12 Getting Started With Your System
Technical Specifications
Processor  (Per System Board)
Processor type One or two Intel
®
 Xeon
®
 5500 or 5600 series 
processors (up to six core processors)
Expansion Bus  (Per System Board)
Bus type PCI Express Generation 2
Expansion slots
PCIe
Mezzanine PCIe 
One x16, half-length, half-height
One x8, custom slot
Memory  (Per System Board)
Architecture 1066 and 1333 MHz DDR3 registered 
memory modules with ECC
Memory module sockets Twelve 240-pin DIMMs
Memory module capacities 2 GB, 4 GB, or 8 GB
Minimum RAM 12 GB
Maximum RAM 96 GB
Drives
Hard drives Up to twelve 3.5-inch, hot-swappable 
SAS/SATA drives or up to twenty four 
2.5-inch, hot-swappable SAS/SATA/SSD 
drives
Connectors (Per System Board)  
Back
NIC
Two RJ-45 (10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet)
Serial
9-pin, DTE, 16550-compatible
USB
Two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant
Video
15-pin VGA
KVM over IP Port
Dedicated Ethernet port for remote 
management access