Dell PowerEdge 6950: System Features

System Features

The major hardware and software features of your system include:

• Two or four dual-core AMD Opteron™ 8000 Series processors.

• A minimum of 2 GB (dual-processor systems) or 4 GB (four-processor systems) of 667-MHz registered

DDR-II memory modules. Memory is upgradable to a maximum of 64 GB (four-processor systems)

by installing combinations of 512-MB, 1-GB, 2-GB, or 4-GB memory modules in the sixteen memory

module sockets on the system board. (128 GB of memory will be supported when 8 GB memory

modules are available.)

• Support for up to five 3.5-inch hot-plug SAS hard drives.

• An optional internal 1.44-MB, 3.5-inch diskette drive.

• An optional internal slim-line optical drive.

• An optional external USB diskette drive.

• An optional external USB optical drive.

• Two hot-pluggable, 1570-W power supplies in an 1 + 1 redundant configuration. The power supplies

support an input voltage range of 100 V to 208 V.

• Four hot-pluggable system cooling fans.

The system board includes the following features:

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Two x8 lane-width PCI-Express (PCIe) expansion slots and six x4 lane-width PCIe slots.

(One x4 lane-width slot is occupied by the SAS controller card.) Four expansion slots (two x8 slots

and two x4 slots) support full-length expansion cards.

• Two integrated Gb Ethernet NICs, capable of supporting 10-Mbps, 100-Mbps, and 1000-Mbps data

rates. Each NIC also supports TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) functionality.

• Four USB 2.0-compliant connectors (two on the front panel and two on the back panel), capable

of supporting a diskette drive, an optical drive, a keyboard, a mouse, or a USB flash drive.

• Systems management circuitry that monitors operation of the system fans as well as critical system

voltages and temperatures. The systems management circuitry works in conjunction with the systems

management software.

• Standard Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) with serial access.

• An optional remote access controller (RAC) card for remote systems management.

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An integrated VGA-compatible video subsystem based on an integrated

ATI RN50 33-MHz PCI

video controller. The video subsystem includes 16 MB of graphics memory and supports various 2D

graphics video modes. Maximum resolution is 1600x1280 with 65,536 colors. (

When the optional

RAC is installed, the integrated video subsystem is disabled and the video controller on the RAC is

used instead.)

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