Dell C6420 User Manual
Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420
Technical Specifications
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Contents
Chapter 1: Technical specifications............................................................................................... 4
Dimensions of the Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled.................................................................................................4
Chassis weight......................................................................................................................................................................4
Processor specifications.................................................................................................................................................... 5
Supported operating systems...........................................................................................................................................5
System battery.....................................................................................................................................................................5
Expansion bus specifications............................................................................................................................................ 5
Memory specifications....................................................................................................................................................... 6
Drives and storage specifications.................................................................................................................................... 6
Video specifications............................................................................................................................................................ 6
Environmental specifications............................................................................................................................................ 7
Standard operating temperature specifications..................................................................................................... 7
Expanded operating temperature specifications .................................................................................................15
Particulate and gaseous contamination specifications....................................................................................... 19
Maximum vibration specifications........................................................................................................................... 20
Maximum shock specifications.................................................................................................................................20
Maximum altitude specifications..............................................................................................................................20
Fresh Air Operation.....................................................................................................................................................20
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Technical specifications
The technical and environmental specifications of your system are outlined in this section.
Topics:
• Dimensions of the Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled
• Chassis weight
• Processor specifications
• Supported operating systems
• System battery
• Expansion bus specifications
• Memory specifications
• Drives and storage specifications
• Video specifications
• Environmental specifications
Dimensions of the Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled
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Figure 1. Dimensions of the PowerEdge C6420 sled
Table 1. Dimensions of the PowerEdge C6420 sled
X Y Z
174.4 mm (6.86 inches) 40.5 mm (1.59 inches) 574.5 mm (22.61 inches)
Chassis weight
Table 2. Chassis weight of the enclosure with the sleds
System Maximum weight (with all sleds and drives)
12 x 3.5-inch hard drive systems 43.62 Kg (96.16 lb)
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Table 2. Chassis weight of the enclosure with the sleds (continued)
System Maximum weight (with all sleds and drives)
No backplane systems 34.56 Kg (76.19 lb)
Processor specifications
The Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled supports up to two Intel Xeon Scalable processor in each of the four independent sleds.
Each processor supports up to 28 cores.
NOTE: The fabric processor must be installed in the processor 2 socket in a mixed configuration of fabric and non-fabric
processors.
Supported operating systems
The Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 supports the following operating systems:
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux
● SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
● Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V
● Canonical Ubuntu LTS
● VMware ESXi
● Citrix XenServer
NOTE:
For more information about the specific versions and additions, see https://www.dell.com/support/home/drivers/
supportedos/poweredge-c6420
System battery
The PowerEdge C6420 sled uses a CR 2032 3V replaceable lithium coin cell battery.
NOTE: There is a system battery in each of the sleds.
Expansion bus specifications
The Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled supports four Generation 3 capable PCIe slots.
Table 3. Expansion bus specifications
PCIe Slots Description Form factor
x8 Mezz PCIe riser Slot 1: x8 PCIe Gen3 from processor 1 Custom form factor
x8+x8 OCP Mezz riser
Slot 2: x8 PCIe Gen3 from processor 1
Slot 3: x8 PCIe Gen3 from processor 1
x16 PCIe main riser Slot 4: x16 PCIe Gen3 processor 1 Standard Low Profile PCIe form factor
x16 buried PCIe riser Slot 5: x16 PCIe Gen3 from processor 2 Custom form factor
Standard Open Compute Project (OCP)
form factor
NOTE: M.2 SATA riser is supported
on the buried riser.
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Memory specifications
Table 4. Memory specifications
Memory
module
sockets
Sixteen 288-pins
DIMM
type
LRDIMM
RDIMM
DIMM rank
Quad rank 64 GB 64 GB 512 GB 128 GB 1024 GB
Octal rank 128 GB 128 GB 1024 GB 256 GB 2048 GB
Single rank 8 GB 8 GB 64 GB 16 GB 128 GB
Dual rank
DIMM
capacity
16 GB 16 GB 128 GB 32 GB 256 GB
32 GB 32 GB 256 GB 64 GB 512 GB
64 GB 64 GB 512 GB 128 GB 1024 GB
Single processor Dual processors
Minimum
RAM
Maximum
RAM
Minimum
RAM
Drives and storage specifications
The Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled supports SAS and SATA Drives and Solid State Drives (SSDs).
Table 5. Supported drive options for the PowerEdge C6420 sled
Maximum number of drives in the enclosure Maximum number of drives assigned per sled
12 x 3.5-inch drive systems Three SAS or SATA Drives and SSDs per sled
24 x 2.5-inch drive systems Six SAS or SATA Drives and SSDs per sled
Maximum
RAM
24 x 2.5-inch drive systems with NVMe The NVMe backplane supports either of these configurations:
● Two NVMe drives and four SAS or SATA Drives and SSDs
per sled
● Six SAS or SATA Drives and SSDs per sled
M.2 SATA drive (optional) The supported capacity of the M.2 SATA card is up to 240 GB
NOTE: The M.2 SATA card can be installed on the x8
(slot 1) mezzanine riser or the x16 riser slot (slot 5).
microSD card (optional) for boot (up to 64 GB) One on each PCIe riser of each sled
Table 6. Supported RAID options with M.2 SATA drives
Options Single M.2 SATA drive without RAID Dual M.2 SATA drives with hardware
Hardware RAID No Yes
RAID Mode N/A RAID 1
Number of drives supported 1 2
Supported processors processor 1 processor 1 and processor 2
RAID
Video specifications
The Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled supports a Matrox G200 integrated graphics card with 16 MB RAM.
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