Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 Installation and Service Manual
- About this document
- PowerEdge R6515 system overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Optional front bezel
- System cover
- Drive backplane cover
- Air shroud
- Cooling fan
- Intrusion switch module
- Drives
- Drive backplane
- Cable routing
- System memory
- Processor and heat sink
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Micro SD card
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional IDSDM module
- LOM riser card
- Mini PERC card
- System battery
- Optional internal USB memory key
- VGA module
- Optional optical drive
- Power supply unit
- Power interposer board
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Control panel
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources

Figure 40. Cable routing - 8 x 2.5-inch drive backplane to the mini-PERC card
Figure 41. Cable routing - 10 x 2.5-inch drive backplane to the onboard controller (NVMe)
System memory
System memory guidelines
The PowerEdge R6515 system supports DDR4 registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) and load reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs). System
memory holds the instructions that are executed by the processor.
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