Dell POWEREDGE R710 - Manual (Page 56)

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook
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hOW is Data inPut tO this memORy?
PlanaR, POWeReDGe R710
System BIOS SPI Flash
Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program that is executed by booting
up the system from a floppy or OS-based executable containing the firmware file and the loader. System
loaded with arbitrary data in firmware memory would not operate. Future firmware releases may add support
for recovery of a bad/corrupted BIOS ROM image via the iDRAC (administrator privilege plus specific firmware,
binary, and commands)
LOM Configuration Data
Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program that is executed by booting
up the system from a floppy or OS-based executable containing the firmware file and the loader. LOMs loaded
with arbitrary data in firmware memory would not operate.
iDRAC6 Controller ROM N/A
iDRAC6 Controller RAM iDRAC embedded system
System CPLD
Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program that is executed by booting
up the system from a floppy or OS-based executable (currently only DRMK utility support) containing the
firmware file and the loader. System loaded with arbitrary data in CPLD memory would not operate.
System CPLD Not utilized
iDRAC6 Express Internal
Flash
iDRAC OS: Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program that is executed
by booting up the system from a floppy or OS-based executable containing the firmware file and the loader.
System loaded without a good iDRAC firmware image yields a non-functional iDRAC. Managed Services
Repository: Various partitions are loaded via vendor-provided firmware file and loader program just like iDRAC
OS.
System RAM System OS
TPM ID EEPROM
(Plug in module only)
Factory load only.
TPM Binding EEPROM
(on China planar only)
BIOS only
iDRAC6 SDRAM Embedded iDRAC OS for 108MB and 8MB for VGA frame buffer
iDRAC6 FRU Factory and iDRAC embedded OS
iDRAC6 Boot Block
Flash
Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program that is executed by booting
up the system from a floppy or OS-based executable or out-of-band firmware updates across the management
network. Bad contents yield the iDRAC inoperable and unrecoverable in the customer environment. Note the
life cycle log is automatically updated by the iDRAC as various system component FW, HW, and SW verions are
changed.
Trusted Platform Module Using TPM-enabled operating systems
chiPset
CMOS BIOS control only via input such as BIOS F2 menu user configuration settings (such as boot order)
2.5" backPlane OR 3.5" backPlane
Storage Controller Pro-
cessor
Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program that is executed by booting
up the system from a floppy or OS-based executable (DRMK, USC, OS DUPs utility support) containing the firm-
ware file and the loader. Backplane loaded with bad firmware will not provide backplane and HDD status.
cOntROl Panel
Internal USB Either read-only license key or OS control copies
Internal SD Module Factory load, OS run time usage, and OS updates and configuration changes.
POWeR suPPly
PSU Microcontroller
Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program that is executed by booting
up the system from a floppy or OS-based executable (Unified Server Configurator) containing the firmware file
and the loader. PSUs loaded with bad firmware will not provide PSU functional behavior and result in PSU system
faults.
PeRc 6/i inteGRateD
PERC NVSRAM Config
Data
Embedded storage firmware controls this data
PERC Firmware
Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program that is executed by booting
up the system from a floppy or OS-based executable (DUPs, Unified Server Configurator) containing the firmware
file and the loader. Storage adapters loaded with bad firmware will not provide storage controller behavior.
PERC Cache RAM Embedded storage firmware controls the use of storage cache data.
FRU Factory only. Not customer updatable.
IBUTTON Key EEPROM Factory only. Not customer updatable.
CPLD Factory only. Not customer updatable.
SAS 6/iR Integrated
R710 Volatility Chart Continued.