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Designed for extraordinary performance on a wide range of applications, the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R620 rack server is an impressive general-purpose platform that is perfect for data centers with space constraints. With its hyper-dense memory—up to 768GB in a 1U form factor—and powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 product family, the R620 shines when handling virtualization, high-performance computing (HPC), and workgroup collaboration applications.
Table 1 summarizes the newest technologies used in the Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers. New technologies Detailed descriptions Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family This new family of Intel processors has embedded PCIe lanes for improved I/O performance. See the Processor section for details. Intel C600 series chipset The Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip is implemented on the R620 server. 1600 MT/s DDR3 memory Certain models of E5-2600 series processors support 1600 MT/s memory.
Compared to the previous generation of Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, the R620 has more drive bay options, more PCIe slots, PCIe 3.0, a larger memory footprint, flexible I/O, Express Flash PCIe solid-state drives, advanced system management, and hot-plug redundant cooling. Table 2 summarizes the specifications for each of the PowerEdge R620 features. For the latest information on supported features for the PowerEdge R620, visit Dell.com.
Feature PowerEdge R620 technical specification Integrated NIC Select Network Adapter options: Broadcom ® Quad Port 1GbE BASE-T, no TOE or iSCSI offload Intel Quad Port 1GbE BASE-T, no TOE or iSCSI offload Intel Dual Port 10GbE BASE-T + two 1GbE, FCoE capability enabled on 10GbE ports Broadcom Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ with two 1GbE (TOE and iSCSI offload available on 10GbE ports) Power supply Auto-ranging, Platinum efficiency 495W, 750W, or 1100W AC Gold efficiency 1100W DC2 Availability High-efficiency,
The PowerEdge R620 is a direct replacement for the predecessor R610. Table 3 compares some of the features of the R620 to the R610.
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R620 is a 1U rack system with an 8-drive bay or 10-drive bay chassis design. Like the R610, the R620 chassis provides an optional diagnostic LCD, a lockable bezel, a pull-out tray to record system information, and embedded NIC/iDRAC MAC address labels. In response to customer feedback, the vFlash media reader is now accessible on the front of the 8-drive bay chassis for easy access; the vFlash media reader on the 10-drive bay chassis is located on the hard drive backplane.
Figure 4 shows the R620 back panel of the 8-drive bay chassis. Features on the back panel include the system identification light and button, iDRAC7 Enterprise port (activated only when iDRAC Enterprise is enabled), serial connector, video connector, USB connectors, Ethernet connectors, PCIe slots, and power supplies. Not shown is the R620 chassis configurations that has three PCIe slots.
Table 4 lists the features for the R620 chassis. For additional information, see the Dell PowerEdge R620 Systems Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals.
The R620 LCD control panel is located on the front of the 8-drive bay chassis as shown in Figure 6. For more information about the LCD control panel, see the Dell PowerEdge R620 Systems Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. The LED panel for the 10-drive bay chassis includes the power button, NMI button, system ID light, mini USB connector, and a diagnostic LED. For more information on the diagnostic LEDs, see the Dell PowerEdge R620 Systems Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals.
The latest generation of PowerEdge servers has the features listed in Table 5 to help ensure the security of your data center. Security feature Description Cover latch A tooled latch is integrated in the side cover to secure it to the rack chassis . Bezel An option metal bezel is mounted to the chassis front to provide the Dell ID. A lock on the bezel is used to protect un-authorized access to hard drives. System status is viewable on the LCD screen when the bezel is installed.
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R620 features the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family, which offers an ideal combination of performance, power efficiency, and cost. These processors provide high performance no matter what your constraint is—floor space, power, or budget—and on workloads that range from the most complicated scientific exploration to crucial web-serving and infrastructure applications.
The R620 supports up to two processors with up to eight cores per processor. Table 6 lists the Intel Xeon processors supported by the PowerEdge R620. For the latest information on supported processors, visit Dell.com/PowerEdge. Model Speed TDP Cache Cores QPI Turbo E5-2690 2.9GHz 135W 20M 8 8.0GT/s Yes E5-2680 2.7GHz 130W 20M 8 8.0GT/s Yes E5-2670 2.6GHz 115W 20M 8 8.0GT/s Yes E5-2667 2.9GHz 130W 15M 6 8.0GT/s Yes E5-2665 2.4GHz 115W 20M 8 8.0GT/s Yes E5-2660 2.
The R620 can connect to the PowerEdge C410x through an iPass cable. The NVIDIA requires one x16 PCIe slot. Some operating systems have not been validated to support GPUs. See Table 25 and Table 26 for more information on operating system support of GPUs. The Intel C600 chipset is implemented on the PowerEdge R620. For more information, visit Intel.com.
More memory options are available than ever before with the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R620—greater capacities, higher frequencies, and more flexibility. The R620 supports up to 768GB of memory (24 DIMMs) and speeds up to 1600 MT/s, providing high performance in a variety of applications. High memory density means there is no compromise when it comes to virtualization. Increase your uptime and reduce data loss, due to Dell’s focus on reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features.
Table 9 lists the DIMMs supported by the R620. For the latest information on supported memory, visit Dell.com. Capacity (GB) Speed (MT/s) Type Ranks per DIMM Data width SDDC support Voltage 2 1333 RDIMM 1 x8 Advanced ECC 1.35 2 1333 UDIMM 1 x8 Advanced ECC 1.35 2 1600 RDIMM 1 x8 Advanced ECC 1.5 4 1333 RDIMM 2 x8 Advanced ECC 1.35 4 1333 RDIMM 1 x4 All modes 1.35 4 1333 UDIMM 2 x8 Advanced ECC 1.35 4 1600 RDIMM 2 x8 Advanced ECC 1.
The R620 supports memory speeds of 1600 MT/s, 1333 MT/s, 1066 MT/s, and 800 MT/s, depending on the DIMM types installed and the configuration. All memory on all processors and channels run at the same speed and voltage. By default, the systems run at the highest speed for the channel with the lowest DIMM voltage and speed. The operating speed of the memory is also determined by the maximum speed supported by the processor, the speed settings in the BIOS, and the operating voltage of the system.
Reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) features help keep the system online and operational without significant impact to performance, and can decrease data loss and crashing due to errors. RAS aids in rapid, accurate diagnosis of faults which require service. Table 11 describes the RAS features supported on the R620.
With comprehensive storage options, the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R620 offers a choice of drive types, internal and external storage controllers, and different chassis and backplane options for a varied numbers of drives. Features such as Express Flash PCIe solid-state drives (available Q2 2012) and CacheCade™ provide accelerated performance over previous technologies. Express Flash drives use PCIe lanes to connect directly to the processor and chipset and are easily accessible by hot-plug drive bay.
Express Flash drives (available Q2 2012) use PCIe and SSD technologies to provide performance, scalability, and optimal serviceability. Accelerated performance with high IOPs is made possible without requiring processor resources or capturing DRAM. Also, Express Flash drives use a standardized 2.5-inch hot-plug form factor that saves critical PCIe slot space by moving drives from the back to the front of the system and allows a common management process for all drives.
Table 14 lists the external storage options for the R620. For more information, see Dell.com/Storage.
The default PERC for the R620 is a mini-type PERC. However, for a system with an internal GPU card or a card between half-length and ¾-length, use the adapter-type PERC. The R620 also supports the new software RAID solution that supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10. The R620 supports the PERC cards listed in Table 15. For more information about the latest PERC offerings, see Dell.com/PERC.
Table 16 lists the R620 backplane options for supported Dell PERC cards. Backplane options Controller Drive types 4 x 2.5”1 PERC S110, H310, H710, H710P SATA HDD/SSD SAS HDD/SSD 8 x 2.5"1 PERC H310, H710, H710P SATA HDD/SSD SAS HDD/SSD 10 x 2.5"2 PERC H310, H710, H710P SATA HDD/SSD SAS HDD/SSD 4 x 2.
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R620 offers balanced, scalable I/O capabilities, including integrated PCIe 3.0 capable expansion slots. Dell Select Network Adapters, Dell’s network daughter cards, let you choose the right network fabric without using up a valuable PCI slot. Pick the speed, technology, vendor, and other options such as switch independent partitioning, which lets you share and manage bandwidth on 10GbE connections.
Table 17 lists the available Select Network Adapter options and supported features for the R620.
Local or remote re-configuration of any NIC, physical or virtual PXE boot enabled on all LOM and NDCs for ease of use Boot from SAN (iSCSI, FCoE) configuration for networking devices through the USC. PCIe connectivity is integrated with the processor in that the number of processors in a system impacts the number of PCIe slots and the bandwidth of each PCIe slot. The PowerEdge R620 offers a two-slot option (4-, 6-, and 8-drive bay chassis only) and a three-slot option.
Type Adapter Intel I350 Dual Port 1GbE Intel I350 Quad Port 1GbE Broadcom Dual Port 10GbE 57810S SFP+ Intel X540 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Intel X540 Dual Port 10GbE Base-T QLogic® QLE8262 Dual Port 10Gbps SFP+ Emulex® OCe10102-IX-D 10GbE CNA HBA Emulex OCe10102-FX-D 10Gbps CNA HBA Brocade® BR1020 Dual Port 10Gbps SFP+ QLogic QLE2460 Single Port 4Gbps QLogic QLE2462 Dual Port 4Gbps QLogic QLE2560 Single Port 8Gbps FC4/FC8 HBA QLogic QLE2562 Dual Port 8Gbps Emulex LPe12000 Single Port 8Gbps Emulex LPe12002 Dua
Lower overall system-level power draw is a result of Dell’s breakthrough system design. The R620 PowerEdge server maximizes performance per watt through a combination of power and cooling, energy efficient technologies, and tools. Additionally, the PowerEdge R620 has an extensive collection of sensors that automatically track thermal activity, which helps regulate temperature thereby reducing server noise and power consumption.
Feature Description Active power management Intel Node Manager is an embedded technology that provides individual server-level power reporting and power limiting functionality. Dell offers a complete power management solution comprised of Intel Node Manager accessed through Dell iDRAC Enterprise and OpenManage Power Center that allows policy-based management of power and thermals at the individual server, rack and data center level. Hot spare reduces power consumption of redundant power supplies.
Figure 9 shows a 750W power supply unit extended from the R620 chassis. The PowerEdge R620 supports up to two AC or DC power supplies with 1 + 1 redundancy, auto-sensing, and auto-switching capability. Dell PSUs have achieved Platinum efficiency levels as shown in Table 22. Efficiency targets by load Form factor Output Class 10% Redundant 86mm 1 20% 50% 100% 495W AC Platinum 82.0% 90.0% 94.0% 91.0% 750W AC Platinum 82.0% 90.0% 94.0% 91.0% 1100W AC Platinum Plus 89.0% 93.0% 94.
cooling according to what the system really needs, and draws lower fan power draw and generates lower acoustical noise levels than servers without such controls. User-configurable settings: An R620 thermal control design target is to minimize the contribution of fan power to overall system power.
Table 23 details the acoustical performance for the R620. Configuration (23 ± 2°C ambient) Minimum Typical CPUs Hard drives 1 1x 250G B SATA (7.2K) 2 4x 300G B SAS (10K) Power supply unit PCI Memory card/HDD controller 1x 495W 1 x 2GB 1333Hz 1 x PERC H310 2x 750W 8 x 8GB 1600Hz 1 x PERC H710 1 x GbE NIC Operating mode LWA-UL1 LpA2 (bels) (dBA) Prominent tones3 Idle4 3.9 24 None Stress 5 3.9 24 None Idle4 4.4 31 None Stress 5 5.
The rack rail systems for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R620 provide toolless support for 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round mounting holes. Compared to the R610 sliding rails that required the use of adapter brackets, the sliding rails for the R620 now offer support for threaded hole racks with the ReadyRails™ II mounting interface. The optional cable management arm (CMA) can be mounted on either the left or right side of the sliding rails without the use of tools for fast and easy deployment.
The static rails (shown in Figure 11) support a wider variety of racks than the sliding rails but do not support serviceability in the rack and are therefore are not compatible with the CMA. One key factor in selecting the proper rails is identifying the type of rack in which they will be installed. Both the sliding rails and the static rails support tool-less mounting in 19”-wide, EIA-310-E compliant square hole and unthreaded round hole 4-post racks.
The optional CMA organizes and secures the cords and cables exiting the back of the server and unfolds to allow the server to extend out of the rack without having to detach the cables.
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R620 supports a wide range of industry-standard operating systems and virtualization software. Table 25 lists the primary operating systems supported on the R620. For the latest information on supported operating systems, see Dell.com/OSsupport. Operating System Platform Edition Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.7 x32 x64 N/A Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Support of the operating systems listed in Table 26 is limited to a virtual environment as a guest operating system. Please contact the software vendor for additional support or questions about running the operating system in a virtualized environment.
Whether your IT environment consists of a few servers or a few thousand servers, Dell™ OpenManage™ systems management solutions provide comprehensive management for evolving IT environments. OpenManage is based on open standards and provides agent-based and agent-free server lifecycle management functionality for Dell PowerEdge™ servers. OpenManage solutions help you automate and streamline essential hardware management tasks.
The Dell OpenManage systems management portfolio includes powerful hardware and software management tools and consoles. OpenManage simplifies the lifecycle of deploying, updating, monitoring, and maintaining your Dell PowerEdge servers. The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller is the heart of Dell’s second generation of Dell PowerEdge server embedded management functionality.
iDRAC7 Enterprise is available for the PowerEdge R620, and Dell also offers an option of iDRAC7 Express. A detailed feature comparison for iDRAC7 Enterprise and iDRAC7 Express is shown in Table 29. iDRAC7 Enterprise iDRAC7 Express Local configuration with USC ∞ ∞ IPMI 2.
iDRAC7 Enterprise Feature (function) Virtual flash partitions ∞ Virtual media ∞ Virtual folders ∞ Remote file share ∞ Crash video playback ∞ Boot record/playback ∞ Power capping ∞ Enterprise group power management ∞ Directory services (AD, LDAP) ∞ PK authentication ∞ Two-factor authentication2 1 iDRAC7 Express ∞ 2 ® ® ® Requires OMSA agent on target server; Uses Microsoft ActiveX on Internet Explorer only Most systems management solutions require pieces of software, called agents
Dell servers, storage, and network devices to the KACE™ K1000 service desk. OpenManage Essentials is available as a no-charge software download from Support.Dell.com. Dell Management Console—Dell Management Console (DMC) offers sophisticated data-center management capabilities with comprehensive reporting features. DMC can perform basic hardware management and can manage operating systems and applications using various plug-ins from Symantec.
BIOS, iDRAC), OS and hypervisor agnostic updates, firmware management, and system viewer utilities. Dell Server PRO Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)—This pack manages Dell physical servers and hosts of virtual machines (VMs) by using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager/System Center Essentials (SCOM/SCE) and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).
Table 30 lists the products that are available for one-to-one and one-to-many operations, and when they are used in the server’s lifecycle.
Operation One-to-one iDRAC7 OMSA Dell OpenManage Essentials Dell OpenManage ITA BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Dell OpenManage Power Center Dell Management Console Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter BMC ProactiveNet Dell Server Management Pack Suite for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) iDRAC7 Lifecycle Controller GUI Lifecycle Controller Remote Services Remediate: Dell Server PRO Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine M
Figure 14 details the dimensions of the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R620 chassis. Chassis configuration Xa Xb Y Za with bezel Za without bezel Zb Zc 8-drive bay chassis 482.4mm 434.0mm 42.8mm 35.0mm 20.4mm 682.7mm 701.3mm 10-drive bay chassis 482.4mm 434.0mm 42.8mm 35.0mm 20.4mm 731.0mm 752.1mm Table 31 lists the weight of the R620 chassis at maximum configuration as well as empty of any hardware. Configuration 8-drive bay chassis 10-drive bay chassis 18.6Kg (40.96lb) 19.8Kg (43.56lb) 8.
Table 32 lists power supply specifications for the PowerEdge R620. Specification 1100W DC 1100W AC 750W AC 495W AC 32A (X2) 12A–6.5A 10A–5A 6.5A–3A Supply voltage -48V to -60V de CC 100–240VAC1 100–240VAC1 100–240VAC1 Frequency -48V to -60V de CC 50/60Hz 50/60Hz 50/60Hz 4416 4100 2891 1908 Current consumption Heat dissipation (BTU/hr max) 1 Auto-ranging Table 33 details the environmental specifications for the R620.
Relative humidity Operating 20% to 80% (noncondensing) at a maximum wet bulb temperature of 29°C (84.2°F) Storage 5% to 95% at a maximum wet bulb temperature of 38°C (100.4°F) Maximum vibration Operating 0.26 Grms at 5-350Hz in all orientations Storage 1.87 Grms at 10-500Hz for 15 min (all six sides tested) Maximum shock Operating Half sine shock in all operational orientations of 31G +/– 5% with a pulse duration of 2.
Table 35 lists the spacing dimensions for the R620 sliding and statics rails.
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R620 conforms to the industry standards listed in Table 37. Standard URL for information and specifications ACPI Advance Configuration and Power Interface Specification, v2.0c Ethernet IEEE 802.3-2005 HDG Hardware Design Guide Version 3.0 for Microsoft Windows Server IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface, v2.0 DDR3 Memory DDR3 SDRAM Specification, Rev. 3A LPC Low Pin Count Interface Specification, Rev. 1.1 PCI Express PCI Express Base Specification Rev. 2.0 and 3.
Table 38 provides a list of documents and websites that provide for more information on the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R620. Resource Description of contents Location This manual is provided in HTML format on the CD provided with the R620 system, and also in HTML and PDF format at the Dell support site. A printed version is available in Asian languages as a customer-orderable option. This manual provides information on the following: Support.Dell.
Resource Description of contents Location This code on the chassis can be scanned by a phone application to access additional information and resources for the server, including videos, reference materials, service tag information, and Dell contact information. Inside the system chassis cover This tool uses infrastructure and thermal analysis to help maximize system efficiency. Dell.