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+# Dell PowerEdge R410
+
+**Quick links:**
+
+* [Official Spec Sheet](https://www.dell.com/downloads/emea/products/R410_spec_sheet.pdf)
+
+![Dell R410](../img/r410.jpg)
+
+The PowerEdge R400 series is a full-depth dual-CPU server platform that usually
+has a 4x3.5" drive arrangement, but did have a variant with 6x2.5" drives as
+well. The R410 generation uses DDR3 ECC memory and supports the
+[Gulftown](https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codename/29886/gulftown.html) generation of Intel CPUs.
+
+The backbone of my homelab is made up of two Dell R410's: `romulus` and
+`remus`. Together the form the bulk of my system's compute power, storage
+capacity, and hosting capabilities. Even with as much stuff as I have crammed
+onto them I am still nowhere near to using their full potential.
+
+| Hostname | Model | CPU | Memory | Storage | OS |
+|----------|---|---|---|---|---|
+| `remus`  | 2010 PowerEdge R410 | Intel Xeon e5500 Series | 48GB DDR3 ECC |  4x WD Red 3TB, RAID 5 | CentOS 7.5 |
+| `romulus`| 2011 PowerEdge R410 | Intel Xeon x5600 Series | 96GB DDR3 ECC |  4x HST Travelstar 146GB, RAID 5 | CentOS 7.5 |
+
+## Romulus
+
+Romulus is the newer of the two servers, coming from the 2011 series of the
+R410. It has a standard 4x3.5" drive configuration and two Intel Xeon x5600
+series CPUs. I've installed a Dell PERC h310 and four 146GB 10K SAS drives in
+it, giving it considerably higher R/W throughput rates than its companion.
+
+## Remus
+
+Remus will always be special because it was my first server, literally pulled
+out of a dumpster my sophomore year of college. Since then I've replaced the
+motherboard, drives, backplane, CPUs, and memory (which admittedly does start to evoke the [Ship of Theseus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus)).
+
+Remus is older than Romulus, coming from the 2010 generation of the R410. Like
+Romulus it also has the standard 4x3.5" drive configuration, however it houses
+four 3TB Western Digital Red NAS drives which make up the bulk of the homelabs
+data storage capacity. The Intel Xeon e5500 series processors also make it
+slightly slower than Romulus, though it has more memory.
+
+Remus also sacrificed its DVD drive to host a 256GB SSD boot drive which runs the host operating system.
+
+## Configuration
+
+My preferred server-side operating system is [CentOS](https://www.centos.org/),
+and as such both Romulus and Remus are running CentOS 7.5 on bare metal.
+
+Both are configured to run [KVM for virtualization](../virtualization/vms.md) and Romulus is setup with an instance of the Open Virtualization Manager (OVirt) to manage the virtual machines running on both hosts.
+
+See the [configuration section](../config.md) for more information.
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