Dell PowerEdge R620 User manual

PowerEdge R620
Technical Guide
This hyper-dense,
two-socket, 1U rack
server has a large
memory footprint and
impressive I/O options
that make it exceptional
for space-sensitive
environments.

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Table of contents
1System overview................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Introduction........................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Key technologies ................................................................................................................................................................7
2System features .................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Comparison of PowerEdge systems .............................................................................................................................. 8
Specifications ..................................................................................................................................................................... 9
3Chassis views and features ..............................................................................................................................................11
Chassis views..................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Chassis features ................................................................................................................................................................13
4Processor............................................................................................................................................................................16
Processor features............................................................................................................................................................16
Supported processors......................................................................................................................................................16
GPU support ......................................................................................................................................................................18
Chipset................................................................................................................................................................................18
5Memory...............................................................................................................................................................................19
Supported memory ..........................................................................................................................................................19
Memory configurations .................................................................................................................................................. 20
Memory speed ................................................................................................................................................................. 20
Memory RAS features.......................................................................................................................................................21
6Storage ............................................................................................................................................................................... 23
Internal storage ................................................................................................................................................................ 23
External storage ............................................................................................................................................................... 24
Storage controllers.......................................................................................................................................................... 25
Optical drive ..................................................................................................................................................................... 27
Tape drive.......................................................................................................................................................................... 27
7Networking and PCIe ...................................................................................................................................................... 28
Select Network Adapter.................................................................................................................................................. 28
PCIe expansion ................................................................................................................................................................ 30
8Power, thermal and acoustics ....................................................................................................................................... 33
Power consumption and energy efficiency................................................................................................................ 33
Power supply units .......................................................................................................................................................... 34
Thermal and acoustics.................................................................................................................................................... 35
9Rack rails and cable management ................................................................................................................................ 38
Sliding and static rail systems ........................................................................................................................................ 38
Cable management arm.................................................................................................................................................40
10 Operating systems and virtualization ............................................................................................................................41
Supported operating systems.........................................................................................................................................41
Supported virtualization ................................................................................................................................................. 42
11 Dell OpenManage systems management.................................................................................................................... 43
Systems management solutions................................................................................................................................... 43
OpenManage systems management ...........................................................................................................................44
Dell server management operations............................................................................................................................48
Appendix A. Additional specifications...........................................................................................................................51
Chassis dimensions ..........................................................................................................................................................51
Chassis weight...................................................................................................................................................................51
Power supply specifications .......................................................................................................................................... 52
Environmental specifications ........................................................................................................................................ 52
Video specifications ........................................................................................................................................................ 53
Rack rail specifications ................................................................................................................................................... 54
USB peripherals................................................................................................................................................................ 54

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PCIe card dimensions ..................................................................................................................................................... 54
Appendix B. Standards compliance ............................................................................................................................. 55
Appendix C. Additional resources................................................................................................................................. 56
Appendix D. System board block diagram .................................................................................................................. 58
Tables
Table 1. Key technologies...................................................................................................................................................7
Table 2. Comparing the PowerEdge R610 to PowerEdge R620 ................................................................................ 8
Table 3. Technical specifications...................................................................................................................................... 9
Table 4. Chassis features...................................................................................................................................................13
Table 5. Security features..................................................................................................................................................15
Table 6. Supported processors ........................................................................................................................................17
Table 7. GPU cards supported .........................................................................................................................................18
Table 8. Memory technologies supported.....................................................................................................................19
Table 9. DIMMs supported............................................................................................................................................... 20
Table 10. Memory speed capabilities ................................................................................................................................21
Table 11. Memory RAS features .........................................................................................................................................21
Table 12. Supported hard drives ....................................................................................................................................... 23
Table 13. External storage device types .......................................................................................................................... 24
Table 14. External storage options ................................................................................................................................... 25
Table 15. Supported RAID controllers.............................................................................................................................. 26
Table 16. Hard-drive backplane options ......................................................................................................................... 27
Table 17. Supported Select Network Adapter options and features .......................................................................... 29
Table 18. PCIe slot options ................................................................................................................................................ 30
Table 19. Supported NICs and HBAs.................................................................................................................................31
Table 20. Additional supported PCIe expansion cards ................................................................................................. 32
Table 21. Power tools and technologies ......................................................................................................................... 33
Table 22. Power supply efficiency .................................................................................................................................... 35
Table 23. Acoustical performance.................................................................................................................................... 37
Table 24. Supported rack rail system ............................................................................................................................... 39
Table 25. Primary operating system support ...................................................................................................................41
Table 26. Virtual guest operating system support ......................................................................................................... 42
Table 27. Virtualization support ........................................................................................................................................ 42
Table 28. iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller functions and benefits...........................................................................44
Table 29. Feature comparison for iDRAC7 Express and Enterprise ............................................................................ 45
Table 30. One-to-one and one-to-many operations .................................................................................................. 49
Table 31. Chassis weight .....................................................................................................................................................51
Table 32. Power supply specifications............................................................................................................................. 52
Table 33. Environmental specifications ........................................................................................................................... 52
Table 34. Supported video modes.................................................................................................................................... 53
Table 35. Rail adjustability range....................................................................................................................................... 54
Table 36. PCIe card dimensions........................................................................................................................................ 54
Table 37. Industry standard documents .......................................................................................................................... 55
Table 38. Additional resources .......................................................................................................................................... 56
Figures
Figure 1. Eight-drive bay chassis front view without bezel..........................................................................................11
Figure 2. 10-drive bay chassis front view without bezel............................................................................................... 11
Figure 3. Eight-drive bay chassis front view with bezel ................................................................................................11
Figure 4. Eight-drive bay chassis back view....................................................................................................................12
Figure 5. Eight-drive bay chassis internal view...............................................................................................................12
Figure 6. LCD control panel for 8-drive bay chassis .....................................................................................................14
Figure 7. QRL code inside chassis cover .........................................................................................................................14
Figure 8. Rack network daughter card (NDC)................................................................................................................ 28

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Figure 9. 750W power supply unit ................................................................................................................................... 35
Figure 10. Sliding rails with optional CMA ........................................................................................................................ 38
Figure 11. Static rails............................................................................................................................................................. 39
Figure 12. Dell systems management solutions.............................................................................................................. 43
Figure 13. Systems management server lifecycle ........................................................................................................... 49
Figure 14. System dimensions .............................................................................................................................................51
Figure 15. R620 system board block diagram ................................................................................................................. 58

1System overview
Introduction
Designed for extraordinary performance on a wide range of applications, the Dell™PowerEdge™
R620 rack server is an impressive general-purpose platform that is perfect for data centers with
space constraints. With its hyper-dense memory —up to 768GB in a 1U form factor —and powered
by the Intel®Xeon®processor E5-2600 and E5-2600 v2 product families, the R620 shines when
handling virtualization, high-performance computing (HPC), and workgroup collaboration
applications.
Accomplish more
Pack more computing power into a space-challenged data center with the PowerEdge R620, which
offers an exceptionally large memory footprint along with balanced, scalable I/O capabilities,
including integrated PCI Express®(PCIe) 3.0 capable expansion slots. With reliability, availability and
serviceability (RAS) features like hot-pluggable fans, drives, power supply units (PSUs) and even
redundant failsafe hypervisors, the R620 keeps your data center running with rock-steady reliability.
Dense design for demanding workloads
Virtualization environments demand high memory capacity to maximize the number of virtual
machines per server, and the PowerEdge R620 was designed specifically with these environments in
mind. The R620 also offers outstanding computational density for HPC application clusters by
providing powerful processing capabilities in a compact form factor.
Tailor your network fabric
The R620’s network features allow you to tailor your network throughput to match your application
needs, enabling added I/O performance. Dell Select Network Adapters, our flexible NIC technology,
let you choose the right network fabric without using up a valuable PCI slot. You can pick speed,
technology, vendor, plus other options such as switch independent NIC partitioning, which lets you
share and manage bandwidth on 10GbE connections.
Simplified systems management, without compromise
The Dell OpenManage™ systems management portfolio includes Integrated Dell Remote Access
Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller. This embedded feature helps IT administrators
manage Dell servers in physical, virtual, local and remote environments, operating in-band or
out-of-band, with or without a systems management software agent installed.
OpenManage iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller integrates and connects to leading third-party
systems management solutions (such as those from Microsoft, VMware and BMC Software), so users
can maintain a single point of control and capitalize on an existing systems management investment.
OpenManage simplifies the lifecycle of deploying, updating, monitoring and maintaining Dell
PowerEdge servers.

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Key technologies
Table 1 summarizes the newest technologies used in the R620 rack server.
Table 1. Key technologies
New technology
Detailed description
Intel Xeon processor
E5-2600 and E5-2600 v2
product families
Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 and E-2600 v2 product families have advanced
features that deliver exceptional performance and value. See the Processor
section for details.
Intel C600 series chipset
The Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip is implemented on the R620
server.
1866MT/s DDR3 memory
The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family supports 1866MT/s
memory. The R620 supports two DIMMs per channel at 1866MT/s with these
processors. See the Memory section for details.
LRDIMM
This memory option, load reduced DIMM (LRDIMM), is designed with a buffer
chip (or chips) to replace the register to help minimize loading. LRDIMMs can
increase overall server system memory capacity and speed. See the Memory
section for more information.
Flexible LOM
Dell’s Select Network Adapter options allow you to customize your LAN port
combinations from your choice of controller vendors. See the Networking and
PCIe section for details.
Next-generation PERC
options
The R620 supports the new PERC controller cards with improved functionality
and faster performance. See the Storage section for details.
PERC S110 software RAID
Solution
This new software RAID solution supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10; supports
maximum of four hot-plug SATA hard drives or SATA solid-state drives. See the
Storage section for details.
Express Flash drives
Dell Express Flash PCIe solid-state drives provide fast performance without
requiring processor resources or capturing DRAM. The R620 supports up to two
Express Flash drives. See the Storage section for details.
iDRAC7 with Lifecycle
Controller
The new embedded system management solution for Dell servers features
hardware and firmware inventory and alerting, in-depth memory alerting, faster
performance, a dedicated gigabit port and many more features. See the Dell
OpenManage systems management section for details.
Internal GPU support
The R620 supports internal graphics processing units (GPUs) for extreme
computing power to solve HPC needs. See the Processor section for details.
DC power supply
A new 1100W DC power supply option is available for the R620.
Advanced power
management
The R620 supports advanced power monitoring and power capping tools that
can help manage power consumption.
Fresh Air cooling
Dell has tested and validated an integrated data center solution that enables you
to operate at higher temperatures or even chiller-less. See the Power, thermal
and acoustics section for details.
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.

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2System features
Compared to the previous generation of Dell PowerEdge servers, the R620 has more drive bay
options, more PCIe slots, PCIe 3.0, a larger memory footprint, flexible I/O, Express Flash PCIe
solid-state drives and advanced system management.
Comparison of PowerEdge systems
The PowerEdge R620 is a direct replacement for the predecessor R610. Table 2 compares some of
the features of the R620 to the R610.
Table 2. Comparing the PowerEdge R610 to PowerEdge R620
Feature
PowerEdge R610
PowerEdge R620
Chassis
1U rack
1U rack
Processors
IntelXeonprocessors 5500 and
5600 series
Intel Xeon processor
E5-2600 and E5-2600 v2 product families
Internal interconnect
Intel QuickPath Interconnect
Intel QuickPath Interconnect
Memory1
12 x DDR3 RDIMM and UDIMM
Up to 192GB
24 x DDR3 RDIMM, UDIMM, and LRDIMM
Up to 768GB
Hard drive bays
(hot plug)
6 x 2.5”
10 x 2.5”
RAID controller
PERC 6/i, SAS 6/iR, PERC 6/E,
H200, H700, H800
PERC S110, H310, H710, H710P, H810
Express Flash drives
N/A
Up to 2 Express Flash PCIe SSDs
PCI slots
2 PCIe 2.0
3 PCIe 3.0
Embedded NICs
4 x 1Gb with optional TOE
Select Network Adapter: minimum
configuration of 4 x 1Gb, 10Gb (optional)
Power supplies
Hot-plug, redundant power
supply units: 502W, 717W
Hot-plug, redundant power supply units:
495W, 750W, 1100W, 1100W DC
Dell OpenManage
Systems Management
Dell OpenManage
Lifecycle Controller 1.x
iDRAC6 (Express or Enterprise)
with
Lifecycle Controller 1.x
OpenManage Essentials
OMSA Agent
OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7
Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller)
OpenManage Integrations and Connections
iDRAC7 Express with Lifecycle Controller
(standard option)
Support for internal GPU
No
Yes (available through CFI or field upgrade
only)
Power efficiency
Gold
Titanium
Availability
Hot-plug drives
Hot-plug redundant cooling
Hot-plug redundant power
supply units
Internal SD module
Hot-plug drives
Hot-plug redundant cooling
Hot-plug redundant power supply units
Internal dual SD module
1GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating
environment and will be less.

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Specifications
Table 3 summarizes the specifications for each of the PowerEdge R620 features. For the latest
information on supported features for the PowerEdge R620, visit Dell.com/PowerEdge.
Table 3. Technical specifications
Feature
PowerEdge R620 technical specification
Form factor
1U rack
Processors
Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 and E5-2600 v2 product families
Processor sockets
2 sockets
Internal interconnect
2 Intel Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) links: 6.4GT/s, 7.2GT/s, 8.0GT/s
Cache
2.5MB per core; core options: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
Chipset
Intel C602
Memory1
Up to 768GB (24 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1866MT/s
PCIe slots
3 PCIe slots: (10-drive bay configuration is available only with this option)
Two x16 slots with x16 bandwidth, half-height, half-length
One x16 slot with x8 bandwidth, half-height, half-length
or
2 PCIe slots:
One x16 slot with x16 bandwidth, full-height, 3/4 length
One x16 slot with x16 bandwidth (or x8 with one processor only), half-height,
half-length
RAID controller
Internal controllers:
PERC S110 (SW RAID)
PERC H310
PERC H710
PERC H710P
External HBAs (RAID):
PERC H810
External HBAs (non-RAID):
6Gbps SAS HBA
LSI SAS 9207-8i 6Gb/s SAS
Hard drives
(hot-plug)
Drive bay options:
Up to 4 x 2.5” or
Up to 8 x 2.5” or
Up to 10 x 2.5” or
Up to 4 x 2.5” + 2 x Express
Flash
Hard drive options:
2.5" SSD, SAS HDD
3.5" SAS HDD, Nearline SAS HDD, SATA HDD
Self-encrypting drives available
Embedded NIC
Select Network Adapter options:
Broadcom®5720 4x1Gb Base-T (default)
Intel I350 quad-port 1GbE Base-T (no TOE or iSCSI offload)
Intel X540 dual-port 10GbE Base-T with 2 x 1GbE (FCoE capability on 10GbE ports)
Broadcom 57800S 2x1Gb + 2x10Gb Base-T
Broadcom 57800S 2x1Gb + 2x10Gb SFP+
Mellanox®ConnectX®-3 dual-port 40GbE QSFP+ network adapter
Mellanox ConnectX-3 dual-port 10GbE DA/SFP+ network adapter
Power supply
Titanium efficiency 750W AC power supply; auto-ranging Platinum efficiency 495W,
750W or 1100W AC power supply; 1100W DC power supply

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Feature
PowerEdge R620 technical specification
Availability
High-efficiency, hot-plug, redundant power supplies; hot-plug hard drives; TPM; dual
internal SD support; hot-plug redundant fans; optional bezel; information tag; ECC
memory; interactive LCD screen; extended thermal support; ENERGY STAR®
compliant; switch independent partitioning
Dell OpenManage
Systems Management
(Agent-free or with
OpenManage Server
Administrator [OMSA]
Agent)
OpenManage Essentials
OMSA Agent
OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle
Controller)
OpenManage Integrations and Connections:
>OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft®System Center
>OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter
>Connections for HP®Operations Manager, IBM®Tivoli®Netcool®and CA
Network and Systems Management
iDRAC7 Express with Lifecycle Controller (standard option)
>Upgrade to iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller
>Upgrade to 8GB vFlash media or 16GB vFlash media for iDRAC7
Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller
>Trial evaluation available for IDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller
Rack support
ReadyRails™ sliding rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or
unthreaded round holes or tooled mounting in 4-post threaded hole racks, with
support for optional tool-less cable management arm
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
Operating systems
Microsoft®Windows Server®2012 R2 (includes Hyper-V®)
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V)
Microsoft Windows®HPC Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011
Novell®SUSE®Linux®Enterprise Server
Red Hat®Enterprise Linux
Virtualization options:
Citrix®XenServer®
VMware vSphere ESXi
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization®
For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit
Dell.com/OSsupport.
1GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating
environment and will be less.