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Dell PowerEdge R900 Rack Server

The PowerEdgeTM  R900 amplifies Dell’s industry-leading virtualization performance with 6-core processing. 

  • Outstanding virtualization performance
  • An ideal server for RISC migration
  • Power and stability for data demanding enterprise applications

Overview

 

Outstanding Virtualization Performance

Dell’s most powerful Intel®  server, the PowerEdgeTM  R900, is designed and optimized to provide outstanding virtualization performance.

 

The R900 is an optimum platform for data-demanding enterprise applications in a virtual environment.

Featuring:
  • Intel Xeon®  7400 series 6-core and 4-core processor technology
  • Increased memory and I/O capacities over the previous model
  • Broad scalability
  • An embedded hypervisor for simplified virtualization. Choose between VMware®  ESXi 3.5 or Citrix®  XenServer and then power up the server and begin migration of virtual machines within as little as minutes with factory-integrated hypervisors.




Outstanding Virtualization Performance
Ideal Server for RISC Migration

 

An Ideal Server for RISC Migration

Migrating to an open x86 platform can reduce costs and improve overall management while providing an affordable foundation that scales easily for future needs. Dell’s premium free systems management helps drive down costs and simplify RISC migration.

With up to 24 cores, the PowerEdge R900 moves well into the enterprise class of RISC/UNIX proprietary-systems.

 

Power and Stability for Business-Critical Applications

Designed to handle data and compute-intensive applications, the PowerEdge R900 is:
  • Dell’s most powerful Intel-based system to date
  • An outstanding choice for Oracle® , SQL® , and other business critical enterprise class solutions
  • Stable and efficient. Energy Smart®  power supply units provide 90% efficiency for improved performance per watt and maximum value
Power and Stability for Business-Critical Applications

 

Simplified Management

Simplified Management

The PowerEdgeTM  R900 helps simplify your IT infrastructure with:
  • Improved monitoring capabilities in a single, easy-to-use interface with the Dell OpenManageTM  suite of management tools featuring monitoring capabilities for power-sensitive and virtual environments
  • Advanced security features, including the industry-standard Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a locked-down internal USB port and a chassis intrusion sensor to help protect critical data
  • High availability thanks to hot-pluggable redundant power supplies and hard drives and multiple RAID options, including support for RAID 6

Tech Specification

 

Form Factor

4U rack-mount

Processors

Up to 4 six-core or four-core 64-bit Intel® Xeon® Processors 7400Also available: Up to 4 quad-core 64-bit Intel Xeon Processors 7300 sequence, or Dual-core 64-bit Intel Xeon Processors 7200 sequence

Processor Sockets

4

Front Side Bus or HyperTransport

Four Independent 1066MHz

Cache

Up to 8MB L3 cache per processor

Chipset

Intel® 7300

Memory

Up to 256GB (32 DIMM slots): 512MB / 1GB / 2GB / 4GB / 8GB / FBD, 667MHz

Optional high-availability features including memory sparing and mirroring; Optional 4GB Quad-rank (low-power) DIMMs available

I/O Slots

Seven available PCI Express™ slots (four x8, three x4)

Drive Controller

SAS 6/iR or PERC 6/i

RAID Controller

PERC 6i SAS 6/iR, PERC 6/E

Drive Bays

Five 3.5" SAS hot-plug drives or eight 2.5" SAS hot-plug drives; one optical drive bay (optional DVD-ROM, CD-RW, or DVD-RW)

Maximum Internal Storage

Up to 5TB

Hard Drives1

2.5" SAS (10K RPM): 73GB, 146GB, 300GB

2.5" SAS (15K RPM): 36GB, 73GB

3.5" SAS (10K RPM): 300GB, 400GB, 600GB

3.5" Near-Line SAS (7.2K rpm): 500GB, 750GB, 1TB

3.5" SAS (15K RPM): 73GB, 146GB, 300GB, 450GB

3.5” 2.0TB SATA

Network Interface Cards

Four embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme IITM 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NICs; iSCSI offload optional

Intel® Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter and Intel® Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter

Power Supply

1030W (90V–180VAC)–1570W (180–240VAC) hot-plug auto-sensing redundant power (1+1)

Energy Smart® High efficient power supply units (90% efficient) are standard

Availability

ECC memory with SDDC, Memory Sparing and Memory Mirroring; hot-plug SAS hard drives; hot-plug redundant power; hot-plug redundant cooling; tool-less chassis; high availability fibre channel and SCSI cluster support

Video

Integrated ATI® RADEON® ES1000 with 32MB of SDRAM

Remote Management

Baseboard Management Controller with IPMI 2.0 compliance, accessible via network or serial port; optional DRAC 5

Systems Management

DellTM OpenManageTM

Rack Support

4-post for Dell rack or supported third-party racks

Operating Systems

Microsoft®  Windows®  Essential Business Server 2008

Microsoft® Windows  Server® 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V™)

Microsoft® Windows  Server® 2008 R2, x64 (includes Hyper-V™ v2)

Microsoft®  Windows®  HPC Server 2008

Novell® SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

Sun® Solaris™

 

For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit www.dell.com/OSsupport.

Embedded Hypervisor

Citrix® XenServer Dell Express Edition

Citrix XenServer Dell Enterprise Edition

Microsoft HyperV via Microsoft Windows Server 2008

VMware® ESXi 3.5

VMware ESX 3.5

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