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PowerEdge C6100 Rack Server

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Processor

Up to four 2-socket servers, 4 or 6 cores per processor
Intel® Xeon® 5500/5600 product family, with L2/L3 cache: 4MB/8MB/12MB

Operating System

Novell® SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server 11 x64 SP2
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 and HPC Server 2008 R2 x64 SP1

Chipset

Intel 5520

Memory

2GB/4GB/8GB DDR3 (1333 MT/s), 16GB DDR3 (1066 MT/s), 12 DIMM slots for up to 192GB
4GB/8GB/16GB low-volt DDR3 Samsung® Green Memory available

Storage

Hard Drives:

24 x 2.5” or 12 x 3.5” hard drive options
2.5” SAS (10K RPM): 146GB, 300GB, 600GB, 900GB
2.5” SAS (15K RPM): 146GB, 300GB
2.5” SATA (7.2K RPM): 500GB, 1TB
2.5” SATA SSD (SLC): 100GB
2.5” SATA SSD (MLC): 100GB, 200GB

3.5” SATA (7.2K): 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB
3.5” SAS (15K): 300GB, 450GB, 600GB
3.5” NL SAS (7.2K): 1TB, 2TB, 3TB

Maximum Internal Storage:
36TB SATA/NL SAS

Management

Services (Availability varies by region. Please contact your sales representative for details.)  

Infrastructure Consulting Services
Rack Integration (U.S. only)
Onsite Deployment
Basic Support, ProSupport for IT
4-Hour Support
Keep Your Hard Drive
Enterprise Wide Contract
Specialized Onsite Services

Server Management

Embedded BMC with IPMI 2.0 support with 1 x 10/100 Mbps RJ45 connector
Intel® Intelligent Power Node Manager compliant

Hypervisors (Optional)

Citrix® XenServer®
VMware® ESXi™
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V®

Slots

1 PCIe x 8 mezzanine daughtercard slot and x 16 riser slot
Mezzanine: Mellanox® ConnectX-2 40Gb/s dual-port QDR IB adapter (optional)
Mezzanine: Intel 82599 dual-port 10GbE adapter (optional)

Chassis

C6100 physical dimensions:

2U rack height with shared infrastructure
Height 87.6mm (3.45”)
Width 447.1mm (17.6”)
Depth 805.2mm (31.7”)

Rack Support:

4-post tool-less

Ultradense shared infrastructure in a 2U chassis

With four two-socket server nodes in a 2U rack chassis, the PowerEdge™ C6100 is a hyperscale-inspired building block for high-performance cluster computing, Web 2.0 environments and cloud builders.

  • Twice the density of traditional 1U servers without sacrificing features such as hotplug hard-drive flexibility
  • Shared infrastructure uses less floor space, power and cooling
  • Service individual nodes as needed to increase uptime by up to 75 percent

Test drive our server management solutions
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Try our server management software in free, real-time virtual environments.
Learn about key features of our server management software through guided demonstrations.
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Support

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