Dell PowerEdge R570 Server - System Overview
Additional Information
The Dell PowerEdge R570 Server is designed for high-performance computing, virtualization/cloud scale, edge computing, use as a software-defined storage node and more! CPUs with either performance cores or P-cores or efficiency cores or E-cores are supported. Those with P-cores can provide up to 86x physical cores. If using CPUs with E-cores, a physical core count of up to 144 cores are supported. Only CPUs with P-cores support hyperthreading technology, effectively doubling the physical core count with a virtual core count of up to 156 virtual threads. With CPUS featuring E-cores are installed, the system will support up to 1TB of memory compared to up to 4TB with CPUs supporting P-cores.
This system supports multiple storage configurations for EDSFF E3.S and 2.5-inch drive types. There is also the option to install 4x additional EDSFF drive bays in the rear of the chassis. To boot the system, Dell offers an optional Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem or Boss. The BOSS can be outfitted with one or two M.2 drives. With a single M.2 drive RAID 0 is supported with both drives installed it offer a mirror RAID with RAID 1.
Front Storage Configurations
- Up to 12 x 3.5-inch SATA (HDD) RAID max 384 TB
- Up to 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe RAID max 491.52 TB
- Up to 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe max 491.52 TB
- Up to 8 x 2.5-inch SATA max 30.72 TB
- Up to 8 x 2.5-inch SATA/Universal max 491.52 TB
- Up to 16 x 2.5-inch SATA RAID max 61.44 TB
- Up to 24 x 2.5-inch SATA max 92.16 TB
- Up to 8 x EDSFF E3.S (hot-aisle) Gen5 NVMe max 491.52 TB
- Up to 8 x EDSFF E3.S (cold-aisle) Gen5 NVMe 491.52 TB
- Up to 16 x EDSFF E3.S (cold-aisle) Gen5 NVMe max 983.04 TB
- Up to 16 x EDSFF E3.S (hot-aisle) Gen5 NVMe max 983.04 TB
- Up to 32 x EDSFF E3.S (hot-aisle) Gen5 NVMe max 1966.08 TB
There are also several PCIe slot configurations with up to 6x PCIe slots with a x16 connector width. However, only 4x of those slots offer a PCIe 5.0 slot. The system can be outfitted with up to 3x 400W GPUs or up to 4x 75W GPUs. 2x OCP 3.0 mezzanine card slots are available in both the front or rear I/O configurations. Another option, is a NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU offering dual ports at 200GbE.
For managing the system Dell provides several options including an updated iDRAC version 10. Administrators can also install Dell’s OpenManage utility for management of the entire network, including 3rd-party appliances.
