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PowerEdge R815
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  • Page 1 PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide Ideal for virtualization, medium-sized databases, high- performance computing, and other highly threaded application implementations.
  • Page 2 ESX and ESXi are trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products. Dell disclaims proprietary interest in the marks and names of others.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Environmental Specifications................. 23 ENERGY STAR Compliance ................24 Thermal....................24 Acoustics ....................24 Processors ..................... 26 Overview ....................26 Features ....................26 AMD Opteron 6200 Series Processors ..............27 AMD Opteron 6300 Series Processors ..............27 PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...
  • Page 4 Optical Drives ................... 41 11.5 Tape Drives ..................... 41 Video ......................42 Rack Information ..................... 43 13.1 Overview ....................43 13.2 Rails ...................... 43 13.3 Cable Management Arm (CMA) ............... 45 13.4 Rack View ....................45 PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...
  • Page 5 Appendix B. Certifications ..................61 Appendix C. Additional Information and Options ............62 Tables Comparison of PowerEdge R815, R905, and R810 Servers ........8 Table 1. Product Features Summary ................ 10 Table 2. Power Supply Status ................15 Table 3.

  • Page 6: Side View

    Figure 10. 2U Threaded Rack Adapter Brackets Kit ............44 Figure 11. R815 Mounted in the B2 Sliding Rails ............45 Figure 12. R815 CMA Mounted on the Side Opposite the Power Supplies (Recommended)..46 Figure 13. PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 7: Product Comparison

    Purpose-built to provide a reliable foundation and balanced with the latest AMD Opteron processor technology optimized for stability, consistency, and outstanding price for performance, the Dell PowerEdge R815 is designed from the ground up for value and performance. It is an ideal platform for customers looking to maximize data center space and budget.

  • Page 8: Intelligent, Connected Systems Management

    The Dell Lifecycle Controller (an integrated chip) is the engine for advanced embedded management that is delivered as part of the iDRAC6 Express or optional iDRAC6 Enterprise in the PowerEdge R815. It is accessed through a single console called the Unified Server Configurator. Administrators can simplify tasks by performing a complete set of provisioning functions such as system deployment, system updates, hardware configuration, and diagnostics in the pre-OS environment.
  • Page 9 Dell Feature R815 R905 (predecessor) R810 Fans Chassis PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 10: System Overview

    Dell 2 System Overview Table 2 lists a summary of features for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815. For the latest information on supported features, visit Dell.com. Product Features Summary Table 2. Feature Technical Specification Form Factor 2U rack Processors AMD Opteron™ 6100, 6200, and 6300 series processors...
  • Page 11 Two hot-pluggable redundant 1100W power supplies Hot-plug hard drives, hot-plug redundant power, dual SD modules, ECC memory, Availability interactive LCD screen ® Video Matrox G200eW with 8MB memory iDRAC6 Express (standard), iDRAC6 Enterprise, Remote Management and vFlash media (upgrade optional) PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...
  • Page 12 Dell Feature Technical Specification BMC, IPMI 2.0 compliant Dell™ OpenManage™ featuring Dell Management Console Unified Server Configurator Systems Management Lifecycle Controller enabled: iDRAC6 Express, optional iDRAC6 Enterprise, and vFlash media ® Microsoft System Center Essential (SCE) 2010 v2 ReadyRails™ sliding rails with optional cable management arm for 4-post racks...

  • Page 13: Mechanical

    Dell 3 Mechanical 3.1 Chassis Description The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815 is a rack mount 2U chassis that provides the following features: • Slide-out drive bay section to allow servicing of DIMMs below drives • Updated industrial design including a new LCD, bezel, and hard drive carriers •...

  • Page 14: Back Panel View And Features

    The base redundant system consists of two hot-plug 1100 W power supplies in a 1+1 configuration. PowerEdge R815 power supplies have embedded cooling fans. The PSUs have one status bi-color LED: green for AC power present and amber for a fault.

  • Page 15: Nic Indicators

    DC Power is applied to the system PSU mismatch (when hot- ↔ plugged/swapped) 3.6 NIC Indicators See the NIC Indicator Codes section in the About Your System chapter in the PowerEdge R815 Hardware Owner’s Manual. 3.7 Side View Side View Figure 5.

  • Page 16: Internal Chassis View

    4-post Racks support the following: • Toolless installation in 19” EIA-310-E compliant square or unthreaded round hole 4-post racks including all Dell 42xx & 24xx racks o NOTE: Threaded 4-post racks require the static ReadyRails™ kit or 3 party conversion kits available through Dell Software &...

  • Page 17: Cabling

    2-wire SATA device power cable o 5-wire USB data cable o 2x7 Backplane power cable • ZIF-connected LCD cable • Optional cable for Internal Dual SD module Figure 7 shows a cabling diagram for the PowerEdge R815. PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 18: Lcd Control Panel

    ACPI-compliant power button with an integrated green power LED (controlled by iDRAC6) • 128x20 pixel LCD panel with controls o Two navigation buttons o One select button o One system ID button • Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) button (recessed) • Ambient temperature sensor PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 19: Security

    3.13.2 Bezel A metal bezel is mounted to the chassis front to provide the Dell ID. A lock on the bezel is used to protect un-authorized access to system peripherals and the control panel. System status via the LCD is viewable even when the bezel is installed.

  • Page 20: Tpm

    ESM. When enabled, the software can provide notification to the customer that the cover has been opened. PowerEdge R815 only supports up to five minutes of operation with the cover off.

  • Page 21: Battery

    RAID battery is available. 3.16 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) Both planars contain a serial EEPROM to contain FRU information including Dell part number, part revision level, and serial number. The iDRAC6 Enterprise contains a FRU EEPROM. The backplane SEP and the power supply microcontroller are also used to store FRU data.

  • Page 22: Power, Thermal, Acoustic

    CPU planar and IO planar via Air-max connector. P ower Efficiency 4 2 B One of the main features of PowerEdge servers is enhanced power efficiency. The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815 achieves higher power efficiency by implementing the following features: •...

  • Page 23: Power Supply Specifications

    Half sine shock on all six sides of 71 G +/- 5% with a pulse duration of 2 ms +/-10% Square wave shock on all six sides of 27 G with velocity change @ 235 in/sec or greater PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 24: Energy Star Compliance

    Sound quality is different from sound power level and sound pressure level in that it describes how humans respond to annoyances in sound, like whistles, hums, etc. One of the sound quality metrics in the Dell specification is prominence ratio of a tone as shown in Table 6. PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 25: Acoustical Performance For 4-Socket Configuration

    Prominent tone: Criteria of D.5 and D.8 of ECMA-74 9th ed. (2005) are followed to determine if discrete tones are prominent. The system is placed in a rack with its bottom at 75 cm from the floor. The acoustic transducer is at front bystander position, ref ISO7779 (1999) Section 8.6.2. PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 26: Processors

    64-bit and 32-bit applications and operating systems. The G34 processor utilizes a 1944-contact Organic Land Grid Array (OLGA) package that plugs into a surface-mount socket (Socket-G34). The PowerEdge R815 provides support for up to four G34 processors. See Table 7. G34 Processor Features Table 7.

  • Page 27: Amd Opteron 6200 Series Processors

    BIOS allows you to disable or enable processor cores. The cores will remain as defined after a reboot. 5.5 Supported Processors Table 8 and Table 9 list the supported processors for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815. For the most up- to-date listings of supported processors, refer to Dell.com. Supported AMD Opteron 6100 Series Processors Table 8.

  • Page 28: Supported Amd Opteron 6300 Series Processors

    Speed Power Cache Cores 6386SE 2.8GHz 140W 16MB 6380 2.5GHz 115W 16MB 6378 2.4GHz 115W 16MB 6376 2.3GHz 115W 16MB 6348 2.8GHz 115W 16MB 6344 2.6GHz 115W 16MB 6328 3.2GHz 115W 16MB 6320 2.8GHz 115W 16MB PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 29: Processor Configurations

    16MB 6366HE 1.8GHz 16MB 5.6 Processor Configurations The PowerEdge R815 supports 4x G34 sockets and AMD SR5650, SR5670, and SP5100 chipsets with the following configurations: • 2P configurations of G34 processors (85W, 115W, 140W) • 4P configuration of G34 processors up to 115W 4P configurations with 140W processors will halt on post.

  • Page 30: Memory

    RDIMMs for single/dual/quad rank or two UDIMMs. Each channel is capable of supporting up to two DDR3 memory modules. For more information, see the System Memory section in the Installing System Components chapter of the PowerEdge R815 Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals.

  • Page 31: Sparing

    Memory sparing is supported. Sparing requires a fully populated memory configuration (2P = 16 DIMMs, 4P = 32 DIMMs). 6.6 Mirroring Mirroring is not supported. 6.7 RAID Memory RAID is not supported. 6.8 Supported Configurations For the most up-to-date information on supported memory configurations, visit Dell.com. PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 32: Chipset

    PCI Express Generation 2. The chipset consists of the SR5650, SR5670, and SP5100. 7.2 AMD I/O Bridges The PowerEdge R815 I/O Board uses the AMD SR5650 and SR5670 I/O Bridges (IOBs) to provide links between the G34 processor(s) and I/O components. The main components of the I/O controllers are configured to use two x16 HyperTransport 3 link (to CPU1 and CPU2), up to 46 lanes of PCI Express Gen 2, a x4 PCI-E Gen 1 Southbridge Interface (SB Link) and an integrated IOAPIC.
  • Page 33 Five OHCI (full-speed 1.1) and two EHCI (high-speed 2.0) USB host controllers, with up to 12 USB general purpose ports and 2 USB embedded ports (PowerEdge R815 uses six of these ports for internal and external use from the general purpose ports) •...

  • Page 34: Bios

    Dell 8 BIOS 8.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and supports the following features: • G34 support • Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support • PCI 2.3 compliant • Plug-and-play 1.0a compliant • MP (Multiprocessor) 1.4 compliant •...

  • Page 35: Maximum Performance

    DAPC provides a solution when there otherwise would not be one. 8.3.3 Maximum Performance The Maximum Performance Mode disables power management. In this mode, the processor frequency is statically set to the highest supported frequency. PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 36: Embedded Nics/Lan On Motherboard (Lom)

    Dell 9 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM) 9.1 Overview Two embedded Broadcom 5709C dual-port LAN controllers are on the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815 planar as independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. Features of the LAN devices include: • x4 PCI Express Gen2 capable interface •...

  • Page 37: O Slots

    See Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers section in the Installing System Components chapter of the PowerEdge R815 Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815 includes a total of 6 PCI slots that reside on the IO planar and two riser cards.

  • Page 38: Boot Order

    10.5 PCI Card Dimensions For information about PCIe slots and card dimensions, see the Back-Panel Features and Indicators section in the About Your System chapter of the PowerEdge R815 Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 39: Storage

    Dell 11 Storage 11.1 Overview Table 11 lists the hard drives supported by the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815. Table 12 lists the supported RAID configurations. Drives Table 13. Form Factor Capacity (GB) Speed Type 2.5” 50, 100 SSD (SATA) 2.5” 160, 250, 500 7.2K...

  • Page 40: Storage Controllers

    (SAS, SATA, or SSD HDD). PowerEdge R815 supports 512MB cache on the internal H700. 11.2.3 PERC H800 PowerEdge R815 can support up to two PERC H800 adapter cards for access to external SAS direct- attach storage. Features of the PERC H800 include: • LSI 2108 (Liberator) ROC •...

  • Page 41: Led Indicators

    PowerEdge R815 Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. 11.4 Optical Drives Optical drives are optional in all PowerEdge R815 systems and connect to the planar via the SATA interface. The following internal slim-line drives are available on PowerEdge R815: DVD-ROM and DVD+RW.

  • Page 42: Video

    The integrated video core shares its video memory with the iDRAC6’s 128 MB DDR2 application space memory. This memory is also used for the KVM buffer. The PowerEdge R815 system supports the 2D graphics video modes shown in Table 14. 2D Graphics Video Modes Table 16.

  • Page 43: Rack Information

    • Mounting in 2-post racks is not supported. • The CMA is not supported on racks that are less than 1m in depth including Dell’s 4200 and 2400 racks. 13.2 Rails The ReadyRails sliding rails for the R815 support tool-less mounting in 19”-wide, EIA-310-E compliant square hole and unthreaded round hole racks and are available with or without the optional cable management arm (CMA).

  • Page 44: Supported Racks

    ReadyRails Sliding *Requires the 2U Threaded Rack Adapter Brackets Kit (Dell PN PKCR1) Other factors to consider when deploying the R815 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 45: Cable Management Arm (Cma)

    J-slots in the inner rail members with the rails in the fully extended position. See Figure 12. Figure 12. R815 Mounted in the B2 Sliding Rails PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 46: Figure 13. R815 Cma Mounted On The Side Opposite The Power Supplies (Recommended)

    Figure 13. Figure 13. R815 CMA Mounted on the Side Opposite the Power Supplies (Recommended) PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 47: Operating Systems And Virtualization

    Dell 14 Operating Systems and Virtualization For detailed information, see the following: • Operating System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Systems on Dell.com • Dell PowerEdge R815 Systems Getting Started With Your System guide on Support.Dell.com/Manuals PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 48: 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: Deployment of one or many servers from a single console •...

  • Page 49: Embedded Server Management

    Lifecycle Controller enables pre-OS server deployment, OS installation, platform updates, platform configuration, and diagnostics capabilities. 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.

  • Page 50: Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller

    15.8 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 51: Table 20. Features List For Base Management Functionality, Idrac, And Vflash Media

     SSL Encryption    Remote Management and Remediation Remote Firmware     Update Server power     control Serial-over-LAN     (with proxy) Serial-over-LAN (no    PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...
  • Page 52    Real-time Power Monitoring Real-time Power    Graphing Historical Power    Counters Logging Features System Event Log        RAC Log Trace Log   PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 53: Peripherals

    USB Key (bootable) • Keyboard (only one USB keyboard is supported) • Mouse (only one USB mouse is supported) 16.2 External Storage D ata Storage & Backup on Dell.com for information about external storage and tape drives available. PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 54: Appendix A. Statement Of Volatility

    Statement of Volatility. Configuration option information (pertinent to options such as microprocessors, system memory, remote access controllers, and storage controllers) is available by component separately. Table 19 details the NV components present in the PowerEdge R815 server. Statement of Volatility Table 21.
  • Page 55 Purpose? [boot code] iDRAC boot loader and configuration (i.e. MAC address), Lifecycle log. How is data input to this memory? Data pre-programmed or update using Dell utility which is a DOS or Windows or Linux based executable containing firmware file and loader...
  • Page 56 PPID, MAC addresses etc. How is data input to this memory? For SEL, BMC writes to it. For FRU, data is pre-programmed or using Dell utility at ICT/Functional Tester during board assembly How is this memory write protected? Software write protected.

  • Page 57: Table

    Remarks Need AC cycle after updating CPLD 2 CPLD with 2280 on I/O board (CPLD1 – master) & 1200 on CPU board (CPLD2 – slave) Broadcom 5709C LAN On Motherboard (2 Details controllers on I/O board) PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...
  • Page 58 750W Emerson: ?KB FLASH with ? Bytes RAM 750W Delta: ?K with ?? Bytes RAM Type: [Flash PROM, EEPROM]: FLASH Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation? Does it retain data when powered off? PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...
  • Page 59 How is data input to this memory? FRU data pre-programmed by the PSU vendors. PSU firmware can be updated by Dell provided update package How is this memory write protected? Software write protected...
  • Page 60 In addition to these, there are four external ports and one internal USB port on the R815 where a user can install a USB flash memory. 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.

  • Page 61: 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 Electromagnetic Compatibility PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 62: Additional Information And Options

    Hygienics authorities as indicated in Table 22. Ergonomics, Acoustics and Hygienics Table 24. Country/Region Authority or Mark Belarus BELLIS Germany Russia GOST Appendix C. Additional Information and Options PowerEdge R815 systems conform to the industry standards detailed in Table 23. PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

  • Page 63: Table 25. Industry Standards

    Protocol Specification, v1.1 http://www.t10.org/cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=f&f=sas1r10.pdf Serial Attached SCSI, v1.1 SATA http://sata-io.org/ Serial ATA Rev. 2.6; SATA II, Extensions to SATA 1.0a, Rev. 1.2 SMBIOS http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios/ System Management BIOS Reference Specification, v2.6 http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/resources/tpm_mai n_specification Trusted Platform Module Specification, v1.2 PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...
  • Page 64 Dell UEFI http://www.uefi.org/specs/ Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification, v2.1 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 mspx System and Device Requirements, v3.10 PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide...

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