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1. 37 Table 14 Supported Memory Configurations esesseeseeeeenenee eene nnns 38 Table 15 ACPI Wake Up Events and States nennen nennt nnns 44 Table 16 Power Management 45 Table 17 Current Power Profiles that 11G BIOS will Expose in BIOS 46 Table 18 PCle Slot Specilication e RC nae ter o o 47 Table 19 Quantities and Priorities eode tte hene Fen ceu UN 48 Table 20 External Controller Cards 0 49 Table 21 PCI Card xu d dad Ni ure stad d 49 Table 22 PowerEdge T310 Drives ii nione e te eren Ote He dd eos 50 Table 253 Paid Conngiralion Puede breit rri Dev Rc hoe os 51 Table 24 OS Editions Not Supported by PERC S100 and 5300 52 Table 252 Microsoft OS SuUpPOM cse tree e eae ek a ERREUR Lett P OD pad 56 Table 25 MENUS OS Supp ee tret GN oa ak ask tact doris acd sd DA 57 Table 27 Supported Virtualizaiori amp Je iu IE E peek vtr lov pela Od en denis ie 58 Table 28 Unified Server Configur
2. 38 7 8 Supported Configurations Pe Loc E OE 38 MEOS E AWA NAA 40 8 1 eM 40 8 2 Direct Media Interface DMI de teer pls la pid ore eu rites deat rri iain 40 8 3 PCI 40 8 4 c M 40 8 5 Advanced Host Controller Interface AHCI 40 8 6 Intel Rapid Storage Techriology ust tee ret ee Pasce 40 8 7 a e erige 41 8 8 Low Pin Count LPC Interface 41 8 9 Serial Peripheral Interface 41 8 10 Compatibility Module DMA Controller Timer Counters Interrupt Controller 41 811 Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 41 8 12 Universal Serial Bus USB 0 0 recette ode eU Lb tuerunt 42 8 13 Real Time Glock R Ty eret x obe RR Reb Pu t Dena ois 42 8 14 General Purpose Inputs and Outputs 42 8 15 Enhanced Power 42 8 16 Chipset Management 42 8 17 System Management Bus SMBUS 2 0 80 43 9 18 Imtel AntizTFieft Technology iter rode r
3. Chassis Dimensions PowerEdge T310 SATA amp SAS SAS 6i R RAID 0 1 SATA 8 SAS PERC 6 i RAID 0 1 5 6 10 SATA SAS amp SSD PERC H200 RAID 0 1 10 SATA SAS amp SSD PERC H700 RAID 0 1 5 6 10 SATA SAS amp SSD PowerEdge T300 Predecessor PowerEdge T410 Next level up 2x GbE LOM 2x GbE LOM 2x GbE LOM Optional various NIC available 4rear 2front 2internal 2rear 2front 1 internal 2 front 4 rear 2 internal Non Redundant 375W 80 Bronze Optional Redundant 400W 80 Silver Non Redundant 490W Redundant PSU Option 528W Non Redundant 525W 80 SILVER Optional Redundant 580W 80 GOLD Auto Ranging 100V 240V Non redundant non hot swappable Non redundant non hot swappable Non redundant non hot swappable Tower Tower Tower 440 x 218 x 521 mm w foot bezel 17 3 x 8 6 x 20 5 in 444x 210x 610 mm 217 48 x 8 27 x 24 01 in 444 9 x 217 9 x 616 8 mm w foot bezel 17 52 x 8 58 x 24 28 in Max 23 5kg 25 4kg 62 611 5 28 4Kg PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell 2 New Technologies 2 1 Overview A number of new technologies are used in the PowerEdge 1310 including New Intel 1 Socket platform Xeon 3400 series processor Intel desktop processor Intel 3420 chipset Intel desktop processors e Intel Core i3 540 3 06GHz 2C AM e Intel Core 530 2
4. HDD HDD ___ Cabled SAS SAT C9 eee Add in SAS SATA 2 RAID card RAID 0 SAS 6 iR H200 SERO 6 i or H700 0 ASSR1C Add in SAS SATA 2 BL RAID card RAID 1 SAS 6 iR H200 PERC 6 i or H700 aa Cabled SAS SAT C11 ASSR5C Add in SAS SATA 3 4 BL RAID card RAID 5 PERC 6 i or H700 8 Cabled SAS SAT A Cabled SAS SAT 2 ASSR6C Add in SAS SATA 4 A BL RAID card RAID 6 RAID6 PERC 6 i or H700 Cabled SAS SAT A RAID10 ASSR10 Add in SAS SATA CBL RAID card RAID 10 Must be all 3 5 HDD or 2 5 HDD PERC 6 i H200 or Must be all SAS or all SATA or all SSD No Mixed HDD allowed SSD support requires PERC 6 l H200 or H700 e PERC 5100 and PERC 5300 do not support Linux OS or VMWare or the Virtualization solutions shown in Table 24 Notes Table 24 OS Editions Not Supported by PERC S100 and S300 05 Edition Microsoft Hyper V server 2008 X64 download from web Windows Server 2008 x64 hyper V role enabled Windows Server 2008 SP2 X64 hyper V role enabled Windows Server 2008 R2 X64 hyper V role enabled Win7 includes SP2 bits PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 52 Dell 11 3 1 Back Up Drives Tape Tape drives are optional and connect to the planar via SATA SCSI controller card SAS controller card IDE tape drive is no longer supported The following tape drives are available for usage on the PowerEdge 1710 e Internal
5. 4KB ROM iDRAC6 Controller RAM Y U IBMC 1 8KB RAM memo v vero __ BM iDRAC6 Express Internal past Y 1GB NAND FLASH TPM ID EEPROM Plug in module only Y U SEEPROM 256B EEPROM TPM Binding EEPROM on China planar only Y U1H1 1 256B EEPROM iDRAC6 SDRAM Y U IBMC MEM 1 128MB DDR2 RAM iDRAC6 Boot Block Flash Y U IBMC SPI 1 2MB FLASH NOR PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 66 up to 6 DIMMs System RAM Y 8GB RAM Dell Non Volatile Reference Volatile RAM Designator Size Type Trusted Y N U_TPM Platform Module 1 128 bytes EEPROM Chipset 2508 Battery backed RAM 2 5 Backplane or 3 5 Backplane Storage Y U SEP Controller Embedded Microcontroller Processor 1 32KB Flash Control Panel Internal USB Y 05 connector License key hard set ROM 1 User selectable or user choice Internal SD Y J SDCARD Module Connector User selectable 1 1GB shipped Secure Digital NAND Flash Power Supply Maximum PSU Varies by part supported Embedded microcontroller Microcontroller number 2MB per PSU flash iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Y J SD connector 1 Secure Digital NAND Flash PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 67 Dell Table 32 Volatility Data Writing and Purpose Can user programs or Purpose operating system write data to it during normal operation Planar System BIOS SPI Boot Code System Configuration Information EUFI Flash No envir
6. 63 Dell 18 Packaging Options PowerEdge 1310 is single pack only Table 30 Dimensions and Weight INSIDE DIMENSIONS OUTSIDE DIMENSIONS WEIGHT Length 74 6cm 29 38 Length 76 2cm 30 0 System packed out weight Width 60 3cm 23 75 Width 61 9cm 24 38 PowerEdge T310 23 5kg 51 8165 Depth 42 2cm 16 63 Depth 45 4cm 17 88 Cushion 0 8200 1 8165 Corrugated Box 4 26kg 9 4165 Total Weight 28 58kg 63 0 Ibs Figure 21 Packaging Diagram PowerEdge 310 Technical Guide 64 Dell Appendix A Regulatory Certifications The PowerEdge T310 meets the requirements outlined in the EMC Product Safety and Environmental parts of Dell Compliance Design Standard Dell P N ENG0002520 Regulatory Model E09S Regulatory Type E09S001 ENVIRONMENTAL Product Safety EMC and Environmental Datasheet are available at http www dell com content topics global aspx about dell values regulatory compliance dec conform c us amp lzen amp s corp PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 65 Dell Appendix B PowerEdge T310 Volatility Tables The tables that follow provide detailed information regarding PowerEdge T310 volatility Table 31 PowerEdge T310 Volatility Non Volatile Reference t Volatile RAM Designator y Sie Type Planar System BIOS Flash EEPROM SPI SPI Flash Y U15 1 4MB interface LOM Configuration Data Y U21 1 512KB FLASH NOR iDRAC6 Controller ROM U_IBMC 1
7. the Intel 3420 supports a serial interrupt scheme All of the registers in these modules can be read and restored This is required to save and restore system state after power has been removed and restored to the platform 8 11 Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller APIC In addition to the standard ISA compatible Programmable Interrupt Controller PIC described in the previous section the Intel 3420 incorporates the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller APIC PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 41 Dell 8 12 Universal Serial Bus USB Controllers The Intel 3420 contains up to two Enhanced Host Controller Interface host controllers that support USB high speed signaling High speed USB 2 0 allows data transfers up to 480 Mb s The PCH also contains two Rate Matching Hubs RMH that support USB full speed and low speed signaling The Intel 3420 supports up to fourteen USB 2 0 ports All fourteen ports are high speed full speed and low speed capable 8 13 Real Time Clock RTC The Intel 3420 contains a real time clock RTC with 256 bytes of battery backed RAM The real time clock performs two key functions keeping track of the time of day and storing system data even when the system is powered down The RTC operates on a 32 768 KHz crystal and a 3 V battery The RTC also supports two lockable memory ranges By setting bits in the configuration space two 8 byte ranges can be locked to read and write accesses Th
8. 15K SAS 3 5 300GB 15K SAS 3 5 450GB 15K SAS 3 5 600GB 10K SAS 2 5 146GB 10K SAS Hot swap only through Hard drive carrier 2 5 300GB 10K SAS Hot swap only through Hard drive carrier 2 5 25GB N A SSD Hot swap only through Hard drive carrier 2 5 50GB N A SSD Hot swap only through Hard drive carrier PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 50 Dell 11 3 RAID Configurations Table 23 Raid Configurations Cabled Hot Config Min Swap Type Configs Description HDD HDD Cabled NO HDD COA NCZCBL No HDD Cabled HDD Chassis Hot NO HDD COB NCZ No HDD Hot Swap Swap HDD Chassis SAS 6 iR H200 PERC 6 1 or H700 Cabled Embedde C1 MSTCBL On board SATA 1 d SATA Controller No RAID NO RAID Cabled C2A Embedded SATA SW RAID RAIDO MSTROC BL 2 C2B Embedded SATA SW RAID RAIDO MSTROC BL PERC S100 3 Cabled C3 Embedded SATA SW RAID RAID1 MSTR1C BL PERC S100 2 Cabled C4 PERC S100 3 Cabled C5 Embedded SATA SW RAID RAID10 MSTR10 CBL PERC S100 4 Cabled ASSR10 Add in SAS SATA 4 CBL RAID card RAID 10 RAID1 9 5300 Cabled SAS SAT C8 ASSCBL Add in SAS SATA 1 RAID card RAID PERC 5100 Cabled Embedded SATA SW RAID RAID5 MSTR5C BL Cabled C6 ASSR5C Add in SAS SATA BL RAID card RAID 5 PERC S300 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 7 51 Dell Cabled Hot Config Min Swap Type Configs
9. 1988 and measured in accordance to ISO 7779 1999 LpA A weighted sound pressure level The system is placed in center of 1507779 table and acoustic transducer is at front operator position ref 1507779 1999 Section 8 6 1 Position Prominent tone Criteria of D 5 and D 8 of ECMA 74 9th ed 2005 are followed to determine if discrete tones are prominent The system is placed in center of 1507779 table and acoustic transducer is at front operator position ref ISO7779 1999 Section 8 6 1 Position PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 30 Dell 5 4 Other Environmental Requirements 5 4 1 Maximum Vibration Operating 0 26 at 5 500 Hz for 15 min Storage 1 54 at 10 250 Hz for 15 min 5 4 2 Maximum Shock Operating One shock pulse in the positive z axis one pulse on each side of the system of 31 G for 2 6 ms in the operational orientation Storage Six consecutively executed shock pulses in the positive and negative x y and z axes one pulse on each side of the system of 71 G for up to 2 ms 5 4 3 Airborne Contaminant Level Class G2 or lower as defined by ISA S71 04 1985 5 5 Maximum Input Amps Under typical line conditions and over the entire system ambient operating range the inrush current may reach 25A redundant power supply and 35A non redundant power supply per power supply for 10 ms or less 5 6 Energy Star Compliance See the Energy Star Compliance results on Dell com PowerEdge T310 Technical Gu
10. Cage Slots and Risers Packaging Diagram PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell 1 Overview 1 1 Product Description Dell s robust and reliable 1 socket PowerEdge T310 tower server offers the performance of Intel processors DDR3 memory advanced systems management options and the availability of up to four hard drives 3 5 or 2 5 in a compact tower chassis The Dell PowerEdge T310 server delivers enterprise level performance redundancy and comprehensive right sized manageability options in a 1 socket tower that is simple to own deploy and manage The Dell PowerEdge T310 was designed to meet the needs of the growing small business or remote office by offering more features and performance than a basic entry level server Customizable with optional advanced systems management capabilities including remote management a short 20 5 inch chassis redundancy features and cost effective RAID options the T310 is the ideal robust and reliable 1 socket tower server Dell aims to add value to your business by providing the features you need Our goal is to deliver value through tailored solutions based on industry standards as well as purposeful innovative design The PowerEdge T310 part of the 11th Generation PowerEdge server portfolio is built with system design commonality and reliability All 11th Generation servers are built with user ease in mind All external ports power supplies LED lights and LCD screens are kept in the
11. Express iDRAC OS Loading flash memory requires a vendor provided firmware file and loader Internal Flash program which is executed by booting up the system from a floppy or OS based executable containing the firmware file and the loader System loaded without a good iDRAC firmware image yields a non functional iDRAC Managed Services Repository Various partitions are loaded via vendor provided firmware file and loader program just like iDRAC OS System RAM System OS TPM ID EEPROM Plug in module only Factory load only TPM Binding EEPROM on China paga only BIOS only Embedded iDRAC OS for 108MB and 8MB for VGA frame buffer Factory and iDRAC embedded OS iDRAC6 Boot Block Loading flash memory requires a vendor provided firmware file and loader program which Flash is executed by booting up the system from a floppy or OS based executable or out of band firmware updates across the management network Bad contents yield the iDRAC inoperable and are unrecoverable in the customer environment Note the lifecycle log is automatically updated by the iDRAC as various system components FW HW and SW versions are changed Trusted Platform Using TPM Enabled operating systems Module Chipset CMOS BIOS control only via input such as BIOS F2 menu user configuration settings Such as boot order 2 5 Backplane or 3 5 Backplane Storage Controller Loading flash memory requires a vendor provided firmware file and loader program which Pro
12. SATA SCSI and SAS drives e External SCSI and SAS drives If the tape drive is not ordered with the system a blank is installed in its place The PowerEdge T310 supports a number of internal tape backup options plus the RD1000 disk backup unit Only half height backup options are supported PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 53 Dell 12 Video Matrox G200eW w 8MB memory integrated in Nuvoton WPCM450 BMC controller is included with the PowerEdge T310 Features include e 1280x1024 85Hz for KVM and 1600x1200 60Hz for video out e 640x480 60 72 75 85 Hz 8 16 32 bit color e 800 600 60 72 75 85 Hz 8 16 32 bit color e 1024x768 60 72 75 85 Hz 8 16 32 bit color e 1152x864 75 Hz 8 16 32 bit color e 1280x1024 60 75 85 Hz 8 16 bit color 1280x1024 60 Hz 32 bit color note 32 bit color is only supported at 60 Hz for this resolution PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 54 Dell 13 Rack Information Dell does not provide a rack for the T310 However there are 3 party trays available PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 55 Dell 14 Operating Systems Table 25 Microsoft OS 1 Factory Operating Systems x86 or x64 Installation Install Windows Small Business Server 2008 Fl or DIB x64 Windows Essential pee ad N A Business Server 2008 Premium 4 or 0 Windows Hyper V Download Server 2008 Standard from Web Standard FI SP2 a YA R2 Standard
13. Service for iDRAC and the BMC Management Utility Active Directory Snap in Utility The Active Directory Snap in Utility provides an extension snap in to the Microsoft Active Directory This allows you to manage Dell specific Active Directory objects The Dell specific schema class definitions and their installation are also included on the DVD Dell Systems Service Diagnostics Tools Dell Systems Service and Diagnostics tools deliver the latest Dell optimized drivers utilities and operating system based diagnostics that you can use to update your system e eDocs This section includes PDF files for PowerEdge systems storage peripheral and OpenManage software Dell Management Console DVD The Dell Management Console is a Web based systems management software that enables you to discover and inventory devices on your network It also provides advanced functions such as health and performance monitoring of networked devices and patch management capabilities for Dell systems Server Update Utility In addition to the Systems Management Tools and Documentation and Dell Management Console DVDs customers have the option to obtain Server Update Utility DVD This DVD has an inventory tool for managing updates to firmware BIOS and drivers for either Linux or Windows operating systems PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 59 Dell 16 3 Embedded Server Management The PowerEdge T310 implements circuitry for the next generation of Embedded Ser
14. Y VLAN Tagging Y Y Y IPv6 Y Y Y PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 61 Dell Feature BMC iDRAC6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media Dynamic DNS Y Y Y Y Dedicated NIC Y Y Security and Authentication Role based Authority Y Y Y Y Local Users Y Y Y Active Directory Y Y Y SSL Encryption Y Y Y Remote Management and Remediation Remote Firmware Y Y Y Update Server power control Y Y Y Y Serial over LAN with Y Y Y proxy Serial over LAN no Y Y proxy Power capping Y Y Y Last crash screen Y Y Y capture Boot capture Y Y Y Serial over LAN Y Y Y Virtual media Y Y Virtual console Y Y Virtual console sharing Y Y Virtual flash Y Monitoring Sensor Monitoring and Y Y Y Y Alerting Real time Power Y Y Y Y Monitoring Real time Power Y Y Y Y Graphing Historical Power Y Y Y Counters Logging Features System Event Log Y Y Y Y RAC Log Y Y Y Trace Log Y Y BMC availability through OpenManage PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 62 Dell 17 Peripherals 17 1 USB Peripherals Optional USB 1 44MB floppy drive Optional USB DVD ROM Optional internal USB 17 2 External Storage The following external storage options are available e PV NAX PV NX1950 e PV DAS o MD1000 JBOD MD3000 RBOD o MD1120 JBOD e PV SAN MD3000i iSCSI RAID array PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide
15. alerting Secure operation of remote access functions including authentication authorization and encryption Power control and management with the ability to limit server power consumption and remotely control server power states e Advanced troubleshooting capabilities For more information on iDRAC6 Express features see table below 16 6 iDRAC6 Enterprise The optional iDRAC6 Enterprise card provides access to advanced iDRAC6 features The iDRAC6 Enterprise connects directly to the T310 planar and is mounted parallel to the planar with stand offs Key features for the iDRAC6 Enterprise include Scripting capability with Dell s Racadm command line Remote video keyboard and mouse control with Virtual Console Remote media access with Virtual Media Dedicated network interface Additionally the iDRAC6 Enterprise can be upgraded by adding the vFlash Media card This is 1 GB Dell branded SD card that enables a persistent 256 or 512 MB virtual flash partition A more detailed feature list for iDRAC6 Enterprise and vFlash is included in the following table Table 29 Features List for BMC iDRAC6 and vFlash Feature BMC iDRAC6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media Interface and Standards Support IPMI 2 0 Y Y Y Y Web based GUI Y Y Y SNMP Y Y Y WSMAN Y Y Y SMASH CLP Y Y Y Racadm command Y Y line Conductivity Shared Failover Y Y Y Y Network Modes 4 Y Y Y
16. for front bezel Winn i N N NN A y 4 12 Figure 15 Bezel and Key Storage 4 11 3 Hard Drive Access Hot Plug hard drives are only accessible by opening the bezel thus locking the bezel secures the hard drives Cabled hard drives are only accessible by opening the side cover PowerEdge 310 Technical Guide 23 Dell 4 11 4 Trusted Platform Module TPM TPM is available worldwide with the exception of China where Trusted Computing Model is the standard The PowerEdge T310 offers a TPM 1 2 compliant encryption chip solution on system board with BIOS support TPM 1 2 chip was validated supported with Windows Server 2008 OS in the following usages Microsoft Storage Encryption solution Bitlocker w full drive encryption e Secure Boot integrity checking of boot components BIOS will provide the support for the configuration and enable disable functions TPM is disabled by default but can be activated using the BIOS tool 4 11 5 Power Switch Security The LCD control panel and LED control panel are designed so the power switch cannot be accidentally turned on or off In addition in BIOS there is an optional setting in the CMOS setup to disable the power switch 4 11 6 Intrusion Alert The intrusion switch snaps into the Optical Disk Drive ODD Cage located on the side of the chassis under the cover The intrusion switch detects and ale
17. of the optional iDRAC Express or iDRAC Enterprise in the PowerEdge T310 The Lifecycle Controller helps to deliver faster server deployment and update capabilities from a bare metal pre operating system environment With a single access point via the Unified Server Configurator USC interface the USC tool provides a one stop shop to enable efficient operating system deployment with built in driver installations firmware updates hardware configuration and diagnostics for the system Servers selected with hot pluggable hard drives will also get the benefit of an interactive LCD which can be accessed remotely via optional iDRAC Express or iDRAC Enterprise for system alerts and power usage as well as select boot up options Also part of Dell s OpenManage portfolio is the Dell Management Console included with every Dell server which provides IT administrators with a consolidated view of their IT infrastructure PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell 1 2 Product Comparison Table 1 shows a product comparison for the PowerEdge T310 PowerEdge T300 and PowerEdge T410 servers Feature Spec Processor Front Side Bus Processors Cores L2 L3 Cache Chipset DIMMs Min Max RAM HD Bays HD Types Ext Drive Bay s Int HD Controller Opt HD Controller Table 1 PowerEdge T310 Intel Xeon 3400 series Intel desktop processors Intel Core i3 540 Intel Core i3 530 Intel Pentium G6950 Intel Celeron
18. v x64 WHQL Standard kab FI WHQL Enterprise Windows Server 2008 x64 with Standard Hyper role WHQL Standard Windows Server 2008 FI WHQL SP2 X64 with Standard V role Windows Server 2008 X64 with Standard R2 Win7 includes SP2 role WHQL PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell Table 26 Linux OS Support Operating Systems Installation Factory Install Logo Certification Red Hat Enterprise ES APx86 64 DIB NFI Yes NUN Linux 4 8 ES APx86 DIB NFI Yes Red Hat Enterprise 4 FI Yes Linux 5 3 x86 DIB NFI Yes SLES11 X86 64 FI Yes SLES10 SP3 x86 64 DIB NFI Yes PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell 15 Virtualization Table 27 Supported Virtualization OS PowerEdge T310 VMWare ESX 4 0 1 Supported offered by drop in the box DIB no factory install VMWare ESXi 4 0 1 Supported not offered through Dell No FI nor DIB VMWare ESX 3 5 1 Supported not offered through Dell No FI nor DIB VMWare ESXi 3 5 1 Supported not offered through Dell No FI nor DIB Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 w Hyper V enabled Supported customer enablement only The PowerEdge T310 does not support Hypervisor PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 58 Dell 16 Systems Management 16 1 Overview Dell delivers open flexible and integrated solutions that help you reduce the complexity of managing disparate IT assets by building comprehensi
19. 00 R 2GB 6 12GB 800 R 2GB 6 16 GB 1066 U 4GB 4 16 GB 1333 U 4GB 4 16 GB 800 R 4GB 4 32 GB 800 R 8GB 4 DT processor supports U DIMM only PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 39 Dell 8 Chipset 8 1 Overview The PowerEdgeT310 planar incorporates the Intel 3420 chipset and the Intel 3420 or Platform Controller Hub PCH a highly integrated I O controller A number of high level features are supported by the chipset on PowerEdge T310 as detailed in the following sections 8 2 Direct Media Interface DMI Direct Media Interface DMI is the chip to chip connection between the processor and Intel 3420 chipset This high speed interface integrates advanced priority based servicing allowing for concurrent traffic and true isochronous transfer capabilities Base functionality is completely software transparent permitting current and legacy software to operate normally 8 3 Express Interface The Intel 3420 provides up to 8 PCI Express Root Ports supporting the PCI Express Base Specification Revision 2 0 Each Root Port supports 2 5 GB s bandwidth in each direction 5 GB s concurrent PCI Express Root Ports 1 4 can be statically configured as four x1 Ports or grouped together to form one x4 port Ports 5 and 6 can only be used as two x1 ports 8 4 SATA Interface The Intel 3420 has two integrated SATA host controllers that support independent DMA operation on up to six ports and supports data transfer rates of
20. 10 201352 5 RAID a e e tases a ESTIS IINE 11 22 4 Hardware c IA 11 Systems 0 YR 12 Mechanical ee ON CR Y eden a eat wate Yd du 14 4 1 Chassis Description YR YE 14 4 2 Dimensions Walgrniboc setae a sioe fee UN tas ddd ed bte 14 4 3 Front Panel View FF oo 15 4 4 Back Panel View and FF nennen 16 4 9 Power S pply Y GO aR 17 4 6 NIG Indicaton e toe ee ee a ng Ny ail Lc aae eu 17 4 7 RTT BANA 19 4 8 InternaliChassis VIeWS aie ea a e Se ee AA eS 19 4 9 TEUER 20 4 10 Control Panel LCD 21 Yn O 22 4 11 1 OVER Eatcbi e ac et SA MAHIA et a E Me aha ed eta USA ratte A 22 nn 23 4 11 3 Hard Drive ACCES tete te tum eee 23 4 11 4 Trusted Platform Module 24 411 5 Power SWIlIch SCOURING aUas RO 24 4 11 6 Intr sioOn e UO Nen te 24 411 7 Secure e RE ERI MTALA AA MARA 24 4 12 USB Key
21. 32 For TBU RAID SAS 5 E SAS 6 iR PERC 6 i PERC 6 E PowerEdge T410 Next level up LSI 2032 For TBU only SAS 6 E RAID SAS 6 iR Adapter PERC 6 i PERC 6 E Hot swap HDD Redundant PSU Quad pack LED diagnostic LCD with Hot swap HDD chassis Hot swap HDD Redundant PSU Quad pack LED diagnostic LCD with Hot swap HDD chassis Hot swap HDD Redundant PSU Quad pack LED diagnostic LCD with Hot swap HDD chassis Memory mirroring BMC 2 0 compliant Full 2 0 BMC 2 0 OpenManage suite Full OpenManage suite compliant Full Optional DRAC6 Express Optional 5 HR suite iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Optional iDRAC6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise VFlash Slot 1 PCle x8 x8 routing Slot 2 PCle x16 x8 routing Slot 3 PCle x8 x4 routing Slot 4 PCle x1 Slat 5 PCle x1 Two PCle x8 Two PCle x4 One PCI X 64 133 Slot 1 PCI E x8 connector x4 routing half length Gen 2 Slot 2 PCI E x8 connector x4 routing full length Gen 2 Slot 3 PCI E x8 connector x4 routing full length Gen 1 Slot 4 PCI E x8 connector x4 routing half length Gen 2 Slot 5 PCI E x16 connector x8 routing half length Gen 2 PERC S100 RAID 0 1 5 10 SATA only PERC 5300 RAID 5 10 0 1 5 6 10 0 1 5 6 10 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell Feature Spec NIC LOM USB Power Supplies Fan
22. 93GHz 2C 4M e Intel Pentium G6950 2 8 GHz 2C 3M e Intel Celeron G1101 2 26GHz 2C 2M iDRAC6 new Dell server remote management controller SSD advantage support SSD drives Software RAID PERC S100 and PERC S300 2 2 Detailed Information 2 2 1 Platform Features The PowerEdge T310 features a highly integrated two chip solution Intel Processor Intel Chipset 3420 2 2 2 Processors The PowerEdge T310 supports the following Intel 3420 Chipset Socket LGA1156 compatible with 2 core desktop processors Intel Turbo Boost Technology for dynamic frequency scaling Intel Hyper Threading technology for up to 8 thread processing with quad core performance 8MB of Intel Smart Cache Xeon Integrated memory controller IMC DDR 3 1066 1333 UDIMM 800 1066 1333 RDIMM Xeon only e Support 2 channels DDR3 Up to 2 UDIMMs or 3 RDIMMs per channel e 32GB max at lunch with RDIMMs 16GB max at with UDIMMs Up to 4 U DIMMs up to 1333 MHz to 6 R DIMMs up to 1333 MHz 6 DIMMs at 800 MHz PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 10 Dell 2 2 3 Software RAID Dell Software RAID is a chipset RAID enhanced version based on Intel chipset 3420 PERC S100 is purely a chipset firmware driver upgrade PERC S300 contains the same chipset firmware driver upgrade as the PERC S100 and in addition adds a RAID chip on the card While both the PERC S100 and PERC S300 support RAID type 0 1 5 and 10 RAID features vary by platform PERC S100
23. CMOS Planar NVRAM_CLR jumper or battery removal and replacement N A BIOS only control F2 system setup option to restore defaults 2 5 Backplane or 3 5 Backplane Storage Controller Not possible with any utilities or applications and Processor Embedded firmware only writeable backplane does not function as expected if through controlled iDRAC methods corrupted removed Control Panel Internal USB OS control OS control format Internal SD Module Only by SD card Write protect switch OS control format Power Supply Protected by the embedded microcontroller Special keys are used by special vendor provided utilities to unlock the ROM with various CRC PSU Microcontroller checks during load N A not in system clearable iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media write protection switch or OS iDRAC based format local OS format deleted control or card removed and formatted on a client PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 72
24. DELL POWEREDGE T310 TECHNICAL GUIDEBOOK This document is for informational purposes only Dell reserves the right to make changes without further notice to any products herein The content provided is as is and without express or implied warranties of any kind Dell PowerEdge and ReadyRails are trademarks of Dell Inc Citrix and XenServer are trademarks of Citrix Systems Inc and or one or more of its subsidiaries and may be registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries Intel Xeon Pentium and Celeron amp are registered trademark of Intel Corporation in the U S and other countries HP and COMPAQ are trademarks of Hewlett Packard Company Broadcom is a registered trademark and NetXtreme is a trademark of Broadcom Corporation and or its affiliates in the United States certain other countries and or the EU CommVault Galaxy or SimpanaQ are registered trademarks of CommVault Systems Inc InfiniBand is a registered trademark and service mark of the InfiniBand Trade Association Matrox is a registered trademark of Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd Microsoft and SQL Server are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Mellanox is a registered trademark of Mellanox Technologies Inc and ConnectX InfiniBlast InfiniBridge InfiniHost InfiniRlSC InfiniScale and InfiniPCl are trademarks of Mellanox Technologies Inc R
25. E 24 9 Battery eoe Reate A MA dris 25 4 14 Field Replaceable Units FRU et pied be toan e eco reco 26 4 15 User Accessible Jumpers Sockets and Connectors 26 Power Thermal ACOUSTIC ee a ve oa EE Tue 27 5 1 Em 27 5 2 Ali i ae 27 5 3 ACOUSLICS 29 5 4 Other Environmental Reguireneni amp cu edu yR YN UED EG FAR 31 5 4 1 Maximum Vibration 8 31 5 4 2 SHOCK sea oon eire ER 31 5 4 3 Airborne Contaminant 2 31 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell 5 5 MaM VUE PATS Ses See as toed egens men EID E 31 5 6 Energy Star onl anc O Y RY Y di 31 PROCOSS OMS Rm 32 T MEMON mee 33 7 1 i ail 33 7 2 BIMMS SUDDOIBO 33 7 3 leri UNES 35 7 4 lop m 36 7 5 LM C 38 7 6 eh 38 7 7 EA
26. G1101 Comparison for PowerEdge Servers PowerEdge T300 Predecessor Quad Core Intel Xeon Processor 5400 Series PowerEdge T410 Next level up 2S Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series DMI 1333 6 4 GT s 1 1 1to2 Intel Xeon Quad and Dual Desktop processor Dual Dual or Quad Dual or Quad Intel Xeon 8M Intel 12M Advanced Smart Cache 4MB or 8MB Desktop proc 4 3 or 2M shared cache which features 6MB Smart Cache per core pair Intel 3420 Intel Chipset for LV and ULV dual Intel 5520 core Xeons ICH9R 6 R DIMMs or 6 R DIMMs 4 4 DDR3 4 U DIMMs Unbuffered w ECC or Registered w ECC 1333 1066 800MHz 1GB 32GB 512MB 24GB 1GB 64GB 4 x 3 5 4 3 5 6 x 3 5 Optional hot swap Or 2 5 SAS SSD via hot swap chassis Optional hot swap Optional hot swap support 2 5 HDDs via hot swap tray SATA SAS SSD SATA SAS Default SATA Optional SAS and SSD via add in controller 2 x 5 25 bay 2 x 5 25 bay 2 x 5 25 bay Intel 3420 ICH9R Chipset based SATA PERC 8100 Embedded SW RAID NON RAID NON RAID NON RAID SAS 5 E SAS 5 E SAS 5 E PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell Feature Spec Availability Server Mgt Slots PowerEdge T310 SAS 5 iR For TBU 1512032 For TBU PERC H800 RAID SAS 6 iR PERC 300 PERC 6 i PERC 6 E PERC H200 PERC H700 PowerEdge T300 Predecessor 15120
27. ID cards and power supplies Acoustical specifications are shown in Table 6 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 29 Dell Table 6 Acoustical Specifications CPU Intel Xeon 3450 2 66 GHz Configurations 23 2 C Operating LwaUL Lpa PROMINENT Remarks J Bels dBA TONES DIMM PSU HDD RAID Card 2 x 3 5 SATA Idle 5 5 41 None 1X375W m TES Typical cabled PSU tresse configuration RPM Processor 22 None 4x 3 5 SA Idle 5 6 42 None 1 975 vi 22 cabled PSU RPM 56 42 None rocessor 4x 3 5 SAS Idle 5 8 43 None 1 375W 48 450 GB 15600 PERC 6i cabled PSU Stressed RPM Processor 2 29 None 2x 400W 2 x 3 5 SATA Idle 5 6 42 None 4 x AGB Redundant 500 GB 7200 None Stressed PSU RPM Processor d None 4x 3 5 SAS Idle 6 0 45 None a ae PERC 6i Maximum x 450 GB 15600 Stressed 6 0 45 configuration RPM Processor dependent Standby 1 6 17 None upon configuration Definitions Standby AC Power is connected to Power Supply Units but system is not turned on Idle Reference 1507779 1999 definition 3 1 7 system is running in its OS but no other specific activity Stressed Processor An operating mode 1507779 1999 definition 3 1 6 The software MemBWA is activated to stress the processors LwA UL The upper limit sound power levels LwA calculated per section 4 4 1 of ISO 9296
28. IMM 24GB 6x4GB DIMMs Quad Rank DIMMs 16GB 4x4GB DIMM 32GB 4x8GB DIMMs Notes 124GB 6x4GB DIMMs projected availability Summer 2010 T310 supports x8 data width and does not support x4 and x16 DRAM on RDIMM All channels in a system will run at the fastest common frequency No mixing of registered and unbuffered DIMMs PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 37 Dell 7 5 Sparing Not supported 7 6 Mirroring Not supported 7 7 RAID The PowerEdge T310 has no specific memory rules in supporting RAID 7 8 Supported Configurations Table 14 Supported Memory Configurations System System Memory DIMM DIMM Capacity Speed Capacity 1 GB 1066 U 1GB 1 1 GB 1333 U 1GB 1 1 GB 1066 R 1GB 1 1 GB 1333 R 1GB 1 2 GB 1066 U 1GB 2 2 GB 1333 U 1GB 2 2 GB 1066 R 1GB 2 2 GB 1333 R 1GB 2 2 GB 1066 R 2GB 1 2 GB 1333 R 2GB 1 4 GB 1066 U 1GB 4 4 GB 1333 U 1GB 4 4 GB 1066 U 2GB 2 4 GB 1333 U 2GB 2 4 GB 1066 U 4GB 1 4 GB 1333 U 4GB 1 4 GB 1066 R 1GB 4 4 GB 1333 R 1GB 4 4 GB 1066 R 2GB 2 4 GB 1333 R 2GB 2 6 GB 800 R 1GB 6 6 GB 800 R 1GB 6 8 GB 1066 U 4GB 2 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell System Capacity System Memory DIMM Speed TYPE DIMM NUM Capacity DIMM 8 GB 1333 4GB 2 8 GB 1066 U 2GB 4 8 GB 1333 U 2GB 4 8 GB 1066 R 2GB 4 8 GB 1066 R 4GB 2 8 GB 1333 R 2GB 4 12GB 8
29. The Intel 3420 supports up to two SPI flash devices with speed up to 50 MHz utilizing two chip select pins 8 10 Compatibility Module DMA Controller Timer Counters Interrupt Controller The DMA controller incorporates the logic of two 82C37 DMA controllers with seven independently programmable channels Channels 0 3 are hardwired to 8 bit count by byte transfers and channels 5 are hardwired to 16 bit count by word transfers Any two of the seven DMA channels can be programmed to support fast Type F transfers Channel 4 is reserved as a generic bus master request The Intel 3420 supports LPC DMA which is similar to ISA DMA through the Intel 3420 s DMA controller LPC DMA is handled through the use of the LDRQ lines from peripherals and special encoding on LAD 3 0 from the host Single Demand Verify and Increment modes are supported on the LPC interface The timer counter block contains three counters that are equivalent in function to those found in one 82C54 programmable interval timer These three counters are combined to provide the system timer function and speaker tone The 14 31818 MHz oscillator input provides the clock source for these three counters The Intel 3420 provides an ISA Compatible Programmable Interrupt Controller PIC that incorporates the functionality of two 82C59 interrupt controllers The two interrupt controllers are cascaded so that 14 external and two internal interrupts are possible In addition
30. and 5300 have the following limitations Microsoft OS only no support for Linux OS No support for Virtualization Solutions such as VMware 2 2 4 Hardware RAID Internal Controllers include e SAS 6 iR e PERC 6 i e PERC H200 e PERC H700 e PERC 5100 software based e PERC 5300 software based e External Controllers e PERC 6 E with 256MB or 512MB of battery backed cache e SAS 5 E e PERC H800 e 1512032 PCle SCSI HBA See Section 8 6 for more information PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell 3 Systems Overview FEATURES Form Factor Processors Processor Sockets Front Side Bus or HyperTransport Cache Chipset Memory Slots RAID Controllers Drive Bays Maximum Internal Storage Hard Drives Table2 Product Features Summary PowerEdge T310 Tower One Quad core Intel Xeon 3400 series processors One Dual core Intel Core i3 540 Intel Core i3 530 Intel Pentium G6950 or Intel Celeron G1101 1 DMI Direct Media Interface Xeon 8M Desktop proc 4 3 or 2M Intel 3420 chipset Up to 32GB R DIMM only Support 6 R DIMMs or 4 U DIMMs 1GB 2GB 4GB 8GB DDR3 800 2 1066 2 or 1333MHz 5 PCle G2 slots Two x8 slot one with x16 connector One 4 slot with x8 connector Two x1 slots Internal Controllers SAS 6 iR PERC 6 i PERC H200 PERC H700 PERC 5100 software based PERC S300 software based External C
31. ator Features and 60 Table 29 Features List for BMC iDRAC6 and nenne 61 Table 30 Dimensions and Weight eet tert Pei Mu D Ra ER Dd ERA REA FUN ted 64 Table 31 PowerEdge T310 Volatility gt reo etd exe sen 66 Table 32 Volatility 68 Table 33 Methodology for Data Input to 69 Table 34 Methodology for Memory Protection and 71 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8 Figure 9 Figure 10 Figure 11 Figure 12 Figure 13 Figure 14 Figure 15 Figure 16 Figure 17 Figure 18 Figure 19 Figure 20 Figure 21 Figures PowerEdge 310 Dimensions Front Panel Views and Features Back Panel View and Features Power Supply Indicators for Redundant PSU Only NIC Indicators Side View Hot Swap HDD Chassis Cabled HDD Chassis Rear and Internal Views of Fan LCD Front Panel Hot Swap HDD Configuration LED Front Panel Cabled HDD Configuration System Coin Lock under Cover Latch Bezel Lock in Front Bezel Lock Port on Back of Chassis Bezel and Key Storage Intrusion Switch Internal USB Connectors Motherboard Battery CR2032 Battery Holder for PERC Card Located Under the HDD
32. cessor is executed by booting up the system from a floppy OS based executable DRMK USC OS DUPs utility support containing the firmware file and the loader Backplane loaded with bad firmware will not provide backplane and HDD status Control Panel Internal USB Either read only license key or OS controlled copies Internal SD Module Factory load OS run time usage and OS updates and configuration changes PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 70 Dell How is data input to this memory Power Supply 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 Unified Server PSU Configurator containing the firmware file and the loader PSUs loaded with bad firmware will Microcontroller not provide PSU functional behavior and result in PSU system faults iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Preloaded media before installation or remote out of band upload of user data i e ISO images files or local server read write capability to use like a hard disk Table 34 Methodology for Memory Protection and Clearing How is this memory write protected is the memory cleared Planar System BIOS SPI Not possible with any utilities or applications and Flash Software write protected system is not functional if corrupted removed LOM Configuration Data Not explicitly protected but special applications are needed to communicate th
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34. em Figure 9 Rear and Internal Views of Fan PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 20 Dell 4 10 Control Panel LCD Front control panel features include 2x USB Diagnostic indicator 11G LCD module e NMI button Power button HDD activity LED e System ID button For information on LCD panel features see the Hardware Owner s Manual Figure 10 LCD Front Panel Hot Swap HDD Configuration Figure 11 LED Front Panel Cabled HDD Configuration PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 21 Dell 4 11 Security 4 11 1 Cover Latch The system coin lock located on the front of the right side cover provides security for the entire system with tool less operation for opening and closing the cover Figure 12 System Coin Lock under Cover Latch The bezel lock secures both the bezel and cover latch Figure 13 Bezel Lock in Front Bezel The bezel lock located on the front of the chassis bezel provides security for the system by preventing access to the Optical Disk Drive ODD Tape Back up Unit TBU and Hot Plug HDD The bezel lock secures both the bezel and cover latch Therefore the bezel lock must be unlocked to unlatch the cover PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 22 Dell Lock Port Figure 14 Lock Port on Back of Chassis A lock port located on the back of the chassis provides security for the entire system 4 11 2 Bezel Keys for the PowerEdge T310 are stored on the inside of the bezel Keys
35. ep ad esp uid p EE guae OE 43 8 19 Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed 0 24000 0000 m 43 8 20 JTAG Boundary este pco Cb pedet suem CG GU GN 43 9 BIOS ceteros KA 44 9 1 OUBIVIBW ere er 44 9 2 NN HL MG EFA 44 9 3 Power Management ww Fe FA raced apie De EDR Cd OO 45 MO WSS a EA A D docto pd E dd Gr MES 47 10 14 47 10 2 External Gontroller ue De eter faq dd eio alee 49 2035 PC Gard 49 BEES ee c 50 TIS 50 WA DEAD 7 C M 50 12222 TAAID COhIGOHIIDEIS o ume bores Qe oa 51 11 9 1 Drives iae er t e diete ERE Fed ieee 53 12 i ND 53 13 55 14 Operating 56 58 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 3 Dell 16 Systems Management osse 59 ATEA E 59 16 2 Server Mariagermerita ee Rep FD UD CER 59 16 3 Embedded Server Martagemernt
36. erEdge T310 chassis is user friendly Many of the T310 component devices are tool less for example HDDs cabled and hot plug fans extension cards planar backplane and redundant PSUs The non redundant PSU uses only three screws to reduce the assembly and service time 4 2 Dimensions and Weight 21 8 52 1cm gt yet feet 44 4 Figure 1 PowerEdge T310 Dimensions Table 3 Dimensions and Weight 44 cm 17 3 inch 21 8 cm 8 58 inch cm 20 5 inch 52 1 23 5 kg 51 8 Ib configuration PowerEdge 310 Technical Guide 14 Dell 4 3 Front Panel View and Features LCD Diagnostics for hot swap HDD Config Bezel Latch ODD or TBU Bezel Lock Bezel Lock Figure 2 Front Panel Views and Features PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Quad Pack LED for Cabled HDD Config 1 Dell 4 4 Back Panel View and Features Redundant PSU apars Non redundant PSU 4 USB Ports 2 LOMs VGA Port Serial Port iDRAC Enterprise Port vFlash 5 PCI Slots Figure 3 Back Panel View and Features PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 16 Dell 4 5 Power Supply Indicators Seer eS 2 Figure 4 Power Supply Indicators for Redundant PSU Only Not lit AC power is not connected Green ln standby mode a green light indicates that a valid AC source is connected to the power sup
37. ffers OS install and diagnostics capabilities only To access the Unified Server Configurator press the lt F10 gt key within 10 seconds of the Dell logo s appearance during the system boot process Current functionality enabled by the Unified Server Configurator is detailed in the following table Table 28 Unified Server Configurator Features and Description Feature Description Faster O S Installation Drivers and the installation utility are embedded on system so no need to scour DELL COM Faster System Updates Integration with Dell support automatically directed to latest versions of the Unified Server Configurator iDRAC 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 Simplified Hardware Configuration Detects RAID controller and allows user to configure virtual disk and choose virtual disk as boot device eliminating the need to launch a separate utility Also provides configuration for iDRAC BIOS and NIC LOM PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 60 Dell 16 5 iDRAC6 Express The optional iDRAC6 Express is the first tier of IDRAC6 upgrades In addition to upgrading the system with a Lifecycle Controller the iDRAC6 Express offers the following key features Graphical web interface Standard based interfaces Server Sensor monitoring and fault
38. gh lt F2 gt key at end of POST USB 2 0 USB boot code is 1 1 compliant F1 F2 error logging in CMOS Virtual KVM CD and floppy support up sell for IDRAC6 Unified Server Configurator USC support Power management support including DBS Power Inventory and multiple Power Profiles UEFI support The T310 BIOS does not support the following Embedded Diagnostics embedded in IDRAC6 BIOS language localization BIOS recovery after bad flash however can be recovered from iDRAC6 Express 9 2 Supported ACPI States ACPI compliance 50 54 and 55 are supported 51 52 53 STR support is available Table 15 ACPI Wake Up Events and States Wake Up Events States Can Wake From RTC Power Button PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 44 Dell 9 3 Power Management Power management features come in two flavors fixed or generic Fixed features use bits defined in the ACPI specification for specific capabilities The fixed feature bits give the OS complete control over the power management of a device since the location of the bits is given to the OS in the FACP table Thus a driver can directly access bits to control a device s power management Generic features have defined enable and status bits but the functionality is not fully visible to the OS Dell provides ASL code to handle the details of generic features allowing the OS to intelligently communicate with system specific hardware Table 16 Power Ma
39. ide 31 Dell 6 Processors Processors supported on the PowerEdge T310 server are shown in Table 7 Table 7 Supported Processors Speed Power Cache Cores Threads Turbo Memory Process X3470 2930 95W 80 4 8 T DDR3 45nm Hz 1333 X3460 280G 95W 8M 4 8 DDR3 45 Hz 1333 267G 95W 8M 4 8 DDR3 45 3450 1333 X3440 2530 95W 8M 4 8 DDR3 45 Hz 1333 X3430 240G 95W 8M 4 4 DDR3 45nm gt 1333 Core i3 3060 73W 4 2 4 NA DDR3 32nm 540 Hz 1333 Core i3 2936 73W 4M 2 4 NA DDR3 32nm 530 Hz 1333 Pentium 2 809 73W 2 2 NA DDR3 32nm 66950 Hz 1066 Celeron 2 26G 73 2M 2 1 NA DDR3 32nm 61101 Hz 1066 For additional processor information refer to the Hardware Owner s Manual PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell 7 Memory 7 1 Overview The PowerEdge T310 planar provides six 72 bit 240 pin sockets for DIMM memory modules These modules are DDR3 800 1066 1333 Registered Unbuffered DDR SDRAM DIMMs The modules configured as 72 bits wide to provide for error correcting code ECC The memory controller in the CPU performs the ECC The system supports a minimum of 1GB upgradeable to 32GB of RAM using the following DIMM sizes e 1GB DIMM Module 2GB DIMM Module 4GB DIMM Module 8GB DIMM Module 7 2 DIMMs Supported The following DIMMs are s
40. imer causes a system reset to recover from a hardware lock e Processor Present Indicator The Intel 3420 looks for the processor to fetch the first instruction after reset If the processor does not fetch the first instruction the Intel 3420 will reboot the system e ECC Error Reporting When detecting an ECC error the host controller has the ability to send one of several messages to the Intel 3420 The host controller can instruct the Intel 3420 to generate SMI NMI SERR or TCO interrupt e Function Disable The Intel 3420 provides the ability to disable the following integrated functions LAN USB LPC Intel HD Audio SATA PCI Express or SMBus Once disabled these functions no longer decode 1 0 memory or PCI configuration space Also no interrupts or power management events are generated from the disabled functions PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 42 Dell e Intruder Detect The Intel 3420 provides an input signal INTRUDER that can be attached to a switch that is activated by the system case being opened The Intel 3420 can be programmed to generate an SMI or TCO interrupt due to an active INTRUDER signal 8 17 System Management Bus SMBus 2 0 The Intel 3420 contains an SMBus Host interface that allows the processor to communicate with SMBus slaves This interface is compatible with most I2C devices Special 2 commands are implemented The Intel 3420 s SMBus host controller provides a mechanism for the proces
41. ing power cycling through 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 Customers can also choose the PowerEdge T310 in a chassis which offers redundant power supplies These power supplies are each 375W and the chassis includes a power distribution board PDB To supply power to the processors standard VRD modules conform to VRD11 1 specification This reduces the board layout complexity while offering design modularity As processor speeds increase a newer VRD can be used to accommodate the power increase with no need to re spin the board The VRD is integrated onto the planar and is not field upgradeable 5 2 Thermal The thermal design of the PowerEdge 310 reflects the following e Closed loop thermal fan speed control Closed loop thermal control method uses feedback temperatures to dynamically determine proper fan speeds e Comprehensive thermal management The PowerEdge T310 controls system cooling fan speed based on several different responses from critical components sensors such as CPU temperature DIMM temperature inlet ambient temperature and system configurations The thermal management adjusts proper cooling ability for the system according to what the system really needs e Optimized Ventilation T310 chassis has a custom ventilation design for optimized air flow path Each compo
42. is prevents unauthorized reading of passwords or other system security information The RTC also supports a date alarm that allows for scheduling a wake up event up to 30 days in advance rather than just 24 hours in advance 8 14 General Purpose Inputs and Outputs GPIO Various general purpose inputs and outputs GPIO are provided for custom system design The number of inputs and outputs varies depending on Intel 3420 configuration 8 15 Enhanced Power Management The Intel 3420 s power management functions include enhanced clock control and various low power suspend states e g Suspend to RAM and Suspend to Disk A hardware based thermal management circuit permits software independent entrance to low power states The Intel 3420 contains full support for the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI Specification Revision 3 0a 8 16 Chipset Management In addition to Intel Active Management Technology the Intel 3420 integrates several functions designed to manage the system and lower the total cost of ownership TCO of the system These system management functions are designed to report errors diagnose the system and recover from system lockups without the aid of an external microcontroller e TCO Timer The Intel 3420 s integrated programmable TCO timer is used to detect system locks The first expiration of the timer generates an SMI that the system can use to recover from a software lock The second expiration of the t
43. l ship In addition to P support chipset states BIOS will expose the registers Power Profiles to the OS Each Power profile will have a specific settings and it will fine tune processor MCH IOH and South Bridge Table 17 Current Power Profiles that 11G BIOS will Expose in BIOS Setup Static MAX Performance DBPM Disabled BIOS will set P State to MAX Memory frequency MAX Fan algorithm performance UI OS Hypervisor DBPM Control Enable OS DBPM Control BIOS will expose all possible P states to OS Memory frequency MAX Fan algorithm power Active Power Controller Enable Dell System DBPM BIOS will not make all P states available to OS Memory frequency MAX Fan algorithm power Custom CPU Power and Performance Management Maximum Performance Minimum Power OS DBPM System DBPM Memory Power and Performance Management Maximum Performance 1333Mhz 1067Mhz 800Mhz Minimum Power Fan Algorithm Performance Power PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 46 Dell 10 1 0 Slots 10 1 Overview Table 18 PCle Slot Specification Slot Slot Routing Technology Silkscreen Connector Lanes 1 X8 X8 PCle 2 0 SLOT1 5GT s PCIE G2 x8 2 X16 X8 PCle 2 0 SLOT2 5GT s PCIE G2 x8 3 X8 X4 PCle 2 0 SLOT3 2 5GT s PCIE G2 x4 4 X1 X1 PCle 2 0 SLOT4 2 5GT s PCIE G2 1 5 X1 X1 PCle 2 0 SLOT5 2 5G T s PCIE G2 1 All slots are full height and half leng
44. latforms based on Intel Architecture Processors Intel VT d Technology enables multiple operating systems and applications to run in independent partitions A partition behaves like a virtual machine VM and provides isolation and protection across partitions Each partition is allocated its own subset of host physical memory 8 20 JTAG Boundary Scan Intel 3420 adds the industry standard JTAG interface and enables Boundary Scan in place of the XOR chains used in previous generations of the Intel 3420 Boundary Scan can be used to ensure device connectivity during the board manufacturing process The JTAG interface allows system manufacturers to improve efficiency by using industry available tools to test the Intel 3420 on an assembled board Since JTAG is a serial interface it eliminates the need to create probe points for every pin in an XOR chain This eases pin breakout and trace routing and simplifies the interface between the system and a bed of nails tester PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 43 Dell 9 BIOS 9 1 Overview The T310 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core and supports the following features 1S Support Simultaneous Multi Threading SMT support CPU Turbo Mode support PCI 2 3 compliant Plug n Play 1 0a compliant MP Multiprocessor 1 4 compliant Boot from hard drive optical drive iSCSI drive and USB key ACPI support Direct Media Interface DMI support PXE and WOL support for on board NICs SETUP access throu
45. led via optional iDRAC6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise and vFlash N A Factory Installed OS Options Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 64 bit Standard and Premium Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2 32 bit Standard and Enterprise Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2 64 bit Standard and Enterprise Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32 bit Standard and Enterprise Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 64 bit Standard and Enterprise Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 32 bit Standard and Enterprise Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 64 bit Standard and Enterprise Edition Microsoft Non Factory Installed OS Options Microsoft Windows Essential Business Server 2008 64 bit Standard and Premium Edition Factory Installed Linux OS Options Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 3 Virtualization OS Options Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper V PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell 4 Mechanical 4 1 Chassis Description The PowerEdge T310 chassis design provides capability for hardware redundancy This new chassis design offers cabled HDD with flexible PSU redundant PSU or non redundant PSU and Hot Plug HDD with flexible PSU redundant PSU or non redundant PSU Various configurations are available However customers cannot upgrade from a Cabled non redundant chassis to a Hot Plug Redundant PSU version The Pow
46. nagement Features Enable Status Ctrl bit Feature Type location Description ACPI mode Fixed PCH The OS uses the SCI_EN bit to switch from switch legacy mode to ACPI mode Sleep Fixed PCH Supported states SO Working S4 OS states Hibernation W2K and S5 Soft off S1 also called standby or suspend and S3 are not supported Power Fixed PCH In ACPI mode OS has control of the Button power button In non ACPI mode SMI handler owns power button events Real Time Fixed PCH The OS is able to configure the system to Clock wake on the RTC alarm 24 bit power management timer is used Generic PCH Each host bus s PME signal is routed to a separate general purpose event pin in the chipset When a device signals PME the system wakes if necessary the OS detects the event and a Dell defined ASL routine handles the event Wake on LAN is one example of a PME USB wake Generic This feature is not supported on this system since the S1 state is not supported Processor This feature does P state transition under MSRs Windows C State Processor and This feature allows multiple C state Support PCH registers support for Processor This feature will work under Windows and ACPI OS that understand C states PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell Enable Status Ctrl bit Feature Type location Description Power N A Processor IMC 11G Servers will be the most energy smart Profile and PCH servers that Dell wil
47. nent and peripheral is ensured sufficient air to cool e Environmental Specifications The optimized thermal management makes the PowerEdge T310 reliable under a wide range of operating environments as shown in Table 5 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 27 Dell Table 5 Environmental Specifications and Operating Requirements Non Operating Environment Operating Requirements Requirements Temperature Ranges 10 to 35 C For Altitude 5900 m or 2952 75 ft 50 to 95 F 10 to xxx C where xxx is calculated as show in 40 to 65 C Temperature Ranges Note 40 to 149 F For Altitude gt 900 m or 2952 75 ft 50 to xxx F where xxx is calculated as shown in Note Temperature Gradient 1 2 20 to 80 Yo 5 to 95 96 Max Wet bulb Wet bulb temperature 29 C temperature 38 C Gradient 10 10 60 50 feet 50 feet 15 2 meters 15 2 meters Humidity Percent Ranges Noncondensing Low Limits Altitude Ranges 10 000 feet 35 000 feet High Limit gn Jm 3048 meters 10 668 meters Note Using following formulas to calculate the maximum operating temperature in C for a given altitude Use the first formula if the altitude is stated in meters and the second formula if the altitude is stated in feet Maximum Altitude in meters 900 Cor 35 Maximum Altitude in ft 2952 75 300 984 25 35 C Note Using following formulas to calc
48. o 4 UDIMMs unbuffered DDR3 ECC as shown in Table 10 and Table 11 Table 10 4 DIMM Information DIMM Slots per DIMMs Populated Channel per Channel POR Speeds Ranks per DIMM 2 1 1066 1333 SR DR 2 1 1066 1033 SR DR Table 11 4 DIMM MAX Memory and DRAM Technology MAX Memory 1Gb DRAM Technology 2Gb DRAM Technology Single Rank UDIMM 4GB 4x1GB DIMM 8GB 4x4GB DIMMs Dual Rank DIMMs 8GB 4x2GB DIMM 16 GB 4x4GB DIMMs PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 36 Dell Notes 1310 supports x8 data width and does not support x4 DRAM on UDIMM T310 does not support Quad Rank UDIMM All channels in a system will run at the fastest common frequency No mixing of registered and unbuffered DIMMs e Non ECC UDIMMs are not supported 0 e Mixing ECC and non ECC UDIMMs anywhere on the platform will prevent the system from booting and functioning correctly T310 supports up to 6 RDIMM Registered DDR3 ECC Xeon only Table 12 6 RDIMM Registered DDR3 ECC Xeon only DIMMs DIMM Slots per Populated per Ranks per Channel Channel POR Speeds DIMM 3 1 1066 1333 SR DR 3 2 1066 1333 SR DR 3 2 800 QR 3 3 800 SR DR Only in 16GB and 32GB configurations Table 13 6 DIMM MAX Memory and DRAM Technology MAX Memory 1Gb DRAM Technology 2Gb DRAM Technology Single Rack UDIMM 6GB 6x1GB DIMM 12GB 6x2GB DIMMs Dual Rank DIMMs 12GB 6x2GB D
49. ombined on a single set of hard drives such as RAID 0 and RAID 1 on two disks Other RAID features include hot spare support SMART alerting and RAID 0 auto replace Software components include an Option ROM for pre boot configuration and boot functionality a Microsoft Windows compatible driver and a user interface for configuration and management of the RAID capability of Intel 3420 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 40 Dell 8 7 PCI Interface The Intel 3420 PCI interface provides a 33 MHz Revision 2 3 implementation The Intel 3420 integrates a PCI arbiter that supports up to four external PCI bus masters in addition to the internal Intel 3420 requests This allows for combinations of up to four PCI down devices and PCI slots 8 8 Low Pin Count LPC Interface The Intel 3420 implements an LPC Interface as described in the LPC 1 1 Specification The Low Pin Count LPC bridge function of the Intel 3420 resides in PCI Device 31 Function 0 In addition to the LPC bridge interface function D31 FO contains other functional units including DMA interrupt controllers timers power management system management GPIO and RTC 8 9 Serial Peripheral Interface SPI The Intel 3420 implements an SPI Interface as an alternative interface for the BIOS flash device An SPI flash device can be used as a replacement for the FWH and is required to support Gigabit Ethernet Intel Active Management Technology and integrated Intel Quiet System Technology
50. onment LOM Configuration Data LAN on Motherboard configuration and firmware iDRAC6 Controller ROM Not used iDRAC6 controller RAM iDRAC internal RAM System CPLD oo System specific Hardware Logic iDRAC6 Express Internal Flash No for iDRAC Operating iDRAC Operating System plus Managed System Services System Yes for Managed Repository i e Unified Server Configurator OS drivers System Services Repository diagnostics rollback versions of various programmables System Ram yes sysem OS RAW TPM ID EEPROM Plug in module only BIOS Identification of TPM module TPM Binding EEPROM China only BIOS binding of plug in module to a particular planar iDRAC6 SDRAM BMC OS VGA frame buffer iDRAC6 FRU Motherboard electronic product identifier iDRAC6 Boot iDRAC boot loader and configuration i e MAC address Block Flash Lifecycle log nd system event log Trusted Platform Module Storage of encryption keys Chipset CMOS No BIOS settings PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 68 Dell Can user programs or Purpose operating system write data to it during normal operation 2 5 Backplane or 3 5 Backplane Storage Controller Processor No Backplane firmware HDD status etc Control Panel Internal USB Normal usage is read only software license key but not Yes as allowed by OS limited Internal SD Module Yes as allowed by OS Normal usage is embedded hypervisor OS but not limited Power Suppl
51. ontrollers PERC 6 E with 256MB or 512MB of battery backed cache SAS PERC H800 1512032 PCle SCSI HBA Cabled HD options Up to four 3 5 SAS or SATA drives Hot Swap HD options Up to four 3 5 SAS or SATA or 2 5 SAS or SSD drives 8 3 5 SATA 7 2K RPM 160GB 250GB 500GB 1 2 3 5 Near Line SAS 7 2K RPM 500GB or 1 3 5 SAS 10K RPM 600GB 3 5 SAS 15K RPM 146GB 300GB 450GB PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell Network Interface Cards Power Supply Availability Video Remote Management Systems Management Rack Support Operating Systems 2 5 SAS 10K RPM 146GB or 300GB 2 5 SATA SSD 25GB 50GB Broadcom NetXtreme 5709 Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet NIC Copper w TOE PCle x4 Broadcom NetXtreme 5709 Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet NIC Copper TOE iSCSI PCle x4 Intel PRO 1000 PT Single Port Adapter Gigabit Ethernet NIC PCle x 1 Intel Gigabit ET Dual Port Adapter Gigabit Ethernet NIC PCle x4 Intel Gigabit ET Quad Port Adapter Gigabit Ethernet NIC PCle x4 Single cabled power supply 875W Optional redundant power supply 400W Quad pack LED diagnostic Interactive LCD with hot swap HDD chassis hot swap HDD Redundant PSU Matrox G200eW w 8MB memory iDRAC6 BMC IPMI 2 0 compliant Dell OpenManage featuring Dell Management Console Unified Server Configurator Lifecycle Controller enab
52. ply and that the power supply is operational When the system is on a green light also indicates that the power supply is providing DC power to the system Amber Indicates a problem with the power supply 4 6 NIC Indicators Activity LED H Status LED 575 Pin 1 Gb FJ Pin 8 Figure 5 NIC Indicators PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 17 Dell Table 4 NIC LED Activity LINK LED ACTIVITY LED State Green Yellow Green No link Off Off DO initialized Wake on LAN Out of box WOL D3 cold S4 disabled Off Off MID aton WOL enabled Green if the port Link No is operating at Activity maximum port Off WOL enabled On blinking at Link Activity speed related to packet density Pre OS Link No POST or OS Activity Off w o driver m Link Activit T On blinking at speed related to packet density OS w driver Link No Activity Off Link Activity On blinking at speed related to packet density PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell 4 7 Side View Push to open side cover Coin locker Locked Unlocked Indicator Figure 6 Side View 4 8 Internal Chassis Views Bsus lt ODD Long TBU Figure 7 Hot Swap HDD Chassis PowerEdge 310 Technical Guide Dell HDD 0 HDD 1 HDD 2 HDD 3 A M Figure 8 Cabled HDD Chassis 4 9 Fan There is one system fan located at rear of the syst
53. rough the LOMs to reprogram this ROM Not user clearable iDRAC6 Controller ROM Protected permanently by hardware Not clearable iDRAC6 controller ROM n a iDRAC reset System CPLD Requires special system specific Not possible with any utilities or applications and utility system is not functional if corrupted removed System CPLD Not accessible Not clearable iDRAC6 Express Writes are proxied through a Internal Flash temporary iDRAC scratchpad RAM and not directly made from an OS or OS application Not user clearable System RAM OS control Reboot or power down system TPM ID EEPROM Plug in module only HW read only Not read only PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 71 Dell How is this memory write protected is the memory cleared TPM Binding EEPROM on China Locked by BIOS from physical planar only access by anyone after boot N A BIOS control only iDRAC6 SDRAM AC cycle for BMC OS and reset power off n a server for VGA frame buffer iDRAC6 FRU writes controlled by iDRAC embedded OS EPPID is not clearable iDRAC6 Boot Block Not possible with any utilities or applications and Flash iDRAC does not function as expected if corrupted removed Lifecycle log is clearable iDRAC embedded OS control of only a factory environment SEL is user the write protection clearable Trusted Platform J Module SW write protected F2 Setup option How is this memory write protected How is the memory cleared eee
54. rts the user that the side cover is open Switch Figure 16 Intrusion Switch 4 11 7 Secure Mode BIOS can enter a secure boot mode via Setup This mode includes the option to lock the power and NMI switches on the control panel or set up a system password See the BIOS specification in the Hardware Owner s Manual 4 12 USB Key The PowerEdge T310 has two internal USB connectors PowerEdge 310 Technical Guide 24 Dell i ES 5 S Figure 17 Internal USB Connectors 4 13 Battery Battery placement on the motherboard is shown in Figure 18 and the battery holder for the PERC card is shown in Figure 19 Figure 18 Motherboard Battery CR2032 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 25 Dell Figure 19 Battery Holder for PERC Card Located Under the HDD Cage 4 14 Field Replaceable Units FRU Parts available for field replacement include Motherboard Backplane Power Distribution board Processor Controller Card SAS card PERC card Power Source 4 15 User Accessible Jumpers Sockets and Connectors Refer to the Hardware Owner s Manual for more information PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 26 Dell 5 Power Thermal Acoustic 5 1 Power Supplies The base system includes one 375W power supply This unit provides power to the PowerEdge T310 planar four internal hard drive bays and two 5 25 external drive bays Power is soft switched allow
55. same location for familiar user experience and easy installation and deployment Robust metal hard drive carriers and organized cabling are designed to improve component access and airflow across the server The PowerEdge T310 s purposeful design provides quiet acoustics and an optional interactive LCD screen positioned on the front by the bezel for ease of monitoring With a chassis depth of 20 5 the PowerEdge T310 s chassis is ideal for use in back office retail or small office settings where small chassis and quiet acoustics matter Energy Smart technologies are at the core system level on the PowerEdge T310 These energy optimized technologies are designed to increase energy efficiency within the server while continuing to deliver the performance your business requires Built with lower wattage power supplies than its predecessor the PowerEdge T310 offers highly efficient cabled or redundant power supply options Also included in the T310 are low flow fans designed to spin faster in accordance with server workload demands and help reduce unnecessary noise when possible In addition the logical component layout aids with air flow direction helping to keep the server cool The T310 also includes Energy Smart power management features including power capping power inventory and power budgeting to best manage power in your specific environment The Lifecycle Controller is the engine for advanced embedded management and is delivered as part
56. sor to initiate communications with SMBus peripherals slaves Also the Intel 3420 supports slave functionality including the Host Notify protocol Hence the host controller supports eight command protocols of the SMBus interface see System Management Bus SMBus Specification Version 2 0 Quick Command Send Byte Receive Byte Write Byte Word Read Byte Word Process Call Block Read Write and Host Notify Intel 3420 s SMBus also implements hardware based Packet Error Checking for data robustness and the Address Resolution Protocol ARP to dynamically provide address to all SMBus devices 8 18 Intel Anti Theft Technology The Intel 3420 introduces a new hardware based security technology which encrypts data stored on any SATA compliant HDD in AHCI Mode This feature gives the end user the ability to restrict access to HDD data by unknown parties Intel Anti Theft Technology can be used alone or can be combined with software encryption applications to add protection against data theft Intel Anti Theft Technology functionality requires a correctly configured system including an appropriate processor Intel Management Engine firmware and system BIOS support 8 19 Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I O The Intel 3420 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 p
57. th PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 47 Dell Table 19 Quantities and Priorities Category Description Bandwidth Max Qty Slot Priority PERC H700 NV Internal available March 2010 x8 1 Slot 1 Controllers internal can be installed in system PERC S300 adapter x8 1 Slot 1 2 PERC H800 512M Slot 1 2 3 PERC H800 512M NV available March 2010 x8 2 Slot 1 2 3 PERC 6 E 256MB Slot 1 2 3 External 6Gbps SAS HBA For RBOD or TBU Slot 1 2 3 SAS 5 E For RBOD or TBU Slot 1 2 3 Intel Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter Slot 3 1 2 Intel Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter x4 3 Slot 3 1 2 Broadcom NetExtreme 5709 Dual Port Gb Ethernet TOE Server Adapter x4 3 Slot 3 1 2 Broadcom NetExtreme 5709 Dual Port Gb Ethernet TOE ISCSI Offload Server Adapter x4 3 Slot 3 1 2 Intel PRO 1000 PT Server Adapter 3 Slot 4 5 3 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 48 Dell Notes RBOD is RAID Bunch of Disks The cards must be installed in the order they are listed top to bottom If multiple adapter part numbers are on one line install in order shown The adapter should be installed by Slot Priority in the first available slot L to R Placement of card s should be consistent for all orders 10 2 External Controller Cards Table 20 External Controller Cards Max Slot Description Bandwidth Qty Priority a H800 NV Slot 1 2 3 March 2010 PERC 6 E 256MB x8 2 Slot 1 2 3 Category External Con
58. trollers PERC 6 E 512MB x8 2 Slot 1 2 3 6Gbs SAS For RBOD HBA X8 2 Slot 1 2 3 or TBU For MD3000 or SAS 5 E x8 2 Slot 1 2 3 SAS TBU 10 3 PCI Card Dimensions Table 21 PCI Card Dimensions Link Width Height Length x1 Standard height 111 15 mm 4 376 167 65 mm 6 6 half length card inches max inches max X1 x4 x8 x16 Standard height 111 15 mm 4 376 312 mm 12 283 half length card inches max inches max Low profile cards 68 90 mm 2 731 167 65 mm 6 6 inches max inches max PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 49 Dell 11 Storage 11 1 Overview T310 supports up to 4 HDDs using one of the following options The 2 5 HDD requires hot swap configuration with the 3 5 hard drive carrier tray and the retention kit Cabled configuration or hot swap configuration must be selected at point of purchase as this is not an upgrade option 11 2 Drives 4x 3 5 cabled SATA from motherboard SATA connector 4x 3 5 cabled SAS or SATA via add on storage controller 4x 3 5 hot swap SAS or SATA via add on storage controller 4x 2 5 hot swap SAS or SATA or SSD via add on storage controller Table 22 PowerEdge T310 Drives Form Factor Capacity Speed Type 3 5 160GB 7 2K SATA 3 5 250GB 7 2K SATA 3 5 500GB 7 2K SATA 3 5 1000GB 7 2K SATA 3 5 2000GB 7 2K SATA 3 5 500GB 7 2K NL SAS 3 5 1000GB 7 2K NL SAS 3 5 146GB
59. ulate the maximum operating temperature in F for a given altitude Use the first formula if the altitude is stated in meters and the second formula if the altitude is stated in feet 95 Maximum Altitude in meters 900 x 1 8 oF or 95 Maximum Altitude in ft 2952 75 x 1 8 300 984 25 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 28 Dell 5 3 Acoustics The acoustical design of the PowerEdge 310 reflects the following e Adherence to Dell s high sound quality standards Sound quality is different from sound power level and sound pressure level in that it describes how humans respond to annoyances in sound like whistles hums etc One of the sound quality metrics in the Dell specification is prominence ratio of a tone and this is listed in the table below e Office environment acoustics Compare the values for LpA in the table below and note that they are lower than ambient measurements of typical office environments Typical office environment placement of tower servers is under a desk not at the desktop level e Noise ramp and descent at bootup Fan speeds hence noise levels ramp during the boot process in order to add a layer of protection for component cooling in the case that the system were not to boot properly e Noise levels vs configurations As shown in the table below the noise level may slightly differ from 41 dBA to 45 dBA when the PowerEdgeT310 is configured with different types or quantities of DIMMs hard drives RA
60. up to 3 0 Gb s 300MB s The SATA controller contains two modes of operation a legacy mode using I O space and an AHCI mode using memory space Software that uses legacy mode will not have AHCI capabilities The Intel 3420 supports the Serial ATA Specification Revision 1 0a The Intel 3420 also supports several optional sections of the Serial ATA II Extensions to Serial ATA 1 0 Specification Revision 1 0 AHCI support is required for some elements 8 5 Advanced Host Controller Interface The Intel 3420 provides hardware support for Advanced Host Controller Interface AHCI a new programming interface for SATA host controllers Platforms supporting AHCI may take advantage of performance features such as no master slave designation for SATA devices each device is treated as a master and hardware assisted native command queuing AHCI also provides usability enhancements such as Hot Plug AHCI requires appropriate software support e g an AHCI driver and for some features hardware support in the SATA device or additional platform hardware 8 6 Intel Rapid Storage Technology The Intel 3420 provides support for Intel Rapid Storage Technology providing both AHCI see above for details on AHCI and integrated RAID functionality The industry leading RAID capability provides high performance RAID 0 1 5 and 10 functionality on up to 6 SATA ports of Intel 3420 Matrix RAID support is provided to allow multiple RAID levels to be c
61. upported Unbuffered DDR3 1066 1GB DIMM Single Rank Unbuffered DDR3 1333 1GB DIMM Single Rank Unbuffered DDR3 1066 2GB DIMM Dual Rank Unbuffered DDR3 1333 2GB DIMM Dual Rank Unbuffered DDR3 1066 4GB DIMM Dual Rank Unbuffered DDR3 1333 4GB DIMM Dual Rank Registered DDR3 1066 1GB DIMM Single Rank Registered DDR3 1333 1GB DIMM Single Rank Registered DDR3 1066 2GB DIMM Dual Rank Registered DDR3 1333 2GB DIMM Dual Rank Registered DDR3 1066 4GB DIMM Quad Rank Registered DDR3 1066 8GB DIMM Quad Rank Registered DDR3 1333 4GB DIMM Dual Rank will be available Summer 2010 Memory support for U DIMMs is shown in Table 8 and support for R DIMMS is shown in Table 9 PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 33 Dell Table 8 Memory Support U DIMM U DIMM DDR3 ECC System DIMM DIMM of Capacity Speed Capacity DIMMs PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 34 Dell Table 9 Memory Support R DIMM R DIMM DDR3 ECC DIMM DIMM of System System Capacity Speed Capacity DIMMs Speed 1G 1066 1G x1 1066 1G 1333 1G x1 1333 7 3 Slots Risers PowerEdge T310 supports DDR3 1066 1333 UDIMM or RDIMM Xeon only 2 channels up to 2 U DIMM or 3 R DIMM per channel PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide Dell Slot silk print as Intel CPU Channel B Channel A Figure 20 Slots and Risers 7 4 Speed The PowerEdge T310 supports up t
62. ve IT management solutions Combining Dell PowerEdge Servers with a wide selection of Dell developed management solutions gives you choice and flexibility so you can simplify and save in environments of any size To help you meet your server performance demands Dell offers Dell systems management solutions for Deployment of one or many servers from a single management console Monitoring of server and storage health and maintenance e System update configuration change and maintenance Dell offers IT management solutions for organizations of all sizes right priced sized and supported 16 2 Server Management A Dell Systems Management and Documentation DVD and a Dell Management Console DVD are included with the product Content includes Dell Systems Build and Update Utility Dell Systems Build and Update Utility assists in OS install and pre OS hardware configuration and updates OpenManage Server Administrator The OpenManage Server Administrator OMSA tool provides a comprehensive one to one systems management solution designed for system administrators to manage systems locally and remotely on a network OMSA allows system administrators to focus on managing their entire network by providing comprehensive one to one systems management Management Console Our legacy IT Assistant console is also included as well as tools to allow access to our remote management products These tools are Remote Access
63. ver Management It is Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI v2 0 compliant The optional iDRAC Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller is responsible for acting as an interface between the host system and its management software and the periphery devices These periphery devices consist of the PSUs the storage backplane integrated SAS HBA or PERC 6 1 and control panel with display The optional upgrade to iDRAC6 provides features for managing the server remotely or in data center lights out environments Advanced iDRAC features require the installation of the optional iDRAC6 Enterprise card 16 4 Lifecycle Controller and Unified Server Configurator Embedded management is comprised of four key components Dell Lifecycle Controller Unified Server Configurator e iDRAC6 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller e vFlash virtual flash media Lifecycle controller powers the embedded management features It is integrated and tamperproof storage for system management tools and enablement utilities firmware drivers etc Dell Unified Server Configurator USC is a local 1 1 graphical user interface embedded on Lifecycle Controller that aids in local server provisioning in a pre OS environment For servers with iDRAC Express the Lifecycle Controller offers OS install plattorm updates platform configuration and diagnostics capabilities For servers without iDRAC6 Express this utility has limited functionality and o
64. whe ads cme eles 60 16 4 Lifecycle Controller and Unified Server Configurator 22 00 60 E 61 16 5 IDR ACO EDIGIDIISO 61 17 63 17A USB etude bunt t SMS 63 17 2 External Storage DA FU 63 18 Packaging Ry exe A E 64 Tables Table 1 Comparison for PowerEdge SOrvBls oot Er terr ae tae eae 7 Table 2 Product Features Summary dee 12 Table 3 Dimensions tutoriel dee ect edd dumis 14 Table 4 NICCEED ACW 04 18 Table 5 Environmental Specifications and Operating 28 Table 6 ACOUSUCAl Specifications ee 30 Table 7 Supported Pro6B8SSO S naid We De fri Gee Hb Crest eed sancti ladder wena 32 Table 8 Memory Support U DIMM ire 34 Table 9 Memory Support sie ax reinen 0 35 Table 10 2 lt 4 DIMM Informati n m Un ot ev o ROO 36 Table 11 4 DIMM MAX Memory and DRAM 36 Table 12 6 RDIMM Registered DDR3 ECC Xeon only eese nenne 37 Table 13 6 DIMM MAX Memory and DRAM
65. y PSU Power supply operation power telemetry data and fault Microcontroller No behaviors iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Yes when enabled installed and the media does not have the write protect switch applied Storage of logs user images like files drivers OS s etc Table 33 Methodology for Data Input to Memory How is data input to this memory Planar System BIOS SPI Flash 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 A system loaded with arbitrary data in firmware memory will not operate LOM Configuration Loading flash memory requires a vendor provided firmware file and loader program which Data is executed by booting up the system from a floppy or OS based executable containing the firmware file and the loader LOMs loaded with arbitrary data in firmware memory would not operate iDRAC6 Controller ROM N A iDRAC6 controller RAM iDRAC embedded system System CPLD 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 currently only DRMK utility support containing the firmware file and the loader System loaded with arbitrary data in CPLD memory would not operate PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide 69 Dell How is data input to this memory iDRAC6

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