Feature Technical Specification
Form Factor 2U rack
Processors Dual-core, quad-core, or six-core Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 and
5600 series
Processor Sockets 2
Front Side Bus or
HyperTransport Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) (maximum 6.4GT/s)
Cache Up to 12MB
Chipset Intel® 5520
Memory1 Up to 288GB (18 DIMM slots): 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB DDR3
800MT/s, 1066MT/s, or 1333MT/s
I/O Slots 2 PCIe x8 + 2 PCIe x4 Gen2 or
1 x16 + 2 x4 Gen2
RAID Controller
Internal Controllers:
PERC H200 (6Gb/s)
PERC H700 (6Gb/s) (nonvolatile battery-backed cache:
512MB, 1G)
SAS 6/iR
PERC 6/i (battery-backed
cache: 256MB)
External Controllers:
PERC H800 (6Gb/s) (non-volatile
battery-backed cache: 512MB, 1G)
PERC 6/E (battery-backed cache:
256MB, 512MB)
External HBAs (non-RAID):
6Gb/s SAS HBA
SAS 5/E HBA
LSI2032 PCIe SCSI HBA
Drive Bays
Up to four 3.5” drives with optional flex bay,
up to six 3.5” drives without flex bay, or
up to eight 2.5” SAS or SATA drives with flex bay
Optional flex bay expansion supports half-height tape backup unit
(TBU)
Peripheral bay options:
Slim optical drive bay with choice of DVD-ROM, Combo CD-RW/DVDROM, or DVD+RW
Maximum Internal
Storage 24TB (with 4TB 3.5” nearline SAS or SATA drives)
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Hard Drives1
2.5” SAS (10,000 rpm): 146GB,
300GB, 600GB
2.5” SAS (15,000 rpm): 73GB,
146GB
2.5” SATA II (7,200 rpm):
160GB, 250GB, 500GB, 1TB
2.5” nearline SAS (7,200 rpm):
500GB, 1TB
2.5” nearline SAS (7,200 rpm):
1TB
3.5” SATA (7,200 rpm): 250GB,
500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB
3.5” SATA (5,400 rpm): 2TB
3.5” 6Gps SAS (7,200 rpm): 2TB
3.5” SAS (10,000 rpm): 146GB,
600GB
3.5” SAS (15,000 rpm): 146GB,
300GB, 450GB, 600GB
3.5” nearline SAS (7,200 rpm):
500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB
2.5” SATA SSD: 50GB, 100GB
2.5” SAS SSD: 149GB
Solid State Storage Cards:
Fusion-io® 160IDSS—160GB ioDrive
PCIe solid state storage card
Fusion-io® 640IDSS—640GB ioDrive
Duo PCIe solid state storage card
Communications
Four embedded Broadcom®
NetXtreme II™ 5709C Gigabit
Ethernet NICs with failover and
load balancing; TOE (TCPIP
Offload Engine) supported on
Microsoft® Windows Server®
2003 SP1 or higher with
Scalable Networking Pack;
Optional 1GBe and 10GBe
add-in NICs:
Broadcom® NetXtreme II™
57711 Dual Port Direct Attach
10Gb Ethernet PCI-Express
Network Interface Card with
TOE and iSCSI Offload
Intel® Gigabit ET Dual Port Server
Adapter and Intel® Gigabit ET
Quad Port Server Adapter
Dual Port 10GB Enhanced Intel
Ethernet Server Adapter X520-DA2
(FcoE Ready for Future
Enablement)
Optional add-in NICs:
Brocade® CNA (1020) Dual Port
Server Adapter
Optional add in HBAs:
Brocade® 8 GB HBAs
Emulex® OCE10102-IX-DCNA iSCSI
HBA stand-up adapter
Power Supply Energy Smart: redundant hot-plug high-efficient 570W or
High Output: redundant hot-plug 870W
Availability
DDR3 memory, hot-plug hard drives, optional hot-plug redundant
power supplies, dual embedded NICs with failover and load
balancing support, optional PERC6/i integrated daughtercard
controller with battery-backed cache (or other controllers with
battery-backed cache or non-volatile cache), hot-plug redundant
cooling, tool-less chassis, fibre and SAS cluster support, validated
for Dell/EMC SAN
Video Matrox® G200 with 8MB of cache
Remote Management iDRAC6 Enterprise (optional)
Systems Management Dell™ OpenManage™
Microsoft® System Center Essential (SCE) 2010 v2
Rack Support
ReadyRails™ sliding rails with optional cable management arm for 4-
post racks (optional adapter brackets required for threaded hole
racks)
ReadyRails™ static rails for 2-post and 4-post racks
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Operating Systems
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012
Microsoft Windows® Small Business Server 2011
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes
Hyper-V®)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, x64 (includes Hyper-V v2)
Windows® HPC Server 2008 R2
Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
Oracle® Solaris™
Optional Embedded Hypervisors:
Citrix® XenServer®
VMware® vSphere® including ESX™ and ESXi™
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization®
For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit
Dell.com/OSsupport.
Featured Database
Applications
Microsoft® SQL Server® solutions (see Dell.com/SQL)
Oracle® database solutions (see Dell.com/Oracle)
1
GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with
preloaded material and operating environment and will be less