Dell PowerEdge R715 Technical Manual

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DellPowerEdge R715 Technical Guide 71 Product Comparison1.1 OverviewThe Dell™ PowerEdge™ R715 is a 2-socket rack server offering the latest AMD Opteron™ processors,designed to handle your most demanding workloads with superior stability, efficiency and long-termvalue.Dell aims to bring value to your business by including the features and technology you need for yourspecific IT environment. Our goal is to deliver performance-driven, intelligent platforms based onindustry standards and purposeful, innovative design.1.1.1 Superior Reliability Inspired by YouWe’ve designed the PowerEdge R715 for optimal reliability and ease of use, incorporating customer-inspired features that range from robust metal hard-drive carriers and industrial-quality materials toembedded diagnostics and an interactive LCD screen. The PowerEdge R715 also includes an internaldual SD module to provide failover at the hypervisor level.1.1.2 Technology and Design that goes the DistanceWe have listened to our customers and built servers endowed with reliability, availability, andquality. Dell’s reliability promise is simple: Deliver quality products that stand the test of time.To help meet your needs in the data center and beyond, we’re dedicated to improving serverreliability processes by: Utilizing robust, durable industrial materials to enable longer product lifecycles Introducing a Unified Server Configurator (USC), which helps to minimize downtime byoffering embedded and persistent diagnostics with no media required Improving redundancy generation over generation with features such as an internal dual SDmodule that provide failover at the hypervisor level Implementing a one-touch quality-control process to ensure that one person is responsible forthe entire server build Ensuring that every fully configured Dell server is tested—and re-tested—before it leaves thefactory1.1.3 Efficient for your EnvironmentPowerEdge servers drive energy efficiency as a design standard without compromising theperformance you need to meet cost and environmental goals. Built with Energy Smart technologies,Dell servers can better help manage power in your specific environment.The PowerEdge R715 features highly efficient fans that help to conserve energy by spinning inaccordance with server workload demands. In addition, the internal shrouding and logical layout ofinternal components aid with airflow direction, helping to cool the server.The PowerEdge R715 also includes power-management features such as programmable voltageregulators, power-regulating processors and an interactive LCD screen for easy access to power-consumption information.