Dell PowerEdge R530
Dell's 13th-generation two-socket 2U mainstream rack server (Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4, 12 DDR4 DIMMs, up to 5 PCIe slots) with up to 8 x 3.5" or 2.5" front storage. Affordable, virtualization-ready platform for common business workloads and small-scale virtualization, and a popular dedicated development or backup server.
Memory
- Slots
- 12 DDR4 DIMM sockets (288-pin)
- DIMMs
- 4 GB single rank RDIMM; 8, 16 or 32 GB dual rank RDIMM
- Speed
- DDR4 at up to 2400 MT/s (1866/2133/2400 MT/s, capped by the installed CPU)
- Max
- 256 GB with one processor; 384 GB with two processors (12 x 32 GB)
- Min
- 4 GB with one processor; 8 GB with two (minimum one DIMM per processor)
Storage
- Chassis options
- Up to 8 x 3.5" or 2.5" internal, hot-swappable SAS, SATA, Nearline SAS hard drives, or SATA SSDs
- Internal RAID
- PERC S130 (software RAID), PERC H330, PERC H730, PERC H730P
- External
- PERC H830 (RAID HBA); 12 Gb/s SAS HBA (non-RAID)
- Optical
- One optional SATA DVD-ROM or DVD+/-RW drive
- Boot/flash
- Internal Dual SD Module (mirrored, one card dedicated to redundancy); optional vFlash SD media with iDRAC8 Enterprise
Graphics
- Onboard
- Matrox G200eR2 in iDRAC8, 16 MB; up to 1280 x 1024 at 75 Hz, 1440 x 900 at 60 Hz
Expansion
- Riser 1 (plug-in slot 2)
- Slot 1: full height, full length, PCIe x16; Slot 2: full height, half length, PCIe x8; Slot 3: low profile, half length, PCIe x16; Slot 4: low profile, half length, PCIe x1; Slot 5: low profile, half length, PCIe x4
- System board slots
- Slot 1: low profile, half length, x8; Slot 2: low profile, half length, x16; Slot 3: low profile, half length, x16; Slot 4: low profile, half length, x1; Slot 5: low profile, half length, x4
- Generation
- 5 slots total (3 x PCIe 3.0, 2 x PCIe 2.0) with the optional riser card installed
Networking
- Onboard
- 4 x 10/100/1000 Mbps (1 GbE) Network Interface Controller ports on the back panel
Power
- PSU options
- 450 W AC Bronze cabled; 495 W, 750 W and 1100 W AC Platinum hot-plug; 750 W DC (China only)
- Redundancy
- Up to two AC or DC redundant PSUs, or one non-redundant PSU
Ports
- Front
- 1 x USB 2.0 (4-pin); 1 x USB management port (iDRAC Direct); VGA (15-pin)
- Rear
- 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0; VGA (15-pin); serial (9-pin DTE, 16550-compliant); 4 x 1GbE NIC
- Internal
- 1 x USB 3.0 (9-pin)
Physical
- Form factor
- 2U rack
- Dimensions (spec sheet)
- 86.80 mm H x 434 mm W (without ears) x 646 mm D with bezel (648 mm without bezel)
- Chassis (owner's manual)
- 482.4 mm wide across rack ears (434 mm chassis only); 86.8 mm high; with bezel 668.715 mm (cabled PSU) or 682.298 mm (redundant PSU); without bezel 633.115 mm (cabled) or 646.698 mm (redundant); front ears add 20.1 mm (35.6 mm with bezel)
- Weight
- 14.2 kg (31.2 lb) minimum; 28.2 kg (62 lb) maximum
- Operating temp
- 10-35 C continuous; expanded range 5-40 C continuous (up to 45 C for <=1% of hours) limited to 120 W TDP, no PCIe SSD, redundant PSUs required
- Rails
- ReadyRails II sliding rails (tool-less in square/unthreaded round 4-post racks, tooled in threaded 4-post racks); optional tool-less cable management arm
Management
- BMC
- iDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller: Express standard, Enterprise upgrade (adds dedicated iDRAC port, 8/16 GB vFlash SD media)
- Software
- IPMI 2.0 compliant; Dell OpenManage Essentials, OpenManage Mobile, OpenManage Power Center
- Integrations
- OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center; OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter
- Connections
- OpenManage Connections for HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli Netcool, CA Network and Systems Management, and an Oracle Database Manager plug-in
Operating systems
- Supported
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2; Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server; Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Hypervisors
- Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere ESXi, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Processors
- Intel Xeon E5-2603 v4
- Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3
- Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4
- Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3
- Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4
- Intel Xeon E5-2623 v3
- Intel Xeon E5-2623 v4
- Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3
- Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4
- Intel Xeon E5-2630L v3
- Intel Xeon E5-2630L v4
- Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4
- Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4
- Intel Xeon E5-2650L v4
- Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3
- Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4
- Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3
- Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3
- Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4
- Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4
- Intel Xeon E5-2695 v4