Getting Started With Your System 3
System Features
The major hardware and software features of your system include:
• Two or four dual-core AMD Opteron™ 8000 Series processors.
• A minimum of 2 GB (dual-processor systems) or 4 GB (four-processor systems) of 667-MHz registered
DDR-II memory modules. Memory is upgradable to a maximum of 64 GB (four-processor systems)
by installing combinations of 512-MB, 1-GB, 2-GB, or 4-GB memory modules in the sixteen memory
module sockets on the system board. (128 GB of memory will be supported when 8 GB memory
modules are available.)
• Support for up to five 3.5-inch hot-plug SAS hard drives.
• An optional internal 1.44-MB, 3.5-inch diskette drive.
• An optional internal slim-line optical drive.
• An optional external USB diskette drive.
• An optional external USB optical drive.
• Two hot-pluggable, 1570-W power supplies in an 1 + 1 redundant configuration. The power supplies
support an input voltage range of 100 V to 208 V.
• Four hot-pluggable system cooling fans.
The system board includes the following features:
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Two x8 lane-width PCI-Express (PCIe) expansion slots and six x4 lane-width PCIe slots.
(One x4 lane-width slot is occupied by the SAS controller card.) Four expansion slots (two x8 slots
and two x4 slots) support full-length expansion cards.
• Two integrated Gb Ethernet NICs, capable of supporting 10-Mbps, 100-Mbps, and 1000-Mbps data
rates. Each NIC also supports TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) functionality.
• Four USB 2.0-compliant connectors (two on the front panel and two on the back panel), capable
of supporting a diskette drive, an optical drive, a keyboard, a mouse, or a USB flash drive.
• Systems management circuitry that monitors operation of the system fans as well as critical system
voltages and temperatures. The systems management circuitry works in conjunction with the systems
management software.
• Standard Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) with serial access.
• An optional remote access controller (RAC) card for remote systems management.
•
An integrated VGA-compatible video subsystem based on an integrated
ATI RN50 33-MHz PCI
video controller. The video subsystem includes 16 MB of graphics memory and supports various 2D
graphics video modes. Maximum resolution is 1600x1280 with 65,536 colors. (
When the optional
RAC is installed, the integrated video subsystem is disabled and the video controller on the RAC is
used instead.)