System Features; Figure 1. Vrtx Tower With 3.5-Inch Drives - Dell PowerEdge VRTX Technical Manual

2 System features

The Dell PowerEdge VRTX integrates compute and storage capabilities through a 5U rackable tower
chassis. VRTX supports up to four 12
blade servers. The M620 is a half-height blade server that supports up to 24 DIMMs and two
processors. The M520 is a half-height blade server that supports up to 12 DIMMs and two
processors.
VRTX can be configured into four different chassis types:

Tower form factor supporting up to 12 3.5-inch drives (Figure 1)

Tower form factor supporting up to 25 2.5-inch drives (Figure 2)

5U rack form factor supporting up to 12 3.5-inch drives (top of Figure 3)

5U rack form factor supporting up to 25 2.5-inch drives (bottom of Figure 3)
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-generation, hot-plug PowerEdge M520 or PowerEdge M620
Figure 1. VRTX tower with 3.5-inch drives