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

PowerEdge R6515 system overview
The PowerEdge R6515 system is a 1U server that supports:
● One AMD EPYC 7002 series processor
● 16 DIMM slots
● Two redundant AC power supply units
● Up to 4 x 3.5-inch, 8 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA drives, 10 x 2.5-inch drives (with 8 SAS/SATA/ NVMe drives + 2 NVMe drives)
or 10x 2.5-inch NVMe drives only.
NOTE: For more information about how to hot swap NVMe PCIe SSD U.2 device, see the Dell Express Flash NVMe PCIe
SSD User's Guide at https://www.dell.com/support> Browse all Products > Data Center Infrastructure > Storage
Adapters & Controllers > Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD > Documentation > Manuals and
Documents.
NOTE: All instances of SAS, SATA drives are referred to as drives in this document, unless specified otherwise.
For more information, see the Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 Technical Specifications on the product documentation page.
Topics:
• Front view of the system
• Rear view of the system
• Inside the system
• Locating the Express Service Code and Service Tag
• System information label
• Rail sizing and rack compatibility matrix
Front view of the system
Figure 1. Front view of 4 x 3.5-inch drive system
Table 1. Features available on the front of the system
Item Ports, panels, and
slots
Icon Description
1 Left control panel N/A
Contains the system health, system ID, status LED, and the
iDRAC Quick Sync 2 (wireless) indicator.
NOTE: The iDRAC Quick Sync 2 indicator is available only
on certain configurations.
● Status LED: Enables you to identify any failed hardware
components. There are up to five status LEDs and an overall
system health LED (Chassis health and system ID) bar. For
more information, see the Status LED indicators section.
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