User Manual

Dell
PowerEdge R710 Technical Guide 8
Product Comparison
Overview
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 is a 2-socket 2U rack server that can help you operate efficiently and lower total
cost of ownership (TCO) with enhanced virtualization capabilities, improved energy efficiency, and innovative
system management tools.
Strong IT Foundation
You want a data center built for organic growth and the ability to scale based on your company’s changing
requirements. You need complete solutions that let you focus your time and money on managing and growing
your business. Dell responds with an expanding portfolio of enterprise servers, storage technologies, and
services with a single goal: to help you simplify IT.
Purposeful Design
With Dell’s system commonality, once your IT managers learn one system, they understand how to manage
next-generation Dell servers. Logical component layout and power supply placement provide a straightforward
installation and redeployment experience. The PowerEdge R710 provides an interactive LCD for system health
monitoring, alerting, and control of basic management as well as checking the AC power meter and ambient
temperature thermometer included with each server.
Enhanced Virtualization
Featuring embedded hypervisors, large memory capacity with 18 DIMM slots, and four integrated network
connections, the Dell PowerEdge R710 delivers better overall system performance and greater virtual machine-
per-server capacity. The latest Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor technology adapts to your software in real-time,
processing more tasks simultaneously. With optional factory-integrated virtualization capabilities, you get
tailored solutions that allow you to streamline deployment and simplify virtual infrastructures. Choose your
hypervisor from market leaders such as VMware
®
, Citrix
®
, and Microsoft
®
, and enable virtualization with a few
mouse clicks.
Energy-Optimized Technologies
The PowerEdge R710 reduces power consumption while increasing performance capacity versus previous
generation servers using Energy Smart technologies and standards-based components along with right-sized
efficient power supply units, improved system-level design efficiency, and policy-driven power and thermal
management. Dell’s advanced thermal control delivers optimal performance at minimal power consumption
without compromising enterprise performance.
Simplified Systems Management
The Dell OpenManage™ suite offers enhanced operations and standards-based commands designed to integrate
with existing systems for effective control.
Lifecycle Controller
Lifecycle Controller is the engine for advanced systems management integrated on the server. Lifecycle
Controller simplifies administrator tasks to perform a complete set of provisioning functions such as system
deployment, system updates, hardware configuration and diagnostics from a single intuitive interface called
Unified Server Configurator (USC) in a pre-OS environment. This eliminates the need to use and maintain
multiple pieces of disparate CD/DVD media.