Dell R510 Technical Manual

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Technical Guide Dell Product Name Dell PowerEdge R510 Name Excellent balance of internal storage, redundancy, and value in a compact chassis ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 2 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 im...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 3 Table of Contents 1 Overview ........................................................................................................ 7 1.1 Product Description ..............................................

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 4 4.14 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) ........................................................................ 35 5 Power, Thermal, Acoustic .....................................................................

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 5 10.2.3 PCI Card Dimensions ............................................................................. 55 11 Storage ........................................................................................

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 6 Table 27. Microsoft Operating Systems Supported ................................................................... 65 Table 28. Linux Operating Systems ......................................................

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 7 1 Overview 1.1 Product Description The PowerEdge™ R510 is a 2-socket, 2U high-capacity, multi-purpose rack server offering an excellent balance of internal storage, redundancy, and value in a compact c...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 8 comprehensive set of provisioning functions such as system deployment, system updates, hardware configuration and diagnostics from a single intuitive interface called Unified Server Configurator (USC) in a ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 9 1.2 Product Comparison Table 1 provides a detailed comparison of PowerEdge Server features using new, current, and predecessor models. Table 1. Comparison of PowerEdge Server Features PowerEdge 2...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 10 PowerEdge 2950 III (Predecessor) PowerEdge R710 (Current) PowerEdge R510 (New) DIAGNOSTIC LCD LCD LED for PowerEdge R510-4 and R510-12 LCD for PowerEdge R510-8 MANAGEMENT BMC+DRAC 5...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 11 2 New Technologies A number of new technologies have been incorporated into the PowerEdge R510 product, including:  Intel 5500 chipset + Intel Xeon processor 5500 and 5600 series (new Intel archite...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 12 Chipset. 2.2.1 PCIe Generation 2 PCIe Gen 2 provides the next generation of I/O bandwidth to the system. PCIe Gen2 doubles the signaling bit rate of each lane from 2.5 GT/s to 5 GT/s. 2.2.2 DDR3 Memory ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 13 3 System Overview PowerEdge R510 provides a value 2S 2U server, with maximized storage capacity, high performance, simplified management, and an affordable price. Table 2. Product Features Summary ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 14 PowerEdge R510–4 drives PowerEdge R510–8 drives PowerEdge R510-12 drives Dimension (HxWxD) 3.40 x 17.19 x 24.09 (in); 86.4 x 436.6 x 610.2 (mm) 3.42 x 17.53 x 26.17 (in); 86.7 x 445.2 ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 15 PowerEdge R510–4 drives PowerEdge R510–8 drives PowerEdge R510-12 drives HDD/SSD NA 2.5" (in hard drive carrier through conversion kit) 25GB SATA SSD 50GB SATA SSD 100GB SATA SSD...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 16 PowerEdge R510–4 drives PowerEdge R510–8 drives PowerEdge R510-12 drives NICs/Single Port Broadcom NetXtreme II 5710 Single Port 10GBase-T Ethernet PCI-Express Network Interface Card with ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 17 PowerEdge R510–4 drives PowerEdge R510–8 drives PowerEdge R510-12 drives Linux: RHEL 4.7 ES/AS x86(DIB) RHEL 4.7 ES/AS 64-bit(DIB) RHEL 4.7 for HPC x86-64 (DIB) RHEL 5.3 Standard/AP x86(D...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 18 4 Mechanical 4.1 Chassis Description PowerEdge R510 chassis is a 2U rack system. The chassis is not swappable. Supported configurations are detailed in Table 3. Table 3. Supported Chassis Configurat...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 19 Figure 3. System Dimensions ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 20 4.3 Front Panel View and Features Figure 4. PowerEdge R510–4 HDD Configuration Figure 5. PowerEdge R510–8 HDD Configuration ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 21 Figure 6. PowerEdge R510–12 HDD Configuration 4.3.1 NMI Button The Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) button can be accessed through a pin hole with a thin object (e.g., the end of a paperclip). Pressi...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 22 The Power LED has two states: • Power LED is OFF: System is not operating, regardless of AC present. (Other AUX powered subsystems may be operational with AC power present.) • Power LED is ON (Gree...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 23 This hierarchy dictates that connections that are lower in the hierarchy be disabled anytime a higher level connection is disabled. 4.3.6 DVD/CD If present, the DVD/CD drive has an eject mechanism an...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 24 4.4 Back Panel View and Features Figure 9. R510 with Non-Redundant Power Supply for PowerEdge R510-4 ONLY Figure 10. With Redundant Power Supply for PowerEdge R510-8 and 12 Figure 11. Non-re...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 25 Figure 12. Redundant PSU Status lights provide indications as follows:  Not lit: AC power is not connected.  Green: In standby mode, a green light indicates that a valid AC source is conne...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 26 4.6 Internal Chassis Views Figure 15. PowerEdge R510-4: Non-Redundant PSU and the Battery Holder for PERC Card Figure 16. Cabled HDD, No Backplane Battery Holder ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 27 Figure 17. PowerEdge R510-12 Internal View (Redundant PSU with PDB and Additional Fan for PSU) Figure 18. PowerEdge R510–12 Internal View ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 28 4.7 Rails and Cable Management ReadyRails TM Sliding Rails for 4-post Racks support:  Toolless installation in 19‖ EIA-310-E compliant square or unthreaded round hole 4-post racks including a...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 29 4.8 Rail View Figure 19. R510 Sliding Rails without CMA Figure 20. R510 Sliding Rails with CMA ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 30 Figure 21. R510 Static Rails Figure 22. R510 Static Rails in Rack 4.9 Fans 4.9.1 Fan module PowerEdge R510-4 and PowerEdge R510-8 have the same fan module. ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 31 Figure 23. Fan Module for R510-4 and 8 PowerEdge R510-12 has redundant fans stacked in modules. Figure 24. Fan Module for R510-12 4.9.2 Fan Location and Installation PowerEdge R510-4 has four ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 32 Figure 25. Fan Location 4.9.3 Fan Connector and Connector Locations Figure 26. Fan Connector Locations ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 33 4.10 Cabling Table 8. Cabling Information Chassis Controller Note PowerEdge R510-4 No Add-in RAID controller C0, C1 S100 C2A, C2B, C3, C4, C5 S300 Include data and LED SAS...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 34 4.11.2 Hard Drive Security Hard drives are only accessible by unlocking and opening the bezel. 4.11.3 Intrusion Switch The intrusion switch is located inside the chassis under the top cover. The switch...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 35 The PowerEdge R510-12 internal USB connectors are on the backplane as shown below. Figure 29. PowerEdge R510–12 USB Connector 4.13 Battery A replaceable lithium battery (CR2032) is mounted o...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 36 5 Power, Thermal, Acoustic 5.1 Power Supplies The 4-HDD configuration includes a 480W power supply. The 8- and 12-HDD configurations have a hot-plug redundant 1100W power supply. A hot-plug redundant 75...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 37 Figure 31. Connector (8 pins) 5.2 Thermal Optimized thermal management makes PowerEdge R510 cool and quiet. Benefiting from a smart cooling thermal control algorithm, the PowerEdge R510 can...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 38 Table 9. Operating/Non-Operating (Storage) Requirements Operating Requirements Non-Operating Requirements Temperature Ranges (For Altitude ≤900 m or 2952.75 ft) 10 to 35 °C (50 to 95 °...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 39 5.6 Acoustics The acoustical design of the PowerEdge R510 reflects the following:  Adherence to Dell’s high sound quality standards. Sound quality is different from sound power level and ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 40 Table 10. Acoustics of 4-HDD Chassis Typical Configuration @ 23 ± 2 °C Operating Mode L WA -UL (Bels) L pA (dBA) PROMINENT TONES CPU HDD RAID DIMM 2 x Intel E5506/2.13GHz 2 x...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 41 Definitions Standby: AC Power is connected to Power Supply Units but system is not turned on. Idle: Reference ISO7779 (1999) definition 3.1.7; system is running in its OS but no other specific activity. ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 42 6 Processors R510 can operate in either single-processor or dual-processor mode. However, since the memory controller is embedded in the processor, when only one processor is installed in the system, it ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 43 7 Memory 7.1 Overview Please carefully review this entire section Features of the PowerEdge R510 memory include: • 3 channels per processor • Support for registered ECC DDR3 DIMMs or Unbuffered ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 44 8 Chipset 8.1 Overview Introduction of the new Intel Xeon processor 5600 series includes a stepping revision of the Intel 5520 and 5500 chipset, which is required to enable the full 5600 series feature ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 45 8.2.3 PCI Express* Interfaces PCI Express* Interfaces include: • Intel 5500 chipset IOH provides multiple PCI Express* Gen 2 interfaces • Point-to-point, serial bi-directional interconnect • On...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 46 9 BIOS 9.1 Overview A flash resides on the SPI bus for BIOS and configuration storage. A 32 Mbit device is used for this function. This permits the BIOS to be upgraded in the field via a bootable device...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 47 AC recovery staggering Power-Up Power Inventory (PSU, CPU, and DIMM mismatch checking) Support for Multiple power profiles Static Maximum Performance Mode OS Control(DBS) Active Power Controller Cust...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 48 Table 15. Summary of Power Management Features Feature Type Enable/Status/ Ctrl bit location Description ACPI Mode Switch Fixed ICH-10 The OS uses the SCI_EN bit in ICH to switch from l...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 49 Table 16. Supported Power Profiles Static MAX Performance DBPM Disabled ( BIOS sets P-State to MAX) Memory frequency = Maximum Performance Fan algorithm = Performance OS Control Enable OS D...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 50 9.3 UEFI and ACPI For PowerEdge R510 systems, the UEFI layer does not participate in generation of the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) table. The ACPI table is generated by the BIOS an...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 51 Table 18. Intel 5600 Chipset P-State Projections and Turbo Mode Frequency Processor QDF# Frequency (GHz) P-state Turbo Mode Freq (Ghz) Step- ping E5503 Q2HH 2.00 Pmin+3 n/a ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 52 Table 19. UEFI Summary UEFI IS UEFI IS NOT  Compliant with UEFI specification 2.1  A layer on top of the existing legacy BIOS  Independent of processor and chipset technology.  R...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 53 10 I/O Slots 10.1 Overview The PowerEdge R510 system provides two configurations for I/O slots:  Riser 1 (default offering): Three PCIe slots (x4, x4, x8 bandwidth; all w/ x8 slots) + ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 54 10.1.2 PCI Device Information • IOH port 1, 2 (PCI Express Gen2 x4) – Broadcom BCM5716 Gigabit LOM • IOH port 3 (PCI Express Gen2 x4) – Slot 4 • IOH port 7/8 (PCI Express Gen2 x8) – Slot...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 55 Table 22. Riser 2 Slot Information Bandwidth Slot Location Height Length Slot1 (Gen2) PCIe x16 PCIe x16 Full Height Half Length Slot2 (Gen2) PCIe x4 PCIe x8 For dedicated sto...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 56 11 Storage 11.1 Overview There are two types of chassis for R510. • 4 Hard Drive Chassis: x cabled 3.5‖ HDD (cabled HDD carrier, identical to R410 cabled HDD carrier), support one slim optical disk...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 57 11.3 RAID Configurations Table 24. Raid Configurations for the PowerEdge R510-4 PowerEdge R510-4 Factory Configuration No Mixed HDD (3.5" HDD ONLY) Type # Name Description Min HDD ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 58 Table 25. Raid Configurations for the PowerEdge R510-8 PowerEdge R510-8 Factory Configuration No Mixed HDD (Must be all 2.5" or 3.5&q...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 59 R510-8 Mixed HDD (SAS + SATA) Factory Configuration Mixed SAS + SATA (Must be all 3.5" HDDs) (ex. Min 2x SAS + 2x SATA; Max 2x SAS + 6 SATA) Type # Name Description Min H...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 60 Table 26. RAID Configuration for PowerEdge R510-12 Factory Configuration No Mixed HDD (Must be all 2.5" or 3.5" HDDs) Type # Name Description Min HDD Max HDD No HDD ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 61 53 ASSR1/R1-X RAID1+RAID1 (PERC H200, PERC H700) 2 + 2 2 + 2 54 ASSR1/R5-X RAID1 + RAID5 (PERC H700) 2 + 3 2 + 10 55 ASSR5/R10-X RAID5 + RAID10 (PERC H700) 4 + 4 4 ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 62 68 ASSR50/+iR1 RAID50 (PERC H700) 6 12 69 ASSR60/+iR1 RAID60 (PERC H700) 8 12 70 ASSR1/R1/+iR 1 RAID1+RAID1 (PERC H200, PERC H700) 2 + 2 2 + 2 71 ASSR1/R5/+i...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 63 11.4 Optical Drives R510 supports a SATA interface slim DVD-ROM or slim DVD+/-RW. Slim ODD option is available on 4-HDD and 8-HDD configuration chassis only. R510-12 does not support internal ODD; externa...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 64 12 Video The Matrox G200eW w/ 8MB memory integrated in WPCM450 (BMC controller) provides: • 1280x1024@85Hz for KVM and 1600x1200@60Hz for video out • 640x480 (60/72/75/85 Hz; 8/16/32-bit color) �...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 65 13 Operating Systems For the most up-to-date information, see the Operating System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Systems on Dell.com. The following tables provide information on operating systems supp...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 66 Table 28. Linux Operating Systems Operating Systems Version Factory Install Logo/Cert Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 Enterprise Server (ES) x86-64 Advance Server (AS) x86-64 DIB, NF...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 67 14 Virtualization Table 29. Supported Virtualization Operating Systems Operating Systems Factory Install (FI) Logo/Cert VMware ESX 4.0 DIB Yes VMware ESXi 4.0 (embedded version) Download v...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 68 15 Systems Management 15.1 Overview Dell delivers open, flexible, and integrated solutions that help you reduce the complexity of managing disparate IT assets by building comprehensive IT management solu...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 69 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 ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 70 • Server Sensor monitoring and fault alerting • Secure operation of remote access functions including authentication, authorization, and encryption • Power control and management with the abili...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 71 Feature BMC iDRAC6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media SSL Encryption    Remote Management and Remediation Remote Firmware Update     ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 72 16 Peripherals 16.1 USB peripherals Optional External USB DVD-ROM 16.2 External Storage Refer to Table 2 for information on external storage. ...

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Dell PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide 73 17 Packaging Options Options for single pack and multipack are available. Multipack supports 4 units in one pack. Table 32. Single Pack Dimensions and Weights Outside Dimensions Weights Multipa...

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Dell 74 PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide Appendix A. R510 Volatility Tables Table 33. PowerEdge R510 Volatility Non- Volatile Volatil e RAM Reference Designator Qt y Size Type Planar System BIOS SPI Flash Y U34 1 ...

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Dell 75 PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide Non- Volatile Volatil e RAM Reference Designator Qt y Size Type Control Panel Internal USB Y J_USBKEY (connector ) J_USB3, J_USB4 2 User selectable License key hard set ...

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Dell 76 PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide Table 34. Volatility: Data Writing and Purpose Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation? Purpose? Planar System BIOS SPI Flash No Boot Code, System ...

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Dell 77 PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation? Purpose? Backplane (X8) Storage Controller Processor No Backplane firmware (HDD status, etc.) Control Panel...

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Dell 78 PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide Table 35. Methodology for Data Input to Memory How is data input to this memory? Planar System BIOS SPI Flash Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader progr...

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Dell 79 PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide How is data input to this memory? Chipset CMOS BIOS control only with input such as BIOS F2 menu user configuration settings (e.g., boot order) Backplane (X8) Storage Controller Processor ...

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Dell 80 PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide SAS 6/iR Integrated Controller Configuration Data Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program which is executed by booting the system from a floppy or OS-based ex...

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Dell 81 PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide How is this memory write protected? How is the memory cleared? iDRAC6 SDRAM n/a AC cycle for BMC OS and reset/power off server for VGA frame buffer iDRAC6 FRU writes controlled by iDRAC e...

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Dell 82 PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide How is this memory write protected? How is the memory cleared? FRU Protected. No iDRAC embedded firmware writes to this device. Theoretically, IPMI I2C Master write commands would flow throu...