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Dell™ PowerEdge™ T610 Technical Guidebook
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SECTION 10. EMBEDDED NICS
A. Overview / Description
Dual‑port Gigabit Ethernet Controller with TCP ooad Engine (TOE) support
A dual‑port LAN controller with support circuitry is embedded on the PowerEdge T610 system board as
independent Ethernet interface device. The device is Broadcom 5709C Gigabit Ethernet controller.
The following information details the features of the LAN device:
•x4PCIExpressGen2capableinterface
•ThePowerEdgeT610operatesthiscontrolleratGen1speed
•MACandPHYintegrated
•3072x18Bytecontextmemory
•64KBreceivebuer
•TOE(TCPOoadEngine)
•iSCSIcontroller(enabledthroughanoptionalhardwarekey)
•RDMAcontroller(RNIC)(enabledpostRTSthroughanoptionalhardwarekey)
•NC-SI(NetworkController-SidebandInterface)connection
•Wake-On-LAN(WOL)
•PXE2.0remoteboot
•iSCSIboot
•IPv4andIPv6support
•Baremetaldeploymentsupport
SECTION 11. I/O SLOTS
A. Overview / Description
The PowerEdge T610 planar provides five PCI Express expansion slots and one dedicated slot, as follows:
•Twox8PCIeGen2slotsforfull-heightfull-lengthcards,andconnectedtotheIOH
•Threex4PCIeGen2slotforfull-heighthalf-lengthcards,andconnectedtotheIOH
•Onex4PCIeGen1slotfordedicatedstoragecontrollercard,andconnectedtotheIOH
•Systemsupports25WmaximumpowerforthersttwoPCIecardsand15Wforthe3rd,4th,
and 5th PCIe cards
•Thelowerpowersupportonthe3rd,4th,and5thcardsisduetosystemthermallimitations
instead of system power requirements
•ThePowerEdgeT610doesnotsupporthot-swappingofPCIecards
The PowerEdge T610 planar incorporates six 164‑pin PCI Express‑style x8 connectors for connectivity to
the PCIe cards.
POWEREDGE T610
PCI Express Gen2 Slots
Slot 1: Half-Length (6.6" Factory Installation) / Full-Height (x8 connector), x4 link width
Slot 2: Full-Length (12.2" Factory Installation) / Full-Height (x8 connector), x8 link width
Slot 3: Full-Length (12.2" Factory Installation) / Full-Height (x8 connector), x8 link width
Slot 4: Half-Length (6.6" Factory Installation) / Full-Height (x8 connector), x4 link width
Slot 5: Half-Length (6.6" Factory Installation) / Full-Height (x8 connector), x4 link width