Dell PowerEdge R710 Rack Server CTO

The next generation Dell PowerEdge R710 is customer-inspired. By listening and focusing on the details, Dell™ has delivered on your inspiration with simplicity of operation and innovative features.

The PowerEdge R710 takes advantage of Dell’s system commonality. When IT managers learn one system, they have learned the logic required to manage Dell’s next generation servers. The logical layout of components and power supply placement delivers a simple, straightforward installation and simplified redeployment in the future.

In addition, Dell’s latest PowerEdge servers provide a graphical and interactive LCD for system health monitoring, alerting and control of basic management configuration right in the front of the server. Customers have an AC power meter and ambient temperature thermometer built into the server, which they can monitor on this display without any software tools.

The PowerEdge R710 has embedded Gigabit Ethernet Controllers with TCP Offload Engine (TOE) support. Twoembedded Broadcom® 5709C dual-port LAN controllers are on the R710 planar as independent Gigabit Ethernetinterface devices. The following information details the features of the LAN devices:

• x4 PCI Express Gen2 capable interface (R710 operates this controller at Gen1 speed)
• Integrated MAC and PHY 3072x18 Byte context memory
• 64 KB receive buffer
• TOE (TCP Offload Engine)
• iSCSI controller (enabled through an optional hardware key)
• RDMA controller (RNIC) (enabled through 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

The two PCI Express risers provide up to four expansion slots and one slot dedicated for the integrated storage controller card. The slots meet the following requirements:

• Two R710 risers must be installed or the system will not power up.
• Two x8 and two x4 PCI Express Gen2 slots, each connected to the IOH
• One x4 PCI Express Gen1 slot for internal storage connected to the IOH
• Support for three full-height 9.5”-long PCI Express cards and one full-height bracket, lowprofile PCB PCI Express card
• Support for customer installation of a full-length 12.2" PCI Express card in Slot 1 on Riser 1
• System support for 25 W maximum power for the first two cards and 15 W for the third and fourth cards (lower power support on third and fourth cards due to system thermal limitations)
• Optional x16 riser to accommodate interface cards for external GPU boxes that support a maximum power of 25W (use of riser reduces the number of PCI Express slots from four to three)

On each backplane are two LED indicators per drive slot with one or two mini-SAS x4 cable connectors forconnecting the backplane to the integrated SAS 6/iR or PERC 6i card and a power connector to connect to theplanar. Both Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives are supported. SAS/SATA mixing andthe use of 2.5" drives in a 3.5" chassis are supported.

The following additional guidelines apply for hard-drive configurations:

• For SAS/SATA mixing:
  • Two SAS and up to six SATA drives are allowed
  • Two SAS drives must be installed in slots 0 and 1
• One mixed 2.5” and 3.5” hard drive configuration is allowed:
  • Two 2.5” 10,000 rpm SAS drives installed with an adapter in a 3.5” hard-drive carrier in drive slots 0 and 1
  • The remaining hard drives must be 3.5” hard drives and must be either all SAS or all SATA
• SSDs require the PERC 6/i or PERC H700 integrated storage controller card and cannot be mixed with any other type of hard drive
• Limited SSD and SAS mixing is supported