Specification Sheet

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Feature PowerEdge R710 technical specification
Form factor
2U rack
Processors
Quad-core or six-core Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor 5500 and 5600 series
Processor sockets
2
Front Side Bus (FSB) or
HyperTransport
Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI)
Cache
Up to 12MB
Chipset
Intel 5520
Memory
1
Up to 288GB (18 DIMM slots): 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB DDR3 up to 1333MHz
I/O slots
4 PCIe G2 slots + 1 storage slot: two x8 slots, two x4 slots, one x4 storage slot
RAID controller
Internal:
PERC H200 (6Gb/s)
PERC H700 (6Gb/s) with 512MB battery-backed cache;
512MB, 1GB Non-Volatile battery-backed cache
SAS 6/iR
PERC 6/i with 256MB battery-backed cache
External:
PERC H800 (6Gb/s) with 512MB of battery-backed cache;
512MB, 1GB Non-Volatile battery-backed cache
PERC 6/E with 256MB or 512MB of battery-backed cache
External HBAs (non-RAID):
6Gbps SAS HBA
SAS 5/E HBA
LSI2032 PCIe SCSI HBA
Drive bays
Eight 2.5” hard drive option or six 3.5” hard drive option; optional flex bay expansion to support half-height TBU
Up to four 3.5” drives with optional flex bay, up to six 3.5” drives without optional flex bay, or
up to eight 2.5” SAS or SATA drives with optional flex bay
Peripheral bay options:
Slim optical drive bay with choice of DVD-ROM, Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM, or DVD + RW
Maximum internal storage
1
Up to 18TB
Hard drives
Hot-plug hard drive options:
2.5” SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K)
3.5” SAS (15K, 10K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K)
Solid state storage cards:
Fusion-io
®
160GB ioDrive PCIe solid state storage card
Fusion-io 640GB ioDrive Duo PCIe solid state storage card
Fusion-io 320GB ioDrive Mono PCIe solid state storage card
Fusion-io 640GB ioDrive Mono PCIe solid state storage card
Fusion-io 1.28TB ioDrive Mono PCIe solid state storage card
Communications
Four embedded Broadcom
®
NetXtreme
®
II 5709c Gigabit
Ethernet NIC with failover and load balancing; TOE (TCPIP
Ooad Engine) supported on Microsoft
®
Windows
Server
®
2003 SP1 or higher with Scalable Networking Pack;
Optional 1GBe and 10GBe add-in NICs
Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 Dual Port Direct Attach 10Gb
Ethernet PCI-Express Network Interface Card with TOE and
iSCSI Ooad
Intel Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter and Intel
Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter
Dual Port 10GB Enhanced Intel Ethernet Server Adapter
X520-DA2 (FcoE Ready for Future Enablement)
Optional add-in NICs:
Brocade
®
CNA (1020) Dual Port Server Adapter
Optional add-in HBAs:
Brocade 8 GB HBAs
Emulex
®
CNA iSCSI HBA stand up adapter OCE10102-IX-D
Emulex CNA iSCSI HBA stand up adapter OCE10102-FX-D
Power supply
Energy Smart:
Two hot-plug, high-ecient 570W power supplies
or
High Output:
Two hot-plug 870W power supplies
Uninterruptible power supplies:
1000W–5600W
2700W–5600W High-Eciency Online
Extended Battery Module (EBM)
Network Management Card
Availability
DDR3; hot-plug hard drives; optional hot-plug redundant power supplies; dual embedded NICs with failover and load
balancing support; PERC 6/i; hot-plug redundant cooling; toolless chassis; fibre and SAS cluster support; validated for
Dell/EMC SAN
Video
Matrox
®
G200 with 8MB of cache
Remote management
iDRAC6 Enterprise (optional)
Systems management
Dell™ OpenManage™
Microsoft
®
System Center Essential (SCE) 2010 v2
Embedded hypervisor
Optional Embedded SD Media
Rack support
ReadyRails™ sliding rails with optional cable management arm for 4-post racks (optional adapter brackets required for
threaded hole racks); ReadyRails static rails for 2-post and 4-post racks
Operating systems
Microsoft Windows
®
Small Business Server 2011
MicrosoftWindowsSmall Business Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Server
®
2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64
includes Hyper-V
®
)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes
Hyper-V v2)
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2
Novell
®
SUSE
®
Linux
®
Enterprise Server
Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux
Oracle
®
Solaris™
Virtualization options:
Citrix
®
XenServer™
VMware
®
vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX
®
4.1 ,
VMware ESXi™ 4.1 , or ESXi 5.0)
For more information on the specific versions and
additions, visit Dell.com/OSsupport.
Featured database
applications
Microsoft SQL Server
®
solutions (see Dell.com/SQL)
Oracle database solutions (see Dell.com/Oracle)
Thermal operation
Continuous operation: 10C to 35C, 10% to 80% relative humidity (RH). 10% of annual operating hours: 5C to 40C, 5% to
85%RH. 1% of annual operating hours: -5C to 45C, 5% to 90%RH. For in-depth detail, check your user manual.
1
GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating environment and will be less.
OEM-ready models available
OEM-ready platforms are grab-and-go products for OEM customers delivering a fast and simple
path to a custom-branded solution. For more information, please visit Dell.com/OEM.