Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

Contents
1 PowerEdge C6420 overview...........................................................................................................................7
Supported congurations..................................................................................................................................................7
Back view of the PowerEdge C6420 sled...................................................................................................................... 9
Network ports indicator codes....................................................................................................................................... 10
Sled to hard drive mapping..............................................................................................................................................12
Locating the Service Tag of your system...................................................................................................................... 13
2 Documentation resources.............................................................................................................................14
3 Technical specications................................................................................................................................16
Dimensions of the PowerEdge C6420 sled...................................................................................................................16
Chassis weight.................................................................................................................................................................. 17
Processor specications.................................................................................................................................................. 17
System battery..................................................................................................................................................................17
Expansion bus specications...........................................................................................................................................17
Memory specications..................................................................................................................................................... 17
Hard drives and storage specications.......................................................................................................................... 18
Video specications..........................................................................................................................................................18
Environmental specications...........................................................................................................................................19
Temperature specications........................................................................................................................................19
Relative humidity specications................................................................................................................................19
Maximum vibration specications............................................................................................................................ 19
Maximum shock specications................................................................................................................................ 20
Maximum altitude specications..............................................................................................................................20
Operating temperature de-rating specications.................................................................................................... 20
Particulate and gaseous contamination specications...........................................................................................21
Standard operating temperature specications......................................................................................................21
Expanded operating temperature specications ................................................................................................... 31
Fresh Air Operation.....................................................................................................................................................31
4 Initial system setup and conguration.......................................................................................................... 33
Setting up your system................................................................................................................................................... 33
iDRAC conguration........................................................................................................................................................ 33
Options to set up iDRAC IP address........................................................................................................................33
Log in to iDRAC..........................................................................................................................................................34
Options to install the operating system.........................................................................................................................34
Methods to download rmware and drivers...........................................................................................................34
Downloading drivers and rmware.......................................................................................................................... 35
5 Pre-operating system management applications..........................................................................................36
Options to manage the pre-operating system applications........................................................................................36
System Setup................................................................................................................................................................... 36
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