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Dual-socket performance in a single-socket 1U rack design

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515 rack server is a dense single-socket 1U rack server delivering peak performance and excellent TCO.

Deliver breakthrough performance, innovation and density for traditional and emerging workloads

Data center evolution starts with modern platforms that scale easily and are optimized for application performance. The PowerEdge R6515 is built upon a scalable system architecture and provides choice and flexibility to meet performance demands. High-level specifications:

• 100% more processing cores and faster data transfer speeds with PCIe Gen 4
• 20% more memory performance for scale out environments
• Improved TCO with VM density and SQL performance improvements
• High parallelism for low latency on ROBO and Dense Azure Stack HCI

Increase efficiency and accelerate operations with an automated infrastructure

The Dell EMC OpenManage™ systems management portfolio delivers an efficient and comprehensive solution for PowerEdge servers through tailored, automated, and repeatable processes.

• Automate server life cycle management with scripting via the iDRAC Restful API with Redfish conformance.
• Simplify and centralize one to many management with the OpenManage Enterprise console.
• Utilize the OpenManage Mobile app and PowerEdge Quick Sync 2 to easily manage servers using a phone or tablet.
• Resolve issues with up to 72% less IT effort using automated proactive and predictive technology from ProSupport Plus and SupportAssist.

Fortify your data center with integrated security

Every PowerEdge server is designed with a cyber resilient architecture, integrating security deeply into every phase in the lifecycle, from design to retirement.

• Enhance security with platform enablement of AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) and Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV).
• Operate your workloads on a secure platform anchored by cryptographically trusted booting and silicon root of trust.
• Maintain server firmware safety with digitally signed firmware packages.
• Detect and remediate unauthorized or malicious change with drift detection and system lockdown.
• Securely and quickly wipe all data from storage media including hard drives, SSDs and system memory with System Erase.

The Gigabit Ethernet PCI-Express® Network Interface Card from Dell™ is ideal for connecting your server to your network. The Gigabit Quad Port Server Adapter proven to be reliable and standards-based solutions. This product has been tested and validated on Dell systems. It is supported by Dell Technical Support when used with a Dell system.

• Provides x4 PCIe interface
• Features a compact space-saving design
• Ideal for high-performance network applications

Highlights

• Offers 10GbE Ethernet
• Support demanding workloads for enterprise, cloud, and telecommunication service providers and data centers

Overview

The Intel X550 Dual Port 10G Base-T Adapter, Low Profile Ethernet is is validated and optimized on Intel® Xeon® processors and is backward Compatible with 1000BASE-T. It has an integrated MAC + 10GBASE-T PHYs, Single-Chip Solution and is designed for Multi-Core Processors: MSI/MSI-X and Direct Cache Access, Flow Director, up to 128 Tx/Rx physical queues per port. It is the best choice for virtualized servers, providing advanced features including Intel® Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (VT-c), Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) and Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) up to 64 VFs per port, NVGRE and VXLAN stateless offloads delivering amazing performance.

• Built to enable Network Virtualization and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
• Unparalleled supply line, customer support, and warranty
• Designed to support demanding workloads for enterprise, cloud, and telecommunication service providers and data centers.
• Intel is the #1 Ethernet vendor- having shipped over 1 billion Ethernet ports