Dell ™ POWEREDGE R610 ™ technical guidebook Inside the poweredge R610
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook TABLE OF CONTENTS Section 1. system overview A. Overview / Description A. Product Features Summary 7 7 7 Section 2. mechanical A. Chassis Description B. Dimensions and Weight C. Front Panel View and Features D. Back Panel View and Features E. Power Supply Indicators F. NIC Indicators G. Side Views and Features H. Rails and Cable Management Rails CMAs I. Fans J. Control Panel / LCD K. Security I. Cover Latch II. Bezel III. Hard Drive IV. TPM V.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook Section 5. Block Diagram 19 Section 6. Processors A. Overview / Description B. Features C. Supported Processors D. Processor Configurations Single CPU Configuration CPU Power Voltage Regulation Modules (EVRD 11.1) 21 21 21 22 22 22 23 Section 7. Memory A. Overview / Description B. DIMMs Supported C. Speed D. Supported Configurations E. Slots / Risers F. Mirroring G. Advanced ECC (Lockstep) Mode H.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook B. Drives I. Internal Hard Disk Drives I. Hard Disk Drive Carriers II. Empty Drive Bays III. Diskless Configuration Support IV. Hard Drive LED Indicators C. RAID Configurations D. Storage Controllers I. SAS 6/iR II. PERC 6i E. LED Indicators F. Optical Drives G. Tape Drives 36 37 37 37 37 37 38 40 40 40 41 41 41 Section 13. Video A. Overview / Description 41 41 Section 14. Audio A. Overview / Description 41 41 Section 15. Rack Information A.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook C. Embedded Server Management I. Unmanaged Persistent Storage II. Lifecycle Controller / Unified Server Configurator III. iDRAC6 Express IV. iDRAC6 Enterprise 46 47 47 47 48 Section 19. Peripherals A. USB peripherals B. External Storage 50 50 50 Section 20. Documentation A. Overview, Description, and List 51 51 Section 21.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 options combine to deliver a rack server solution that can help you better manage your enterprise. Strong IT Foundation The Dell PowerEdge R610 is a key building block for today’s data center.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook Section 1. System Overview A. Overview / Description The PowerEdge R610 will lead Dell's 11th Generation PowerEdge portfolio in key areas of differentiation, primarily: • Virtualization, • Power, thermal, efficiency • Systems management, and usability B. Product Features Summary Feature Details Processor Nehalem EP Front Side Bus Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) @ maximum 6.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 LOM0/iDRAC MAC address; labels; support persistent storage (internal USB and SD card slots and external SD card slots); updated power supplies and removal process. B. Dimensions and Weight Height 4.26cm (1.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 button • (1) Active ID Cable Management Arm external LED jack • (2) USB ports • (1) (Optional) iDRAC6 Enterprise RJ-45 port • (1) (Optional) iDRAC6 Express VFlash media slot • (2) PCIe slots E.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook G. Side Views and Features H. Rails and Cable Management 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 will feature slam latches to offer easier removal from the rack.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook I. Fans Six dual-rotor 40mm fans are mounted in a fan assembly that is located in the chassis between the hard drive bay and the processors. Only five fans will be populated in systems with a single processor configuration. Each fan has a connector that plugs directly into the planar. (The PowerEdge R610 fans cannot be hot-swapped. There are six fan zones in the R610, with one zone for each system fan.) System fan speed is pulse-width modulated.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 when the system needs attention. The LCD backlight lights blue during normal operating conditions and lights amber to indicate an error condition.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 keys for software applications like eToken™ or Sentinel Hardware Keys • Storage of custom logs or scratch pad for portable user-defined information (not hot-swappable) M.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook Section 4. Power, Thermal, Acoustic A. Power Efficiencies One of the main features of the 11th generation of PowerEdge servers is enhanced power efficiency.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook C. Power Supply Specifications AC Power supply (per power supply) 717 Watt (High Output) Wattage 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) Maximum Inrush Current Under typical line conditions and over the entire system ambient operating range, the inrush current may reach 55A per power supply for 10ms or less. D.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 duration of 2.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook G. EnergySMART Enablement The 11G family implements aspects of Dell’s new Energy Smart strategy.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 DIMMs Condition in 23±2° C ambient LwA-UL, bels LpA, dBA Tones Standby 1.8 16 No prominent tones Idle 5.3 35 No prominent tones Active Hard Disk Drives 5.4 37 No prominent tones Stressed Processor 5.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook Section 5. Block Diagram The PowerEdge R610 electrical system consists of the planar subsystem with TPM, iDRAC6 Enterprise, iSCSI key, PCIe risers, power supply subsystem, system control panel, backplane, and storage (PERC 6/i or SAS 6/iR) card. The features and functions of these electrical subsystems are detailed below.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 1 2 15 14 3 4 5 6 13 7 12 8 9 11 10 1. Embedded Network Interface Ports (4) 2. iDRAC6 Enterprise (Optional) 3. Broadcom 5709c Network Interface controller (second controller under PCI card) 4. PCIe Gen2 Riser / Slots 5. iDRAC6 Express / Lifecycle Controller 6. DIMM Slots 7. Heat Sink / Processor Socket 8. R610 9. Redundant fans 10. Hard drive bay 11. Internal SD Module (Embedded Hypervisor Optional) 12. DIMM Slots 13. Heat Sink / Processor Socket 14.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 maximize performance and performance/watt for data center infrastructures and highly dense deployments.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook C. Supported Processors 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 4M 4 E5502 1.86GHz 80W 4M 2 D.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook Intel® Turbo Boost Technology Cores / Threads Core Core Core 0Core 1 0 1 Core Core Core 2Core 3 2 3 16 (2 socket/HT on) TURBO Freq BASE Freq Benefit 3.20 GHz up to 6%† 2.93 GHz for 16 concurrent software threads 3.33 GHz up to 10% 2.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook Key features of the PowerEdge R610 memory system include: • Registered (RDIMM) and Unbuffered (UDIMM) ECC DDR3 technology • Each channel carries 64 data and eight ECC bits • Support for up to 96GB of RDIMM memory (with twelve 8GB RDIMMs) • Support for up to 24GB of UDIMM memory (with twelve 2GB UDIMMs) • Support for 1066/1333MHz single- and dual-rank DIMMs • Support for 1066MHz quad-rank DIMMs • Single DIMM configuration only with DIMM in socket A1 • Suppor
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook • The DIMM sockets are placed 450 mils (11.43 mm) apart, center-to-center in order to provide enough space for sufficient airflow to cool stacked DIMMs. • The PowerEdge R610 supports up to 12 DIMMs. DIMMs must be installed in each channel starting with the DIMM slot farthest from the processor. Population order will be identified by the silkscreen designator and the System Information Label (SIL) located on the chassis cover.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook The table below shows the memory populations and the maximum frequency achievable for that configuration. dimm type UDIMM RDIMM DImm 0 dimm 1 dimm 2 number of dimms SR 1 DR 1 SR SR 2 SR DR 2 DR DR 2 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 3 800 1066 1333 Note: For QR mixed with a SR/DR DIMM, the QR needs to be in the white DIMM connector.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook NHM-EP Platform Memory Overview •P latform capability (18 DIMMs): – Up to 3 channels per CPU – Up to 3 DIMMS per channel 1 •M emory Types Supported: – DDR 1333, 1066, and 800 – Registered (RDIMM) and unbuffered (UDIMM) – Single-rank (SR), dual-rank (DR), quad-rank (QR) Up to 3 channels per CPU 2 NHM-EP NHM-EP 3 1 2 3 Up to 3 DIMMs per Channel • System memory Speed (i.e.
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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook memory mode memory sockets memory module size 1 2 4 single processor 3 5 6 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x None x OPTIMIZER Mirroring Advanced ECCb 2GB 1GB 2GB 1GB 2GB available memory (GB) 1 x x x x 1GB physical memory (GB) dual processor x None x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x available memory (GB) 2 All All 4 6 8 12 4 8 12 16 24 All All All All All All All All 2 1 4 2 4 2 8 4 4 2 8 4 8 4
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 configuration of 1GB memory modules per processor is also supported in this mode. Section 8. Chipset A.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 direction. PCI Express Generation 2 PCI Express is a serial point-to-point interconnect for I/O devices. PCIe Gen2 doubles the signaling bit rate of each lane from 2.5 Gb/s to 5 Gb/s.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook • SETUP access through 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.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook C. I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) What is I2C? A simple bi-directional 2-wire bus for efficient inter-integrated circuit control. All I2C-bus compatible devices incorporate an on-chip interface that allows them to communicate directly with each other via the I2C-bus. This design concept solves the many interfacing problems encountered when designing digital control circuits. These I2C devices perform communication functions between intelligent control devices (e.g.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook • 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 1 Y 4 All other Dell storage cards 1, 2 1 Y 5 All other NICs 2, 1 2 N* 6 Non-Dell storage cards 1, 2 2 N* *Refer to the expansion card’s documentation to determine if the maxim
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook Category Card Priority Description Dell PN PCIe Link Width Slot Priority Max Cards 1Gb NIC 10 Intel Gigabit VT Copper Quad Port NIC YT674 Gen1 x4 Slot 2, 1 2 1Gb NIC 11 Intel PRO/1000PT Gigabit Copper Dual Port NIC X3959 Gen1 x4 Slot 2, 1 2 1Gb NIC 12 Broadcom BCM5709C IPV6 Gigabit Copper Dual Port NIC with TOE and iSCSI Offload F169G Gen1 x4 Slot 2, 1 2 1Gb NIC 13 Broadcom BCM5709C IPv6 Gigabit Copper Dual Port NIC with TOE G218C Ge
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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" SATA HDDs (Mixed SAS) N/A 2.5" SAS HDD in 3.5" HDD Carrier + 3.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook C. RAID Configurations Table: RDIMM Memory Configurations (Each Processor) config type NoHDD SAS/SATA (No RAID) SAS/SATA (RAID) configs description non-mixed drives, all sata or all sas Min HDD Max HDD Mixed SAS/ SATA Min 2xSAS+1xSATA Max 2xSAS + 4xSATA Min HDD MAX HDD attach rate NZC No controller/ No hard drive 2.5"= 0 2.5"= 0 MSS Motherboard SAS/SATA: SAS 6/iR, No RAID, (Integrated ports SAS/SATA controller) 2.5"= 1 2.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook config type SAS/SATA (No RAID) SAS/SATA (RAID) configs description non-mixed drives, all sata or all sas Min HDD Max HDD Mixed SAS/ SATA Min 2xSAS+1xSATA Max 2xSAS + 4xSATA Min HDD MAX HDD 2.5"= 3 2.5"= 6 11 Mss-X Motherboard SAS/SATA: SAS 6/iR, No RAID, (Integrated ports SAS/SATA controller) 12 MSSR0/ R0-X Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 0/RAID 0 (PERC 6/i, SAS6/iR) 2.5"= 2+1 2.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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. It is designed in a form factor that allows the same card to be used in R610 and T610. II. PERC 6i For customers who want a hardware RAID solution, the PERC 6i is an option.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 during normal operation. The bicolor LED is controlled by the SEP device on the backplane. Both LEDs are used to indicate certain conditions under direction of a storage controller. F.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook Section 15. Rack Information A. Overview / Description 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 will feature slam latches to offer easier removal from the rack.
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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook Windows® Web Server 2008 x86 and x64 Web Yes Windows Hardware Quality Labs Windows 2008 Shipping Yes Yes Yes Windows Hardware Quality Labs Windows 2008 Available in August October 2009 Yes Yes Yes Windows Hardware Quality Labs Windows 2008 Available in August October 2009 Yes Yes Windows Hardware Quality Labs Windows 2008 Available in August October 2009 Yes Yes Available in November 2009 January 2010 Yes Yes Windows Server® 2008, SP2 (x64 i
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook Linux support: Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 4.7 x86 and x64 ES/AS Available in June 2009 n/A Available in June 2009 Yes Yes Yes n/A Shipping Yes Yes Available in June 2009 n/A Available in June 2009 Yes Yes n/A Shipping Yes Yes Available in June 2009 n/A Available in June 2009 Yes Yes Drop in the box n/A Available in June 2009 Yes Yes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 x86 and x64 Standard/AP Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook • 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 right, sized right, and supported right. B. Server Management A Dell Systems Management and Documentation DVD and a Dell Management Console DVD are included with the product. ISO images are also available.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 chassis.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook • 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 server power states • Advanced troubleshooting capabilities For more information on iDRAC6 Express features see the table below. IV.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook BMC iDRAC6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise VFlash Media 4 4 4 4 Active Directory 4 4 4 SSL Encryption 4 4 4 Feature Local Users Remote Management & Remediation Remote Firmware Update 41 4 4 4 Server power control 41 4 4 4 Serial-over-LAN (with proxy) 4 4 4 4 Serial-over-LAN (no proxy) 4 4 4 Power capping 4 4 4 Last crash screen capture 4 4 4 Boot capture 4 4 4 Serial-over-LAN 4 4 4 iDRAC6 Express 4 iDRAC6 Enterprise 4
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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 Storage external storage EMC's AX Arrays (SCSI, FC, and iSCSI) SAN Support EMC's CX Arrays (SCSI, FC, and iSCSI) EqualLogic's PS5XXX Arrays (iSCSI) OMSS X.X for MD1000 SAS Management SW for xBOD OMSS X.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook 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, including language requirements and delivery scheduling, refer to the Documentation Matrix and the Documentation Milestones in the InfoDev Functional Publications Plan.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook Appendix See page 13 for more information on the volatility chart. R610 Volatility Chart. NonVolatile RAM volatile ram Reference designator QTY Size Type [e.g.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook R610 Volatility Chart Continued. Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation? Purpose? [e.g.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook R610 Volatility Chart Continued.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook R610 Volatility Chart Continued. How is data input to this memory? Planar, Poweredge R610 Controller Configuration Data FRU Integrated Mirroring NVSRAM iDRAC6 Enterprise VFlash Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program that is executed by booting up the system from a floppy or OS-based executable (DUPs, Unified Server Configurator) containing the firmware file and the loader.
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook R610 Volatility Chart Continued. How is this memory write protected? How is the memory cleared? Planar, Poweredge R610 PERC 6/i Integrated PERC NVSRAM Config Data PERC Firmware Storage controller firmware accessed only N/A - not in-system clearable Write control access by storage controller firmware PERC Cache RAM Storage controller firmware accessed only N/A - not in-system clearable Storage controller firmware clearable only.
