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PowerEdge R810
Technical Guide
Version 2
March 18, 2010
The PowerEdge R810
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purpose—to make the
customer's life easier.
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  • Page 1 Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide The PowerEdge R810 is designed with a purpose—to make the customer’s life easier. Version 2 PowerEdge gives you March 18, 2010 the confidence to do your job.
  • Page 2 ©Copyright 2010 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or translation of any part of this work beyond that permitted by U.S. copyright laws without the written permission of Dell Inc. is unlawful and strictly forbidden.
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Detailed Information ..................8 2.2.1 Intel 7500 Chipset .................. 8 2.2.2 Intel Xeon Processor 6500 and 7500 Series ............. 8 2.2.3 Dell FlexMem Bridge ................8 2.2.4 Internal Dual SD Module ................8 System Information .................... 9 Mechanical ....................11 Chassis Description..................11 Chassis ....................
  • Page 4 PCI Express Risers ................38 11.2.3 Additional Riser Restrictions ..............39 11.3 Boot Order ....................39 11.4 NICs and External Controller Cards ..............39 11.5 PCI Card Dimensions ................... 41 11.5.1 Riser 1 ..................... 41 Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 5 17.3 Embedded Server Management ..............57 17.4 Lifecycle Controller and Unified Server Configurator ..........57 17.5 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller ............58 17.6 iDRAC Express................... 58 17.7 iDRAC6 Enterprise ..................58 1.7 iDRAC6 Enterprise with Virtual Flash (vFlash) Media ..........58 Peripherals ....................
  • Page 6 R810 ReadyRails Sliding Rails with Optional CMA ........... 51 Figure 21. R810 Mounted in the B2 Sliding Rails ............53 Figure 22. R810 CMA Mounted on the Side Opposite the Power Supplies (Recommended) ..53 Figure 23. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 7: Product Comparison

    Product Comparison Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R810 provides performance and rack density in a scalable 2U, two- or four- socket server, allowing workload consolidation or high virtualization machine density. FlexMem Bridge Technology delivers compute resources; more memory per processor solves growing memory demand needs for database and virtualization applications.
  • Page 8: Comparison

    Comparison The R810 does not have a direct predecessor. It is a new class of server for Dell—a highly scalable 2U 2S rack server intended to fill the gap between the general purpose 2U 2S and the 4U 4S server space.
  • Page 9: New Technologies

    Dell FlexMem Bridge 103B The PowerEdge R810 also introduces a new, Dell patent-pending, technology which will allow flexibility in processor and memory scalability—FlexMem Bridge. The FlexMem Bridge allows the full amount of addressable DIMMs on 4-Socket systems with Intel Xeon processor 7500 and 6500 series to be accessed, even when only 2 of the processors are in place, in a completely passive solution (no active components).
  • Page 10: System Information

    2.5‖ SAS HDD (10K): 146GB, 300GB, 600GB 2.5‖ (7.2K) SATA HDD: 160GB 2.5‖ (7.2K) Nearline SAS HDD: 500GB ® Broadcom 57710 Single Port 10GbE NIC, Copper CAT6 PCIe-8 Network Interface Cards ® Intel DA 10GbE NIC, Dual Port, Optical, PCIe-8 Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 11 OCe10102-FX-D CNA Standup HBA adapter ® Emulex OCE10102-IX-D CNA iSCSI HBA stand up adapter See Dell.com for the most current available network cards. Power Supply Optional two redundant 1100W hot-plug power supplies Availability Hot-plug hard drives and redundant power, ECC memory, Dual Internal SD Module ®...
  • Page 12: Mechanical

    Support for persistent storage (internal USB and SD card slots and external SD card slot)  Updated power supply removal process (see Power Supplies in the Hardware Owner’s Manual) Front View (with Bezel) Figure 1. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 13: Dimensions And Weight

    Figure 2. The R810 maximum configuration weight is 26.1 kg (57.54 lb) Front Panel View and Features Front of R810 Figure 3. For detailed information, see Front-Panel Features and Indicators in the Hardware Owner’s Manual. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 14: Back Panel View And Features

    Hardware Owner’s Manual. NIC Indicators Embedded NICs (LOMs) display indicators as detailed in the NIC Indicator Codes section of the Hardware Owner’s Manual. Side View Figure 5 shows a side view of the R810. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 15: Internal Chassis Views

    Dell Chassis Side View Figure 5. Internal Chassis Views Figure 6 shows an internal view of the chassis with key features labeled. Internal Chassis View Figure 6. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 16: Rails And Cable Management

    Rails and Cable Management The PowerEdge R810 uses the same rails and cable management arm (CMA) as the PowerEdge R910. It does not share rails with other Dell 2U servers. Only sliding ReadyRails™ are offered for the R810. Static ReadyRails are not supported Sliding ReadyRails™...
  • Page 17: Fans

    Each fan has a blind mate 2x2 connector that plugs directly into the CPU Board. There is an additional fan integrated in each power supply to cool the power supply subsystem and also provide additional cooling for the whole system. R810 Fan Gantry Location Figure 9. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 18: Cabling

    One system ID button  Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) button (recessed)  Ambient temperature sensor  Two external USB 2.0 connectors (with an internal USB connector and Optional Internal SD Module)  15-pin VGA connector Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 19: Security

    4.15.2 Bezel 106B A metal bezel is mounted to the chassis front to provide the Dell ID. A lock on the bezel is used to protect un-authorized access to system peripherals and the control panel as shown in the Removing the Bezel section of the Hardware Owner’s Manual.
  • Page 20: Secure Mode

    4.18 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) Both planars contain a serial EEPROM to contain FRU information including Dell part number, part revision level, and serial number. The iDRAC6 Enterprise contains a FRU EEPROM. The backplane SEP and the power supply microcontroller are also used to store FRU data.
  • Page 21: Power, Thermal, Acoustic

    Ability to power down or throttle memory  Ability to disable a CPU core  Ability to turn off embedded NICs or PCI-e lanes when not being used  Option to run PCI-e at Gen1 speeds instead of Gen2 Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 22: Power Supplies

    (metal cover) is installed in PS2 location for factory consistency. Electrically, the system can operate with a single power supply in either bay. Figure 11. R810 Power Supply Heat Dissipation Maximum system heat dissipation is 4012 BTU/Hr. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 23: Environmental Specifications

    The R810 thermal solution includes:  Energy efficient fans with lower power consumption per fan than previous 2U products  Custom air baffling directs airflow through the components to maintain proper cooling while improved chassis ventilation ensures sufficient airflow Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 24: Acoustical

    One of the sound quality metrics in the Dell specification is prominence ratio of a tone, and this is listed in the table below.
  • Page 25: Pci Express Riser Connectors

    The acoustic transducer is at front bystander position, ref ISO7779 (1999) Section 8.6.2. PCI Express Riser Connectors R810 requires two PCI Express risers: Riser1 and Riser2. Each riser connects to the planar through a physical x16 PCI Express connector with Dell custom pin-out. For more information, see Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers in the Hardware Owner’s Manual.
  • Page 26: Processors

    • Execute Disable Bit ® Intel Wide Dynamic Execution • • Executes up to four instructions per clock cycle Simultaneous Multi‐Threading (SMT) capability (2 threads/core) • Support for CPU Turbo Mode (on certain SKUs) • Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 27: Supported Processors

    4-socket configuration. FlexMem Bridge In a 4-CPU configuration, the PowerEdge R810 uses only one memory controller per CPU. This single controller connects to two memory buffers via Intel SMI links. Each memory buffer in turn connects Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 28: Figure 12. Diagram Of Flexmem Bridge Routing

    130W CPUs, the CPUs and the heatsink must be changed to the 95W or FlexMem Bridge PROC1 105W CPUs. If the server has only the 95W or 105W CPUs, CPUs can simply be swapped out. FlexMem Bridge PROC2 Buffer Buffer Buffer Buffer Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 29: Memory

    Carrying of 64 data and 8 ECC bits for each channel  Up to 512 GB of memory (with 32 16GB RDIMMs)  1066 MHz single, dual, and quad rank DIMMs  ODT (On Die Termination) Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 30: Memory Speed Limitations

    Refer to the Figure 13 for the memory layout. DIMMs A1–A8 correspond to CPU1, DIMMs B1–B8 correspond to CPU2, and so on. In the case where two processors and 2 FlexMem Bridges are installed, DIMMs C1–C8 will associate with CPU1, and DIMMs D1–D8 will associate with CPU2. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 31: Memory Access

    Dell R810 DIMM Naming and Numbering Figure 13. Memory Access System Memory in the Hardware Owner’s Manual for information. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 32: Flexmem Bridge

    Dell Figure 14. Drive Bay Memory Access FlexMem Bridge See Section 7.7 for details on FlemMem bridge. Figure 15. FlexMem Bridge Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 33: Memory Ras Support

    In this 4P case, the memory on CPU1 will be mirrored with memory on CPU3, while memory on CPU2 is mirrored with memory on CPU4. Figure 17 depicts the mirroring logic for 2P configurations. A,B,C and D represent the DIMM socket groups. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 34: Memory Raid

    2P+2FMB/4P DIMM speed does not equal system memory speed. Actual speed is related to the processor on the R810 and will never exceed 1066 MHz. Dell FlexMem Bridge is abbreviated as FMB in the table. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 35 2P+2FMB 1333 2P+2FMB 1333 2P+2FMB 4G/2G 16/16 1066/1333 1P+1FMB 1333 1P+1FMB 1333 2P+2FMB 2G/1G 16/16 1333/1333 2P+2FMB 4G/2G 1066/1333 System Memory in the Hardware Owner’s Manual for more information on memory configurations and DIMM sizes. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 36: Chipset

    Low Pin Count (LPC) interface to Super I/O, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and SuperVU  Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) support for up to two devices (The R810 BIOS is connected to the ICH10 using SPI interface.) Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 37: Bios

    Dell BIOS Overview The R810 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and supports the following features:  IA‐32 Intel Xeon 7500 chipset 4S  Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support  CPU Turbo Mode support  PCI 2.3 compliant ...
  • Page 38: Embedded Nics/Lan On Motherboard (Lom)

    RDMA controller (RNIC) (enabled post-RTS through an optional hardware key)  NC-SI (Network Controller-Sideband Interface) connection for manageability  Wake-On-LAN (WOL)  PXE 2.0 remote boot  iSCSI boot  IPv4 and IPv6 support  Bare metal deployment support Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 39: O Slots

    Slot5 (top)  Slot6 (bottom) o Both slots are controlled from the IOH PCIE Gen2 arbiter  Each slot can support full-height, 9.5‖ long PCI Express except slot 2 (low profile, full-height bracket cards only). Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 40: Additional Riser Restrictions

    PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification, Rev 2.0, 4/11/07  PCI Express x16 Graphics 150W-ATX Specification, Rev 1.0, 10/25/04  PCI Environmental Specification (Dell Part Number CC172), Rev A00, 2/14/05 11.3 Boot Order System boot order is settable in the BIOS.
  • Page 41 FC4 QLE2460 HBA 2,1,6,5 ® Qlogic FC4 QLE220 HBA 2,1,6,5 Single- and Dual-Port ® FC4 Adapters Emulex FC4 PE1150 HBA 2,1,6,5 SCSI Adapter U320 SCSI Adapter (LSI2032) 2,1,6,5 ® 1GBe NICs Intel Cu Dual-Port 2,1,6,5,3,4 Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 42: Pci Card Dimensions

    Slot 3: x8 link expansion slot (24.13 cm [9.5"] length) Slot 4: x8 link expansion slot (24.13 cm [9.5"] length) 11.5.3 Riser 2 121B Slot 5: x8 link expansion slot (24.13 cm [9.5"] length) Slot 6: x8 link expansion slot (24.13 cm [9.5"] length) Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 43: Pcie Block Diagram

    Dell 11.6 PCIe Block Diagram Figure 18. PCIe Riser/PCIe Expansion Slot Block Diagram Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 44: Storage

    The system supports diskless configuration with no integrated SAS storage controller installed in the system. The 2.5‖ HDD backplane is still installed in this configuration. 12.2 Persistent Storage R810 offers two types of persistent storage: managed and unmanaged. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 45: Idrac6 Express

    (120 MB): holds the two most recent versions of iDRAC6 firmware  Firmware Images (160 MB): holds the two most recent versions of BIOS, RAID, embedded NIC, power supplies and hard drive firmware (This partition also holds the BIOS and option ROM configuration data.) Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 46: Unmanaged Persistent Storage

    The Internal Dual SD Module was developed in response to customer concerns about single-SD-card based embedded hypervisor potentially being a single point of failure. Dell designed a fully redundant module which uses two SD cards in a fully mirrored mode. If one card fails, the module issues an alert (no longer redundant) and continues to function with the surviving SD card.
  • Page 47: Flash Bios Memory

    2.5‖ 300GB SAS HDD 3GB/6GB 2.5‖ 600GB SAS HDD 2.5‖ 160GB 7.2k SATA HDD 2.5‖ 500GB 7.2k Nearline SAS HDD 12.5 RAID Configurations The PowerEdge R810 supports the RAID configurations shown in the following tables. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 48: Table 13. Single Drive Type Raid Configurations

    2.5‖ = 3 2.5‖ = 6 MSSR1/R5 Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 1/RAID 5 (PERC 2.5‖ = 2 + 2.5‖ = 2 + H700) MSSR10 Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 10 (PERC H700, PERC 2.5‖ = 4 2.5‖ = 6 H200) Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 49: Storage Controllers

    LSI 2108 (Liberator) ROC • 6Gb/s SAS • x8 PCIe Gen2 • 800Mz Core PPC • DDRII - 800MHz – mini-DIMM • 512MB battery-backed write cache or 512MB or 1GB NV RAM-backed cache • • Dual Mini-SAS Connectors Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 50: Led Indicators

    Adapter External slot Storage Note: A maximum of 2 external storage controllers (Dell PERC and SAS cards) are allowed in the system in addition to the integrated storage controller. 12.7 LED Indicators Each disk drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the system. One is a green LED for disk activity and the other is a bicolor (Green/Amber) LED for status information.
  • Page 51: Video And Audio

    Video and Audio 13.1 Video The R810 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) incorporates an integrated video ® subsystem, connected to the 32-bit PCI interface of the ICH10. This logic is based on the Matrox G200. The device only supports 2D graphics.
  • Page 52: Rack Information

     Threaded-hole racks require Dell’s fixed shelf or adapter brackets available from RackSolutions  The CMA is not supported on racks that are less than 1m in depth including Dell’s 4200 & 2400 racks. 14.2 Rails The ReadyRails sliding rails for the R810 support toolless mounting in 19‖-wide, EIA-310-E compliant square-hole and unthreaded round-hole racks and are available with or without the optional cable management arm (CMA).
  • Page 53: Cable Management Arm (Cma)

    The R810 ReadyRails sliding rails are a ―drop-in‖ design, meaning that the system is installed vertically into the rails by inserting the shoulder nuts on the sides of the system into the J-slots in the inner rail members with the rails in the fully extended position. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 54: Figure 22. R810 Mounted In The B2 Sliding Rails

    Figure 23. R810 CMA Mounted on the Side Opposite the Power Supplies (Recommended) Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 55: Operating Systems

    Dell Operating Systems www.dell.com/ossupport for the most current operating system support matrix. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 56: Virtualization

    The following virtualization operating systems are available and can be factory installed: ® ™  Citrix XenServer ® ® ®  Microsoft Hyper-V™ via Microsoft Windows Server 2008 ® ®  VMware vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX 4.1 or VMware ESXi™ 4.1) Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 57: Systems Management

    IT assets. Combining Dell PowerEdge Servers with a wide selection of Dell developed systems management solutions gives you choice and flexibility, so you can simplify and save in IT environments of any size. To help you meet your server management demands, Dell offers Dell OpenManage™ systems management solutions for: •...
  • Page 58: Embedded Server Management

    Controller that aids in local server provisioning in a pre-OS environment. Lifecycle Controller offers OS install, platform updates, platform configuration, and diagnostics capabilities. To access the Unified Server Configurator, press the <F10> key within 10 seconds of the Dell logo’s appearance during the system boot process. Current functionality enabled by the Unified Server Configurator includes those shown in the following table.
  • Page 59: Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller

    1.7 iDRAC6 Enterprise with Virtual Flash (vFlash) Media The iDRAC6 Enterprise can be upgraded by adding the vFlash Media card. This is an 8GB Dell branded SD card that enables a persistent 256 MB virtual flash partition. The vFlash Media delivers the...
  • Page 60: Table 18. Features List For Bmc, Idrac And Vflash

    SSL Encryption    Remote Management and Remediation Remote Firmware     Update Server power     control Serial-over-LAN     (with proxy) Serial-over-LAN (no    Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 61   Real-time Power Monitoring Real-time Power    Graphing Historical Power    Counters Logging Features System Event Log     RAC Log    Trace Log   Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 62: Peripherals

    DVD (bootable; requires two USB ports)  USB Key (bootable)  Keyboard (only one USB keyboard is supported)  Mouse (only one USB mouse is supported) 18.2 External Storage 100B See Section 12.9 for information on external storage. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 63: Technical Specifications Summary

    Internal optional USB Internal optional Dual SD Card Optional vFlash Card (with iDRAC6 Enterprise) Connectors Back (4) RJ-45 10/100/1000 Systems Management NIC Optional RJ-45 dedicated for Systems Management with iDRAC6 Enterprise Serial (1 ) 9-pin, DTE, 16550-compatible Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 64 RAID battery (optional) 3.7-V lithium ion Physical Height 8.64 cm (3.40 in) Width 48.24 cm (18.99 in) with rack latches Depth 68.07 cm (26.80 in) without power supply Weight (maximum 26.1 kg (57.54 lb) configuration) Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 65: Regulatory Certifications And Standards Compliance

    Serial Attached SCSI, v1.1 SATA https://www.sata-io.org/secure/spec_download.asp Serial ATA Rev. 2.6; http://www.sata-io.org/docs/S2Ext_1_2_Gold.pdf SATA II, Extensions to SATA 1.0a, Rev. 1.2 SMBIOS http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios/ System Management BIOS Reference Specification, v2.6 https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/downloads/s Trusted Platform Module pecifications/tpm/tpm Specification, v1.2 UEFI http://www.uefi.org/specs/ Unified Extensible Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 66: Table 20. Product Safety Certifications And Marks

    OTAN – CKT Kazakhstan Kenya KEBS Kuwait KUCAS Mexico NYCE or NOM Moldova INSM Nigeria SONCAP Norway NEMKO Russia GOST Saudi Arabia KSA ICCP South Africa NRCS Taiwan BSMI UKRTEST or Ukraine UKRSERTCOMPUTER United States NRTL Uzbekistan Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 67: Table 21. Electromagnetic Compatibility

    Table 22. Ergonomics, Acoustics and Hygienics The PowerEdge R810 has been certified and bears the Mark, as applicable, of the Ergonomics, Acoustics and Hygienics authorities as indicated below. Country/Region Authority or Mark Belarus BELLIS Germany Russia GOST Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 68: Statement Of Volatility

    Appendix C. Statement of Volatility The Dell PowerEdge R810 contains both volatile and non-volatile (NV) components. Volatile components lose their data immediately upon removal of power from the component. Non-volatile components continue to retain their data even after the power has been removed from the component.
  • Page 69 Control firmware for the power supply microcontroller How is data input to this memory? Programmed by the power supply manufacturer. If necessary, Dell Update Package can be run to update firmware How is this memory write protected? Not write protected...
  • Page 70 Purpose? [e.g. boot code] Optional embedded boot device How is data input to this memory? Factory installed or via USB bus How is this memory write protected? Not write protected Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...
  • Page 71 SPI interface during operation How is this memory write protected? To obtain optional component information, please refer to the Dell Statement of Volatility for the individual components. Please direct any questions to your Dell Marketing contact. Dell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide...

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