DELL POWEREDGE R610 RACK SERVER AVAILABLE ON RENTAL & SALE

Rental India providers servers for rental and sales, believe in prompt and accurate services and offer complete solutions in servers/server components/storage/network products. The Dell PowerEdge R610 is a must for today’s data centres and businesses. Designed to maintain high performance, the R610 is very versatile and provides your business with the virtualization, system management and energy efficiency necessary for an ever expanding business.

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The R610 has a keen eye on virtualisation, but also delivers reduced power demands and vastly improved management features, with centralisation high on the agenda. The new servers also have a Lifecycle Controller, which provides features such as recording firmware versions, build level audits and options to transplant the local server’s settings to others.

Stacking up the R610 alongside the lab’s PowerEdge 1950 and you can see the front panel has been completely redesigned. The new LCD display offers a keypad for setting the remote management network address, along with views of power consumption and temperatures.

Storage capacity goes up to six SFF hard disks and the hot-swap carriers look more sturdy as the release levers are now metal instead of plastic. RAID is provided by Dell’s PERC 6/I, which came kitted out with 256MB of embedded cache and a battery backup unit along with support for stripes, mirrors, RAID-5 and hot-sparing.

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Hardware features keep on getting better with the R610 now providing four embedded Gigabit Ethernet ports Computer data storage. These are TOE (TCP Offload Engine) ready with the optional iSCSI offload upgrade and Dell has even included an extra dual-port Gigabit PCI-e card in the price. There’s room for more expansion as a second riser card alongside offers another PCI-e slot.

The R610 introduces some completely new server management concepts and we’ll start with the Lifecycle Controller Computer storage. This is embedded on the motherboard and is, in fact, a 1GB chunk of NVRAM memory. The server can be booted from it by selecting the System Services option in the boot menu, where it loads Dell’s UEFI (unified extensible firmware interface) environment complete with GUI and support for mouse and keyboard.

The GUI provides access to OS deployment tools so you no longer need to boot the server with Dell’s Server Assistant disk. The UEFI offers a deployment wizard where you enter your details and leave the server to get on with installing your chosen OS. The controller also provides diagnostics and server update tools plus access to the server settings.

Remote management is facilitated by Dell’s new iDRAC6 controller, which is located at the rear and provides a dedicated network port. The base model offers a similar level of features to HP’s iLO2 chip with access to server monitoring tools, whilst the Enterprise upgrade on the review system adds support for virtual media and full KVM-over-IP services.

General server and system management sees the biggest changes as Dell’s new Management Console is based on Symantec’s Altiris Notification Server. Not content with looking after its own servers, Dell now provides the means to manage other vendor’s servers. This is the result of a two-year development program, which sees the elderly IT Assistant put out to grass with the aim of providing a single console for managing all equipment.