Storage controller specifications
The PowerEdge XE9680 system supports the following controller cards:
Table 18. Storage controller cards
Supported storage controller cards
Internal controllers
● PERC H965i
Internal Boot
● Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (NVMe BOSS-N1): HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSDs
Software RAID
● S160 NVMe
Drives
The PowerEdge XE9680 system supports:
● 8 x 2.5-inch hot-swappable NVMe SSD drives
● 8 x 2.5-inch hot-swappable SAS/SATA SSD drives
● 16 x E3.S hot-swappable EDSFF direct drives
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 Dell Support page > Browse all products > Infrastructure > Data Center Infrastructure
> Storage Adapters & Controllers > Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD > Select This Product >
Documentation > Manuals and Documents.
GPU Specifications
The PowerEdge XE9680 system supports 8 NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB 700W SXM5 GPUs or 8 NVIDIA HGX A100 80GB 500W
SXM4 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology.
Ports and connectors specifications
USB ports specifications
Table 19.
PowerEdge XE9680 USB specifications
Front Rear
USB port type No. of ports USB port type No. of ports
USB 2.0-compliant port One USB 3.0-compliant port One
iDRAC Direct port
(Micro-AB USB 2.0-
compliant port)
One USB 2.0-compliant ports One
NOTE: The micro USB 2.0 compliant port can only be used as an iDRAC Direct or a management port.
NIC port specifications
The PowerEdge XE9680 system supports up to two 10/100/1000 Mbps Network Interface Controller (NIC) ports embedded on
the LAN on Motherboard (LOM) and integrated on the optional Open Compute Project (OCP) cards.
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Technical specifications