Dell PowerEdge R710 The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 helps you operate efficiently and lower TCO with enhanced virtualization capabilities, improved energy efficiency, and innovative system management tools. Strong IT Foundation Lifecycle Controller You want a data center built for organic growth and the ability Lifecycle Controller is the engine for advanced systems to scale based on your company’s changing requirements. You management integrated on the server. Lifecycle Controller need complete solutions that let you focus your time and money simplifies administrator tasks to perform a complete set of on managing and growing your business. Dell responds with an provisioning functions such as system deployment, system expanding portfolio of enterprise servers, storage technologies, updates, hardware configuration and diagnostics from a single and services with a single goal: to help you simplify IT. intuitive interface called Unified Server Configurator (USC) in a pre-OS environment. This eliminates the need to use and maintain Purposeful Design multiple pieces of disparate CD/DVD media. With Dell’s system commonality, once your IT managers learn Dell Management Console (DMC) one system, they understand how to manage next-generation Dell servers. Logical component layout and power supply DMC, powered by Altiris™ from Symantec™, delivers a single view placement provide a straightforward installation and redeployment and a common data source into the entire infrastructure. DMC is experience. The PowerEdge R710 provides an interactive LCD an easily extensible, modular foundation that can provide basic for system health monitoring, alerting, and control of basic hardware management or more advanced functions such as asset management as well as checking the AC power meter and and security management. It helps reduce or eliminate manual ambient temperature thermometer included with each server. processes so less time and money is spent keeping the lights on and more time can be spent on strategic uses of technology. Enhanced Virtualization Dell Services Featuring embedded hypervisors, large memory capacity with 18 DIMM slots, and 4 integrated network connections, the Dell Dell Services can help reduce IT complexity, lower costs, and PowerEdge R710 delivers better overall system performance eliminate inefficiencies by making IT and business solutions work ® and greater virtual machine-per-server capacity. The latest Intel harder for you. The Dell Services team takes a holistic view of your ® Xeon processor technology adapts to your software in real time, needs and designs solutions for your environment and business processing more tasks simultaneously. With optional factory- objectives while leveraging proven delivery methods, local talent, integrated virtualization capabilities, you get tailored solutions and in-depth domain knowledge for the lowest TCO. that allow you to streamline deployment and simplify virtual infrastructures. Choose your hypervisor from market leaders such ® ® ® as VMware , Citrix , and Microsoft , and enable virtualization with a few mouse clicks. Energy-Optimized Technologies The Dell PowerEdge R710 The PowerEdge R710 reduces power consumption while increasing performance capacity versus previous generation servers using Energy Smart technologies and standards-based server with the performance components along with right-sized efficient power supply units, improved system-level design efficiency, and policy-driven power ® ® of Intel Xeon processor and thermal management. Dell’s advanced thermal control delivers optimal performance at minimal power consumption without compromising enterprise performance. 5500 and 5600 series offers Simplified Systems Management you a 2U rack to efficiently The Dell OpenManage™ suite offers enhanced operations and standards-based commands designed to integrate with existing address a wide range of key systems for effective control. business applications. March 2011 Feature Technical Specification 2U rack Form Factor ® ® Quad-core or six-core Intel Xeon processor 5500 and 5600 series Processors Processor Sockets 2 Front Side Bus or ® Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) HyperTransport Up to 12MB Cache ® Chipset Intel 5520 1 Memory Up to 288GB (18 DIMM slots): 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB DDR3 up to 1333MHz 4 PCIe G2 slots + 1 storage slot: Two x8 slots I/O Slots Two x4 slots One x4 storage slot Internal: External: PERC H200 (6Gb/s) PERC H800 (6Gb/s) with 512MB of battery-backed cache; PERC H700 (6Gb/s) with 512MB battery-backed cache; 512MB, 1GB Non-Volatile battery-backed cache 512MB, 1GB Non-Volatile battery-backed cache PERC 6/E with 256MB or 512MB of battery-backed cache RAID Controller SAS 6/iR External HBAs (non-RAID): PERC 6/i with 256MB battery-backed cache 6Gbps SAS HBA SAS 5/E HBA LSI2032 PCIe SCSI HBA 8 x 2.5” Hard Drive Option or 6 x 3.5” Hard Drive Option; Optional flex bay expansion to support half-height TBU Up to four 3.5” drives with optional flex bay, up to six 3.5” drives without optional flex bay, or Drive Bays up to eight 2.5” SAS or SATA drives with optional flex bay Peripheral bay options: Slim optical drive bay with choice of DVD-ROM, Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM, or DVD + RW Maximum Internal Storage Up to 12TB Hot-plug Hard Drive Options: 2.5” SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (10K, 15K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K) 3.5” SAS (10K, 15K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (5.4K, 7.2K) 1 Hard Drives Solid State Storage Cards: ® Fusion-io 160IDSS—160GB ioDrive PCIe solid state storage card ® Fusion-io 640IDSS—640GB ioDrive Duo PCIe solid state storage card ® ® ® ® Four embedded Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709c Gigabit Intel Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter and Intel Gigabit Ethernet NIC with failover ET Quad Port Server Adapter and load balancing; TOE (TCPIP Offload Engine) supported Dual Port 10GB Enhanced Intel Ethernet Server Adapter ® on Microsoft Windows X520-DA2 (FcoE Ready for Future Enablement) ® Server 2003 SP1 or higher with Scalable Networking Pack; Optional add-in NICs: Communications ® Optional 1GBe and 10GBe add-in NICs Brocade CNA (1020) Dual Port Server Adapter ® ® Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 Dual Port Direct Attach Optional add in HBAs: ® 10Gb Ethernet PCI-Express Network Interface Card with Brocade 8 GB HBAs ® TOE and iSCSI Offload Emulex OCE10102-IX-DCNA iSCSI HBA stand-up adapter Energy Smart – Two hot-plug high-efficient 570W PSU OR Uninterruptible Power Supplies: High Output Two hot-plug 870W PSUs 1000W–5600W Power Supply 2700W–5600W High-Efficiency Online Extended Battery Module (EBM) Network Management Card DDR3; hot-plug hard drives; optional hot-plug redundant power supplies; dual embedded NICs with failover and load balancing support; PERC 6/i; hot-plug redundant cooling; toolless chassis; fibre and SAS cluster support; validated for Availability Dell/EMC SAN ® Matrox G200 with 8MB of cache Video Remote Management iDRAC6 Enterprise (optional) Dell™ OpenManage™ Systems Management ® Microsoft System Center Essential (SCE) 2010 v2 Embedded Hypervisor Optional Embedded SD Media ReadyRails™ sliding rails with optional cable management arm for 4-post racks (optional adapter brackets required for Rack Support threaded hole racks); ReadyRails™ static rails for 2-post and 4-post racks ® ® Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 ® ® Microsoft  Windows  Small Business Server 2008 ® ® Microsoft Windows  Server 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V™) ® ® Microsoft Windows  Server 2008 R2, x64 (includes Hyper-V™ v2) ® Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 ® ® ® Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ® ® Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating Systems ® Oracle Solaris™ Virtualization Options: ® Citrix XenServer™ ® ® VMware vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX 4.1 or VMware ESXi™ 4.1) For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit www.dell.com/OSsupport. ® ® Featured Database Microsoft SQL Server solutions (see Dell.com/SQL) ® Applications Oracle database solutions (see Dell.com/Oracle) 1 GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating environment and will be less. 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