Dell PowerEdge R630 Technical Manual

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7 PowerEdge R630 Technical GuideNew technologiesTable 1 lists the new technologies featured on the PowerEdge R630 server.Table 1. New technologiesNew technology Detailed descriptionIntel Xeon ProcessorE5-2600 v3 product familyThe Intel Xeon processor E-2600 v3 product family has embedded PCIe lanesfor improved I/O performance. See the Processor section for details.Intel C610 series chipset The R630 server uses the Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip.2133MT/s DDR4 memoryCertain models of the E5-2600 v3 processors support 2133MT/s memory. TheR630 supports three DIMMs per channel at 1866MT/s with these processors. Seethe Memory section for details.Next-generation PERCoptionsThe R630 supports the new PERC9 cards with improved functionality and fasterperformance. See the Storage section for details.PERC S130This new software RAID solution supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10, and supports amaximum of eight hot-plug SATA HDDs or SATA SSDs. See the Storage sectionfor details.iDRAC8 with LifecycleControllerThe new embedded systems management solution for Dell servers featureshardware and firmware inventory and alerting, data center level powermonitoring, faster performance and many more features. See the DellOpenManage systems management section for details.iDRAC Quick SyncThis is a new at-the-box management solution that allows mobile devices tosync with the PowerEdge server by touching an Android mobile device againstthe Quick Sync hardware located in the bezel to gather system informationincluding system status and logs. The mobile application also allows the user tomake changes to the system configuration.iDRAC DirectThe front USB port on R630 (marked with tool symbol) provides direct access tothe iDRAC GUI via a laptop browser. An A-to-A USB cable is required to use thisfeature. This port can also be used to upload xml configuration files to theiDRAC.Failsafe hypervisorsThe internal dual SD module enables Dell's unique Failsafe Virtualizationarchitecture, ensuring uptime by providing failover capability for embeddedhypervisors, such as VMware® vSphere® ESXi™. See the Supported virtualizationsection for details.Dell Fresh Air 2.0Dell has tested and validated select 13th generation PowerEdge servers thatoperate at higher temperatures helping you reduce your hours ofeconomization or even go chiller-less. See the Power, thermal and acousticssection for details.12Gb/s SASWith fourth-generation SAS (SAS-3), we will again see a doubling of interfacebandwidth, now reaching 12Gb/s. 12Gb/s SAS-3 addresses signal quality through“transmitter training.” This gives one of the receiver device’s key interconnects,its PHY, the ability to modify the settings of the transmitter device’s PHY.6Gb/s SATASATA revision 3.0 runs with a native transfer rate of 6Gb/s, and taking 8b/10bencoding into account, the maximum uncoded transfer rate is 4.8Gb/s(600MB/s). The theoretical burst throughput of SATA 3.0 is double that of SATArevision 2.0.