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Dell P owerEdge 11 th Generation Servers: R8 10, R910, and M91 0 Memory Guidance A Dell Technical White Paper Dell │ Product Group Armando Acosta and Ja mes Pledge.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page ii THIS WHITE PA PER IS FOR INFO RMATIONAL PURPOS ES ONLY, AND MA Y CONTAIN TYP OGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. THE CONTENT IS PRO VIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS O R IMPLIED WARRA NTIES OF ANY KIN D.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 1 Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................... 2 Quick Reference Guide (Te rmin ol ogy Definit ions) .
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 2 Introduction This paper se rves as mem o ry guidan ce f or Dell ™ 11th Generation PowerEdge ™ R810 , R910 , and M910 s ervers relea sed M arch 20 10 using the new Intel® Xeon ® 7 500 and 65 00 series proc essors th at support DDR3 memory technology.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 3 Sparing (DIMM and Rank): The system allocates a Rank or DI M M per channel a s a Spare me mor y region, and is able to move a Rank or D IMM exhibit in g correctab l e errors to the Spare wh il e the operat ing system is running.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 4 bin SKUs) (Slower with QR DIMMs) Minimum me mor y pop ul a tion 1 DIMM 2 DIMMs (must populate with identical DIMM p.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 5 Figure 1. FlexMem Bri dge Illustration.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 6 Figure 2. R8 10 and M910 Se ries Servers Memory I llus tration Note : This illustration is not a techni cal schemat ic of a mothe rboard.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 7 The R910 has eight memory risers; each memory ri se r has two Mil l b rook memor y bu ffers and eight DIMM slots. Figure 3. R9 10 Series Serv ers Memory I llustration Note : This illustration is not a techn ical sche matic of a moth erboard.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 8 Good Perfo rmance 2 D IMMS per Memory Buffer C hannel, all memory controllers populated equally with 32 DIMMs a nd .
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 9 Figure 5. M910/R810 Relative Memory Bandwidth for the Intel Xeon 6 500 and 7 500 Series Process ors Xeon X7560, 8C 2.26 GHz 6.4 0 QPI 1066 MTs Xeon E7540, 6 C 2.00 GHz 6.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 10 Figure 6. R910 With 64 I dentical DIMMs , 2 D IMMs Per Channel.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 11 Figure 7. R810 or M910 With 32 I dentical DIMMs , 2 DIMMs P er Channel.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 12 Figure 8. R910 With 32 I dentical DIMMs , 1 D IMM Per C hannel.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 13 Figure 9. R810 and M910 With 16 I dentical DIMMs , 1 D IMM Per C hannel Memory RAS Featu r es Sparing For Rank spa.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 14 Figure 10. Example of Sparing for Dual Rank and Quad Rank DIMMs Mirrorin g For mirroring , the R910 will support 2 P/4P configurations for >= 64 GB only. The R810 and M910 support mirroring in 3 2 DIM M confi gur ati ons >= 64 GB only.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 15 Figure 11. Example of R910 I ntra - Socket Mirroring Note : A1, A3 are mi r rored t o A2, A4; B1, B3 are m irrored.
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 16 Figure 12. Examp le of R810 and M910 Intra - N ode Mirroring For 4P, the R810 will also support mirroring in the inter - socket mod e .
Powe rEdge 11th Generation Servers: R810, R 9 10, and M 910 Memor y Guidanc e Page 17 Figure 13. Example of R810 and M910 Int er - S ocket Mirrori ng Table 3.
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