Dell R710 Technical Guide - Page 7

Dell 1 Product Comparison 1.1 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. 1.1.1 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. The PowerEdge R710 is designed for versatility and high performance, providing many of the virtualization, system management, and energy-efficiency features you need now with the necessary scalability to change as your business grows. 1.1.2 Customer-Inspired Design Dell PowerEdge 11th generation servers are designed to meet customer needs with excellent reliability, security, and commonality, making your experience easier. With Dell's system commonality, once your IT managers learn one system, they understand how to manage nextgeneration Dell servers. Logical component layout and power supply placement provide a straightforward installation and redeployment experience. The PowerEdge R710 provides an interactive LCD for alerting and control of basic management. The LCD also provides system health monitoring and checks the AC power meter and ambient temperature monitor that is included with each server. The PowerEdge R710 features robust metal hard drive carriers and organized cabling, designed to help improve component access and airflow across the server for better reliability. 1.1.3 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. 1.1.4 Energy Efficient The PowerEdge R710 reduces power consumption while increasing performance capacity with Energy Smart technologies such as 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. PowerEdge R710 Technical Guide 7