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Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide Version 2 March 18, 2010 The PowerEdge R810 is designed with a purpose—to make the customer’s life e

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 9 3 2BSystem Information Table 2. Summary of R810 Features Feature Details Form Factor 2U rack P

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 10 Intel® 10GbE Single Port 10GbE NIC, Copper, PCIe-8 Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5709 Gigabit NIC w/TOE

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 11 4 3BMechanical 4.1 22BChassis Description The PowerEdge R810 chassis is a 2U rack-mount desig

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 12 4.3 24BDimensions and Weight Figure 2 details the dimensions of the R810 chassis.

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 13 The PowerEdge R810 supports the following USB devices:  DVD (bootable; requires two USB ports)

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 14 Figure 5. Chassis Side View 4.9 30BInternal Chassis Views Figure 6 shows an internal view of

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 15 4.10 31BRails and Cable Management The PowerEdge R810 uses the same rails and cable management

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 16 The Cable Management Arm (shown in Figure 8) organizes the cords and cables at the back of the s

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 17 The Embedded Server Management logic in the system monitors the speed of the fans. A fan failu

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 18 The LCD panel is a graphics display controlled by iDRAC6. Error codes can be sent to the display

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 1 This document is for informational purposes only. Dell reserves the right to make

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 19 4.15.7 Secure Mode BIOS has the ability to enter a secure boot mode via Setup. This mode includ

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 20 5 4BPower, Thermal, Acoustic 5.1 41BPower Subsystem The power supply subsystem supports up t

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 21 5.3 43BPower Supplies The base redundant system consists of two hot-plug 1100 W power supplies

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 22 5.5 45BEnvironmental Specifications Table 4 details operating and storage environmental requir

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 23  Custom-designed heat sinks maintain CPU, IOH, and chip temperatures within thermal design tar

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 24 Idle: Reference ISO7779 (1999) definition 3.1.7; system is running in its OS but no other specif

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 25 6 5BProcessors 6.1 50BOverview The Intel Xeon processor 6500 and 7500 series 4S (Expandable P

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 26 • Increases CPU frequency if operating below thermal, power, and current limits • Streaming S

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 27 to four DDR3 DIMMs. In a typical Intel Xeon processor 6500/7500 series configuration, only the m

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 28 7 6BMemory 7.1 55BOverview The PowerEdge R810 uses DDR3 memory providing a high-performance,

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Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 29  Clock gating (CKE) to conserve power when DIMMs are not accessed  Low power self-refresh mo

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 30 Figure 13. R810 DIMM Naming and Numbering 7.6 60BMemory Access See USystem MemoryU in the H

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 31 Figure 14. Drive Bay Memory Access 7.7 61BFlexMem Bridge See Section 7.7 for details on Flem

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 32 7.8 62BMemory RAS Support The Intel Xeon processor 6500 and 7500 series supports high-availabil

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 33 Figure 17. R810 4P Mirroring 7.9 63BMemory RAID Memory RAID is not supported on the PowerEdg

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 34 #CPU Total Memory (GB) Capacity if Rank Sparing Capacity if Mirrored DIMM size (GB) #DIMMs DIMM

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 35 8 7BChipset The PowerEdge R810 system board incorporates the Intel® 7500 chipset for I/O and pr

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 36 9 8BBIOS 9.1 69BOverview The R810 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and supports the foll

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 37 10 9BEmbedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM) The R810 LOM solution consists of Embedded Gigabit

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 38 11 10BI/O Slots 11.1 71BOverview The R810 comes standard with a total of six PCIe GEN2 expansi

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Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 39  System supports 25W maximum power for the 1st and 2nd cards and 15W for the 3rd through 6th c

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 40 Description Max Slot priority PERC 6/E Adapter w/ 512MB BB Cache 2 6,5 6Gbs SAS HBA 2 6,5,1,

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 41 Description Max Slot priority Broadcom® Quad-Port 2 2,1,6,5,3,4 Intel® Cu Quad-Port 4 2,1,

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 42 11.6 76BPCIe Block Diagram Figure 18. PCIe Riser/PCIe Expansion Slot Block Diagram

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 43 12 11BStorage 12.1 77BOverview The PowerEdge R810 supports up to six 2.5‖ hard disk drives: 

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 44 Figure 19. Persistent Storage Block Diagram 12.2.1 122BiDRAC6 Express The iDRAC6 Express is a

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 45  Life Cycle Log (2 MB): stores initial factory configuration as well as all detectable hardwar

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 46 The Internal SD Module is dedicated for an SD Flash Card with embedded Hypervisor for virtualiz

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 47 Table 13. Single Drive Type RAID Configurations Config Type Configs Description Min HDD Max HDD

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 48 Table 14. Mixed SSD and SAS RAID Configurations Config Type Configs Description Mixed SSD/SAS M

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Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 49 Table 15. Storage Card Support Matrix SKU Product Usage R810 Support Slot PCI Con PCI Bracket

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 50 13 12BVideo and Audio 13.1 86BVideo The R810 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 51 14 13BRack Information 14.1 88BOverview The ReadyRails™ sliding rail system for the R810 provi

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 52 *Adapter brackets are available from RackSolutions that allow the R810 sliding rails to mount

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 53 Figure 22. R810 Mounted in the B2 Sliding Rails The R810 CMA can be mounted to either side of

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 54 15 14BOperating Systems See Uwww.dell.com/ossupportU for the most current operating system supp

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 55 16 15BVirtualization The R810 system is designed specifically for virtualization. This is enabl

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 56 17 16BSystems Management 17.1 92BOverview Dell delivers open, comprehensive, and integrated so

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 57 DVD. This DVD has an inventory tool for managing updates to firmware, BIOS and drivers for eithe

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 58 17.5 96BIntegrated Dell Remote Access Controller The integrated Dell Remote Access Controller

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Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 59  Support for 8GB SD storage media  Can be used as a repository for a pre-OS image, eliminat

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 60 Feature BMC iDRAC 6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media proxy) Power capping    Las

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 61 18 17BPeripherals 18.1 99BUSB Peripherals R810 supports the following USB devices:  DVD (boot

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 62 Appendix A. Technical Specifications Summary Processor Processor Type Up to Eight-Core Intel®

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 63 USB (4) 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant Video (1) 15-pin VGA vFlash (1) optional vFlash memory card slo

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 64 Appendix B. Regulatory Certifications and Standards Compliance Regulatory compliance certifica

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 65 Standard URL for Information and Specifications Firmware Interface Specification, v2.1 USB Unive

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 66 Table 21. Electromagnetic Compatibility The product has been certified and bears the Mark,

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 67 Appendix C. Statement of Volatility The Dell PowerEdge R810 contains both volatile and non-vola

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 68 provided firmware file and loader program which is executed by booting up the system from a flop

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 6 1 0BProduct Comparison 1.1 18BOverview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R810 provides performance and rac

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 69 Type: [e.g. Flash PROM, EEPROM]: EEPROM Can user programs or operating system write data to it d

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 70 Server BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) Firmware Flash Memory Size: 16 Mb Flash Type: [e.g

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 7 The PowerEdge R810 is designed with a purpose—to make the customer’s life easier. PowerEdge gives

Dell Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 8 2 1BNew Technologies 2.1 20BOverview The R810 uses a number of new technologies  Intel 750