Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 - Storage Controller Specifications; Optical Drives; Tape Drive

Chassis weight
Table 6. 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)
24 x 2.5-inch hard drive systems 41.46 Kg (91.40 lb)
No backplane systems 34.56 Kg (76.19 lb)
Processor specications
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 conguration 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 specic 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 specications
The Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled supports four Generation 3 capable PCIe slots.
Table 7. Expansion bus
specications
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
Standard Open Compute Project (OCP)
form factor
Slot 3: x8 PCIe Gen3 from processor 1
x16 PCIe main riser Slot 4: x16 PCIe Gen3 processor 1 Standard Low Prole PCIe form factor
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