Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Information

Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 10 2 New Technologies 2.1 Overview The PowerEdge R910 uses a number of new technologies:  Intel 7

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 11 2.2.2 Internal Dual SD Module (IDSM) The PowerEdge R910 also offers a second internal USB port de

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 12 3 System Information Table 2. Summary of R910 features Feature Details Processor Intel® Xeon® Proc

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 13 Feature Details Broadcom® 57711 (2 ports x 10Gb SFP+) and Broadcom® 5709c (2 ports x 1GbE Base-T Cop

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 14 Feature Details Novell® SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® For more informat

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 15 4 Mechanical 4.1 Chassis Description The PowerEdge R910 fits in a rack mount 4U chassis. The R910

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 16 Figure 3. R910 Rear View 4.2 Dimensions and Weight The R910 weight with maximum configuration is

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 17 Xa (Width w/ Rack Latches) Xb (Width w/o Rack Latches) Y (Height) Za (Depth w/ bezel) Za (Depth w/

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 18 Figure 5. Front Panel View of R910 The following components and connectors are located on the fr

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 19 The LCD panel is a graphics display controlled by the iDRAC6. Error codes can be sent to the display

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 2 This document is for informational purposes only. Dell reserves the right to make

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 20  Active ID Cable Management Arm (CMA) external led jack  (2) USB ports  (Optional) RJ-45 iDRA

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 21 4.7 Internal Chassis View Figure 10. R910 Internal View 4.8 Rails and Cable Management ReadyRailsT

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 22 Figure 11. R910 Fan Cage

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 23 4.10 Cabling CPU1CPU2CPU3CPU4BATSLOT1IOH1IOH2ICH10iDRACSLOT2SLOT3SLOT4SLOT5SLOT6SLOT7IO RISERSTORAG

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 24 4.11 Security 4.11.1 Cover Latch A tooled latch is integrated in the side cover to secure it to th

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 25 4.11.3 Hard Drive The front bezel of the system contains a lock. A locked bezel secures the system

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 26 Figure 15. USB Key Location 4.13 Battery A replaceable coin cell CR2032 3V battery is mounted on t

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 27 Figure 16. Coin Cell Battery on Motherboard 4.14 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) The planar cont

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 28 5 Electrical 5.1 Clock Circuitry System clock circuitry is based on Intel CK410B+ synthesiz

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 29 6 Power, Thermal, Acoustic The PowerEdge R910 achieves enhanced power efficiency by implementing t

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 3 Table of Contents 1 Product Comparison ...

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 30 The power supply bay is designed to prevent unsupported power supplies from being installed. Mixing

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 31 Table 4. Power Supply Specifications AC Power supply (per power supply) Wattage 1100 W (High Output

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 32 Table 5. Operating/Non-Operating (Storage) Requirements Temperature Operating 10o to 35 o C (50 o t

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 33 Table 6. Acoustics of the PowerEdge R910 Typical Configuration(1) @ 23 ± 2 °C Operating Mode LWA-UL

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 34 Table 7. Configuration Corresponding to Acoustical Data Presented Component Description Qty Process

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 35 7 Processors 7.1 Overview The Intel Xeon processor 7500 series is designed specifically

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 36  Intel 64 Technology  Intel VT-x and VT-d Technology for virtualization support  Enhanced Inte

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 37 8 Memory 8.1 Overview The PowerEdge R910 uses DDR3 memory providing a high-performance, high-speed

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 38 Figure 18. PowerEdge R910 DIMM Naming and Numbering

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 39 8.2 Slots/Risers R910 has 8 memory risers; each memory riser has 8 DIMM slots. So there are a total

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 4 7.2 Features ...

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 40 8.6 Mirroring For mirroring, the PowerEdge R910 supports 2P/4P configurations for 64GB and larger on

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 41 9 Chipset The R910 system-board incorporates the Intel 7500 chipset (Boxboro‐EX) for I/O

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 42 • Platform Environmental Control Interface (PECI) • Intel Dynamic Power Mode Manager • I/O interr

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 43 10 BIOS 10.1 Overview The R910 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and supports the following fea

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 44 11 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM) R910 supports two options for Embedded NICs (I/O riser car

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 45 12 I/O Slots 12.1 Overview The R910 planar provides seven PCI Express expansion slots as the base. T

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 46 12.2 Quantities and Priorities See Expansion Cards and Expansion Card Riser in the Hardware Owner’

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 47 13 Storage 13.1 Overview The R910 system supports up to sixteen 2.5” hard disk drives.  Support f

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 48 POWERSAS A Figure 20. 2.5” x4 Backplane 13.2.2 2.5” x16 Backplane The 16-drives 2.5‖ HDD backpla

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 49 13.3 Flash BIOS Memory A Flash EEPROM resides on the SPI Bus for BIOS and configuration storage. A 1

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 5 16.1 Overview ...

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 50 13.5 RAID Configurations Table 11. RAID Configurations Configuration Type Configs Description Non

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 51 Configuration Type Configs Description Mixed SATA SSD / SAS HDD 2.5” Drives x4 Backplane x16 Backpla

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 52 13.6 Storage Controllers 13.6.1 PERC H200 The PERC H200 integrated HBA is a SAS 2.0 6Gb native PCIe

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 53 13.6.4 Storage Card Support Matrix Table 12. Storage Card Support Matrix SKU Product Usage Powe

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 54 13.7 LED Indicators Each hard drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the sys

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 55 14 Video The R910 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) incorporates an in

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 56 15 Audio R910 does not support speakers or audio output.

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 57 16 Rack Information 16.1 Overview The ReadyRails™ sliding rail system for the R910 provides tool-les

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 58 *Adapter brackets are available from RackSolutions that allow the R910 sliding rails to mount in t

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 59 Figure 24. R910 Mounted in the B2 Sliding Rails The R910 CMA can be mounted to either side of the

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 6 Figure 7. Back Panel View ...

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 60 17 Operating Systems For the most up-to-date information, see the Operating System Support Matrix f

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 61 18 Virtualization The following virtualization software is supported:  Microsoft Windows Server 20

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 62 19 Systems Management 19.1 Overview/Description Dell aims on delivering open, flexible, and integra

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 63 19.3 Embedded Server Management The PowerEdge R910 implements circuitry for the next generation of E

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 64 19.5 Optional iDRAC Express The optional iDRAC Express is the first tier of iDRAC6 upgrades. In addi

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 65 Feature BMC iDRAC 6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media VLAN Tagging     IPv6  

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 66 Feature BMC iDRAC 6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media System Event Log     RAC Log

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 67 20 Peripherals 20.1 USB peripherals PE R910 supports the following USB devices:  DVD (bootable; r

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 68 Appendix A. Regulatory Certifications Table 19. Standards Compliance Standard URL for Information

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 69 Standard URL for Information and Specifications Windows Logo Windows Logo Program System and Device

1 Product Comparison 1.1 Overview of PowerEdge R910 Benefits The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R910 provides performance and reliability in a scalable 4U, four-so

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 70 Appendix B. R910 Volatility Table Table 20. R910 Volatility Server BIOS Memory (SPI Flash, IC) Siz

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 71 executable containing firmware file and loader How is this memory write protected? Software write pr

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 72 Type [e.g., Flash PROM, EEPROM]: EEPROM Can user programs or operating system write data to it durin

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 73 How is data input to this memory? Data is pre-programmed by vendor. Keys are updated using TPM enabl

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 74 Type [e.g., Flash PROM, EEPROM]: Serial EEPROM Can user programs or operating system write data to i

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 75 enabled in the case of a power loss. How is data input to this memory? FRU/CPLD data is preprogramme

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 76 How is data input to this memory? Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 77 number of PSUs installed. Dell Internal Dual SD Module (IDSM) microcontroller flash (if present) Siz

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 78 vFlash for iDRAC Enterprise Size: Multiple Type [e.g., Flash PROM, EEPROM]: Secure Digital NAND Flas

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 8 1.2 Comparison of PowerEdge R910 to PowerEdge R900 The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R910 is Dell’s 11th generatio

Dell Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 9 Feature/Spec PowerEdge R910 PowerEdge R900 (predecessor) x8, 1 x16) Optional: 10 PCIe Gen2 (6 x4, 4 x