Dell PowerVault DP500: The system board includes the following features:

The system board includes the following features:

• One of the following left riser card options:

– A left riser card that has one full-length PCIe x8 lane slot

and one full-length PCIe x4 lane slot.

OR

– A left riser card that has two full-length PCI-X 3.3-V, 64-bit,133-MHz

slots on separate PCI-X buses (capable of throttling back to support

legacy PCI add-in cards).

• A center riser card that has one half-length PCIe x8 lane slot.

• Dedicated slot for an integrated SAS host bus adapter or an optional RAID

controller card with 256 MB of cache memory and a RAID battery.

The internal channel supports up to six 3.5-inch SATA hard drives.

NOTE: System boot is not supported from an external device attached

to a SAS or SCSI adapter, including SAS 5/E, PERC 5/E, or PERC 4e/DC.

See support.dell.com for the latest support information about booting

from external devices.

• Two integrated Gigabit Ethernet NICs, capable of supporting 10-Mbps,

100-Mbps, and 1000-Mbps data rates.

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

capable of supporting a diskette drive, a CD-ROM drive, a keyboard,

a mouse, or a USB flash drive.

• Optional remote access controller (RAC) for remote systems management.

• An integrated VGA-compatible video subsystem with an ATI ES1000, 33-MHz

PCI video controller. This video subsystem contains 16 MB of DDR SDRAM

video memory (nonupgradable). Maximum resolution is 1600 x 1200 with

64 K colors; true-color graphics are supported in the following resolutions:

640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1152 x 864, and 1280 x 1024. When

the optional RAC is installed, the video resolution is 1280 X 1024.

• 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 with serial access.

• Back-panel connectors include one serial, one video, two USB,

and two NIC connectors.

6 Getting Started With Your System