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PowerEdge T320

Technical Guide

Designed for a broad
range of workloads
and applications, the
PowerEdge T320
delivers performance,
reliability and value.

Summary of Contents for PowerEdge T320

Page 1: ...PowerEdge T320 Technical Guide Designed for a broad range of workloads and applications the PowerEdge T320 delivers performance reliability and value ...

Page 2: ... are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Novell and SUSE are registered trademarks of Novell Inc in the United States and other countries IBM Tivoli and Netcool are registered trademarks of IBM in the United States Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the ma...

Page 3: ...ive 25 Networking and PCIe 26 7 Embedded NIC controller 26 PCIe expansion 26 Power thermal and acoustics 27 8 Power consumption and energy efficiency 27 Power supply units 28 Thermal and acoustics 29 Rack rails and cable management 32 9 Sliding rails 32 Cable management arm 33 Operating systems and virtualization 34 10 Supported operating systems 34 Supported virtualization 34 Dell OpenManage syst...

Page 4: ...systems 34 Table 22 Virtualization support 34 Table 23 iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller functions and benefits 37 Table 24 Feature comparison for basic management iDRAC7 Express and iDRAC7 Enterprise 38 Table 25 One to one and one to many operations 43 Table 26 Power supply specifications 44 Table 27 Environmental specifications 45 Table 28 Supported video modes for back VGA port 46 Table 29 Suppo...

Page 5: ...n processor E5 2400 and E5 2400 v2 product families can choose to implement advanced memory protection capabilities memory sparing and memory mirroring previously not seen in the 1 socket x86 server space These capabilities are not possible with the Intel Xeon processor E5 1410 and the Intel Pentiumprocessor 1400 series Regardless of the processor type you can take advantage of other high availabi...

Page 6: ...ycle Controller The second generation embedded systems management solution for Dell servers provides agent free 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 T320 supports internal graphics processing units GPUs for virtu...

Page 7: ...DIMM Up to 6 x DDR3 RDIMM and UDIMM up to 1600MT s Hard drive bays Up to 4 x 3 5 or 2 5 hot plug or cabled Up to 16 x 2 5 or 8 x 2 5 3 5 hot plug or 4 x 3 5 cabled RAID controller PERC 6 i SAS 6 iR PERC 6 E H200 H700 H800 S100 S300 PERC H310 H710 H710P H810 S110 PCI slots Up to 5 PCIe 2 0 Up to 3 PCIe 3 0 and 2 PCIe 2 0 Embedded NICs 2 x 1GbE Dual Port LOM with optional TOE 2 x 1GbE Dual Port LOM ...

Page 8: ...x4 bandwidth 3 0 full height half length 1 x8 slot with x4 bandwidth 2 0 full height half length 1 x8 slot with x4 bandwidth 3 0 full height full length 1 x8 slot with x1 bandwidth 2 0 full height full length RAID controller Internal controllers PERC S110 SW RAID PERC H310 PERC H710 PERC H710P Internal HBAs non RAID Internal tape adapter External HBAs RAID PERC H810 External HBAs non RAID 6Gbps SA...

Page 9: ...grade to iDRAC7 Express or Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller Upgrade to 8GB vFlash media or 16GB vFlash media for iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller Trial evaluations available for IDRAC7 Express and Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller Rack support ReadyRails II sliding rails for tool less mounting in 4 post racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled mounting in 4 post thre...

Page 10: ...types Controller Front control panel Power supply Rack option 4 cabled drive bays 3 5 SATA and SAS HHD PERC S110 H310 H710 H710P LED Cabled 350W No 8 hot plug drive bays 3 5 SATA and SAS HHD 2 5 SAS SSD PERC S110 H310 H710 H710P LCD Cabled 350W or hot plug 495W 750W Yes 16 hot plug drive bays 2 5 SATA and SAS SSD HHD PERC H310 H710 H710P LCD Hot plug 495W 750W Yes Figure 1 shows the features on th...

Page 11: ...chassis Figure 2 Front view with bezel Figure 3 shows the features on the back panel of the T320 including USB connectors Ethernet connectors serial connector video connector PCIe slots power supplies iDRAC dedicated port and many other components and features described in this guide Figure 3 Back view ...

Page 12: ...and for airflow for effective and efficient cooling Figure 4 provides an internal view of the T320 including the DIMMs PCIe card slots power supplies fans and processors Figure 4 Internal view Figure 5 shows the front view of the rackable T320 chassis without a bezel Figure 5 Rackable front view without bezel ...

Page 13: ...s USB connectors Connects USB devices to the server Information tag Slide out label panel for recording system information Video connector Connects a monitor to the server one port on the back of the tower chassis or a port on both the front and back of the rack chassis LCD panel and buttons Displays system ID status information and system error messages two navigation buttons on the hot plug chas...

Page 14: ...about the server Figure 7 QRL location This QRL code allows you to View step by step videos including overviews of system internals and externals as well as detailed concise task oriented videos and installation wizards Locate reference materials including searchable owner s manual content LCD diagnostics and an electrical overview Look up your service tag so you can quickly gain access to your sp...

Page 15: ...iewable on the LCD screen when the bezel is installed TPM The Trusted Platform Module TPM is used to generate store keys protect authenticate passwords and create store digital certificates It also supports the Intel Xeon TXT functionality TPM can also be used to enable the BitLocker hard drive encryption feature in Windows Server 2008 TPM 1 2 is supported No TPM version is available for China or ...

Page 16: ...ry controller with three channels of DDR3 and 46 bit physical addressing facilitate greater memory capacity Intel Integrated I O support for up to 24 lanes of PCIe 3 0 links Faster connections throughout the system with support for DDR3 1600MT s memory and 8 0GT s QPI Intel Data Direct I O DDIO allows I O traffic to skip the main system memory and be directed straight to the processor cache which ...

Page 17: ...GHz 80W 5MB 2 2 1066MT s N A For more information supported Intel processors visit Intel com For information on processor installation and configuration see the Dell PowerEdge T320 Systems Owner s Manual on Dell com Support Manuals GPU support The T320 supports GPU technology providing accelerated performance for a variety of applications including VDI and medical imaging GPU cards The T320 suppor...

Page 18: ...upport for GPUs Some operating systems have not been validated to support GPUs See Table 20 for more information on operating system support of GPUs Chipset The Intel C600 chipset is implemented on the PowerEdge T320 For more information visit Intel com ...

Page 19: ...agnosis of faults that require service increasing your memory reliability Supported memory The T320 supports the memory technologies shown in Table 8 Table 8 Memory technologies supported Feature UDIMM RDIMM Register No Yes Buffer No No Frequencies 1600MT s 1333 or 1600MT s Ranks supported 1 or 2 1 2 or 4 Capacity per DIMM 2 or 4GB 2 4 8 16 or 32GB Maximum DIMMs per channel 2 2 DRAM technology x8 ...

Page 20: ...ss all processors operate at the slowest DIMM s common frequency DIMM type Only one type of DIMM can be used in a system UDIMMs and RDIMMs cannot be mixed The following additional memory population guidelines apply to the T320 Up to two quad rank QR dual rank DR or single rank SR DIMMs may be populated per channel DIMMs must be installed in each channel starting with the DIMM farthest from the pro...

Page 21: ...rates speed temperature and voltage Memory demand and patrol scrubbing Demand scrubbing is the ability to write corrected data back to the memory once a correctable error is detected on a read transaction Patrol scrubbing proactively searches the system memory repairing correctable errors Recovery from single DRAM device failure Recovery from Single DRAM Device Failure SDDC provides error checking...

Page 22: ...em is running to prevent the error from causing an uncorrectable failure Memory thermal throttling This feature helps to optimize power performance and can also be used to prevent DIMMs from overheating For information on memory mirroring and sparing configurations see the Dell PowerEdge T320 Systems Owner s Manual on Dell com Support Manuals ...

Page 23: ...n 2 5 inch or eight 3 5 inch hard drives or solid state drives Self encrypting drives SEDs are available Table 12 lists more information about these drives For additional information see Dell com PowerEdge Table 12 Supported hard drives Form factor Type Speed rpm Capacities 2 5 Nearline SAS 7 2K 500GB 1TB SAS 10K 300GB 600GB 900GB 1 2TB SAS 15K 146GB 300GB SAS SSD N A 200GB 400GB SATA SSD N A 100G...

Page 24: ... solution that supports RAID 0 1 5 and 10 as shown in Table 13 For more information about the latest PERC offerings see Dell com PERC Table 13 Supported RAID controllers Controller Description Features RAID modes supported Form factor Usage model PERC H810 External Eight port external and 6Gbps PCIe RAID controller Includes 1GB NV DDR3 cache premium performance and feature set security SED EKMS an...

Page 25: ... Up to two SATA half height DVD ROM or DVD R W drive Up to one SATA half height DVD ROM or DVD R W drive one internal RD1000 drive or SAS interface tape drive Up to one internal RD1000 drive one SAS interface tape drive Tape drive The T320 supports the external storage device types listed in Table 14 For additional information visit Dell com Storage Table 14 Supported external storage Tape devices...

Page 26: ... device provides a PCIe 2 1 compliant interface which operates at 5GT s or 2 5GT s x2 link width PCIe expansion The T320 provides expanded PCIe slot capability over the previous servers This is made possible by the 24 PCIe lanes available from the processor Dell designed the T320 to be PCIe 3 0 compliant in order to take full advantage of the processor capabilities PCIe slots PCIe connectivity is ...

Page 27: ...ts section Tools for right sizing Dell Energy Smart Solution Advisor ESSA is a tool that helps you determine the most efficient configuration possible With ESSA you can calculate the power consumption of your hardware power infrastructure and storage ESSA can help you determine exactly how much power your server will use at a given workload and the PSU Advisor can help you choose the best most eff...

Page 28: ...p to a 26 C dew point at 90 relative humidity without impacting your availability model Find additional information at Dell com FreshAir Rack infrastructure Dell offers some of the industry s highest efficiency power infrastructure solutions including Power distribution units Uninterruptible power supplies Energy Smart containment rack enclosures Find additional information at content dell com us ...

Page 29: ...7 Power supply efficiency Form factor Output Class Efficiency targets by load 10 20 50 100 Redundant 86 mm 495W AC Platinum 82 0 90 0 94 0 91 0 750W AC Platinum 82 0 90 0 94 0 91 0 Non redundant 350W AC Silver N A 85 0 88 0 85 0 See Table 26 for power supply specifications for the PowerEdge T320 Thermal and acoustics Optimized thermal management makes the PowerEdge T320 cool and quiet Benefiting f...

Page 30: ...ell specification is prominence ratio of a tone which is listed in Table 18 Configurable for low acoustics The following are configuration considerations you should make if acoustics are important to you Storage devices Because hard drive noise scales with spindle speed the quietest option for rotational storage media is a 7200 rpm SATA drive The loudest option is a 15k SAS drive Solid state drive...

Page 31: ...9 38 Yes by hard drive at stress Stress 5 4 9 38 1 LWA UL is the upper limit sound power levels LWA calculated per section 4 4 1 of ISO 9296 1988 and measured in accordance to ISO 7779 2010 2 LpA is the average bystander position A weighted sound pressure level calculated per section 4 3 of ISO 9296 1988 and measured in accordance with ISO 7779 2010 The system is placed within a rack enclosure bas...

Page 32: ...ompliant square hole and unthreaded round hole four post racks The rails also support tooled mounting in threaded hole four post racks and are available with or without the optional cable management arm CMA The rails ship in the tool less mounting configuration but can be easily converted to the tooled configuration The optional CMA can be mounted on either the left or right side of the sliding ra...

Page 33: ...r detailed information about sliding rails see the Rack rail specifications in Appendix A For more information on installing the T320 in a rack see the Rack Installation Instructions on Dell com Support Manuals Cable management arm The optional CMA organizes and secures the cords and cables exiting the back of the server and unfolds to allow the server to extend out of the rack without having to d...

Page 34: ...indows Server 2012 R2 x64 Essentials Standard Microsoft Windows Server 2012 X64 Essentials Standard Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 20111 x64 Standard Premium add on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 x64 with Hyper V role enabled Web Standard Enterprise 1 Not validated for use with GPUs Supported virtualization One of the key features for virtualization on the PowerEdge T320 is the...

Page 35: ... ESXi FI DIB Yes vSphere v5 5 ESXi FI DIB Yes Citrix XenServer v6 1 N A DIB No Red Hat 2 Enterprise Virtualization v3 1 N A DIB No FI factory install DIB drop in box 1 v4 1 U3 image is available from Dell com Support either as an upgrade to v4 1 U2 or for a clean install 2 No OpenManage support drop in box license registration card only ...

Page 36: ...are or other vendors you can leverage OpenManage integration and connections developed to use with your existing systems management framework to efficiently manage Dell servers storage business client PCs and network devices Start with a firm foundation for efficient hardware management using OpenManage tools utilities and management consoles OpenManage systems management solutions consist of a co...

Page 37: ...inventory deployment monitoring alerting and updates for servers and internal storage Manage servers independent of the OS type or status even if an OS is not installed Single code base All server types have the same embedded management hardware and firmware Simplified and consistent maintenance across server platforms Dedicated GigE port PowerEdge rack and tower systems Gigabit Ethernet replaces ...

Page 38: ...bles feature enhancements that do not require installation of additional hardware or system downtime iDRAC7 feature comparison The systems management default for the T320 is basic management with an upgrade option for iDRAC7 Express or iDRAC7 Enterprise A detailed feature comparison of basic management iDRAC7 Express and iDRAC7 Enterprise is shown in Table 24 Table 24 Feature comparison for basic ...

Page 39: ...erprise group power management Directory services AD LDAP PK authentication Two factor authentication 4 1 Rack and tower systems only 2 Feature available with IPMI not web GUI 3 Requires OMSA agent on target server 4 Uses Microsoft ActiveX on Internet Explorer only Agent based management Most systems management solutions require pieces of software called agents to be installed on each node in orde...

Page 40: ...tatus alerts for Dell servers storage and network devices to the Dell KACE K1000 service desk and is available as a no charge software download from Dell com Support OpenManage systems management tools and utilities Dell OpenManage systems management tools and utilities consist of the following Dell Repository Manager The Dell Repository Manager RM is a standalone GUI based productivity tool that ...

Page 41: ...Dell Server Deployment Pack automates bare metal configuration and deployment of a variety of Microsoft Windows operating system and application versions from a central location to Dell PowerEdge servers across a network Dell Server Update Catalogs scan and update BIOS firmware and drivers for PowerEdge servers Dell Server PRO Management Pack with PRO Tips for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machi...

Page 42: ... sensitive launch of OpenManage Server Administrator Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIBus This connection provides event monitoring capabilities to monitor Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell EqualLogic systems It allows event monitoring automatic event correlation and launching device consoles from the Netcool OMNIbus console Dell server management operations Dell OpenManage syst...

Page 43: ...ycle Controller Remote Services Dell Update Catalogs for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration DLCI for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Monitor iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller OMSA Dell OpenManage Essentials BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management integration with Lifecycle Controller Dell OpenManage Power Center OpenManage Integration f...

Page 44: ... goes to the nominal back wall external surface where the I O connectors reside Chassis weight The maximum system weight for the T320 is 29 55kg 65lb Power supply specifications Table 26 lists power supply specifications for the PowerEdge T320 Table 26 Power supply specifications Specification Redundant 750W Redundant 495W Non redundant 350W Current consumption 10 5A 6 5 3A 4 8 2 4A Supply voltage...

Page 45: ...maximum wet bulb temperature Outside the standard operating temperature 10 C to 35 C the system can operate down to 5 C or up to 40 C for a maximum of 10 of its annual operating hours For temperatures between 35 C and 40 C 95 F to 104 F de rate maximum allowable dry bulb temperature by 1 C per 175m above 950 m 1 F per 319 ft above 3117 ft 1 of annual operating hours 5 C to 5 C and 40 C to 45 C wit...

Page 46: ...ltitude Operating 15 2 m to 3048 m 50 ft to 10 000 ft Storage 15 2 m to 12 000 m 50 ft to 39 370 ft Airborne contaminant level Class G1 or lower as defined by ISA S71 04 1985 Video specifications The Dell PowerEdge T320 iDRAC7 incorporates an integrated video subsystem The graphics controller is the 2D Matrox G200 The video frame buffer 16MB is contained within the iDRAC7 RAM 256MB device The T320...

Page 47: ...1 760 840 The adjustment range of the rails is a function of the type of rack in which they are being mounted The min max values listed in Table 30 represent the allowable distance between the front and rear mounting flanges in the rack Rail depth without the CMA represents the minimum depth of the rails with the outer CMA brackets removed if applicable as measured from the front mounting flanges ...

Page 48: ... download search JESD79 3C pdf LPC Low Pin Count Interface Specification Rev 1 1 developer intel com design chipsets industry lpc htm PCI Express PCI Express Base Specification Rev 2 0 and 3 0 pcisig com specifications pciexpress PMBus Power System Management Protocol Specification v1 2 pmbus info specs html SAS Serial Attached SCSI v1 1 t10 org SATA Serial ATA Rev 2 6 SATA II SATA 1 0a Extensions...

Page 49: ...ded with the rack kits The document provides the instructions for installing the server in a rack Dell com Support Manuals Cable Management Arm Installation Instructions This printed document is provided with the CMA kits The document provides the instructions for installing the cable management arm on the rails Dell com Support Manuals Information Update This document is printed and shipped with ...

Page 50: ...rovides updated information on which operating systems are available on which PowerEdge systems Dell com OSsupport Processor and chipset Provides more information about the T320 processors and chipset Intel com Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers Provides more information about Dell PERCs Dell com PERC Power distribution unit Provides help selecting a rack based power distribution unit DellPDU com Uni...

Page 51: ...51 PowerEdge T320 Technical Guide Appendix D System board block diagram Figure 13 T320 system board block diagram ...

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