Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 User manual

Dell EMC PowerEdge R240
The PowerEdge R240 delivers the right mix of enterprise-class
features in an aordable dense 1-socket, 1U chassis server.
Powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® processor family, it is ideal for
SMB and service providers looking to deploy multiple workloads
like web hosting,collaboration/sharing, le/print, mail/messaging
and backup/recovery.
Technical Guide

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2017 - 01
Rev. A00

Contents
1 Product overview.............................................................................................................6
Introduction........................................................................................................................................................................6
New technologies...............................................................................................................................................................6
2 System features.............................................................................................................. 8
Product comparison........................................................................................................................................................... 8
Product specications........................................................................................................................................................ 9
3 Chassis views and features............................................................................................ 12
Front view of the system.................................................................................................................................................. 12
Rear view of the system....................................................................................................................................................13
Inside the system.............................................................................................................................................................. 14
Locating the information tag of your system.....................................................................................................................15
4 Processor.......................................................................................................................17
Processor features............................................................................................................................................................ 17
Supported processors....................................................................................................................................................... 17
Chipset............................................................................................................................................................................. 18
5 Memory........................................................................................................................ 20
Memory Features.............................................................................................................................................................20
Memory speed................................................................................................................................................................. 20
Supported Congurations................................................................................................................................................. 21
6 Storage......................................................................................................................... 23
Supported drives.............................................................................................................................................................. 23
Storage controller specications.......................................................................................................................................23
Optical Drives...................................................................................................................................................................23
Tape Drives.......................................................................................................................................................................23
Internal Dual SD Module................................................................................................................................................... 24
Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS)..............................................................................................................24
7 Networking and PCIe.................................................................................................... 25
PCIe slots.........................................................................................................................................................................25
PCI card dimensions.........................................................................................................................................................25
8 Power, thermal, and acoustics.......................................................................................26
Power supply units........................................................................................................................................................... 26
Thermal............................................................................................................................................................................26
Acoustics..........................................................................................................................................................................27
PowerEdge R240 acoustics........................................................................................................................................27
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9 Supported operating systems........................................................................................29
10 Dell EMC OpenManage systems management.............................................................30
iDRAC with Lifecycle controller........................................................................................................................................ 30
iDRAC features and comparison..................................................................................................................................31
Agent-free management.................................................................................................................................................. 35
Agent-based management............................................................................................................................................... 35
Dell EMC consoles............................................................................................................................................................35
Dell EMC OpenManage systems management tools, utilities and protocols......................................................................37
Integration with third-party consoles................................................................................................................................38
OpenManage connections with third-party consoles....................................................................................................... 39
11 Appendix A. Additional specications........................................................................... 40
Technical specications....................................................................................................................................................40
Chassis dimensions.................................................................................................................................................... 40
Chassis weight............................................................................................................................................................41
Video specications.................................................................................................................................................... 41
USB ports specications.............................................................................................................................................41
Drives..........................................................................................................................................................................41
NIC ports specications............................................................................................................................................. 42
Environmental specications...................................................................................................................................... 42
12 Appendix B. Standards compliance.............................................................................. 45
13 Appendix C Additional resources..................................................................................46
14 Appendix D. Support and deployment services.............................................................47
ProDeploy Enterprise Suite and Residency Services.........................................................................................................47
ProDeploy Plus........................................................................................................................................................... 47
ProDeploy...................................................................................................................................................................47
Basic Deployment.......................................................................................................................................................47
Residency Services.................................................................................................................................................... 48
Deployment services........................................................................................................................................................ 48
Remote Consulting Services.............................................................................................................................................48
Data Migration Service.....................................................................................................................................................48
ProSupport Enterprise Suite.............................................................................................................................................48
ProSupport Plus............................................................................................................................................................... 49
ProSupport.......................................................................................................................................................................49
ProSupport One for Data Center......................................................................................................................................49
Support Technologies.......................................................................................................................................................50
SupportAssist.............................................................................................................................................................50
TechDirect..................................................................................................................................................................50
Additional professional services.........................................................................................................................................51
Dell Education Services.....................................................................................................................................................51
Dell EMC Global Infrastructure Consulting Services..........................................................................................................51
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Dell EMC Managed Services.............................................................................................................................................51
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Product overview
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 is an aordable entry-level, single-socket 1U rack server for SMB and service providers.
The PowerEdge R240 includes four DIMM slots, supports up to 64GB UDIMMs and four 3.5-inch hard drives. The PowerEdge R240
is ideal for web hosting, mail serving, le and print, as well as a wide range of general-purpose productivity applications.
Figure 1. Dell EMC PowerEdge R240
Introduction
The PowerEdge R240 is versatile enough to address many customer segments and workloads. In particular, the PowerEdge R240
will be best suited for applications and workloads where high availability features are not important within the server node or where
redundancy is built at the rack level. Workload targets include:
• Web serving and hosting
• Mail server
• File and Print
• SAN proxy server
• DHCP server
• Surveillance & Security
• Wide variety of mainstream business applications
New technologies
The following table shows the list of new technologies oered by the PowerEdge R240:
New Technologies Detailed Descriptions
Intel® C246 series chipset Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH)
Intel® Xeon® processor E- 2100 Product Family The Intel® Xeon® E-2100 processor has increased core count
and embedded PCIe lanes that will improve the IO performance
and a lot more features. Please refer to section 4, Processors for
details.
Next Generation SW RAID, PERC S140 The new 1-socket servers support the latest S140 software
RAID along with H330 and H730P controller cards with
improved functionality and faster performance. New SW RAID
supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10. Please refer to section 6, for
additional details.
iDRAC 9 The new embedded system management solution for Dell EMC
server features hardware and rmware inventory and alerting, in
depth memory alerting, faster performance, dedicated gigabit
port, email alerts, electronic licensing, editable user work notes
log and more. Dedicated iDRAC Direct microUSB port improves
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New Technologies Detailed Descriptions
at-the-box management. Please refer to section 13, for
additional details.
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System features
Product comparison
The following table shows the comparison between the PowerEdge R230 and PowerEdge R240:
Table 1. Product comparison with predecessor
Feature PowerEdge R230 PowerEdge R240
Processor • Intel Xeon® E3-1200 v6 Processor family
• Intel Pentium®
• Intel Celeron®
• Intel Core i3®
• Intel Xeon® E-2100 Processor family
• Intel Pentium®
• Intel Celeron®
• Intel Core i3®
Number of processors • 1 • 1
Number or cores • Up to 4 cores • Up to 6 cores
L2/L3 cache • 2.0 MB per core
• 4 MB or 8 MB
• 2.0 MB per core
• 8 MB or 12 MB
Chipset • Intel C236 • Intel C246
Memory Module • DDR4: 4 x UDIMMs with ECC
• Speed: Up to 2400MT/s
• Min RAM: 4 GB
• Max RAM: 64 GB
• DDR4: 4 x UDIMMs with ECC
• Speed: Up to 2666MT/s
• Min RAM: 8GB
• Max RAM: 64 GB
Hard drive bays • 2 x 3.5-inch cabled
• 4 x 3.5-inch cabled
• 4 x 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch hot plug
• 2 x 3.5-inch cabled
• 4 x 3.5-inch cabled
• 4 x 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch hot plug
Hard drive types • Default SATA. Optional SAS
• Enterprise HDD
• Entry HDD
• Default SATA. Optional SAS
• Enterprise HDD
• Entry HDD
External hard drive bays • 1x slim ODD 9.5mm • 1x slim ODD 9.5mm
RAID controllers • Chipset based SATA, PERC S130
• PERC H330
• PERC H730
• PERC H830
• Chipset based SATA, PERC S140
• PERC H330
• PERC H730P
Host Bus Adapter (HBA) • 12Gb SAS External HBA • 12Gb SAS Exernal HBA
• HBA330 Internal adapter
Boot optimized storage
subsytem
• Not supported • 2x M.2 240GB (RAID 1 or No RAID)
• 1x M.2 240GB (No RAID only)
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Feature PowerEdge R230 PowerEdge R240
Server management • BMC
• IPMI 2.0 compliant; Full Open Manage suite
• Optional iDRAC8 Express
• Optional iDRAC8 Enterprise
•Vash
• BMC
• IPMI 2.0 compliant; Full Open Manage suite
• Optional iDRAC9 Express
• Optional iDRAC9 Enterprise
•Vash
I/O slots • 1 x16 slot PCIe Gen3 for HL/FH from CPU1(x8
lanes)
• 1 x 8 slot PCIe Gen3 for LP from CPU1(x4
lanes)
• 1 x16 slot PCIe Gen3 for HL/FH from CPU1(x8
lanes)
• 1 x 8 slot PCIe Gen3 for LP from CPU1(x4
lanes)
NIC/LOM • 2x GbE LOM • 2x GbE LOM
USB • 2 rear USB 3.0
• 2 front USB 2.0
• 1 internal USB 3.0
• 2 rear USB 3.0
• 1 front USB 2.0
• 1 internal USB 3.0
Power supplies • 250W AC 1U cable (Bronze) • 250W AC 1U cable (Bronze)
Fans • 3 or 4 non-redundant, non-hot swappable fans • 3 or 4 non-redundant, non-hot swappable fans
Form factor • 1U rack • 1U rack
Dimensions (HxWxD) • 42.8 x 434.0 x 551 (mm) (w/o bezel)
• 1.67” x 17.09” x 26.2”(in)
• 42.8 x 434.0 x 596 (mm) (w/o bezel)
• 1.67” x 17.09” x 23.5”(in)
Weight • Max 20.96 lb/10.6 Kg • Max 26.89 lb/12.2 Kg
Product specications
The following table lists the technical specications for the PowerEdge R240:
Table 2. Technical specications
Features Specications
Form factor • 1U rack
Processors • Intel® Xeon® processor E-2100 product family
• Intel® Core™ i3 8100 processor
• Intel® Pentium® G5500 processor
• Intel® Celeron G4900 processor
Processor sockets • 1
Front Side Bus or HyperTransport • Intel DMI 3.0
Cache • 2.0 MB per core
• 8 MB or 12 MB
Chipset • Intel C246 Chipset
Memory1 • Up to 64GB (4 DIMM Slots)
• 8GB/16GB 2666MT/s Unbuered with ECC only
• MIN/ MAX RAM: 8GB/64GB
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Features Specications
I/O slots • 2 GEN3 PCIe slots:
– X16 slot FH (1x8 Gen3)
– X8 Slot LP (1X4 Gen3)
RAID controller • S140
• PERC H330
• PERC H730P
Host Bus Adapter (HBA) • 12Gb SAS External HBA
• HBA330 Internal adapter
Drive bays • Up to 4 x 3.5-inch cable drives
• Up to 4 x 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch Hot-Plug drives
Maximum internal storage • 56.0TB for 4 x HDD cong
Hard drives • 2.5-inch SSD SATA 6Gb
• 2.5-inch SATA 7.2K
• 2.5-inch SAS 15K HDs
• 2.5-inch Near Line SAS 7.2K
• 2.5-inch SAS 10K HDDs
• 3.5-inch Enterprise SATA 7.2K HDDs
• 3.5-inch Near Line SAS 7.2K HDDs
• 3.5-inch 7.2K SATA client drives
• Capacity: 14TB; 12TB; 10TB; 8TB; 6TB; 4TB; 2TB; 1TB
Embedded LOM/NIC • Integrated BROADCOM BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet
Controller
Communications Optional add-in cards:
• 1GbE Intel (Dual) Powerville Troi-Stony Dual port 1Gb Base-T
adapter – FH or LP
• 1GbE Intel (Quad) Powerville Lore-Stony Quad port 1Gb
Base-T adapter – FH or LP
• 1GbE Broadcom (Dual) 5720 Bashir Dual port 1Gb Base-T
adapter – FH or LP
• 1GbE Broadcom (Quad) 5719 Cardassia Quad port 1Gb
Base-T adapter – FH or LP
Power supply • Cabled 250W Bronze power supplies (100–240 V AC)
Availability • TPM/No TPM
• ECC memory, UDIMM
• Hot-plug hard drives
• Single output power supplies
Video • Integrated Matrox G200 with iDRAC9
Remote management • Lifecycle Controller 3.0
• iDRAC9 Enterprise
• VFlash (Optional)
Systems management • Dell Open Manage featuring Dell Management Console
• Lifecycle Controller 3.0
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Features Specications
• iDRAC9 Enterprise
• VFlash (Optional)
Rack support • ReadyRails™ static rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post
racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled
mounting in 4-post threaded and 2-post (Telco) racks
Featured database applications • Microsoft® SQL Server® solutions
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Chassis views and features
Front view of the system
Figure 2. Front view of the 4 x 3.5-inch drive system
1. Left control panel 2. Optical drive
3. Right control panel 4. Information tag
5. Drive
Figure 3. Front view of the 4 x 3.5-inch cabled drive system
1. Left control panel 2. Optical drive
3. Right control panel 4. Information tag
5. Drive
NOTE: LED functionality is not supported on cabled hard disk drive conguration.
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Rear view of the system
Figure 4. Rear view of the system
1. Serial port 2. NIC port (Gb 1)
3. NIC port (Gb 2) 4. Half-height PCIe expansion card slot
5. Full-height PCIe expansion card slot 6. Power supply unit
7. PSU Built-in Self Test (BIST) LED 8. PSU Built-in Self Test (BIST) button
9. System identication button 10. System status indicator cable port (CMA)
11. USB 3.0 ports (2) 12. iDRAC dedicated NIC port
13. VGA port
For more information about the ports and connectors, see the Technical Specications section.
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Inside the system
Figure 5. Inside the system - 4 x 3.5-inch drive system
1. Optical drive 2. Intrusion switch
3. Cabled AC power supply unit 4. Expansion card riser
5. Processor and heat sink 6. Memory module sockets
7. System board 8. Fan (4)
9. Drive backplane
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Figure 6. Inside the system - 4 x 3.5-inch cabled drive system
1. Optical drive 2. Intrusion switch
3. Cabled AC power supply unit 4. Expansion card riser
5. Processor and heat sink 6. Memory module sockets
7. System board 8. Fan (4)
9. Cabled drive
Locating the information tag of your system
Your system is identied by a unique Express Service Code and Service Tag number. You can view the Express Service Code and
Service Tag by pulling out the information tag located on the front of the system. Alternatively, the information may be on the Mini
Enterprise Service Tag (MEST) label on the chassis, on the rear of the system. This information is used by Dell to route support calls
to the appropriate personnel.
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Figure 7. Locating Service Tag of your system
1. Information tag (front view) 2. Information tag (back view)
3. OpenManage Mobile (OMM) label 4. iDRAC MAC address and iDRAC secure password label
5. Service Tag, Express Service Code, QRL label
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Processor
The PowerEdge R240 is entry-level single-socket rack server based on the Intel® Xeon® E-2100 processor family.
Processor features
The following list highlights the features of the Intel® Xeon E-2100 processor family:
• Up to six execution cores per processor
• Four DMI3 lanes
• 16 PCIe Gen 3 links capable of 8.0 GT/s
• Socket H4, LGA package (LGA1151)
• Integrated 2 channel DDR4 memory controller
• Execute Disable Bit
• Support Turbo Boost Technology 2.0
• Increases CPU frequency if operating below thermal, power, and current limits
• Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)
NOTE: We do not support graphics with E-2100 processors, Graphics cannot be enabled on Dell servers using this
processor due to technical restrictions.
Supported processors
The following table lists the supported processors for the PowerEdge R240:
Model Speed
(GHz)
Power
(Watts)
Cores L3 Cache
(MB)
Threads Turbo Max
Memory
Speed
(MT/s)
Hyper-
threading
E-2186G 3.8 95 6 12 12 Yes 2666 Yes
E-2176G 3.7 80 6 12 12 Yes 2666 Yes
E-2174G 3.8 71 4 8 8 Yes 2666 Yes
E-2146G 3.5 80 6 12 12 Yes 2666 Yes
E-2144G 3.6 71 4 8 8 Yes 2666 Yes
E-2136 3.3 80 6 12 12 Yes 2666 Yes
E-2134 3.5 71 4 8 8 Yes 2666 Yes
E-2126G 3.3 80 6 12 6 Yes 2666 No
E-2124 3.3 71 4 8 4 Yes 2666 No
Core i3 8100 3.6 65 4 6 4 No 2666 No
Pentium
G5500
3.8 54 2 4 2 No 2666 No
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Model Speed
(GHz)
Power
(Watts)
Cores L3 Cache
(MB)
Threads Turbo Max
Memory
Speed
(MT/s)
Hyper-
threading
Celeron
G4900
3.1 54 2 2 2 No 2666 No
Chipset
The PowerEdge R240 incorporates the Intel® C246 chipset. The following high level features supported by the chipset and may not
implemented on R240:
PCH feature C246 R240
PCH feature C246 R240
TXT Y Y
Node Manager Y N
ECC Y Y
FlexIO - USB3.0 - 10 (means 6 is enough) 10 3
USB 2.0 4 4
FlexIO - 8 SATA ports 8 5
FlexIO - SATA Express 3 0
FlexIO - PCIE 3.0 ports - additional required 20 8
SPI (MB) FW image 7 UI
Intel vPRO/AMT11 Y N
Rapid Strorage technology Y N
Rapid Strorage technology enterprise Y N
Data Center Graphics N N
supported displays 3 N
Int. Gbe MAC Y N
eSPI Y N
IO Flex - ability to change SATA/PCIE/USB Y N
Software Guard Extensions (SGX) N Y
• Direct Media Interface 3 (DMI3) connects the CPU1 to the PCH
• PCI Express Generation 3 (PCIe Gen3) is capable of 8 GT/s bit rate
• PCH SATA controller provides hardware support for Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), a standardized programming
interface for SATA host controllers developed through a joint industry eort.
• Low Pin Count Interface (LPC)
• Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
• Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC)
• Real-Time Clock
• GPIO Serial Expander (GSX) is the capability provided by the PCH to expand the GPIOs on a platform that needs more GPIOs
than the ones provided by the PCH.
• System Management Bus (SMBus) 2.0
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• JTAG Boundary-Scan
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Memory
The PowerEdge R240 Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) supports DDR4/-RS protocols with two independent, 64-bit wide
channels.
The maximum system population at launch will be 64GB. (4 DIMM slots x16 GB DDR4 UDIMM)
• System Memory Organization Modes
– The IMC supports two memory organization modes, single-channel and dual-channel. Depending upon how the DDR Schema
and DIMM Modules are populated in each memory channel, a number of dierent congurations can exist.
• Single-Channel Mode
– In this mode, all memory cycles are directed to a single channel. Single-Channel mode is used when either the Channel A or
Channel B DIMM connectors are populated in any order, but not both.
• Dual-Channel Mode – Intel® Flex Memory Technology Mode
– The IMC supports Intel Flex Memory Technology Mode. Memory is divided into a symmetric and asymmetric zone. The
symmetric zone starts at the lowest address in each channel and is contiguous until the asymmetric zone begins or until the
top address of the channel with the smaller capacity is reached. In this mode, the system runs with one zone of dual-channel
mode and one zone of single-channel mode, simultaneously, across the whole memory array.
Memory Features
Key features of the PowerEdge R240 memory system include:
•Unbuer (UDIMM) ECC DDR4 technology
• Each channel carries 64 data and 8 ECC bits
• Up to 64 GB of UDIMM memory (4 x 16GB UDIMM)
• Up to 2666 MT/s DIMMs
• Single DIMM conguration with 8 GB DIMM at socket DIMM A1
• Flexible Memory Conguration
• ODT (On Die Termination)
• Clock gating (CKE) to conserve power when DIMMs are not accessed
– DIMMs enter a low power self-refresh mode
• I2C access to SPD EEPROM for access to thermal sensors
• Memory Optimized (Independent Channel) Mode
• 100% Single Bit Error Correction
• Memory O-lining is NOT supported
Memory speed
The system will run all memory on all CPUs and channels at the same speed and voltage. By default the system will run at the
highest speed for the lowest voltage of the worst case channel DIMM conguration.
Operating speed of the memory is determined by:
• Supported speed of the DIMMs
• DIMM conguration on any channel
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