Dell PowerEdge R630 - New Technologies; Table 1. New Technologies

7 PowerEdge R630 Technical Guide
New technologies
Table 1 lists the new technologies featured on the PowerEdge R630 server.
Table 1. New technologies
New technology
Detailed description
Intel Xeon Processor
E5-2600 v3 product family
The Intel Xeon processor E-2600 v3 product family has embedded PCIe lanes
for improved I/O performance. See the Processor section for details.
Intel C610 series chipset
The R630 server uses the Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip.
2133MT/s DDR4 memory
Certain models of the E5-2600 v3 processors support 2133MT/s memory. The
R630 supports three DIMMs per channel at 1866MT/s with these processors. See
the Memory section for details.
Next-generation PERC
options
The R630 supports the new PERC9 cards with improved functionality and faster
performance. See the Storage section for details.
PERC S130
This new software RAID solution supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10, and supports a
maximum of eight hot-plug SATA HDDs or SATA SSDs. See the Storage section
for details.
iDRAC8 with Lifecycle
Controller
The new embedded systems management solution for Dell servers features
hardware and firmware inventory and alerting, data center level power
monitoring, faster performance and many more features. See the Dell
OpenManage systems management section for details.
iDRAC Quick Sync
This is a new at-the-box management solution that allows mobile devices to
sync with the PowerEdge server by touching an Android mobile device against
the Quick Sync hardware located in the bezel to gather system information
including system status and logs. The mobile application also allows the user to
make changes to the system configuration.
iDRAC Direct
The front USB port on R630 (marked with tool symbol) provides direct access to
the iDRAC GUI via a laptop browser. An A-to-A USB cable is required to use this
feature. This port can also be used to upload xml configuration files to the
iDRAC.
Failsafe hypervisors
The internal dual SD module enables Dell's unique Failsafe Virtualization
architecture, ensuring uptime by providing failover capability for embedded
hypervisors, such as VMware
®
vSphere
®
ESXi™. See the Supported virtualization
section for details.
Dell Fresh Air 2.0
Dell has tested and validated select 13
th
generation PowerEdge servers that
operate at higher temperatures helping you reduce your hours of
economization or even go chiller-less. See the Power, thermal and acoustics
section for details.
12Gb/s SAS
With fourth-generation SAS (SAS-3), we will again see a doubling of interface
bandwidth, now reaching 12Gb/s. 12Gb/s SAS-3 addresses signal quality through
“transmitter training.” This gives one of the receiver device’s key interconnects,
its PHY, the ability to modify the settings of the transmitter device’s PHY.
6Gb/s SATA
SATA revision 3.0 runs with a native transfer rate of 6Gb/s, and taking 8b/10b
encoding into account, the maximum uncoded transfer rate is 4.8Gb/s
(600MB/s). The theoretical burst throughput of SATA 3.0 is double that of SATA
revision 2.0.