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  • Page 1 PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide Inspired by IT professionals, the PowerEdge T710 is ideal for server consolidation.
  • Page 2 Dell disclaims proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. ©Copyright 2012 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or translation of any part of this work beyond that permitted by U.S. copyright laws without the written permission of Dell Inc. is unlawful and strictly forbidden.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Features ....................26 Supported Processors .................. 26 Processor Configurations ................27 6.4.1 Single Processor Configuration ..............27 6.4.2 Processor Power Voltage Regulation Modules (EVRD 11.1) ......... 27 Processor Installation .................. 27 Memory ......................28 Overview ....................28 PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...
  • Page 4 SAS 6/iR ................... 43 12.6.4 PERC 6/i ................... 43 12.7 Storage Card Support Matrix ................. 43 12.8 Optical Drives ................... 44 12.9 Tape Drives ..................... 44 Video ......................45 Rack Information ..................... 46 14.1 Overview ....................46 PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...
  • Page 5 Ergonomics, Acoustics and Hygienics ............... 61 Appendix C. Additional Information and Options ............62 Tables Table 1. Comparison of PowerEdge T710 to T410 and T610 ..........8 Table 2. Product Features Summary ................ 11 Table 3. Power Supply Status ................16 Table 4.
  • Page 6 LCD Control Panel ................... 18 Figure 7. Memory Channel Organization ..............30 Figure 8. Dell 2.5‖ Hard Drive Carrier ............... 40 Figure 9. ReadyRails Sliding Rails with Optional CMA ............. 46 Figure 10. 2U Threaded Rack Adapter Brackets Kit ............47 T710 Mounted in the C1 Sliding Rails ............

  • Page 7: Product Comparison

    Robust, metal hard drive carriers and organized cabling are designed to improve component access and airflow across the server. Designed for easy rack installation, the PowerEdge T710 offers an all- steel cable management arm to help eliminate creep.

  • Page 8: Comparison

    Dell Management Console is designed to reduce or eliminate manual processes, enabling you to save time and money for more strategic technology usage.
  • Page 9 Non-redundant 525W or Hot-plug redundant Hot-plug redundant 2 x 1100W Optional hot-plug 2 x 570W (Energy Smart) Power Supplies redundant 2 x 580W 2 x 870W (high-output) Non hot-plug, non- Optional hot-plug Hot-plug redundant Fans redundant redundant PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 10: Key Technologies

    2.1 Overview ® ® Key technologies of the Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710 include two quad-core or six-core Intel Xeon processors 5500 and 5600 series with QuickPath Interconnect (QPI), DDR3 memory, Intel 5520 I/O Hub (IOH), dual-port Gigabit Ethernet controller with TOE, PCI Express Generation 2, internal SD Module, and iDRAC6 Express or optional iDRAC6 Enterprise.

  • Page 11: System Overview

    Dell 3 System Overview Table 2 summarizes the features for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710. For the latest information on supported features for the PowerEdge T710, visit Dell.com. Table 2. Product Features Summary Feature Technical Specification Form Factor Tower or rack (5U height in rack orientation) ®...
  • Page 12 G200 Remote Management iDRAC6 Express, optional iDRAC6 Enterprise Systems Management Dell™ OpenManage™ suite of systems management solutions ReadyRails™ sliding rails with optional cable management arm for 4-post racks Rack Support (optional adapter brackets required for threaded hole racks) PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...
  • Page 13 (see Dell.com/SQL) Featured Database Applications ® Oracle database solutions (see Dell.com/Oracle) GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating environment and will be less. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 14: Mechanical

    Dell 4 Mechanical 4.1 Chassis Description The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710 system uses a tower or rack-mount 5U chassis. It is classified by Dell as a rackable tower, meaning it is optimized for tower operation. 4.2 Dimensions (with (without bezel) bezel) 217.9mm...

  • Page 15: Back Panel View And Features

    See the Front-Panel Features and Indicators section in the About Your System chapter of the PowerEdge T710 Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com for more information. 4.5 Back Panel View and Features Figure 4 shows the back view of the PowerEdge T710. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 16: Power Supply Indicators

    DC Power is applied to the system Redundant power supply mismatch ↔ (when hot-plugged/swapped) See the Power Indicator Codes section in the About Your System chapter of the PowerEdge T710 Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com for more information. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 17: Internal Chassis View

    Dell 4.7 Internal Chassis View Figure 5 shows the internal view of the PowerEdge T710 server. Figure 5. Internal Chassis View 4.8 Rails and Cable Management ReadyRails Sliding Rails for 4-post racks support the following:  Toolless installation in 19‖ EIA-310-E compliant square or unthreaded round hole 4-post racks including all generations of Dell racks ...

  • Page 18: Lcd Control Panel

    PowerEdge T710 Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com. 4.11 Security The PowerEdge T710 supports the security features listed in Table 4. For additional information regarding the following security features, see the PowerEdge T710 Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com.

  • Page 19: Usb Key

    Real-Time Clock and CMOS RAM on the ICH chip. 4.13 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) The planar contains a serial EEPROM to store FRU information including Dell part number, part revision level, and serial number. The backplane storage enclosure processor (SEP) and the power supply microcontroller are also used to store FRU data.

  • Page 20: Power, Thermal, Acoustic

    Dell 5 Power, Thermal, Acoustic 5.1 Power Efficiencies The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710 achieves a high-level of power efficiency by implementing the following features:  User-selectable power cap (subsystems throttle to maintain the specified power cap)  Improved power budgeting ...

  • Page 21: Power Supply Efficiency

    Power Supply Efficiency Loading Efficiency 115V Input Voltage 100% 230V Input Voltage 100% 5.5 Heat Dissipation The maximum system heat dissipation at 115 VAC is 3412 BTU/hr. The maximum system heat dissipation at 230 VAC is 3753 BTU/hr. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 22: Environmental Specifications

    Class G1 or lower as defined by ISA-S71.04-1985 (G1 maximum corrosive contaminant levels measured at ≤ 50% relative humidity) Use the formulas in Table 8 to calculate the maximum operating temperature, T (°C or °F), for the given altitude (in meters or feet). PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 23: Maximum Input Amps

    One of the sound quality metrics in the Dell specification is prominence ratio of a tone, and this is listed in Table 9 and Table 10.

  • Page 24: Table 9. Acoustical Performance (2.5‖ Hard Drive System)

    Dell  Hardware configurations affect system noise levels: Dell‘s advanced thermal control provides for optimized cooling with varying hardware configurations. Some less-intuitive but potentially important decision-making configuration examples are listed in the tables below.  Noise ramp and descent at boot: Fan speeds, and therefore noise levels, ramp during the boot process in order to add a layer of protection for component cooling in the event that the system were not to boot properly.

  • Page 25: Processors

    The Intel Xeon processor uses a 1366-contact Flip-Chip Land Grid Array (FC-LGA) package that plugs into a surface mount socket. The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710 provides support for up to two processors. Table 11. Intel Xeon Processor Features...

  • Page 26: Features

    SSL (5600 series)  Intel TXT (Trusted Execution Technology) provides hardware assisted protection against emerging software attacks (5600 series) 6.3 Supported Processors For the latest information on supported processors for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710, visit Dell.com. Table 12. Supported Processors Model Speed...

  • Page 27: Processor Configurations

    6.4.1 Single Processor Configuration The PowerEdge T710 is designed so that a single processor placed in the CPU1 socket functions normally. The system will halt during power-on self-test (POST) if a single processor is placed in the CPU2 socket. If using a single processor, the T710 requires a heatsink blank in the CPU2 socket for thermal reasons.

  • Page 28: Memory

    Dell 7 Memory 7.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710 uses DDR3 memory providing a high performance, high-speed memory interface capable of low latency response and high throughput. T710 supports Registered ECC DDR3 DIMMs (RDIMM) or Unbuffered ECC DDR3 DIMMs (UDIMM).

  • Page 29: Rdimms

     Two channels (CH 2 and CH 1) are populated identically per CPU; the third channel is unused: o When mirroring is enabled, the memory image in Channel 2 is maintained the same as Channel 1. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 30: Memory Population

    See Figure 7 for DIMM naming and numbering. Figure 7. Memory Channel Organization For more information on memory population requirements, see the System Memory section in the Installing System Components chapter of the Dell PowerEdge T710 Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 31: Memory Speed Limitations

    — — — — — — — — RDIMM — — — 7.7 Sparing The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series does not support memory sparing, but the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series does support memory sparing. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 32: Mirroring

    Dell 7.8 Mirroring Memory mirroring is supported on certain configurations. See the System Memory section in the Installing System Components chapter of the Dell PowerEdge T710 Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com. 7.9 RAID Memory RAID is not supported on the PowerEdge T710.

  • Page 33: Chipset

    8 Chipset 8.1 Overview ® ® The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710 planar incorporates the Intel Xeon 5520 processor series chipset for I/O and processor interfacing. This chipset is designed to support the Intel Xeon 5500 and 5600 processor series family, QuickPath Interconnect, DDR3 memory technology, and PCI Express Generation 2.

  • Page 34: Super I/O Controller

    The T710 system planar incorporates a SMSC LPC47M534 Super I/O controller to provide support for the serial port and the keyboard controller. The LPC47M534 is a Plug and Play compatible device that interfaces directly to the ICH through an embedded LPC bus. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 35: Bios

    Dell 9 BIOS 9.1 Overview The T710 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core and supports the following features:  Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support  Processor Turbo Mode support  PCI 2.3 compliant  Plug and Play 1.0a compliant ...

  • Page 36: Maximum Performance

    The Maximum Performance Mode disables power management. In this mode, the processor frequency is statically set to the highest supported frequency. 9.4 Supported ACPI States PowerEdge T710 conforms to Advance Configuration and Power Interface Specification, v2.0c. I provides support for ACPI P-States, C-States, and T-States. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 37: Embedded Nics/Lan On Motherboard (Lom)

    Dell 10 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM) ® The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710 system board has two embedded dual-port Broadcom 5709C Gigabit Ethernet controllers as independent Ethernet interface devices. This provides four LOM ports for the server. Both controllers enabled for TCP Offload Engine (TOE), with optional iSCSI offload engine (iSOE).

  • Page 38: Pci Slots

    11.4 PCI Card Dimensions For information about PCIe slots and card dimensions, see the Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers section in the Installing System Components chapter in the Dell PowerEdge T710 Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 39: Storage

    12.4 Internal Hard Disk Drives The T710 supports up to sixteen 2.5‖ or eight 3.5‖ hard disk drives. See Table 15 for information on supported hard drives. For the most up-to-date information on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com. Table 15.

  • Page 40: Hard Disk Drive Carriers

    146GB 3.5‖ 146GB, 300GB, 450GB, 600GB 12.4.1 Hard Disk Drive Carriers The T710 supports the Dell 2.5‖ and 3.5‖ hard drive carriers. See Figure 8. Figure 8. Dell 2.5” Hard Drive Carrier 12.4.2 Empty Drive Bays For the slots that are not occupied by drives, a carrier blank is provided to maintain proper cooling, maintain a uniform appearance to the unit, and provide EMI shielding.
  • Page 41 Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 1/RAID 1 2.5‖ = N/A 2.5‖ = N/A RAID (SAS 6/iR) 3.5‖ = 2+2 3.5‖ = 2+2 Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 1/RAID 1 2.5‖ = 2+2 2.5‖ = 2+2 (PERC 6/i) 3.5‖ = 2+2 3.5‖ = 2+2 PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 42: Internal Storage Controllers

    3.5‖ = N/A 3.5‖ = N/A 5 set is SATA 12.6 Internal Storage Controllers T710 supports a choice of internal hard drive controllers. The internal controller is placed in the dedicated storage slot on the motherboard. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 43: Perc H200

    Internal backplane SAS 6/iR Storage x4 int. storage Yes—Max 1 0, 1 Integrated slot x4 int. (No tape or SSD support) SAS/ SATA SAS 5/iR Internal SAS Yes—Max 1 PCIe slot x4 int. — Adapter tape PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 44: Optical Drives

    External SCSI and SAS If the tape drive is not ordered with the system, a blank is installed in its place. T710 supports a number of internal tape backup options. Only half-height backup options are supported. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 45: Video

    Dell 13 Video The T710 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC6) incorporates an integrated video subsystem, connected to the 32-bit PCI interface of the ICH. This logic is based on the Matrox G200. The device only supports 2D graphics. The integrated video core shares its video memory with the iDRAC 128 MB DDR2 application space memory.

  • Page 46: Rack Information

    The T710 is not compatible with any other Dell rails including previous generation rails, but it does use the same rails as the T610. The T710 supports sliding rails only. Static rails are not supported.

  • Page 47: Cable Management Arm (Cma)

    ReadyRails Sliding *Requires the 2U Threaded Rack Adapter Brackets Kit (Dell part number PKCR1) Other factors to consider when deploying the T710 include the spacing between the front and rear mounting flanges of the rack, the type and location of any equipment mounted in the back of the rack such as power distribution units (PDUs), and the overall depth of the rack.

  • Page 48: Rack View

    T710 Mounted in the C1 Sliding Rails The T710 CMA can be mounted to either side of the rails without the use of tools or the need for conversion. Figure 12. T710 CMA Mounted on the Left Side PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 49: Operating Systems

    Dell 15 Operating Systems Refer to the following operating systems support information for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710:  Operating System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Systems on Dell.com  Dell PowerEdge T710 Systems Getting Started Guide on Support.Dell.com PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 50: Systems Management

    IT assets. Combining Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers with a wide selection of Dell developed systems management solutions gives you choice and flexibility, so you can simplify and save in IT environments of any size. To help you meet your server management demands, Dell offers Dell OpenManage™ systems management solutions for: •...

  • Page 51: Embedded Server Management

    Dell Unified Server Configurator (USC) is a graphical user interface (GUI) that aids in local server provisioning in a pre-OS environment. To access the Unified Server Configurator, press the <F10> key within 10 seconds of the Dell logo appearance during the system boot process. Table 21 details the current functionality enabled by the USC.

  • Page 52: Idrac Express

    16.8 iDRAC6 Enterprise with Virtual Flash (vFlash) Media The iDRAC6 Enterprise can be upgraded by adding the vFlash media card. This is an 8 GB Dell branded SD card that enables a persistent 256 MB virtual flash partition. The vFlash media delivers the following key features: ...

  • Page 53: Table 22. Features List For Base Management Functionality, Idrac, And Vflash Media

       (with proxy) Serial-over-LAN (no    proxy) Power capping    Last crash screen    capture Boot capture       Serial-over-LAN Virtual media   PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...
  • Page 54 Real-time Power    Monitoring    Real-time Power Graphing Historical Power    Counters Logging Features     System Event Log RAC Log    Trace Log   PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 55: Peripherals

    Dell 17 Peripherals The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710 supports the following USB devices:  DVD-ROM (bootable; requires two USB ports)  USB Key (bootable)  Keyboard (only one USB keyboard is supported)  Mouse (only one USB mouse is supported) PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 56: Appendix A. Statement Of Volatility

    Appendix A. Statement of Volatility The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710 contains both volatile and non-volatile (NV) components. Volatile components lose their data immediately upon removal of power from the component. Non-volatile components continue to retain their data even after the power has been removed from the component.
  • Page 57 Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation? Purpose? [boot code] Store power supply information How is data input to this memory? Programmed by the power supply manufacturer How is this memory write protected? Not write protected PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...
  • Page 58 OS based executable containing the firmware file and the loader. System loaded with arbitrary data in firmware memory would not operate. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...
  • Page 59 How is this memory write protected? Software write protected To obtain optional component information, please refer to the Dell Statement of Volatility for the individual components. Please direct any questions to your Dell Marketing contact. PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 60: Appendix B. Certifications

    OTAN – CKT Kenya KEBS Kuwait KUCAS Mexico NYCE or NOM Moldova INSM Nigeria SONCAP Norway NEMKO Russia GOST Saudi Arabia KSA ICCP South Africa NRCS Taiwan BSMI UKRTEST or Ukraine UKRSERTCOMPUTER United States NRTL Uzbekistan PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 61: Electromagnetic Compatibility

    The product has been certified and bears the Mark, as applicable, of the Ergonomics, Acoustics and Hygienics authorities as indicated in Table 26. Table 26. Ergonomics, Acoustics and Hygienics Country/Region Authority or Mark Belarus BELLIS Germany Russia GOST PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

  • Page 62: Additional Information And Options

    Dell Appendix C. Additional Information and Options The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710 system conforms to the industry standards detailed in Table 27. Table 27. Industry Standards Standard URL for Information and Specifications ACPI http://www.acpi.info/ Advance Configuration and Power Interface Specification, v2.0c Energy Star http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=archives.enterprise...
  • Page 63 Dell Standard URL for Information and Specifications http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ Universal Serial Bus Specification, Rev. 2.0 Windows Logo http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winlogo/hwrequirements. Windows Logo Program System mspx and Device Requirements, v3.10 PowerEdge T710 Technical Guide...

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