Dell PowerEdge R730 - New Technologies; Table 1. New Technologies

7 PowerEdge R730 and R730xd Technical Guide
New technologies
Table 1 lists the new technologies featured on the PowerEdge R730 and R730xd systems.
Table 1. New technologies
New technologies
Detailed descriptions
Intel Xeon Processor
E5-2600 v3 product family
The Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v3 product has advanced features that deliver
exceptional performance and value. See the Processors section for details.
Intel C610 series chipset
The R730 and R730xd servers use the Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip.
2133MT/s DDR4 memory
Certain models of E5-2600 v3 processors support 2133MT/s memory. The R730
and R730xd support three DIMMs per channel at 1866MT/s with these
processors. See the Memory section for details.
Next-generation PERC
options
The R730 and R730xd support new Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC)
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 hard disk drives (HDD) or solid-state drives
(SSD). 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
Allows direct access to the iDRAC through the special front USB port using any
portable device with a browser. An A-to-A USB cable is required.
Failsafe hypervisors
The internal dual SD module (IDSDM) enables Dell's unique Failsafe Virtualization
architecture, ensuring uptime by providing failover capability for embedded
hypervisors, such as VMware
®
vSphere
®
ESXi™.
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
SAS-3 doubles the interface bandwidth from the previous generation at 12Gb/s.
SAS-3 addresses signal quality through transmitter training, which 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 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 2.0.