int egrat ed Circuit) What is I 2 C? A simple bi-dir ectional 2-wir e bus for ecient inter-integr ated cir cuit contr ol. All I 2 C-bus compatible de vices inc orporate an on-chip int erface which allo ws them t o communicate dir ectly with ea[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 33 SECTION 11. I/ O SL OT S A. Ov erview / Description The Po w erEdge R710 requir es two PCI Expr ess risers: Riser 1 and Riser 2. Each riser connects to the planar thr ough an x16 PCI Express c onnector .  • Riser1consistsoftw ox4slotsandathir dx4slotde[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 34 Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook PO WEREDGE R7 10 PCI Expres s Gen2 Slots Slot 1: Half-Length (6.6" F actory Installation) / Full-Height (x8 c onnector), x4 link width Slot 2: Full-Length (12.2" F actory Installation) / Full-Height (x8 c onnector), x8 link width Slot 3: Ful[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 35 B. PCI Express Risers The tw o Po werEdge R710 PCI Expr ess risers pro vide up to four e xpansion slots and one internal slot as follo ws:  • T w ox8andtwox4PCIExpr essGen2slots,connectedt otheIOH  • Onex4PCIExpr essGen1slo[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 36 SECTION 12. S TOR A GE A. Ov erview / Description The Po w erEdge R710 supports three dier ent backplanes to support dier ent hard driv e configur ations: six 3.5" har d drives, four 3.5" har d drives, or eight 2.5" har d driv es. On each backplane are tw o LED indicators per [...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 37 For mix ed SA S/S A T A c onfigurations, S AS drives mus t be installed as a pair in drive slots 0 and 1. One mix ed 2.5" and 3.5" hard driv e configur ation is allow ed: a pair of 2.5" 10k rpm SAS driv es can be installed with an adapt er in a 3.5" hard driv e carrier in driv[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 38 CONFIG TYPE CONFIGS DESCRIPTION NON-MIXED DRIVES, ALL SA T A OR ALL SA S MIXED SA S/ SA T A MIN 2 x SA S+1 x S ATA  xS AS + 6x S ATA  xS AS + 6x S ATA MIN HDD MAX HDD MIN HDD MAX HDD SA S/SA T A (No RAID ) 0 MSS Integr ated SA S/S A [...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 39 CONFIG TYPE CONFIGS DESCRIPTION NON-MIXED DRIVES, ALL SSD MIXED SSD / SA S MIN 2xSSD+1x SAS  xS SD + 6x SAS MIN HDD MAX HDD MIN HDD MAX HDD SSD (RAID ) 11 MSSR1 Integr ated SSD RAID 1 (PERC 6/i) 2.5"=2 3.5"=N/ A 2.5"=2 3.5"=N/ A N/ A 12 MSSR5 Int[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 40 PRODUCT USA GE R710 SUPPORT SL OT PCIe CON PCIe BRA CKET I/ O CON R AID BBU PERC SAS/ SA T A PERC 6/i Integr ated Internal Backplane Stor age (HDD , SSD ) Y es, Max 1 Stora ge slot x8 No x4 int x4 int 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 , and 60 Y es PERC 6/E Adapt er External SA S/S A T A Stor age Y es, Max 2 (MD1[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 41 E. LED Indicators Each disk driv e carrier has two LED indicat ors visible from the fr ont of the syst em. One is a green LED for disk activity and the other is a bic olor (green/ amber) LED for status informa tion. The activity LED is driv en by the disk driv e during normal operation. T he bicolo[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 42 RESOLUTION REFRESH R A TE (Hz) COL OR DEPTH (BIT) 640 x 480 60, 72, 7 5, and 85 8, 16, and 32 800 x 600 56, 60, 7 2, 75, and 85 8, 16, and 32 102 4 x 768 60, 7 2, 75, and 85 8, 16, and 32 1152 x 864 75 8, 16, and 32 1280 102 4 60, 7 5, and 85 8 and 16 1280 102 4 60 32 CHASSIS C ONFIG T APE BA CKUP [...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 43 SECTION 14. A UDIO A. Ov erview / Description Nospeak erssupported SECTION 15. R A CK INFORMA TION A. Ov erview / Description Rack installation c omponents such as rails ar e pro vided with the Pow erEdge R710 Rack Kit. The r ack installation c omponents are as follo ws: Sliding Rack mount wi[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 44 C. Rails Support for Dell 4210 & 2 410 r acks Support for Dell 4200 & 2 400 racks without CMA Support for HP / Compaq 10XXX series r acks Support for HP / Compaq 9XXX & 7XXX series r acks without CMA Support for tool-les s installation in CEA -310-E compliant squar e hole 4-post r acks [...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 45 SECTION 16. OPER A TING SY STEMS A. Ov erview / Description The Po w erEdge R710 supports Window s ® , Linux ® , and Solaris™ Operating S yst ems. Windo ws ® Support: X86 OR X64 INST ALLA TION F ACT OR Y INST ALLA TION L OGO CERTIFICA TION SCHEDULE TEST / V ALID A TE SUPPORT Windo ws ® Small [...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 46 Red Hat ® Ent erprise Linux 4.7 x86 and x64 ES/ AS A v ailable in June 2009 N/ A A vailable in June 2009 Y es Y es Red Hat Ent erprise Linux 5.2 x86 and x64 Standar d/ AP Y es N/ A Shipping Y es Y es Red Hat Ent erprise Linux 5.3 x86 and x64 Standar d/ AP A v ailable in June 2009 N/ A A vailable i[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 47 SECTION 17 . VIRTU ALIZA TION A. Ov erview / Description Supported embedded h ypervisors:  •Micr osoft ® Window s Server ® 2008 Hyper- V  •VMwar e ® ESX i V ersion 4.0 and 3.5 upda te 4  •Citrix ® X enServ er 5.0 with Hotfix 1 or later SECTION 18. S Y STEMS MANA GEMENT [...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 48 Dell Management Console D VD: T he Dell Management Console is a W eb-based sy stems management softwar e that enables y ou to disco ver and in v entory devic es on your netw ork. It also pro vides advanc ed functions, such as health and performance monit oring of network ed devic es and patch manag[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 49 FEA TURE DESCRIPTION F aster O /S Installation Driv ers and the installation utility are embedded on s yst em, so no need to scour DELL. C OM F aster Sy stem Updat es Integr ation with Dell support automatically dir ected to la test v ersions of the Unied Serv er Congurat or iDRA C, RAID, BIO[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 50 A more detailed f eature lis t for iDRA C6 Enterprise and vFlash is included in the table below . FEA TURE BMC IDRA C6 EXPRESS IDR AC6 ENTERPRISE VFLASH MEDIA Interf ace and Standards Support IPMI 2.0 4444 W eb-based GUI 444 SNMP 444 WSMAN 444 SMASH-CLP 444 Racadm command-line 4 4 Conductivity Shar[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 51 FEA TURE BMC IDRA C6 EXPRESS IDR AC6 ENTERPRISE VFLASH MEDIA Virtual c onsole sharing 4 4 Virtual ash 4 Monitoring Sensor Monitoring and Alerting 4444 Real-time Po wer Monit oring 444 Real-time Po wer Gr aphing 444 Historical P ow er Counters 444 Logging Fea tures Sy stem Ev ent Log 4444 RA C Lo[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 52 SECTION 19. PERIPHER ALS A. USB peripherals The Po w erEdge R710 supports the following USB de vices:  • D VD(bootable;requir estwoUSBports )  • USBK ey(bootable )  • K eyboar d(onlyoneUSBk eyboar dissupported)  •[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 53 SECTION 20 . DOCUMENT A TION A. Ov erview , Description, and Lis t Po werEdge R710 and other 11G sy stems use the ne w enterprise documentation set. T he following is a summary of some of the documents slated f or the Pow erEdge R710 product. F or the complete list of documents, including language [...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 54 NON- V OLA TILE RAM V OLA TILE RAM REFERENCE DESIGNA T OR QTY SIZE TYPE [e. g., FLASH PROM,  PLANAR, PO WEREDGE R7 10 Sy stem BIOS SPI Flash Y U_SPI_BIOS 1 4MB Flash EEPROM (SPI interface ) L OM Conguration Data Y U15, U16 2 512KB FLASH (NOR) iDRA C6 Controller ROM Y U_IB[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 55 CAN USER PROGR AMS OR OPERA TING SY STEM WRITE D A T A T O IT DURING NORMAL OPERA TION? PURPOSE? [e .g., BOOT C ODE] PLANAR, PO WEREDGE R7 10 Sy stem BIOS SPI Flash No Boot Code, S ystem Congur ation Information, EUFI envir onment L OM Conguration Data No LAN on motherboard c onguration an[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 56 HO W IS DA T A INPUT T O THIS MEMORY? PLANAR, PO WEREDGE R7 10 Sy stem BIOS SPI Flash Loading ash memory requir es a vendor-pr ovided rmw are le and loader progr am that is ex ecuted by booting up the sy stem from a opp y or OS-based ex ecutable containing the rmwar e le and the l[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 57 HO W IS THIS MEMORY WRITE PRO TECTED? HO W IS THE MEMORY CLEARED? PLANAR, PO WEREDGE R7 10 Sy stem BIOS SPI Flash Software writ e protected Not possible with any utilities or applications and sy stem is not functional if corrupted/ remo ved. L OM Conguration Data Not explicitly pr otected but sp[...]

Dell™ Pow erEdge™ R710 T echnical Guidebook 58 R710 V olatility Chart Continued. HO W IS THIS MEMORY WRITE PRO TECTED? HO W IS THE MEMORY CLEARED? PLANAR, PO WEREDGE R7 10 PERC 6/I INTEGR A TED PERC NVSRAM C ong Data Stor age controller rmw are acc essed only N/ A - not in-system clear able PERC Firmw are Writ e control acc ess by stor ag[...]