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PowerEdge R515 Technical Guide
5.3 Supported Processors .................................................................................. 29
5.4 Processor Configurations .............................................................................. 30
5.5 Processor Installation .................................................................................. 30
6 Memory ........................................................................................................ 31
6.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 31
6.2 DIMMs Supported ....................................................................................... 31
6.3 DIMM Slots ............................................................................................... 32
6.4 Speed .................................................................................................... 32
6.5 Sparing ................................................................................................... 33
6.6 Mirroring ................................................................................................. 33
6.7 RAID ...................................................................................................... 33
6.8 Supported Configurations ............................................................................. 33
7 Chipset ........................................................................................................ 35
7.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 35
7.2 AMD I/O Bridges ........................................................................................ 35
7.3 HyperTransport 3 (HT3) ............................................................................... 35
7.4 Southbridge Link Interface ........................................................................... 35
7.5 AMD SP5100 Southbridge (SP5100) ................................................................... 35
8 BIOS ............................................................................................................ 36
8.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 36
8.2 Supported ACPI States ................................................................................. 37
8.3 Power Management Modes ............................................................................ 37
8.3.1 Dell Active Power Controller ................................................................... 37
8.3.2 Power Saving BIOS Setting (OS Control) ....................................................... 37
8.3.3 Maximum Performance .......................................................................... 37
9 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM) ............................................................. 40
10 I/O Slots ....................................................................................................... 41
10.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 41
10.1.1 Riser 1 PCI Expansion Slots...................................................................... 41
10.1.2 Riser 2 (Optional) PCI Expansion Slots ........................................................ 41
10.2 Boot Order .............................................................................................. 41
10.3 NIC and LOM Enumeration ............................................................................ 41
10.4 PCI Card Dimensions ................................................................................... 42
11 Storage ........................................................................................................ 43
11.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 43
11.2 RAID Configurations .................................................................................... 43
11.3 LED Indicators .......................................................................................... 45
11.4 Optical Drives ........................................................................................... 45
11.5 Tape Drives ............................................................................................. 45
11.6 External Storage Support ............................................................................. 45
12 Video ........................................................................................................... 46
13 Rack Information ............................................................................................. 47
13.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 47
13.2 Rails ...................................................................................................... 47
13.2.1 Sliding Rails ....................................................................................... 47
13.2.2 Static Rails ........................................................................................ 48
13.3 Cable Management Arm (CMA) ....................................................................... 49
14 Operating Systems and Virtualization ..................................................................... 51
15 Systems Management ........................................................................................ 52
15.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 52
15.2 Server Management .................................................................................... 52