Reference Guide

Statement of Volatility – Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s
The Statement of Volatility provides you the information related to volatile and non-volatile components of different configurations of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
Volatile components lose their data when power cord is removed from the system, whereas, non-volatile components continue to retain their data when the power has
been removed from the component.
The following table provides information of different configurations of the PowerEdge MX5016s.
Item
Non-
Volatile or
Volatile
Quantity
Reference
Designator
Size of
memory
Type of
memory
(e.g. Flash
PROM,
EEPROM)
Can user programs
or operating
system write data
to it during normal
operation?
What is the
Purpose?
(e.g. boot
code)
How is data
written to
this
memory?
How is
memory write-
protected?
How is memory
cleared?
Expander Board
NVSRAM
memory
Non-Volatile
1
U6
1 Mb
Flash
No
FW config data
Common Flash
memory
Interface (CFI)
Hardware
strapping
Not user clearable
Flash memory
Non-Volatile
1
U7
128 Mb
Flash
No
Firmware
Common Flash
memory
Interface (CFI)
Hardware
strapping
Not user clearable
CPLD SRAM
Non-Volatile
1
U_CPLD
64 Kb
SRAM
No
Power sequence
control
I2C interface via
PM8043
Not accessible
Not user clearable
FRU image
Non-Volatile
1
U_EXP1_EEPR
OM1
4 Kb
I2C EEPROM
No
FRU
I2C interface via
PM8043
Hardware
strapping
Not user clearable