This is a provisional page about the 2 Dell R710 machines.

Hardware

• Memory: 12x4GB DDR3@1333MHz
• Remote Control: iDRAC6 Enterprise
• LSI card (need to be flashed) for enable ZFS support to planned ~16TB hard drives
• Interactive LCD (Bottom R710's buttons are broken) with fault report

Software

• UEFI/BIOS: top machine is UEFI, bottom is BIOS legacy, both at version 6.6.0
• Lifecycle controller(1.7.5.4) for iDRAC

Machine tasks

• They will be deployed as our new backup server.
• One of them will stay on-site, sync with server clusters in real-time
• The other one will be deployed off-sit (Thank you [TRS] for negotiation), sync with on-site backup server at night time
• The twin Dells will be constructed as identical servers for easier recovery

Additional information

• documentation