User Manual

Dell
PowerEdge R610 Technical Guide 7
1 Product Comparison
1.1 Overview
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 is a 2-socket 1U rack server that offers simplified management,
purposeful design, and energy efficiency that can help you better manage your enterprise IT
environment.
1.1.1 Strong IT Foundation
The Dell PowerEdge R610 is a key building block for today’s data center. Designed for versatility and
high performance, it provides many of the virtualization, system management, and energy-efficiency
features you need now and the scalability necessary to change as your business grows. This general
purpose Intel
®
processor-based server is ideal for corporate data centers and remote sites that
require a dense, highly available single- or dual-processor server at an excellent value.
1.1.2 Purposeful Design
The PowerEdge R610 follows the 11th generation PowerEdge portfolio specifications and features the
same system design commonality and reliability true to the entire portfolio. All 11th generation
servers are designed to make the experience easier. We put all external ports, power supplies, LCD
screens, and LED lights in the same location for familiar experience as well as easy installation and
deployment.
Robust, metal hard drive carriers and organized cabling are designed to help improve component
access and airflow across the server. The PowerEdge R610 provides an interactive LCD screen or LED
display positioned on the front of the server for ease of monitoring and troubleshooting condition of
the server.
1.1.3 Enhanced Virtualization
Featuring Intel
®
Xeon
®
processors, embedded hypervisors, and expanded memory footprint and I/O,
the Dell PowerEdge R610 delivers exceptional overall system performance and significant virtual
machine-per-server capacity. With optional factory-integrated virtualization capabilities, you get
tailored solutions—built with the latest technologies from Dell and our trusted partners—which allow
you to streamline deployment and simplify virtual infrastructures. Choose your hypervisor from
market leaders such as VMware
®
, Citrix
®
, and Microsoft
®
, and enable virtualization with a few mouse
clicks.
1.1.4 Energy-Optimized Technologies
Dell’s advanced thermal control helps optimize performance while minimizing system power
consumption, ultimately driving energy efficiency across our latest core data center servers. These
enhancements, over previous generations, include efficient power supply units right-sized for system
requirements, improved system-level design efficiency, policy-driven power and thermal
management, and highly efficient standards-based Energy Smart components. Dell’s advanced
thermal control is designed to deliver optimal performance at minimum system and fan power
consumption resulting in our quietest mainstream 1U servers to date.