Dell PowerEdge R860 system overview
The PowerEdge R860 system is a 2U server that supports:
● Up to 4 x 4
th
Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with up to 60 cores
● 64 DDR5 DIMM slots, supports maximum 16 TB
● Two AC or DC power supply units with 1+1 redundancy
● Up to 8 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) drives
● Up to 16 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe (HDD/SSD) drives
● Up to 24 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe (HDD/SSD) drives
● Up to 16 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) + 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe (SSD) drives
● Up to 24 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) + 2 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe (HDD/SSD) drives
● PCI Express® (PCIe) 5.0 enabled expansion slots
● Network interface technologies to cover Network Interface Card (NIC)
NOTE: For more information about how to hot swap NVMe PCIe SSD U.2 device, see the Dell Express Flash NVMe
PCIe SSD User's Guide at https://www.dell.com/support > Browse all products > Infrastructure > Data Center
Infrastructure > Storage Adapters & Controllers > Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD > Select This
Product > Documentation > Manuals and Documents.
NOTE: All instances of SAS, SATA, NVMe drives are referred to as drives in this document, unless specified otherwise.
CAUTION: Do not install GPUs, network cards, or other PCIe devices on your system that are not validated
and tested by Dell. Damage caused by unauthorized and invalidated hardware installation will null and void the
system warranty.
Topics:
• Front view of the system
• Rear view of the system
• Inside the system
• Locating the Express Service Code and Service Tag
• System information labels
• Rail sizing and rack compatibility matrix
Front view of the system
Figure 1. Front view of 24 x 2.5-inch drive system
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