1. Form factor: 2U rack
2. Processors: Quad-core or six-core Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 and 5600 series
3. Processor sockets: 2
4. Front Side Bus (FSB) or HyperTransport: Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI)
5. Cache: Up to 12MB
6. Chipset: Intel 5520
7. Memory: Up to 288GB (18 DIMM slots): 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB DDR3 up to 1333MHz
8. I/O slots: 4 PCIe G2 slots + 1 storage slot: two x8 slots, two x4 slots, one x4 storage slot
9. RAID controller Internal: PERC H200 (6Gb/s) PERC H700 (6Gb/s) with 512MB battery-backed cache; 512MB, 1GB Non-Volatile battery-backed cache SAS 6/iR PERC 6/i with 256MB battery-backed cache External: PERC H800 (6Gb/s) with 512MB of battery-backed cache; 512MB, 1GB Non-Volatile battery-backed cache PERC 6/E with 256MB or 512MB of battery-backed cache External HBAs (non-RAID): 6Gbps SAS HBA SAS 5/E HBA LSI2032 PCIe SCSI HBA
10. Drive bays: Eight 2.5” hard drive option or six 3.5” hard drive option; optional flex bay expansion to support half-height TBU Up to four 3.5” drives with optional flex bay, up to six 3.5” drives without optional flex bay, or up to eight 2.5” SAS or SATA drives with optional flex bay Peripheral bay options: Slim optical drive bay with choice of DVD-ROM, Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM, or DVD + RW
11. Maximum internal storage: Up to 18TB
12. Hard drives: Hot-plug hard drive options: 2.5” SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K) 3.5” SAS (15K, 10K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K) Solid state storage cards: Fusion-io® 160GB ioDrive PCIe solid state storage card Fusion-io 640GB ioDrive Duo PCIe solid state storage card Fusion-io 320GB ioDrive Mono PCIe solid state storage card Fusion-io 640GB ioDrive Mono PCIe solid state storage card Fusion-io 1.28TB ioDrive Mono PCIe solid state storage card
13. Communications: Four embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme® II 5709c Gigabit Ethernet NIC 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® CNA iSCSI HBA stand up adapter OCE10102-IX-D Emulex CNA iSCSI HBA stand up adapter OCE10102-FX-D
14. Power supply: Energy Smart: Two hot-plug, high-efficient 570W power supplies or High Output: Two hot-plug 870W power supplies Uninterruptible power supplies: 1000W–5600W 2700W–5600W High-Efficiency Online Extended Battery Module (EBM) Network Management Card
15. Availability: DDR3; hot-plug hard drives; optional hot-plug redundant power supplies; dual embedded NICs with failover and load balancing support; PERC 6/i; hot-plug redundant cooling; toolless chassis; fibre and SAS cluster support; validated for Dell/EMC SAN
16. Video: Matrox® G200 with 8MB of cache
17. Remote management: iDRAC6 Enterprise (optional)
18. Systems management: Dell™ OpenManage™ Microsoft® System Center Essential (SCE) 2010 v2
19. Embedded hypervisor: Optional Embedded SD Media
20. 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
21. Operating systems: 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 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V v2) Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Novell® SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server Red Hat® Enterprise Linux Oracle® Solaris™ Virtualization options: Citrix® XenServer™ VMware® vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX® 4.1 , VMware ESXi™ 4.1 , or ESXi 5.0) For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit Dell.com/OSsupport.
22. Featured database applications: Microsoft SQL Server® solutions (see Dell.com/SQL) Oracle database solutions (see Dell.com/Oracle)
23. Thermal operation: Continuous operation: 10C to 35C, 10% to 80% relative humidity (RH). 10% of annual operating hours: 5C to 40C, 5% to 85%RH. 1% of annual operating hours: -5C to 45C, 5% to 90%RH. For in-depth detail, check your user manual.