Altos T310 F3 - Server ACER - Free user manual and instructions

Product Type	Server Tower
Brand	Acer
Model	Altos T310 F3
Form Factor	Tower (5U)
Dimensions (H x W x D)	432 x 220 x 530 mm (17.0 x 8.7 x 20.9 in)
Weight	Approx. 25 kg (55.1 lbs)
Power Supply	500W 80 PLUS Gold, single or redundant (optional)
Processor Support	Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 series (LGA 2011-3)
Memory	Up to 512 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM (16 slots)
Storage	Up to 8 x 3.5" hot-swap SATA/SAS drive bays
RAID Support	Integrated RAID 0/1/10, optional hardware RAID
Network	Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports (Intel I210)
Expansion Slots	6 x PCIe 3.0 (4 x8, 2 x16)
Management	Integrated BMC with IPMI 2.0, optional Acer Smart Console
Operating Systems Supported	Windows Server, Linux (Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu), VMware
Cooling	3 x 80mm system fans, redundant optional
Security	Lockable front bezel, chassis intrusion alert, TPM support
Maintenance	Tool-less access to internals, hot-swap fans and drives
Spare Parts & Repairability	Standard server components, user-replaceable CPU, memory, drives, PSU
Environmental	Operating temp: 10°C to 35°C, humidity 20-80% non-condensing
Certifications	CE, FCC, RoHS, ENERGY STAR compliant

Frequently Asked Questions - Altos T310 F3 ACER

What type of processor does the Acer Altos T310 F3 support?

The server supports Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors (LGA 2011-3 socket).

What is the maximum memory capacity?

It supports up to 512 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM across 16 slots.

How many drive bays are available?

There are 8 hot-swap 3.5-inch drive bays supporting SATA or SAS drives.

What RAID levels are supported?

Integrated RAID supports 0/1/10. An optional hardware RAID controller adds levels 5/6/50/60.

Does the server have built-in remote management?

Yes, it includes an integrated BMC with IPMI 2.0. The optional Acer Smart Console provides advanced remote control.

What power supply comes with the Altos T310 F3?

The standard is a 500W 80 PLUS Gold power supply. A redundant option is available.

How do I perform basic maintenance like replacing a fan?

Fans are hot-swap and tool-less. Simply release the latch and slide out the fan module.

Is the server compatible with Windows Server 2022?

Yes, it supports Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022, as well as major Linux distributions.

What security features does the server offer?

Includes a lockable front bezel, chassis intrusion alert, and TPM for hardware security.

Where can I find spare parts for this server?

Spare parts like PSU, fans, drives, and memory are available through Acer or authorized resellers. Standard server components are user-replaceable.

USER MANUAL Altos T310 F3 ACER

Altos T310 F3 Specifications

Product overview

The Altos T310 F3 delivers proactive management tools matched by best price-performance technology ideal for SMB and branch office operations. This single-socket tower server features an 80 PLUS ^® efficient power supply that runs smoothly and quietly for maximized productivity.

Black desktop computer tower with visible drive bays and ventilation slots (no text or labels)

Product views

Internal view

1. 1 x 500 W 80 PLUS ^® Gold-certified fixed power supply
   or
   2 x 400 W 80 PLUS ^® Gold-certified 1+1 redundant hot-swappable power supplies
2. 4 x DDR3L ECC unbuffered DIMMs
3. Intel ^® Xeon ^® E3-1200 v3 series or Intel ^® Core ^™ i3-2100 series processor
4. 2 x PCIe 3.0 + 2 x PCIe 2.0 expansion slots
5. 3 x 5.25" media expansion bays
6. 4 x tool-less removable hard drive bays

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Front View

1. 3 x 5.25" media expansion bays
2. LED indicator panel
3. Power Button
4. 4 x tool-less removable hard drive bays
5. 2 x USB 3.0 ports
6. Drive bay door lock

Rear View

1. Optional 2 x removable power supplies (fixed power supply installed in standard configuration)
2. Video port + Serial port
3. 2 x USB 3.0 ports
4. 4 x USB 2.0 ports
5. 2 x Gigabit LAN port (RJ-45) + Management port
6. System ID button
7. PCIe expansion

Product Specifications

What's New?

• Intel ^ Xeon ^ E3-1200 v3 series processors
  • Support for DDR3L low-voltage memory
• 500 W 80 PLUS ^® Gold-certified fixed power supply or 2 x 400 W 80 PLUS ^® Gold-certified 1+1 redundant hot-swappable power supplies
  • Integrated 6 Gb/s SATA 3 RAID
• USB 3.0 ports
  • Energy Star ^® 2.0 compliant
• Improved acoustics

Processors and Chipset

• Intel ^ Xeon ^ E3-1200 v3 or Intel ^ Core ^TM i3 family processor
• Chipset: Intel® C224

Memory

- Up to 4 x DDR3L unbuffered DIMMs

Network Controllers

- 2 x Intel ^® I210 single-port Ethernet controller

Storage

• Hard disk form factor: 3.5"
• Type: SAS / SATA

• Storage: HDD / SSD
  • Maximum capacity:

• Up to 16 TB SATA HDD (4 TB 3.5" x 4 HDDs)

• Up to 16 TB SAS (4 TB 3.5" x 4 HDDs)

Storage Controllers

• Intel ^® C224 chipset with RSTe RAID and SATA RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support
• SAS RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support via optional SAS RAID add-on card

Note: Integrated SATA RAID supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 on Windows ^® OS only.

Expansion slots

• PCIe ^® 2.0 x1 (x4 connector)
• PCIe ^® 2.0 x4 (x8 connector)
• PCIe ^ 3.0 x0/x8 (x8 connector)*
• PCIe ^ 3.0 x16/x8 (x16 connector)*

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* Note: If a card is installed in PCIe® 3.0 slot 3, slots 3 and 4 operate at x8.

Management

• Acer Smart Server Manager
• Acer Smart Console for server management and KVM over IP remote management
• System LAN LEDs
• System ID button / LED
• System health LED

Deployment/Serviceability

• Acer Smart Setup
• BIOS Update Tool

Operating Systems

• Microsoft ^® Windows Server ^® 2012 R2
  • Microsoft ^® Windows Server ^® 2012
• Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1
  • Red Hat ^® Enterprise Linux ^® 6.4
  • Red Hat ^® Enterprise Linux ^® 5.9
• Novell ^® SUSE ^® Linux ^® Enterprise Server 11 SP3
• VMware ESXi 5.1

Input/output interface

Front

• 2 x USB 3.0 ports
• Power/off button
  • LED indicators: power, System ID, HDD activity, system health, LAN 1 and 2

Rear

• Video port
• Serial port
• 4 x USB 2.0 ports
• 2 x USB 3.0 ports
  • 2 x Gigabit LAN port (RJ-45)
• Management port

Optical drive

- 5.25" SATA SuperMulti drive

Graphics

• Aspeed AST 2300 integrated in BMC
- 128 MB shared VRAM
- 16MB dedicated memory

Altos T310 F3 Specifications

Chassis/Form Factor

- Mini tower

Power Supply

Determined by SKU:

• 500 W 80 PLUS ^® Gold-certified fixed power supply, or
• 2 x 400 W 80 PLUS® Gold-certified 1+1 redundant hot-swappable power supplies

Security

• Chassis intrusion alert
• Administrator / user password
• Power-on password
• Setup password
• Device boot control
• BIOS write-protected
  • Power button lockout
• Optional TPM 1.2

Regulatory Compliant Standards

Energy Star ^® 2.0 compliant

EMC

• FCC (Class B)
• CE (Class B)
• BSMI (Class B)

Safety

• MET
• CB
• GS

Environmental Specifications

Dimensions	190 (W) x 485 (D) x 420 (H) mm (7.48 x 17.72 x 14.1 inches)
Weight	Maximum 13.52 kg (29.8 lbs.)
System inlet temperature	Operating 10^ - 40^ C ( 50^ - 104^ F)Non-operating -30^ - 60^ C ( -22^ - 140^ F)Operating 20 ~ 80 %
Relative humidity	Non-operating 5 ~ 90 %
Acoustics	Idle
LWAd 3.8 BA
LpAm 25 dBA
Operating
LWAd 4.2 BA
LpAm 30 dBA

Power Rated steady-state power 500 W

Maximum Peak Power 500 W

BTU rating 1705 BTU/hr at 100 - 240 VAC

Technical specifications

PCIe® specifications

The primary I/O bus for the main board is PCIe ^® Gen3. The following table lists the characteristics of the PCI-E bus segments. Details about each bus segment follow the table.

NOTE: The signaling bit rate of PCI Express is 2.5 Gbit/s for Gen 1, 5.0 Gbit/s for Gen 2, and 8.0 Gbit/s for Gen 3.

Slot CPU / PCH Type Bus width				Voltage	Connector	Location	Height
PCIE_1	CPU	PCIe Gen2	x1	3.3 V	x4	Onboard	Full height
PCIE_2	PCH	PCIe Gen2	x4	3.3 V	x8	Onboard	Full height
PCIE_3	PCH	PCIe Gen3	x0 / x8^2	3.3 V	x8	Onboard	Full height
PCIE_4	PCH	PCIe Gen3	x16 / x8^2	3.3 V	x16	Onboard	Full height

NOTE:

1. Indicates the number of physical electrical lanes running to a PCIe ^® connector.
2. Slots 3 and 4 operate as a pair; sharing two multiplexed x8 connections. Slot 4 operates at full x16 unless a card is inserted in slot 3, whereupon both slots operate at x8.

Slots are enumerated differently based on the operating system. Microsoft ^® operating systems enumerate Device ID by bus starting from the lowest bus to the highest.

Onboard storage specifications

Item	Description
Controller	Intel® C224 Platform Controller Hub
Simultaneous drive transfer channels	2 onboard SATA ports

Altos T310 F3 Specifications

Max throughput per channel

- 4 x 6 Gb/s (mini SAS)

Data transfer method

- 2 x 3 Gb/s

- Non-RAID mode

- RAID mode

Drive type supported Serial ATA RAID levels support

• RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 (Intel software RAID)

RAID function support

NOTE: Intel software RAID only supports Windows OS

• Supports multiple logical volumes

- Setup through ROM based Array Configuration Utility Installation scripting support

NOTE: This controller does not support hot plug or LED functions

Onboard/software RAID OS support

- Microsoft ^ Windows Server ^ 2012 R2

• Microsoft ^® Windows Server ^® 2012

- Microsoft ^ Windows Server ^ 2008 R2 SP1

NOTE: Intel software RAID only supports Windows OS

Add-in card RAID OS support (requires LSI add-in RAID card)

- Microsoft ^ Windows Server ^ 2012 R2

- Microsoft ^ Windows Server ^ 2012

• Microsoft ^® Windows Server ^® 2008 R2 SP1

• Red Hat ^® Enterprise Linux ^® 6.4

• Red Hat ^® Enterprise Linux ^® 5.9

- Novell ^ SUSE ^ Linux ^ Enterprise Server 11 SP3

- VMware ESXi 5.1

Additional features

• NCQ (Native Command Queuing)

• AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface)

Onboard LAN specifications

Item Description

Controller Dual-port Intel

^® I210 Ethernet controller

Network interface 10Base-T / 100Base-TX / 1000Base-T

Compatibility standards

- IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for 10BASE-T

- IEEE 802.3ab Ethernet interface for 1000BASE-T

- IEEE 802.3u Ethernet interface for 100BASE-TX

- PXE, iSCSI boot

Manageability

Connector RJ-45

Supported cable type Cat 5e, Cat 6 wire

Memory specifications and population

Item Description

Supported memory types

• Unbuffered DDR3L 1333 / 1600 MHz

• 1.35 V (DDR3L)

NOTE: Acer does not qualify mixed memory configurations of

memory type, capacity or make.

Population Acer's validated memory populations are listed below.

Memory Population Rules

Each processor provides four banks of memory, each capable of supporting up to 2 DIMMs.

• No support for RDIMMs.
- ECC and non-ECC UDIMMs may not be mixed.
• Installing 3 DIMMs is not recommended.
- DIMM modules must be installed in the slot sequence listed below.

DIMM slot layout

Total No. of DIMMs	DDR_A0	DDR_A1	DDR_B0	DDR_B1
1	V
2	V	V
4	V	V	V

Memory Identification

Generally, there are some memory information printed on the label of DIMM, but different vendor may have different format. For example:

4 GB 2Rx4 PC3-10600R xx xx xxx

1. Density

■ 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB

1. Rank

■ 1R = Single Rank

■ 2R = Dual Rank

1. Bit Organization

■ This platform supports x8

- Note: It's not recommended to mix DIMM with different bit organization in one system.

1. Speed

■ PC3-10600 => DDR3-1333
- PC3 - 12800 => DDR3- 1600

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Power specifications

500 W fixed power supply

Power supply input

Rated Line Voltage 100 to 127 VAC ; 220 to 240 VAC

Rated Input Current 500 W power supply: 8 A (@ 100\~127 VAC), 4 A (@220\~240 VAC)

Rated Input Frequency 47 to 63 Hz

Rated Input Power 500 W power supply: 609 W (@ 115 VAC)

Power supply output

Rated Steady-State Power 500 W power supply

Maximum Peak Power 500 W power supply

BTU Rating (Maximum)

500 W power supply: 1705 BTU/hr (@ 110 VAC), 1705 BTU/hr (@200 VAC)

Acoustic noise

Acoustic Noise (500 W fixed power supply)

Idle Light-configuration LWAd: 3.8 BA LpAm: 25 dBA

Full-configuration LWAd: 4.8 BA LpAm: 38 dBA

Operating Light-configuration LWAd: 4.2 BA LpAm: 30 dBA

Full-configuration LWAd: 5.2 BA LpAm: 43 dBA

Acoustic Noise (400 W redundant power supply)

Idle Light-configuration LWAd: 4.2 BA LpAm: 30 dBA

Full-configuration LWAd: 5.4 BA LpAm: 38 dBA

Operating Light-configuration LWAd: 6.6 BA LpAm: 54 dBA

Full-configuration LWAd: 6.6 BA LpAm: 54 dBA

Acer server software utilities

Smart Setup

Easy deployment provided by the latest version of Acer's Smart Setup. Smart Setup is available both in box as a driver packed installation DVD or a downloadable file to be put into a USB 2.0 device, and eases the deployment of Acer servers for any certified OS. Through its unique interface, users may select to have all the correct drivers be pre-deployed for the OS of their choosing, as well as setup hardware RAID devices, BMC settings (where available), and even clone the pre-settings to a bootable USB device to ease mass server deployments.

Smart Console with optional iKVM management

Web-based management utility to simplify system management with embedded BMC, system monitoring and alerting, event handling, remote power control and KVM-over-IP. Smart Console is OS independent and offers virtual media through floppy, ODD, and removable disk.

Note:

- Two concurrent web sessions from up to two different users is supported.

Smart Server Manager

Offering 24-7 monitoring for system health and performance

• Delivers proactive event management features including system event logging, event handling from e-mail and SNMP Trap (PET) alerting
  • Monitors onboard hardware, operating systems and virtual machines
• Allows remote control from KVM and Power control
• Satisfies management in web-based UI, role-based administration, and automated management scripts
• Remote firmware deployment and scheduled updates
• Customizable BIOS settings and deployment to networked nodes
• Optional power-capping functionality for Acer servers with Intel ^ Xeon processors E3 or E5 families

Available options

Processors

Intel ^® Xeon ^® E3-1200 v3 processors

• E3-1280 v3 (8 MB L3 cache, 3.6 GHz, DDR3 1600/1333 MHz, 69 W, quad core)
• E3-1270 v3 (8 MB L3 cache, 3.5 GHz, DDR3 1600/1333 MHz, 69 W, quad core)
• E3-1240 v3 (8 MB L3 cache, 3.4 GHz, DDR3 1600/1333 MHz, 69 W, quad core)
• E3-1230 v3 (8 MB L3 cache, 3.3 GHz, DDR3 1600/1333 MHz, 69 W, quad core)
• E3-1220 v3 (8 MB L3 cache, 3.1 GHz, DDR3 1600/1333 MHz, 69 W, quad core)
• E3-1230L v3 (8 MB L3 cache, 1.8 GHz, DDR3 1600/1333 MHz, 25 W, quad core)
• E3-1220L v3 (8 MB L3 cache, 1.6 GHz, DDR3 1600/1333 MHz, 16 W, quad core)

Intel ^® Core ^TM i3 Processors

• Intel ^ Core ^TM i3-4340 (4 MB, 3.6 GHz, DDR3 1600, 54 W, dual core)
• Intel ^ Core ^TM i3-4330 (4 MB, 3.5 GHz, DDR3 1600, 54 W, dual core)
• Intel ^ Core ^TM i3-4130 (3 MB, 3.4 GHz, DDR3 1600, 54 W, dual core)

Memory

Memory type Unbuffered DDR3 / DDR3L ECC memory

Capacities 2 / 4 / 8 GB DIMMs

DIMM number 4

Max memory 32 GB

Hard drives

Type Interface, bandwidth Capacities (RPM)

Altos T310 F3 Specifications

Enterprise SATA, 3.5" 6 Gb/s 2 TB (7.2 K)

3 TB (7.2 K)

4 TB (7.2 K)

Enterprise Nearline SATA, 3.5" 6 Gb/s 500 GB (7.2 K)

1 TB (7.2 K)

2 TB (7.2 K)

3 TB (7.2 K)

4 TB (7.2 K)

Enterprise SAS*, 3.5" 6 Gb/s 1 TB (7.2 K)

2 TB (7.2 K)

3 TB (7.2 K)

4 TB (7.2 K)

Enterprise SAS*, 3.5" 6 Gb/s 300 GB (15 K)

450 GB (15 K)

600 GB (15 K)

* NOTE: SAS drives require an add-on RAID card.

Optical drives

• DVD-ROM
  • SuperMulti (DVD ± RW)

RAID cards

Model Port number RAID support

LSI® MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i 4 internal ports 0, 1, 5, 10

LSI® MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i 8 internal ports 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60

LSI® MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i 8 internal ports 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60

Ethernet network cards

Model Port number Bandwidth

Intel ^® X540-T2 Dual RJ-45 port 2 10 Gb/s

10GBASE-T (I/O module)

Intel® Gigabit CT2 desktop 2 10/100/1000 Mbps adapter

Intel ^® i350 Gigabit server adapter 2 10/100/1000 Mbps

TPM module

Optional TPM 1.2 module

Service and support

Acer Servers offer a comprehensive service suite to take care of daily IT needs. Users can select the 3-year standard warranty or choose extended warranties and services.

In a continuing effort to improve the quality of our products, information in this document is subject to change without notice. Images shown are only representations of some of the configurations available for this model. Availability may vary depending on region.

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