PowerEdge T110 II Technical Guide Ideal for collaboration, file sharing, and data protection, the T110 II is an ideal first server for small businesses.
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Table of Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Product Comparison ..........................................................................................6 1.1 Overview .................................................................................................... 6 1.2 Business Value .............................................................................................. 6 1.3 Easy Access.................................................................................................. 6 1.
7.1 Overview .................................................................................................. 25 7.2 DIMMs Supported ......................................................................................... 25 7.3 DIMM Slots ................................................................................................. 25 7.4 Speed ...................................................................................................... 25 7.5 Sparing ........................................
16.2 Server Management ...................................................................................... 41 16.3 Embedded Server Management ........................................................................ 41 16.3.1 Unified Server Configurator .................................................................... 41 16.3.2 Base Management Functionality ............................................................... 42 17 Peripherals .................................................................
1 Product Comparison 1.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T110 II is a powerful and reliable server in a tower form factor that is designed to deliver the right combination of performance, data protection and value. It is an ideal first server for small businesses considering or implementing desktop consolidation, file sharing, printer sharing or wishing to reduce software licensing charges.
1.5 Business Friendly Easy to install, tailorable to your specific requirements and offering room for growth, the PowerEdge T110 II is the ideal server for small businesses and for remote offices of larger organizations. Get the processing power your business demands with options from the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 product family, Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 V2 product family, Intel Pentium G600 and G800 series, and Intel Celeron G400 and G500 series.
Feature T110 (Predecessor) T110 II T310 External Drive Bays 2 x 5.25” 2 x 5.25” 2 x 5.
2 Key Technologies 2.1 Overview The PowerEdge T110 II uses the latest Intel® C202 chipset and supports the Intel Xeon® processor E3-1200 product family, Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 V2 product family, Intel Pentium G600 and G800 series, and Intel Celeron G400 and G500 series. Key technologies include the following: Significant performance improvement (up to 25%) over previous generation Twice the memory footprint at 32GB Direct Media Interface (DMI) Gen 2 Support for up to four 3.
3 System Information 3.1 Overview Table 2 summarizes the features for the PowerEdge T110 II. For the latest information on supported features, visit Dell.com. Table 2.
Feature Technical Specification Communications Optional add-in NICs : Broadcom NetXtreme® II 5722 Single Port Ethernet PCI-Express Network Interface Card Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 Dual Port Ethernet PCIe Card with TOE Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 Dual Port Ethernet PCIe Card with TOE and iSCSI Offload Intel PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter Intel Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter Power Supply Single cabled power supply (305W) Availability Quad-pack LED diagnostics, ECC memory, add-in RAID, TPM/TCM Video
4 Mechanical 4.1 Chassis Description The PowerEdge T110 II is a tower chassis design that supports the following features: Four 3.5” cabled hard drives or six 2.5” cabled hard drives Single non-redundant power supply Diagnostic LED panel 4.2 Dimensions and Weight *Note: Zb goes to the nominal rear wall external surface where the motherboard I/O connectors reside. Xa Xb Ya Yb Yc Za (with bezel) 189.35 N/A 417.90 420.3 N/A 37.50 Figure 1.
4.3 Front-Panel View and Features Figure 2 shows the front-panel view of the PowerEdge T110 II. Figure 2. Front-Panel View See the Front-Panel Features and Indicators section in the About Your System chapter of the PowerEdge T110 II Systems Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com for more information on features.
4.4 Back-Panel View and Features Figure 3 shows the back-panel view of the PowerEdge T110 II. Figure 3. Back-Panel View See the Back-Panel Features and Indicators section in the About Your System chapter of the PowerEdge T110 II Systems Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com for more information on features.
4.5 Internal-Chassis View Figure 4 shows the internal-chassis view of the PowerEdge T110 II. Figure 4. Internal-Chassis View 4.6 Power Indicator All Dell PowerEdge servers have a green LED integrated in the power button which indicates the system’s power state. Figure 5 shows the power button. Figure 5. Power Button 4.7 NIC Indicators See the NIC Indicator Codes section in the About Your System chapter of the PowerEdge T110 II Systems Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com for more information. 4.
4.10 LED Control Panel Figure 6 shows the LED control panel located on the front of the T110 II system. Figure 6. LED Control Panel For a complete description of LED indicators, their causes, and possible courses of action to take to resolve an error, see the Diagnostic Lights (Optional) section in the About Your System chapter in the PowerEdge T110 II Systems Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com. 4.
4.12 USB Key The PowerEdge T110 II has two internal USB keys. 4.13 Battery A replaceable coin cell CR2032 3V battery is mounted on the planar provides backup power for the Real-Time Clock and CMOS RAM on the PCH C202 chip. 4.14 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) The planar contains a 32K bit serial EEPROM to store FRU information including Dell part number, part revision level, and serial number.
5 Power, Thermal, Acoustic 5.1 Power Supplies The base PowerEdge T110 II system includes a single 305W power supply. This unit provides power to the planar, the internal hard drive bays, and the two 5.25” internal drive bays. Power is soft-switched, allowing power cycling using a switch on the front of the system enclosure or through software control (server management functions). The power system is compatible with industry standards, such as ACPI and Server 2000. 5.2 Power Supply Specifications Table 3.
5.4 Environmental Specifications Table 4 summarizes the environmental specifications for the PowerEdge T110 II. Table 4. Environmental Specifications Specification Operating Requirements Temperature Ranges (For altitude ≤ 900m or 2952.75ft) 10°C to 35°C (50°F to 95°F) Non-Operating Requirements -40°C to 65°C (-40°F to 149°F) 1 Temperature Ranges (For altitude > 900m or 2952.
Table 6 shows the shock and vibration specifications for the PowerEdge T110 II. Table 6. Shock and Vibration Specifications Maximum Vibration Operating 0.26Grms at 5–350Hz for 15 minutes Storage 1.88Grms at 10–500Hz for 15 minutes Maximum Shock Operating One shock pulse in the positive z axis (one pulse on each side of the system) of 31G for 2.
Hardware configurations affect system noise levels: Dell’s thermal control provides for cooling flexible to varying hardware configurations. Acoustical performances associated with two common configurations are listed in Table 7. Quiet office acoustics: Compare the values for LpA in Table 6 and note that they are lower than ambient measurements of typical office environments.
LpA-Op: A-Weighted sound pressure level. The system is placed in center of ISO7779 table, while the acoustic transducer is located 150 cm above the floor and 50 cm in front of the equipment. Prominent tones: Criteria of D.6 and D.11 of ECMA-74 11th ed. (2010) 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 3rd (2010), Section 8.6.2.
6 Processors 6.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ T110 II system is a 1-socket entry-level server, supporting the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 product family, Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 V2 product family, Intel Pentium® G600 and G800 series, and Intel Celeron® G400 and G500 series. 6.
Model Speed Power Cache Cores Threads Turbo Memory (MT/s) Process Intel Xeon E3-1280 v2 3.5GHz 69W 8MB 4 8 Yes 1600 22nm Intel Xeon E3-1270 v2 3.4GHz 69W 8MB 4 8 Yes 1600 22nm Intel Xeon E3-1240 v2 3.3GHz 69W 8MB 4 8 Yes 1600 22nm Intel Xeon E3-1230 v2 3.2GHz 69W 8MB 4 8 Yes 1600 22nm Intel Xeon E3-1220 v2 3.1GHz 69W 8MB 4 4 Yes 1600 22nm Intel Xeon E3-1220L v2 2.3GHz 17W 3MB 2 4 Yes 1600 22nm Intel Core i3-3220 3.
7 Memory 7.1 Overview The PowerEdge T110 II supports DDR3 memory, providing a high performance, high-speed memory interface capable of low latency response and high throughput. The T110 II supports unbuffered ECC DDR3 DIMMs (UDIMM). Key features of the T110 II memory system include: 2 channels per processor Support for UDIMM ECC DDR3 DIMMs DDR3 speeds of 1066/1333/1600MT/s 4 DIMM sockets (32GB maximum capacity) Support for single-rank and dual-rank DIMMs 7.
Table 9. Supported Memory Configurations System Capacity (GB) DIMM Capacity (GB) DIMM Quantity DIMM Type DIMM Speed (MT/s) Number of Channel Ranks per DIMM Memory Data Width Volts 2 1 2 UDIMM 1333 1 1 x8 1.35 4 1 4 UDIMM 1333 1 1 x8 1.35 1 1 1 UDIMM 1333 2 1 x8 1.35 2 2 1 UDIMM 1333 2 1 x8 1.35 4 2 2 UDIMM 1333 2 1 x8 1.35 4 4 1 UDIMM 1333 1 2 X8 1.35 8 2 4 UDIMM 1333 2 1 x8 1.35 8 4 2 UDIMM 1333 2 2 x8 1.
8 Chipset 8.1 Overview The PowerEdge T110 II planar incorporates the Intel® C200 Series PCH chipset. The features listed below are part of the chipset. 8.2 Direct Media Interface Direct Media Interface (DMI) is the chip-to-chip connection between the processor and C200 series chipset. This high-speed interface integrates advanced priority-based servicing allowing for concurrent traffic and true isochronous transfer capabilities.
8.8 Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) The chipset implements an SPI Interface as an alternative interface for the BIOS flash device. The chipset supports up to two SPI flash devices with speeds up to 20 MHz, 33 MHz utilizing two chip select pins. 8.9 Compatibility Module The DMA controller incorporates the logic of two 82C37 DMA controllers, with seven independently programmable channels.
8.13 GPIO Various general purpose inputs and outputs are provided for custom system design. The number of inputs and outputs varies depending on C200 series configuration. 8.14 Enhanced Power Management The C200 series power management functions include enhanced clock control and various low-power (suspend) states (for example, Suspend-to-RAM and Suspend-to-Disk). A hardware-based thermal management circuit permits software-independent entrance to low-power states.
8.17 Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O The chipset provides hardware support for implementation of Intel Virtualization Technology with Directed I/O (Intel VT-d). Intel VT-d Technology consists of technology components that support the virtualization of platforms based on Intel Architecture Processors. Intel VT-d Technology enables multiple operating systems and applications to run in independent partitions.
9 BIOS 9.1 Overview The PowerEdge T110 II BIOS supports ACPI and power management features. 9.2 Supported ACPI States The PowerEdge T110 II BIOS is compliant with ACPI version 2.0a. 9.2.1 Power Management Power management features come in two types: fixed or generic. Fixed features use bits defined in the ACPI specification for specific capabilities.
Feature Type Enable/Status/ Ctrl bit location Description USB Wake Generic N/A This feature is not supported on this system since the S1 state is not supported. DBS N/A Processor MSRs This feature handles P state transition under Windows. C State Support N/A Processor and PCH registers This feature allows multiple Cstate support for the processor. This feature will work under Windows and an ACPI OS that understands C states.
10 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM) 10.1 Overview The PowerEdge T110 II has an embedded dual-port Gigabit Ethernet controller. The embedded Broadcom® 5722 LAN controller is on the T110 II planar as an independent Gigabit Ethernet interface device. There is one RJ-45 connector on the back of the system. The firmware for the LOM chip resides in a flash part. The PowerEdge T110 II supports Wake-On-LAN (WOL) from either port. The Broadcom 5722 chip supports IPv6. 10.
11 PCI Slots 11.1 Overview The PowerEdge T110 II planar provides four PCI Express expansion slots as follows: Two x8 PCIe Gen2 slots for full-height cards, connected to the CPU One x4 PCIe Gen2 slot for a full-height card, connected to the PCH One x1 PCIe Gen2 slot for a full-height card, connected to the PCH The system supports 25 W maximum power for all four PCIe cards. 11.
12 Storage 12.1 Overview The PowerEdge T110 II supports up to four 3.5” internal hard drives or up to six 2.5” internal hard drives. The following drive configurations are supported: 4 x 3.5” cabled SATA from motherboard SATA connector 4 x 3.5” cabled SAS or SATA with add-on storage controller 6 x 2.5” cabled SAS with add-on storage controller 12.2 Hard Drives Table 9 lists the supported hard drives for the PowerEdge T110 II. For the latest information on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com.
Non Mixed drives, all SATA or all SAS Factory Configuration Configuration Type SAS/SATA RAID No hard drive Configuration Description Min HDD Max HDD 5 MSTR10CBL Embedded SATA SW RAID—RAID 10 4 4 6a ASSCBL Add-in SAS/SATA RAID card, No RAID (PERC S300) with 1 hard drive 1 1 6b ASSCBL Add-in SAS/SATA RAID card, No RAID (PERC S300) with 2 hard drives 2 2 6c ASSCBL Add-in SAS/SATA RAID card, No RAID (PERC S300) with above 2 hard drives 3 6 7a ASSR0CBL Add-in SAS/SATA RAID card, RAI
12.5 Optical Drives The PowerEdge T110 II supports two internal optical drives and an optional external USB DVD-ROM. The T110 II is able to boot from any internal optical drive. The following internal optical drives configurations are available on the PowerEdge T110 II: No optical drive configuration DVD-ROM (SATA) DVD+RW (SATA) 12.6 Tape Drives Internal and external tape drives and tape libraries are supported. For more information on supported tape drives and tape libraries, see Dell.com/Storage.
13 Video The PowerEdge T110 II includes a Matrox® G200eW with 8 MB memory integrated in Winbond® WPCM450 (BMC controller). Supported resolutions are listed in Table 13. Table 13. Resolution Graphics Video Modes Refresh Rate (Hz) Color Depth (bit) 640 x 480 60, 72, 75, 85 8, 16, 32 800 x 600 60, 72, 75, 85 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 75, 85 8, 16 60 32 60, 75, 85 8, 16 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 1 1280 x 10242 1 32 bit color only supported at 60Hz for this resolution.
14 Rack Information Dell does not provide rack support for the PowerEdge T110 II. However, the system can be placed in a rack enclosure using a 3rd party tray.
15 Operating Systems For detailed information, see the following: Operating System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Systems on Dell.com Dell PowerEdge T110 II Systems Getting Started Guide on Support.Dell.
16 Systems Management 16.1 Overview Dell delivers open, comprehensive, and integrated solutions that help you reduce the complexity of managing disparate 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.
Feature Description Faster System Updates Integration with Dell support automatically directed to latest versions of the Unified Server Configurator, RAID, BIOS, NIC, and power supply. Update Rollback Ability to recover to previous “known good state” for all updatable components. More Comprehensive Diagnostics Diagnostic utilities are embedded on system.
17 Peripherals The PowerEdge T110 II supports the following USB devices: DVD (bootable; requires two USB ports) USB key (bootable) Keyboard (only one USB keyboard is supported) Mouse (only one USB mouse is supported) PowerEdge T110 II Technical Guide 43
Appendix A. Statement of Volatility The Dell PowerEdge T110 II 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. Components chosen as user-definable configuration options (those not soldered to the motherboard) are not included in the Statement of Volatility.
LOM (LAN [Network Interface] on Motherboard) Memory Details Size: 4Mb (512KB) Type [Flash PROM, EEPROM]: Flash Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation? Yes, under software control. Purpose? [boot code] Contains LOM boot code and config data How is data input to this memory? Requires vendor provided firmware file and loader program used during factory assembly or possible field update. A system loaded with arbitrary data in firmware memory would not operate.
Server BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) Firmware Flash Memory Details Size: 16MB Flash Type [Flash PROM, EEPROM]: SPI Flash Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation? No Purpose? [boot code] Stores the BMC Firmware How is data input to this memory? Loading flash memory requires a vendor provided firmware file and loader program which is executed by booting up the system from a floppy or OS based executable containing the firmware file and the loader.
Appendix B. Certifications B 1. Regulatory Certifications Regulatory compliance certificates can be located at the following sites: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/about_dell/values/regulatory_compliance /dec_conform?c=us&l=en&s=corp B 2. Product Safety Certifications The product has been certified and bears the Mark, as applicable, of the Product Safety authorities as indicated in Table 16. Table 16.
B 3. Electromagnetic Compatibility The product has been certified and bears the Mark, as applicable, of the EMC authorities as indicated in Table 17. Table 17.
Appendix C. Industry Standards The PowerEdge T110 II system conforms to the industry standards detailed in Table 19. Table 19. Industry Standards Standard URL for Information and Specifications ACPI Advance Configuration and Power Interface Specification, v2.0c http://www.acpi.info/ Energy Star EPA Version 1.0 of the Computer Server specification http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=archives.enterprise _servers Ethernet IEEE 802.3-2005 http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.3.
Standard URL for Information and Specifications USB Universal Serial Bus Specification, Rev. 2.0 http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ Windows Logo Windows Logo Program System and Device Requirements, v3.10 http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winlogo/hwrequirements.