Dell PowerEdge R415 Technical Manual

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PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide The PowerEdge R415 offers enterprise-class features with a balance of processing power and value. ...

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Dell ii PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide This document is for informational purposes only. Dell reserves the right to make changes without further notice to any products herein. The content provided is as is and without express or implied warrant...

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Dell iii PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Table of Contents 1 Product Comparison ........................................................................................... 7 1.1 Overview ............................................................

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Dell iv PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 5.2 Features ................................................................................................. 27 5.3 Supported Processors .....................................................................

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Dell v PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 15.1 Overview/Description .................................................................................. 51 15.2 Server Management ..........................................................................

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Dell vi PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Figure 6. Back View (Redundant Power Supply) ............................................................ 16 Figure 7. Left Side View ..........................................................................

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Dell 7 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 1 Product Comparison 1.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R415 is a 2-socket 1U rack server that is designed to deliver outstanding value. The R415 is built with the latest AMD Opteron™ series processo...

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Dell 8 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide The optional Lifecycle Controller helps you perform system diagnostics, hardware configuration, and system deployment in a pre-operating-system environment from an easy-to-use interface called the Unified Ser...

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Dell 9 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Feature SC1435 (predecessor) R410 R415 R610 Embedded HD Controller Chipset-based SATA Chipset-based SATA Chipset -based SATA SAS 6/iR Optional Storage Controller RAID: SAS 5/iR ...

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Dell 10 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Feature SC1435 (predecessor) R410 R415 R610 Power Supplies Non-redundant 600W Auto Ranging (90V~264V) Non-redundant 480W (80+ SILVER) Optional redundant 500W (80+ GOLD) Auto Ranging...

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Dell 11 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 2 System Overview Table 2 provides an overview of the PowerEdge R415 server features. Table 2. Product Features Summary Feature Technical Specification Form Factor 1U rack Processors AMD Opter...

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Dell 12 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Feature Technical Specification Communications Optional add-in NICs: Intel ® 10GBase-T Copper Single Port NIC, PCIe x8 Intel ® PRO 1000 PT Single Port Adapter, Gigabit Ethernet NIC, PCIe x1 I...

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Dell 13 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Feature Technical Specification Operating Systems Microsoft ® Windows ® Small Business Server 2008 Microsoft ® Windows Server ® 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V™) Microsoft ® Windo...

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Dell 14 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 3 Mechanical 3.1 Chassis Description The PowerEdge R415 chassis was designed to deliver a value-based, high-performance server that also offers a level of redundancy. The PowerEdge R415 is available in t...

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Dell 15 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 3.3 Front Panel View and Features The PowerEdge R415 is available in two chassis configurations: cabled hard drive and hot-plug hard drive. The cabled hard drive chassis includes an LED control panel (Figur...

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Dell 16 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Figure 6. Back View (Redundant Power Supply) See the Back-Panel Features and Indicators section in the About Your System chapter of the PowerEdge R415 Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com for mo...

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Dell 17 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 3.8 Internal Chassis View Figure 9 shows the internal chassis view. Figure 9. Internal Chassis View 3.9 Rails and Cable Management 3.9.1 ReadyRails Sliding Rails ReadyRails TM Sliding Rails for 4-p...

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Dell 18 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide For more information on rails, see section 13.2. 3.10 Rack View 3.10.1 Sliding Rails See Figure 10 and Figure 11 for views of the PowerEdge R415 mounted in A3 sliding rails. Figure 10. R415 Mounte...

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Dell 19 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Figure 12. R415 Mounted in A4 Static Rails (2-Post Center Mount Configuration) 3.11 Fans There are total of six fans with redundant power supplies in the system and four fans with non-redundant power su...

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Dell 20 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 3.12.1 LED Panel Configuration Figure 14 and Figure 15 show the LED panel. Figure 14. LED panel Configuration Figure 15. LED Panel (Detailed View) For a complete description of LED indicators, thei...

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Dell 21 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide The LCD panel is a graphics display controlled by iDRAC6. Error codes can be sent to the display by either iDRAC6 or BIOS. The system's LCD panel provides system information and status messages to sign...

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Dell 22 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 3.13.7 Secure Mode BIOS can enter a secure boot mode through setup. This mode includes the option to lock out the power and NMI switches on the control panel or to set up a system password. 3.14 USB Key ...

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Dell 23 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 4 Power, Thermal, Acoustic 4.1 Power Supplies The PowerEdge R415 is powered by either a non-redundant 480W power supply or an optional redundant 500W power supply. The power supply subsystem provides po...

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Dell 24 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Feature Non-Redundant Power Supply Redundant Power Supply ambient operating range, the inrush current may reach 25A per power supply for 10ms or less. ambient operating range, the inrush current...

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Dell 25 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Maximum Shock Operating Half sine shock in all operational orientations of 31G +/- 5% with a pulse duration of 2.6ms +/-10% Storage Half sine shock on all six sides of 71G +/- 5% with a pulse dur...

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Dell 26 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Table 7. Acoustical Performance Configuration @ 23 ± 2 °C Operating Mode L WA -UL (Bels) L pA (dBA) Prominent Tones CPU RAID DIMM Power Supply 1 x AMD 4122 4 core 2.2GHz Embedd...

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Dell 27 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 5 Processors 5.1 Overview The PowerEdge R415 utilizes the latest four- and six-core offerings from the AMD Opteron™ 4000 series (C32). 5.2 Features Key features of the C32 processor include the follo...

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Dell 28 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Model Speed Power Cores L2/L3 Cache HyperTransport HyperTransport Multiplier Memory Speed Process 4180 2.6GHz 95W 6 6 x 512KB/6MB 3.2GHz 13x 1333MHz 45nm 4184 2.8GHz ...

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Dell 29 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 6 Memory 6.1 Overview The PowerEdge R415 uses DDR3 memory, providing a high-performance, high-speed memory interface capable of low-latency response and high throughput. Key features of the R415 memory s...

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Dell 30 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide The following is not supported:  Mixing of RDIMMs and UDIMMs  Use of non-ECC UDIMMs For more information on R415 memory configurations, see the System Memory section in the Installing System Compo...

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Dell 31 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide System Capacity DIMM Slots 1 Socket Channel A Channel B UDIMM RDIMM A1 A3 A2 A4 DIMM speed System speed DIMM speed System speed 32GB 1 16GB — 16GB — N/A N/A ...

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Dell 32 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 7 Chipset 7.1 Overview The PowerEdge R415 planar incorporates a dual-IOB configuration using the AMD SR5670 chipset with I/O bridges and the SP5100 Southbridge. The SR5670 is designed to support the AMD C...

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Dell 33 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 8 BIOS 8.1 Overview The PowerEdge R415 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core and supports the following features:  AMD C32 processor support  Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support  PCI...

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Dell 34 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 8.2 Supported ACPI States The following ACPI states are supported:  ACPI compliance: S0, S4, S5  NO S1, S2, S3 (STR) State S4 is supported by OS support only. 8.3 Power Management Modes 8.3.1 De...

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Dell 35 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Feature Type Enable/Status/ Ctrl bit location Description ACPI mode, SMI handler owns power button events. Real-Time Clock Fixed PCH The OS is able to configure the system to wake on the R...

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Dell 36 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Profile Description Maximum Performance DBPM Disabled (BIOS sets P-State to MAX) Memory frequency: Maximum Performance Fan algorithm: Maximum Performance Custom CPU Power and Performance Managem...

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Dell 37 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 9 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM) The Broadcom ® 5716 LOM chip is located on the PowerEdge R415 motherboard. The 5716 chip is connected to the IOH via a PCI Express x4 gen2 link. The chip provides...

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Dell 38 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 10 I/O Slots 10.1 Overview The PowerEdge R415 includes a total of two PCI Express expansion slots as follows:  One x16 PCIe Gen2 slot for a full-height, full-length card (25W max)  One x4 PCIe Gen...

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Dell 39 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Category Description Width Slot Priority Maximum Cards Qlogic ® QLE2460 FC4 HBA, Single Port x4 Gen1 1 1 Qlogic ® QLE2462 FC4 HBA, Dual Port x4 Gen1 1 1 Qlogic ® QLE8152...

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Dell 40 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 10.2 Boot Order The boot order can be customized based on bootable devices detected by the BIOS. 10.3 NICs See details in the table above. 10.4 NIC and LOM Enumeration LOMs will enumerate first in order ...

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Dell 41 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 11 Storage 11.1 Overview The PowerEdge R415 supports up to four hard drives in one of the following configurations:  4 x 3.5‖ cabled SATA from motherboard SATA connector  4 x 3.5‖ cabled SAS o...

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Dell 42 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Factory Configuration Non-Mixed drives all SATA, all SAS, or all SSD; all 2.5” or all 3.5” Cabled/ Hot Plug Config Type Configs Description Min HDD Max HDD C5 ASSR5CBL Add-in SAS/...

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Dell 43 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Factory Configuration Non-Mixed drives all SATA, all SAS, or all SSD; all 2.5” or all 3.5” Cabled/ Hot Plug Config Type Configs Description Min HDD Max HDD Hot Plug Mix SAS and SAT...

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Dell 44 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 11.5 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 informat...

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Dell 45 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 12 Video The PowerEdge R415 is equipped with a Matrox ® G200eW with 8 MB memory integrated in the Nuvoton ® WPCM450 (BMC controller). Supported resolutions are listed in Table 17. Table 17. Graphics V...

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Dell 46 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 13 Rack Information 13.1 Overview The ReadyRails™ sliding and static rail systems for the R415 provide tool-less support for 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round mounting holes including all gene...

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Dell 47 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide are mounted into the brackets. The design of the brackets has been optimized to limit the forward shift of the system in the rack to only 17.3 mm. The adapter brackets kit includes six brackets to accommoda...

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Dell 48 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Figure 20. R415 Static Rails One key factor in selecting the proper rails is identifying the type of rack in which they will be installed. Both the sliding rails and the static rails support mounting in ...

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Dell 49 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Table 19. Rail Adjustability Ranges and Depth Product Rail ID Mounting Interface Rail Type Rail Adjustability Range (mm) Rail Depth (mm) Square Round Threaded without CMA with CMA ...

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Dell 50 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 14 Operating Systems and Virtualization For detailed information, see the following: • Operating System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Systems on www.Dell.com • Dell PowerEdge R415 Systems Gettin...

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Dell 51 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 15 Systems Management 15.1 Overview/Description Dell aims on delivering open, flexible, and integrated solutions that help you reduce the complexity of managing disparate IT assets by building comprehensiv...

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Dell 52 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Remote Access Controller) is responsible for acting as an interface between the host system and its management software and the periphery devices. These periphery devices consist of the PSUs, the storage ba...

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Dell 53 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide • Graphical web interface • Standard-based interfaces • Server Sensor monitoring and fault alerting • Secure operation of remote access functions including authentication, authorization, and...

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Dell 54 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Feature BMC iDRAC6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media Security and Authentication Role-based Authority     Local Users     Active...

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Dell 55 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide 16 USB Peripherals The PowerEdge R415 supports the following USB devices:  USB key (bootable)  Keyboard (only one USB keyboard is supported)  Mouse (only one USB mouse is supported)  Opti...

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Dell 56 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Appendix A. Statement of Volatility The Dell PowerEdge R415 contains both volatile and non-volatile (NV) components. Volatile components lose their data immediately upon removal of power from the component...

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Dell 57 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide LOM (LAN [Network Interface] on Motherboard) Memory Details Size: 4Mb (1MB) Type: [e.g., Flash PROM, EEPROM]: Flash Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal o...

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Dell 58 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide TPM (Trusted Platform Module; For boards shipped outside of China; Boards sold to destinations in China do not have TPM at this time) Details Size: Unspecified size of user ROM, RAM, EEPROM; 128 b...

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Dell 59 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Server BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) Firmware Flash Memory Details Size: 16MB Flash Type: [e.g., Flash PROM, EEPROM]: SPI Flash Can user programs or operating system write data to it d...

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Dell 60 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Appendix B. Certifications B.1 Regulatory Certifications Regulatory model: E07S Regulatory Type: E07S003 Regulatory compliance information can be located at the following sites:  Product Safety, EM...

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Dell 61 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide B.3 Electromagnetic Compatibility The product has been certified and bears the Mark, as applicable, of the EMC authorities as indicated in Table 24. Table 24. Electromagnetic Compatibility Certificati...

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Dell 62 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Appendix C. Additional Information and Options The PowerEdge R415 system conforms to the industry standards detailed in Table 26. Table 26. Industry Standards Standard URL for information and specifi...

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Dell 63 PowerEdge R415 Technical Guide Standard URL for information and specifications Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification, v2.1 USB Universal Serial Bus Specification, Rev. 2.0 http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ W...