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Dell PowerEdge C5220 Rack Server Technical Guide Powered by the Intel Xeon processor E3 product family Designed for hosting, CDN and web 2.0 environments Shared infrastructure for reduced space, power and cooling Eight or 12 sleds with...
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Figure 2. Front view with eight sleds in a PowerEdge C5000 chassis ..............10 Figure 3. Back view with four server nodes........................11 Figure 4. Internal view of the PowerEdge C5000 with PowerEdge C5220 servers ..........11 Figure 5. Side view of 12-sled configuration ........................12 Figure 6.
1 System overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ C5220 server is the second in Dell’s new class of servers called microservers. With eight or 12 nodes in a 3U form factor, the Power Edge C5220 microserver ® ® features right-sized performance with the single-socket Intel...
Flexibility to support different PowerEdge C5220 server configurations within the same chassis The PowerEdge C5220 is the second in a new class of microservers. Table 2 compares the features of the PowerEdge C5220 to the PowerEdge C5125 and PowerEdge R210 II systems.
Table 2. Comparison of PowerEdge R210 II, C5125 and C5220 Specification PowerEdge R210 II PowerEdge C5125 PowerEdge C5220 3U rack with up to 12 3U rack with up to 12 Chassis 1U rack microservers microservers Intel Xeon E3-1200 and Intel Xeon E3-1200v2...
For 8-sled form factor only. 1600MT/s VLP DIMMs available in Q2 FY13. Specifications Table 3 summarizes the product features for the PowerEdge C5220. For the latest information on supported features for the PowerEdge C5220, visit Dell.com/PowerEdgeC. Table 3.
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ReadyRails™ static rails for tool-less mounting with a PowerEdge C5000 rail kit. Mounted in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes in a 19-inch EIA-310-E Rack support compliant rack including all Dell 42xx and 24xx racks. Note: APC racks are also supported. PowerEdge C5220 Technical Guide...
2 Chassis views and features The Dell PowerEdge C5220 is a 3U rack microserver chassis that is available in two versions: One supports up to eight double-wide sleds One supports up to 12 single-wide sleds A PowerEdge C5220 system consists of the PowerEdge C5000 enclosure and an optional number of PowerEdge C5220 compute sleds.
Back view The features on the front of the PowerEdge C5220 include two fan cages, six main fans, two secondary fans, and power sockets. Figure 3. Back view with four server nodes Internal view Figure 4 is the internal view of the PowerEdge C5000 with PowerEdge C5220 servers.
Six-fan grill for sleds and two-fan grill for PSUs (back panel) Compute sled options The Power Edge C5220 offers individually serviceable 12-sled and 8-sled options. Figure 5 shows a side view of the 12-sled, single-width form factor. This sled option supports up to two 3.5-inch (shown in this figure) or four 2.5-inch hot-plug hard drives, four DIMM slots, and one...
Figure 7, both of these fan banks are located at the rear of the chassis behind the chassis midplane. Fans are N+1 non-redundant and are not hot-pluggable. Figure 7. PowerEdge C5000 fans Dell PowerEdge C5220 Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual For more information, see the Dell.com/Support/Manuals. PowerEdge C5220 Technical Guide...
For more information on the Intel Xeon, Core, and Pentium processor families, visit Intel.com. Supported processors The PowerEdge C5220 supports a single, two or four-core processor. Table 5, Table 6 and Table 7 list the processors that the PowerEdge C5220 supports. For the latest information on supported processors, visit Dell.com/PowerEdgeC.
For information on processor installation and configuration, see the Hardware Owner’s Manual on Dell.com/Support/Manuals. GPU support GPUs are not supported in the PowerEdge C5220. Chipset The Intel C204 chipset is implemented on the PowerEdge C5220. For more information, visit Intel.com. PowerEdge C5220 Technical Guide...
1333MT/s and 1600MT/s. Note: Only E3-1200v2 series processors support a speed of 1600MT/s. Supported memory Table 8 lists the DIMMs supported by the PowerEdge C5220. For the latest information on supported memory, visit Dell.com/PowerEdgeC. Table 8. DIMMs supported...
3.5-inch hard drives using a hard drive board require the cables to connect to the PowerEdge C5220 system board SATA connectors. In addition, the PowerEdge C5220 has a MicroSD slot located on the PCIe riser for loading an embedded hypervisor.
Optionally available for only the 8-sled form factor. Storage controllers The PowerEdge C5220 features only the Intel C204 as the onboard SATA controller. With the eight-sled version, the PowerEdge C5220 can also support the LSI 2008 mezzanine card. Onboard controller (Intel C204) The embedded controller is included in the Intel C204 chipset.
Y cable. The PowerEdge C5220 has a special connector for a Y cable that features two USB ports as well as a VGA connector. This is optional as a customer kit. It is not automatically included with the system.
Magic Packet wake-up enable with unique MAC address IPv4 and IPv6 support Supports teaming I/O slots The PowerEdge C5220 supports one x8 PCIe 2.0 mezzanine card slot on only the 8-sled version. LSI 2008 SAS controller Intel dual-port 1GbE NIC ...
Table 13 lists the tools and technologies Dell offers to help you achieve your data center goals by lowering power consumption and increasing energy efficiency.
90.0% System power supply throttling feature The PowerEdge C5220 supports a power supply throttling feature that protects the system if power consumption exceeds the maximum for the supply (1400W). In configurations where power consumption is greater than the maximum, redundancy is lost, and the PowerEdge C5220 throttles power consumption of the two or four independent nodes to stay within the power budget.
Rails The static rails allow for tool-less installation in 19-inch EIA-310-E compliant square or unthreaded round hole four-post racks. These include all Dell 42xx and 24xx racks. (Note: APC racks are also supported.) Other specifications include: ...
9 Operating systems and virtualization The Dell PowerEdge C5220 supports a wide range of industry standard operating systems and virtualization software. Supported operating systems The PowerEdge C5220 supports the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (64-bit) and SP1 ...
10 Systems management Systems management for the PowerEdge C5220 is through third-party solutions only. There is no Dell OpenManage support for server management at this time. The throughput for the various ports is: Chassis port upstream is 1GbE ...
Table 15. PowerEdge C5220 chassis dimensions 44.7cm 44.8cm 13.0cm 75.01cm 75.0cm System weight Table 16 lists the weight of the PowerEdge C5220 rack server at minimum and maximum configuration. Table 16. System weight Form Factor Maximum configuration Minimum configuration 12-sled configuration 48.13kg (106.11lb)
Environmental specifications Table 17 details the environmental specifications for the PowerEdge C5220. For the most up-to- Dell PowerEdge C5220 Getting Started Guide date information, see the Dell.com/Support/Manuals. For additional information about environmental measurements for specific system configurations, see Dell.com/environmental_datasheets. Table 17.
(peak). Secondary inrush current cannot exceed 55A (peak). USB peripherals The PowerEdge C5220 has a special connector for a Y-cable that features two USB ports as well as a VGA connector. This is optional as a separately orderable customer kit. PowerEdge C5220 Technical Guide...
Appendix B. Standards compliance PowerEdge C5220 conforms to the industry standards listed in Table 20. Table 20. Industry standard documents Standard URL for information and specifications ACPI Advance Configuration and Power acpi.info Interface Specification, v2.0c Ethernet standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.3.html IEEE 802.3-2005 microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/pcdesign/desguide/serverdg.ms Hardware Design Guide Version 3.0...
Appendix C. Additional resources Table 21 lists documents and websites that provide more information on the Dell PowerEdge C5220 rack server. Table 21. Additional resources Resource Description of contents Location This manual is provided in PDF format and provides Dell.com/Support/Manuals information on the following: ...
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Dell.com/PNC Provides details for improving energy efficiency in the cooling data center. technologies Energy Dell.com/FreshAir Provides information on Dell’s Fresh Air cooling solutions. management Processor and Provides more information about the PowerEdge C5220 Intel.com chipset processors and chipset. Dell PowerEdge Dell.com/PERC...