PowerEdge T710 Technical Guidebook
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Firmware Images (160 MB): holds the two most recent versions of BIOS, RAID, LOM, power
supplies and hard drive firmware. This partition also holds the BIOS and option ROM
configuration data.
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Life Cycle Log (2 MB): stores initial factory configuration as well as all detectable hardware and
firmware changes to the server since its deployment. The Life Cycle Log is stored on the BMC
SPI flash.
Approximately 20 percent of the flash space is reserved for wear leveling on the NAND flash. Wear
leveling extends the life of the NAND flash by balancing the use cycles on the flash's blocks.
4.12.2
SD Module (Unmanaged Internal Persistent Storage)
The optional Internal SD module is a dedicated port for an SD flash card for embedded Hypervisor for
virtualization. The SD flash card contains a bootable OS image for virtualized platforms.
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Figure 17. T710 SD Module
Figure 18. SD Diagram
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