System Features - Dell PowerEdge 6950 Getting Started

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:
• 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.
• 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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