Page 3 - Table of Contents
iii PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide Table of Contents 1 Product Comparison ........................................................................................... 7 1.1 Overview .................................................................................................. 7 1.2 Key Benefit...
Page 5 - PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide; Tables
v PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 14.2 Rails ...................................................................................................... 48 14.3 Cable Management Arm (CMA) ....................................................................... 49 14.4 Rack View ............................
Page 6 - Figures
vi PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide Figures Figure 1. Chassis Dimensions .................................................................................. 15 Figure 2. Front View (With Bezel) ............................................................................ 16 Figure 3. Front View (With...
Page 7 - Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide; Product Comparison; Overview; Business Value; Flexible, Secure Technology; Windows
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 7 1 Product Comparison 1.1 Overview The PowerEdge R210 II is an entry-level, yet enterprise ready, ultra-dense 1-socket 1U rack server that is well suited for a broad range of workloads, from small businesses applications to high-density, scale-out compute farm...
Page 8 - Easy to Manage; The Dell PowerEdge R210 II lets you focus on running your business; Comparison
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 8 functionality as well as offering email, remote access, and collaboration to help take your business to the next level. The R210 II also includes lower wattage power supplies and features a built-in user interface for ease of deployment. With the PowerEdge R2...
Page 11 - Key Technologies
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 11 2 Key Technologies Key technologies on the Dell PowerEdge™ R210 II include the following: New processors, including the Intel ® Xeon ® processor E3-1200 product family, Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 V2 product family, Intel Pentium G600 and G800 series, and...
Page 12 - System Overview; Product Feature Summary
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 12 3 System Overview Table 2. Product Feature Summary Feature Technical Specification Form Factor 1U rack Processors Quad-core Intel ® Xeon ® processor E3-1200 product family Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 V2 product family Dual-core Intel Pentium ® G600 and G800...
Page 15 - Mechanical; Chassis Description; Chassis Dimensions
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 15 4 Mechanical 4.1 Chassis Description The PowerEdge R210 II is a 1U rack-mount design that supports the following features: Two cabled 3.5” drive bays for SATA or SAS hard drives or four 2.5” drive bays for SAS or SSD drives Dual Gigabit LAN on motherboar...
Page 16 - Front Panel View and Features; Back Panel View and Features; Back View; PowerEdge R210 II Owner’s Manual
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 16 4.3 Front Panel View and Features Figure 2 and Figure 3 show the front views of the PowerEdge R210 II. Figure 2. Front View (With Bezel) Figure 3. Front View (Without Bezel) See the Front-Panel Features and Indicators section in the About Your System chapter...
Page 17 - Power Button LED; Power Button; System Status ID; NIC Indicators; Owner’s Manual; Internal Chassis Views
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 17 4.5 Power Button LED All Dell PowerEdge servers have a green LED integrated in the power button which indicates the system’s power state. Figure 5. Power Button See the About Your System chapter of the PowerEdge R210 II Owner’s Manual on Dell.com/Support/Man...
Page 18 - Internal Chassis View; Rails; ReadyRails Static Rails; ReadyRails; Static Rails for 4-post and 2-post racks support the following:
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 18 Figure 6. Internal Chassis View 4.9 Rails 4.9.1 ReadyRails Static Rails ReadyRails TM Static Rails for 4-post and 2-post racks support the following: Tool-less installation in 19” EIA-310-E compliant square or unthreaded round hole 4-post racks including a...
Page 19 - Fans; LED Control Panel; Front Panel View with LED Control Panel; Security; Cover Latch
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 19 4.10 Fans There are three system fans located in the R210 II system. For information on removing and installing the system fans, see the Installing System Components chapter of the PowerEdge R210 II Owner’s Manual on Dell.com/Support/Manuals for more informa...
Page 20 - Hard Drive; Power Switch Security; USB Key
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 20 4.12.3 Hard Drive Cabled hard drives are only accessible by opening the top cover, thus locking the top cover secures the hard drives. For information about installing or removing the hard drives, see the Hard Drives section in the Installing System Componen...
Page 21 - Battery; See the Jumpers and Connectors chapter in the
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 21 4.14 Battery A replaceable coin cell CR2032 3V battery is mounted on the planar to provide backup power for the Real-Time Clock and CMOS RAM on the Intel ® SP5100 chip. 4.14.1 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) The planar contains a serial EEPROM to store Field R...
Page 22 - Power Supplies; Power Supply Specifications; Heat Dissipation
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 22 5 Power, Thermal, Acoustic 5.1 Power Supplies The base system includes a single 250W power supply. This unit provides power to the planar, the internal hard drive bays, and one slim optical disk drive bay. Power is soft-switched, allowing power cycling using...
Page 23 - Environmental Specifications; Table 4 lists the environmental specifications for the R210 II.; Formulas for Maximum Operating Temperature for Given Altitude (°C)
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 23 5.4 Environmental Specifications The airborne contaminant level is class G2 or lower as defined by ISA-S71.04-1985. Table 4 lists the environmental specifications for the R210 II. Table 4. Environmental Specifications Specification Operating Requirements Non...
Page 24 - ENERGY STAR Compliance; ENERGY STAR Compliance results; Thermal; Comprehensive thermal management; Acoustics; Adherence to Dell’s high sound quality standards:
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 24 Table 5 shows the shock and vibration specifications for the R210 II. Table 5. Shock and Vibration Specifications Maximum Vibration Operating 0.26Grms at 5–350Hz for 15 minutes Storage 1.88Grms at 10–500Hz for 15 minutes Maximum Shock Operating One shock pul...
Page 27 - Processors; Intel; Features; Key features of the R210 II processors include:; Supported Processors
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 27 6 Processors 6.1 Overview The processors for the R210 II are based on the latest two- and four-core offerings from the Intel ® Xeon ® processor E3-1200 product family , Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 V2 product family, Intel Pentium ® G600 and G800 series, and...
Page 28 - Processor Configurations; Dell PowerEdge
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 28 Model Speed (GHz) Power (Watts) Cores L3 Cache (MB) Threads Turbo Memory (MT/s) Process Intel Xeon E3-1270 3.40 80 4 8 8 Yes 1333 32nm Intel Xeon E3-1240V2 3.40 69 4 8 8 Yes 1600 22nm Intel Xeon E3-1240 3.30 80 4 8 8 Yes 1333 32nm Intel Xeon E3-1230V2 3.30 6...
Page 29 - Memory; DIMM Slots
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 29 7 Memory 7.1 Overview The R210 II supports DDR3 memory, providing a high performance, high speed memory interface capable of low latency response and high throughput. For the Intel processor-based R210 II, up to 4 total DIMMs are supported. Additional specif...
Page 32 - Chipset; The PowerEdge R210 II
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 32 8 Chipset 8.1 Overview The PowerEdge R210 II planar incorporates the Intel C200 Series PCH chipset. The features listed below are part of the chipset. 8.2 Direct Media Interface Direct Media Interface (DMI) is the chip-to-chip connection between the processo...
Page 33 - Compatibility Module
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 33 8.7 Low-Pin Count (LPC) Interface The LPC bridge function of the PCH resides in PCI Device 31: Function 0. In addition to the LPC bridge function, D31:F0 contains other functional units including DMA, Interrupt controllers, Timers, Power Management, System M...
Page 34 - USB Interface
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 34 8.11 USB Interface The C200 Series chipset contains up to two Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) host controllers that support USB high-speed signaling. High-speed USB 2.0 allows data transfers up to 480 Mb/s which is 40 times faster than full-speed U...
Page 35 - TCO Timer
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 35 functions are designed to report errors, diagnose the system, and recover from system lockups without the aid of an external microcontroller. 8.15.1 TCO Timer The chipset’s integrated programmable TCO timer is used to detect system locks. The first expiratio...
Page 36 - Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 36 The chipset’s SMBus also implements hardware-based Packet Error Checking for data robustness and the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) to dynamically provide address to all SMBus devices. 8.17 Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O The chipset prov...
Page 37 - BIOS
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 37 9 BIOS 9.1 Overview The R210 II BIOS is based on the Insyde ® BIOS core which supports the following features: Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support PCI 2.3 compliant Plug and Play 1.0a compliant MP (Multiprocessor) 1.4 compliant Ability to bo...
Page 38 - Supported ACPI States; Power Management Modes
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 38 Memory remapping support DDR3 UDIMM memory support UEFI shell Support AC recovery staggering Power-Up DIMM mismatch checking VT-d The PowerEdge R210 II BIOS does not support the following: BIOS language localization BIOS recovery after bad fl...
Page 39 - Maximum Performance; Generic; Table 11 summarizes the power management features on this system:
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 39 9.2.1.2 Maximum Performance The Maximum Performance Mode disables power management. In this mode, the processor frequency is statically set to the highest supported frequency. The power management features are implemented through two categories: fixed or gen...
Page 43 - PCI Slots; Slot supports full-height half-length cards connected to the IOH; Quantities and Priorities; PCI Card Dimensions; Dell PowerEdge R210 II Owner’s Manual
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 43 11 PCI Slots 11.1 Overview The PowerEdge R210 II planar provides one riser card which provides one x16 Gen2 PCI Express expansion slot: Slot supports full-height half-length cards connected to the IOH Support for 25W maximum power System does not suppo...
Page 44 - Storage; x 3.5” cabled SATA drives using the motherboard SATA connector; Hard Drives; Supported Hard Drives; RAID Configurations; Factory RAID Configurations
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 44 12 Storage 12.1 Overview The PowerEdge R210 II supports the following hard drive configurations: 2 x 3.5” cabled SATA drives using the motherboard SATA connector 2 x 3.5” cabled SAS, nearline SAS, or SATA drives using an add-on storage controller 4 x 2...
Page 46 - Optical Drives
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 46 The PERC S300 does not support Linux ® operating systems or VMware ® virtualization software. 12.4 Optical Drives The R210 II supports one SATA interface DVD-ROM or DVD+/-RW. 12.5 Tape Drives External tape drives and tape libraries are supported. No internal...
Page 47 - Video; The PowerEdge R210 II includes a Matrox
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 47 13 Video The PowerEdge R210 II includes a Matrox ® G200eW with 8 MB memory integrated in Winbond ® WPCM450 (BMC controller). The resolutions supported are listed in Table 15. Table 15. Graphics Video Modes Resolution Refresh Rate (Hz) Color Depth (bit) 640 x...
Page 48 - Rack Information; Supported Racks
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 48 14 Rack Information 14.1 Overview The ReadyRails™ static rail systems for the R210 II provide tool-less support for racks with square or unthreaded round mounting holes including all generations of Dell racks. The rail systems also offer tooled mounting supp...
Page 49 - Rack View; A4 Static Rail System
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 49 Table 17. Rail Adjustability Ranges and Depth Product Rail ID Mounting Interface Rail Type Rail Adjustability Range (mm) Rail Depth (mm) Square Round Threaded without CMA with CMA Min Max Min Max Min Max R210 II A4 ReadyRails/ Generic Static 608 879 594 872 ...
Page 50 - A6 Static Rail System
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 50 Figure 12. A6 Static Rail System Figure 13 shows a view of the R210 II mounted in the A4 A6 rail systems in the 2-post center-mount configuration. The rear brackets on the A6 rail system can be removed and discarded, providing a much smaller mounting footpri...
Page 51 - A4 and A6 Rail Systems in 2-post Flush-Mount Configuration
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 51 Figure 14 shows the R210 II mounted in the A4 and A6 rail systems in the 2-post flush-mount configuration. The rear brackets on both the A4 and the A6 rail systems can be removed and discarded in this configuration, but the A4 rail system still provides the ...
Page 52 - Operating Systems; For detailed information, see the following:
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 52 15 Operating Systems For detailed information, see the following: Operating System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Systems on Dell.com Dell PowerEdge R210 II Getting Started Guide on Dell.com/Support/Manuals
Page 53 - Systems Management; Deployment of one or many servers from a single console; Server Management
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 53 16 Systems Management 16.1 Overview Dell delivers open, comprehensive, and integrated solutions that help you reduce the complexity of managing disparate IT assets. Combining Dell PowerEdge Servers with a wide selection of Dell developed systems management s...
Page 54 - Embedded Server Management; Dell Lifecycle Controller
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 54 16.3 Embedded Server Management The PowerEdge R210 II implements circuitry for the next generation of Embedded Server Management. It is Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) v2.0 compliant. The optional iDRAC (Integrated Dell Remote Access Control...
Page 55 - Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 55 Feature Description Simplified Hardware Configuration Detects RAID controller and allows user to configure virtual disk and choose virtual disk as boot device, eliminating the need to launch a separate utility. Also provides configuration for iDRAC, BIOS, an...
Page 56 - iDRAC6 Enterprise with Virtual Flash (vFlash) Media
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 56 Key features for the iDRAC6 Enterprise include: • Scripting capability with Dell’s Racadm command-line • Remote video, keyboard, and mouse control with Virtual Console • Remote media access with Virtual Media • Dedicated network interface 16.8 iDRAC6 Enterpr...
Page 59 - Peripherals; The PowerEdge R210 II supports the following USB devices:
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 59 17 Peripherals The PowerEdge R210 II supports the following USB devices: DVD (bootable; requires two USB ports) USB key (bootable) Keyboard (only one USB keyboard is supported) Mouse (only one USB mouse is supported)
Page 60 - Statement of Volatility; Volatility Table
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 60 Appendix A. Statement of Volatility The Dell PowerEdge R210 II contains both volatile and non-volatile (NV) components. Volatile components lose their data immediately upon removal of power from the component. Non-volatile components continue to retain their...
Page 63 - Certifications; Regulatory Certifications; Product Safety Certifications
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 63 Appendix B. Certifications B 1. Regulatory Certifications Regulatory compliance certificates can be located at the following site: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/about_dell/values/regulatory_compliance/dec_conform?c=us&l=en&s=corp B...
Page 64 - Electromagnetic Compatibility; Electromagnetic Compatibility Certifications; Ergonomics, Acoustics and Hygienics
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 64 Country/Region Authority or Mark United States NRTL Uzbekistan STZ B 3. Electromagnetic Compatibility The product has been certified and bears the Mark, as applicable, of the EMC authorities as indicated in Table 22. Table 22. Electromagnetic Compatibility C...
Page 66 - Industry Standards
Dell PowerEdge R210 II Technical Guide 66 Appendix C. Industry Standards The PowerEdge R210 II system conforms to the industry standards detailed in Table 24. Table 24. Industry Standards Standard URL for Information and Specifications ACPI Advance Configuration and Power Interface Specification, v2...