Dell PowerEdge T710 Server
Monday, September 28, 2009 22:19
The Dell PowerEdge T710 is the company’s new dual-socket tower server.
The virtualization oriented T710 is based on the Intel 5520 chipset and supports up to two quad-core or dual-core Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. It has 18 DIMM slots for up to 144GB of ECC DDR3 memory and supports 16 2.5-inch or 8 3.5-inch hot-plug hard drives, depending on customer’s choice. The 5U chassis, mountable in 19″ racks, also includes two media bays for optical drives or tape backup units, and optional redundant power supply.
Integrated storage controller choices include SAS 6/iR or PERC 6/i SAS RAID, but there’s also a variety of additional HDD controllers. For LAN connectivity, there are two embedded dual port Broadcom NetXtreme IITM 5709c Gigabit Ethernet NICs with failover and load balancing. Customers can additionally choose between various host bus controller, management card, and network adapter options.
Dell’s T710 has 6 PCI Express 2.0 slots and the integrated Matrox G200 video chip, and offers an interactive LCD on the front of the server for system health monitoring, alerts and control of basic management configuration.
Regarding software, the PowerEdge T710 ships without OS or with one of Windows Sever, SUSE Linux, or Red Hat Linux editions, with VMware or Citrix virtualization software (optionally embedded), and with various optional management and backup applications.
The Dell PowerEdge T710 currently starts at $1,199 at the official Dell Small Business website.
