Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 Service Manual

Installing the intrusion switch...................................................................................................................................40
Drives.................................................................................................................................................................................... 41
Removing a drive blank...............................................................................................................................................41
Installing the drive blank............................................................................................................................................ 42
Removing the drive carrier........................................................................................................................................42
Installing the drive carrier..........................................................................................................................................43
Removing the drive from the drive carrier............................................................................................................ 44
Installing the drive into the drive carrier................................................................................................................45
Cable routing...................................................................................................................................................................... 46
Drive backplane..................................................................................................................................................................49
Drive backplane............................................................................................................................................................49
Removing the drive backplane..................................................................................................................................51
Installing the drive backplane................................................................................................................................... 52
Removing the rear drive backplane........................................................................................................................ 53
Installing the rear drive backplane...........................................................................................................................53
Rear drive cage..................................................................................................................................................................54
Removing the rear drive cage.................................................................................................................................. 54
Installing the rear drive cage.................................................................................................................................... 55
System memory.................................................................................................................................................................56
System memory guidelines........................................................................................................................................56
General memory module installation guidelines....................................................................................................57
Removing a memory module.....................................................................................................................................60
Installing a memory module.......................................................................................................................................60
Processor and heat sink.................................................................................................................................................. 62
Removing the heat sink............................................................................................................................................. 62
Removing the processor............................................................................................................................................63
Installing the processor..............................................................................................................................................65
Installing the heat sink................................................................................................................................................67
Expansion cards and expansion card risers................................................................................................................ 68
Expansion card installation guidelines.................................................................................................................... 68
Removing the expansion card riser......................................................................................................................... 72
Installing the expansion card riser........................................................................................................................... 74
Removing an expansion card.................................................................................................................................... 76
Installing an expansion card.......................................................................................................................................77
Removing an expansion card from the expansion card riser............................................................................ 79
Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser................................................................................ 82
Removing an accelerator card................................................................................................................................. 85
Installing an accelerator card....................................................................................................................................87
M.2 SSD module................................................................................................................................................................ 89
Removing the M.2 SSD module............................................................................................................................... 89
Installing the M.2 SSD module................................................................................................................................. 90
Optional IDSDM module................................................................................................................................................... 91
Removing the IDSDM card........................................................................................................................................ 91
Installing IDSDM card................................................................................................................................................. 92
Micro SD card.................................................................................................................................................................... 93
Removing the MicroSD card.....................................................................................................................................93
Installing the MicroSD card.......................................................................................................................................94
LOM riser card................................................................................................................................................................... 95
Removing the LOM riser card.................................................................................................................................. 95
Installing the LOM riser card.....................................................................................................................................97
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Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 Specifications

General

Maximum Processors	1
Cores per Processor	Up to 64
Processor	AMD EPYC 7002 Series
Memory Type	DDR4
Memory Slots	16 DIMM slots
Storage	Up to 12 x 3.5" SAS/SATA or up to 24 x 2.5" SAS/SATA/NVMe drives
RAID Support	PERC H345, H745
Network Options	1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE
Network Controller	1 x 1GbE LOM
Power Supply	750W, 1100W
Form Factor	2U Rack
Operating System Support	Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi