Page 2 - sectiOn 1. system OveRvieW; TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook sectiOn 1. system OveRvieW 7 A. Overview / Description 7 A. Product Features Summary 7 sectiOn 2. mechanical 8 A. Chassis Description 8 B. Dimensions and Weight 8 C. Front Panel View and Features 8 D. Back Panel View and Features 9 E. Power Supply Indicators...
Page 3 - sectiOn 5. blOck DiaGRam
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook sectiOn 5. blOck DiaGRam 19 sectiOn 6. PROcessORs 21 A. Overview / Description 21 B. Features 21 C. Supported Processors 22 D. Processor Configurations 22 Single CPU Configuration 22 CPU Power Voltage Regulation Modules (EVRD 11.1) 23 sectiOn 7. memORy 23 A....
Page 4 - sectiOn 15. Rack infORmatiOn
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook B. Drives 36 I. Internal Hard Disk Drives 37 I. Hard Disk Drive Carriers 37 II. Empty Drive Bays 37 III. Diskless Configuration Support 37 IV. Hard Drive LED Indicators 37 C. RAID Configurations 38 D. Storage Controllers 40 I. SAS 6/iR 40 II. PERC 6i 40 E. L...
Page 5 - C. Embedded Server Management
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook C. Embedded Server Management 46 I. Unmanaged Persistent Storage 47 II. Lifecycle Controller / Unified Server Configurator 47 III. iDRAC6 Express 47 IV. iDRAC6 Enterprise 48 sectiOn 19. PeRiPheRals 50 A. USB peripherals 50 B. External Storage 50 sectiOn 20. ...
Page 6 - the DellTM POWeReDGeTM R610; better manage your enterprise.; Featuring Intel; energy-Optimized technologies
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 6 the Dell™ POWeReDGe™ R610 Inspired by customer feedback, the Dell PowerEdge R610 server is engineered to simplify data center operations, improve energy efficiency, and lower total cost of ownership. System commonality, purposeful design, and service optio...
Page 7 - featuRe
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 7 featuRe Details Processor Nehalem EP Front Side Bus Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) @ maximum 6.GT/s # Procs 2S # Cores 4 cores L2/L3 Cache 4MB and 8MB Chipset Tylersberg DIMMs RDIMM or UDIMM DDR3 (12 DIMMs – 6 per processor) Min/Max RAM 1GB – 96GB HD B...
Page 8 - sectiOn 2. mechanical
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 8 sectiOn 2. mechanical a. chassis Description The PowerEdge R610 is a 1U rackmount chassis. The updated design includes a new LCD, bezel and hard-drive carriers. Additional changes include tool-less rack latches, a pull out tray for customer labels, and LOM...
Page 9 - D. back Panel view and features; Link and activity indicators are off
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 9 D. back Panel view and features The following components are located on the rear panel of the PowerEdge R610 enclosure: • (1) 15-pin VGA connector • (1) 9-pin serial port connector • (4) Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet RJ-45 connectors • (1) Rear system ID...
Page 10 - G. side views and features
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 10 G. side views and features Rack installation components such as rails are provided with the PowerEdge R610 Rack Kit. The rack installation components are as follows: sliding rack mount with latest generation Cable Management Arm (CMA). The PowerEdge R610 ...
Page 12 - V. Power Off Security
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 12 The LCD panel is a graphics display controlled by the BMC/ESM. Both ESM and BIOS can send error codes and messages to the display. The system's LCD panel provides system information and status messages to signify when the system is operating correctly or ...
Page 13 - sectiOn 3. electRical; Planar
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 13 l. usb key The port on the control panel is for an optional USB key and is located inside the chassis. Some of the possible applications of the USB key are: • User custom boot and pre-boot OS for ease of deployment or diskless environments • USB license k...
Page 14 - a. Power efficiencies
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 14 sectiOn 4. POWeR, theRmal, acOustic a. Power efficiencies One of the main features of the 11th generation of PowerEdge servers is enhanced power efficiency. The R610 achieves higher power efficiency by implementing the following features: • User-selectabl...
Page 15 - c. Power supply specifications
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 15 c. Power supply specifications ac POWeR suPPly (PeR POWeR suPPly) Wattage 717 Watt (High Output) 570 Watt (Energy Smart) Voltage 90-264 VAC, autoranging, 47-63Hz Heat Dissipation 2446.5 BTU/hr maximum (High Output)1712.9 BTU/hr maximum (Energy Smart) Maxi...
Page 16 - e. Power consumption testing
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 16 maximum vibRatiOn Operating 0.26 Grms at 5 – 350Hz for 5 minutes in operational orientations Storage 1.54 Grms at 10 – 250Hz for 10 minutes in all orientations maximum shOck Operating Half sine shock in all operational orientations of 31G 5% with a pulse ...
Page 17 - G. energysmaRt enablement
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 17 G. energysmaRt enablement The 11G family implements aspects of Dell’s new Energy Smart strategy. Major differences include: • Discontinuing Energy Smart-branded servers with limited configurations and instead offering Energy Smart components on a portfoli...
Page 18 - x CPU plus a PERC6/E external
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 18 PowerEdge R610 with GY134 fans (quantity below), 2x 502-W KY091 Power Supplies, 2.40 GHz Quad-Core E5530 CPUs (quantity below), 2-GB DIMMs (quantity below), 1x DVD Drive, Perc 6i card, and 4x XK112 Hard Disk Drives 2x CPUs, 6x fans, 8x DIMMsCondition in 2...
Page 21 - sectiOn 6. PROcessORs; Cache Size
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 21 sectiOn 6. PROcessORs A. Overview / Description The Intel ® 5500 series 2S processor (Nehalem - Efficient Processor (EP)), is the microprocessor designed specifically for servers and workstation applications. The processor features quad-core processing to...
Page 22 - mODel; C. Supported Processors; Single CPU Configuration; Performance Enhancements; Intel Xeon; Normal; Frequenc; Intel; Higher performance
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 22 mODel sPeeD POWeR cache cORes X5570 2.93GHz 95W 8M 4 X5560 2.80GHz 95W 8M 4 X5550 2.66GHz 95W 8M 4 E5540 2.53GHz 80W 8M 4 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 ...
Page 23 - Improves application responsiveness; up to; BASE Freq; OR
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 23 sectiOn 7. memORy a. Overview / Description The PowerEdge R610 utilizes DDR3 memory providing a high performance, high-speed memory interface capable of low latency response and high throughput. The PowerEdge R610 supports Registered ECC DDR3 DIMMs (RDIMM...
Page 26 - Dimm tyPe; UDIMM
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 26 Dimm tyPe Dimm 0 Dimm 1 Dimm 2 numbeR 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 SR DR DR 3 DR DR DR 3 Note: For QR mixed with a SR/DR DIMM, the...
Page 27 - NHM-EP Platform Memory Overview; actually; Memory Population Scenarios; CPUs; All; Mirroring; Lockstep
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 27 NHM-EP Platform Memory Overview • Platform capability (18 DIMMs): – Up to 3 channels per CPU – Up to 3 DIMMS per channel • Memory Types Supported: – DDR 1333, 1066, and 800 – Registered (RDIMM) and unbuffered (UDIMM) – Single-rank (SR), dual-rank (DR), qu...
Page 28 - D. supported configurations
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 28 memORy mODe memORy mODule size memORy sOckets sinGle PROcessOR Dual PROcessOR 1 2 3 Physical memORy (Gb) available memORy (Gb) Physical memORy (Gb) available memORy (Gb) 4 5 6 OP timize R 2GB x 2 All 4 All x x 4 8 x x x x 6 12 x x 4 8 x x x x 8 16 x x x x...
Page 29 - spreadsheet in section 10-H for supported configurations.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 29 memORy mODe memORy mODule size memORy sOckets sinGle PROcessOR Dual PROcessOR 1 2 3 Physical memORy (Gb) available memORy (Gb) Physical memORy (Gb) available memORy (Gb) 4 5 6 OP timize R 1GB x 1 All 2 All x x 2 4 x x x 3 6 x x x x 4 8 x x x x x x 6 12 2G...
Page 30 - Tylersburg chipset consists of the Tylersburg-36D IOH and ICH9.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 30 h. Optimizer (independent channel) mode In this mode, all three channels are populated with identical memory modules. This mode permits a larger total memory capacity but does not support SDDC with x8-based memory modules. A minimal single-channel configu...
Page 31 - PCI Express Generation 2
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 31 Intel Direct Media Interface (DMI) The DMI (previously called the Enterprise Southbridge Interface) connects the Tylersburg IOH with the Intel I/O Controller Hub (ICH). The DMI is equivalent to a x4 PCIe Gen1 link with a transfer rate of 1 Gb/s in each di...
Page 32 - b. supported acPi states
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 32 • SETUP access through <F2> key at end of POST • USB 2.0 (USB boot code is 1.1 compliant) • F1/F2 error logging in CMOS • Virtual KVM, CD, and floppy support • Unified Server Configurator (UEFI 2.1) support • Power management support including DBS, ...
Page 34 - • The R610 does not support hot-swapping of PCIe cards
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 34 • The lower power support on the second card is due to thermal limitations • The R610 does not support hot-swapping of PCIe cards caRD PRiORity caRD tyPe slOt PRiORity max allOWeD 25W caRD 1 PERC 5/E controller 1, 2 1 Y 2 PERC 6/E 1, 2 1 Y 3 10Gb NIC 2, 1...
Page 36 - I. Internal Hard Disk Drives
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 36 b. boot Order Refer to the Whoville BIOS Specification for the most up-to-date lane assignments and scan order PCIe scan order (from the BIOS HW spec v1.0) IOH port 1,2 (PCI Express Gen1 x4) – Broadcom BCM5709C Gigabit LOM #1 IOH port 3 (PCI Express Gen1 ...
Page 37 - POWeReDGe; Platforms; HDDs and min/max number of SATA HDDs depends on the configuration.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 37 POWeReDGe R610 Platforms 4 All 2.5" HDD SAS (or) SATA 4 All 2.5" SSD*** 4 Mixed SSD/SAS** N/A All 3.5" HDD SAT (or) SATA N/A Mixed SAS/SATA* 4 2.5" SAS in 3.5" HDD Carrier (RTS+) N/A 2.5" SAS HDD in 3.5" HDD Carrier + 3.5" ...
Page 38 - c. RaiD configurations; NoHDD
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 38 c. RaiD configurations Table: RDIMM Memory Configurations (Each Processor) cOnfiG tyPe cOnfiGs DescRiPtiOn nOn-mixeD DRives, all sata OR all sas mixeD sas/ sata min 2xsas+1xsata max 2xsas + 4xsata attach Rate min hDD max hDD min hDD max hDD NoHDD 0 NZC No...
Page 40 - D. storage controllers; PERC S
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 40 D. storage controllers I. SAS 6/iR The PowerEdge R610 internal SAS 6/iR HBA is an expansion card that plugs into a dedicated PCI Express x8 slot (only four lanes wired). It incorporates two four-channel SAS IOCs for connection to SAS/SATA hard disk drives...
Page 41 - memory. This memory is also used for the KVM buffer.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 41 e. leD indicators Each disk drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the system. One is a green LED for disk activity and the other is a bicolor (green/amber) LED for status information. The activity LED is driven by the disk drive d...
Page 43 - The R610 rail supports the following racks:; Windows
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 43 c. Rails Support for Dell 4210 & 2410 racks Support for Dell 4200 & 2400 racks without CMA Support for HP/Compaq 10XXX series racks Support for HP/Compaq 9XXX & 7XXX series racks without CMA Support for tool-less installation in CEA-310-E comp...
Page 45 - sectiOn 17. viRtualizatiOn
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 45 sectiOn 17. viRtualizatiOn a. Overview / Description Supported embedded hypervisors: • Microsoft ® Windows Server ® 2008 Hyper-V • VMware ® ESXi Version 4.0 and 3.5 update 4 • Citrix ® XenServer 5.0 with Hotfix 1 or later sectiOn 18. systems manaGement a....
Page 46 - Dell Systems Build and Update Utility:
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 46 • Deployment of one or many servers from a single console • Monitoring of server and storage health and maintenance • Update of system, operating system, and application software We offer IT management solutions for organizations of all sizes – priced rig...
Page 47 - I. Unmanaged Persistent Storage; Diagnostic utilities are embedded on system
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 47 I. Unmanaged Persistent Storage The unmanaged persistent storage consists of two ports: • one located on the control panel board • one located on the Internal SD Module. The port on the control panel is for an optional USB key and is located inside the ch...
Page 48 - IV. iDRAC6 Enterprise; Interface and Standards Support
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 48 • Server Sensor monitoring and fault alerting • Secure operation of remote access functions including authentication, authorization, and encryption • Power control and management with the ability to limit server power consumption and remotely control serv...
Page 49 - Monitoring
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 49 featuRe bmc iDRac6 exPRess iDRac6 enteRPRise vflash meDia Virtual console sharing 4 4 Virtual flash 4 Monitoring Sensor Monitoring and Alerting 4 1 4 4 4 Real-time Power Monitoring 4 4 4 Real-time Power Graphing 4 4 4 Historical Power Counters 4 4 4 Loggi...
Page 50 - sectiOn 19. PeRiPheRals
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 50 sectiOn 19. PeRiPheRals a. usb Peripherals The R610 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 b. external stor...
Page 51 - section 20. Documentation
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 51 section 20. Documentation a. Overview, Description, and list PowerEdge R610 and other 11G systems use the new Enterprise documentation set. The following is a summary of some of the documents slated for the R610 product. For the complete list of documents...
Page 52 - appendix; See page 13 for more information on the volatility chart.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 52 nOn- vOlatile Ram vOlatile Ram RefeRence DesiGnatOR qty size tyPe [e.g., flash PROm, EEPROM]: PlanaR, POWeReDGe R610 System BIOS SPI Flash Y U_SPI_BIOS 1 4MB Flash EEPROM (SPI interface) LOM Configuration Data Y U15, U16 2 512KB FLASH (NOR) iDRAC6 Control...