Comments on: Hands On Review – Dell PowerEdge R710 Server

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:30:23 +0000

Quick question,

Can you tell me how the integrated hypervisor works? i want to install the hypervisor, and then use a 6 disk raid 10 for the vm storage. Does the the hypervisor installed directly to the server? or would it install to my raid 10 disk? Thanks very much

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By: Kiwi Si

Kiwi Si — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:01:15 +0000

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the correction on the second port and mixing of drive types – good info, that will definitely benefit others. I will amend the original article.

All the best,

Simon

By: TechTom

TechTom — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:20:19 +0000

Little bit of an error in the article-
“The second port is to connect an internal Solid State Disk (SSD). This is an optional extra and the SSDs come in both 25GB and 50GB models. One point to note is that if you install an SSD it will have to be connected to the PERC 6/i Integrated storage controller and cannot be mixed with any other type of hard drive.”
That connection is NOT for a SSD- it is for the optional SD module (which I opted for). To answer the question another person had- yes it works fantastically with ESXi- I installed 4.1 on the 1GB SD module. It is NOT standard- it was a line item upgrade at $49. Totally worth it- you can have a backup ESXi installation on a USB stick internally if you’re feeling overzealous. Also, spring for the x5650 processors- they are 6 cores each that support Hyperthreading so ESXi sees 24 logical processors! I love my R710 and it is only time before I get another:)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:50:27 +0000

Hi there

Very nice review. I was wondering if the internal SD Card port and USB port are optional, or do they come standard with the R710 servers?

Its hard to tell what is optional and what is standard.

Thanks

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