PowerEdge R610 Rack Server

Customer Inspired Design
Dell’s servers offer world class system and image commonality and customer inspired usability. The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 takes advantage of Dell’s system commonality; When IT managers learn one system, they have learned the logic required to manage Dell’s next generation servers. The logical layout of components and power supply placement enables a simple and straight forward installation and a simplified redeployment experience in the future.

In addition, Dell’s latest PowerEdge servers provide a graphical and interactive LCD for system health monitoring, alerting and control of basic management configuration right in the front of the server. Customers have an AC power meter and ambient temperature thermometer built into the server which they can monitor on this display without any software tools.

Purposeful Design

The PowerEdge R610 follows the 11th generation PowerEdge portfolio specifications and features the same system design commonality and reliability true to the entire portfolio. All 11th generation servers are designed to make the experience easier. We put all external ports, power supplies, LCD screens, and LED lights in the same location for familiar experience as well as easy installation and deployment.
Robust, metal hard drive carriers and organized cabling are designed to help improve component access and airflow across the server. The PowerEdge R610 provides an interactive LCD screen or LED display positioned on the front of the server for ease of monitoring and troubleshooting condition of the server.

Processor

Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 and 5600 series
Six-core Intel® Xeon®
Quad-core Intel® Xeon®

Operating System

Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server 2011
Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server 2008
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V™)
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V™ v2)²
Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008
Novell® SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
Oracle® Solaris™

Optional Embedded Hypervisors:

Citrix® XenServer™
VMware® vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX® 4.1 or VMware ESXi™ 4.1)

For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit www.dell.com/OSsupport

Chipset

Intel™ 5520 (Tylersberg)

Memory

Up to 192GB (12 DIMM slots): 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB DDR3
Up to 1333MHz

Embedded Hypervisor (Optional)

Citrix^® XenServer^®
Microsoft^® Windows Server^® 2008, with Hyper-V™
VMware^® vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX^® 4.1 or VMware ESXi™ 4.1)

Storage

Hot-plug Hard Drive Options:
2.5" SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (10K, 15K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K)

Solid State Storage Cards:

Fusion-io® 160GB ioDrive PCIe solid state storage card
Fusion-io® 640GB ioDrive Duo PCIe solid state storage card
Fusion-io® 320GB ioDrive Mono PCIe solid state storage card
Fusion-io® 640GB ioDrive Mono PCIe solid state storage card
Fusion-io® 1.28TB ioDrive Mono PCIe solid state storage card

Maximum Internal Storage:
Up to 12TB

External Storage:
For information about Dell external storage options, visit Dell.com/Storage.

Drive Bays

Hot-Swap options available:

Up to six 2.5” SAS, SATA or SSD drives
Slots 2 PCIe G2 slots + 1 storage slot:

Two x8 PCIe Gen2 slots
One x4 PCIe Gen1 slot dedicated for the integrated storage controller card.