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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.
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.
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.
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).
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...
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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 ®...
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...
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...
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...
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™...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
(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...
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...
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.
• 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
(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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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).
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...
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...
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: •...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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...
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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...
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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...