Owners Manual

Drive specifications
Drives
The PowerEdge R6515 system supports
● Up to 4 x 3.5-inch (SAS, SATA or SSD) front accessible drives in slot 0 to 3
● Up to 8 x 2.5-inch (SAS, SATA or SSD) front accessible drives in slot 0 to 7
● Up to 10 x 2.5-inch drives front accessible drives (with 8 SAS/SATA drives in slot 0 to 7 + 2 NVMe drives in slot 8 to 9)
● Up to 10 x 2.5-inch front accessible NVMe drives in slot 0 to 9
NOTE: The front accessible NVMe drives currently utilize PCIe Gen3.
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.
Optical drives
The PowerEdge R6515 system supports the following optical drives.
Table 9. Supported optical drive type
Supported drive type Supported number of drives
Dedicated SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD +/-RW drive One
Ports and connectors specifications
USB ports specifications
Table 10. PowerEdge R6515 system USB specifications
Front Rear Internal
USB port type No. of ports USB port type No. of ports USB port type No. of ports
USB 2.0-
compliant port
One USB 3.0-
compliant ports
Two Internal USB 3.0-
compliant port
One
Micro USB 2.0-
compliant port for
iDRAC Direct
One
NOTE: The micro USB 2.0 compliant port can only be used as an iDRAC Direct or a management port.
LOM riser card specifications
The PowerEdge R6515 system supports up to two 10/100/1000 Mbps Network Interface Controller (NIC) ports that are located
on the back panel. The system also supports LAN on Motherboard (LOM) on an optional riser card.
You can install one LOM riser card. The supported LOM riser options are:
● 2 x 1 Gb Base-T
● 2 x 10Gb Base-T
● 2 x 10Gb SFP+
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Technical specifications