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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook
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CAN USER PROGRAMS OR OPERATING
SYSTEM WRITE DATA TO IT DURING
NORMAL OPERATION?
PURPOSE? [e.g., BOOT CODE]
PLANAR, POWEREDGE R710
System BIOS SPI Flash No
Boot Code, System Conguration Information, EUFI
environment
LOM Conguration Data No LAN on motherboard conguration and rmware
iDRAC6 Controller ROM
No not utilized
iDRAC6 Controller RAM
No iDRAC internal RAM
System CPLD No System-specic hardware logic
System CPLD No not utilized
iDRAC6 Express Internal Flash
No for iDRAC Operating System. Yes for
Managed System Services Repository
iDRAC Operating System plus Managed System Services
Repository (i.e., Unied Server Congurator, OS drivers,
diagnostics, rollback versions of various programmables)
System RAM Yes System OS RAM
TPM ID EEPROM
(Plug in module only)
No BIOS Identication of TPM module
TPM Binding EEPROM
(on China planar only)
No BIOS binding of plug in module to a particulare planar
iDRAC6 SDRAM No BMC OS + VGA frame buffer
iDRAC6 FRU No Motherboard electronic product identier
iDRAC6 Boot Block Flash No
iDRAC boot loader and conguration (i.e., MAC address),
life cycle log, and system event log
Trusted Platform Module yes Storage of encryption keys
CHIPSET
CMOS No BIOS settings
2.5" BACKPLANE OR 3.5" BACKPLANE
Storage Controller Processor No Backplane rmware (HDD status, etc.)
CONTROL PANEL
Internal USB Yes as allowed by OS
Normal usage is read only software license key, but not
limited
Internal SD Module Yes as allowed by OS
Normal usage is embedded hypervisor OS but not
limited
POWER SUPPLY
PSU Microcontroller No
Power supply operation, power telemetry data, and fault
behaviors
PERC 6/I INTEGRATED
PERC NVSRAM Cong Data No Stores conguration data of HDDs
PERC Firmware No Storage Controller Firmware
PERC Cache RAM No - not directly. Storage RAID controller cache
FRU No
Card product identication for system inventory
purposes
IBUTTON Key EEPROM No Feature enablement encyrpted key
CPLD
No HW control logic (i.e., power sequencing)
SAS 6/iR Integrated
Controller Conguration Data No Stores conguration data of HDDs
FRU No
Card product identication for system inventory
purposes
Integrated Mirroring NVSRAM No Stores conguration data of HDDs
iDRAC6 Enterprise
VFlash
Yes - When enabled, installed, and the media
does not have the write protect switch applied
Storage of logs, user images like les, drivers, OS's, etc.
R710 Volatility Chart Continued.