2-Socket High Memory Rack Server
With the PowerEdgeTM C2100, you don’t have to choose memory over disk capacity. You get both so you can get results faster. Dell designed the PowerEdge C2100 to maximize space, power and cost efficiency in data centers where memory and storage density are critical: MapReduce, Web analytics, database and cloud computing.
- High Memory Density — Get up to 18 double data rate 3 (DDR3) memory slots in a 2U form factor for a maximum of 144 GB.
- The Right Mix of Disks — Choose between two backplane options for ultimate performance or ultimate flexibility with 12x3.5-inch or 24x2.5-inch front-loaded hard-drive slots, as well as two internal 2.5-inch cabled hard drives.
- Focused Feature Set — Purpose-built design, optimized to provide only the features you need.

Maximum Flexibility and Throughput
The Dell™ PowerEdge C2100 gives you a purpose-built, cost-efficient solution for managing the volume and frequency of data generated in scale-out environments.- Choose from high-capacity 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA), or high-performance serial attached SCSI (SAS) or solid-state drives (SSDs) on the front loaded drives, and 2.5-inch SATA or enterprise-class single-level cell (SLC) on the internal drives for the optimal storage solution (up to 25 TB) to support your applications.
- Drive-configuration options include 12 hot-plug 3.5-inch front-loaded hard drive slots, plus two internal 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs) for added storage.
- Support for 6 Gb/S SAS gives you the future-ready scalability and performance needed in high-performance file operations.
Increase Your Memory and Save
| The power-efficient Intel® Xeon® 5500/5600 series more than doubles your memory capacity over previous Intel® generations, providing up to 18 DDR3 DIMM sockets for a maximum of 144 GB. | In addition to supporting extremely large memory capacity, the PowerEdge C2100 supports a wide variety of memory configurations. |

Everything You Need, Nothing You Don't
With the PowerEdge C line of servers, Dell has leveraged its expertise in custom-built hyperscale computing and high-volume production to bring ultra-dense, high-performance, efficient solutions to high performance computing, Web 2.0 and cloud builders.
We've designed PowerEdge C servers for rack deployments in large, homogenous cloud/cluster application environments where the software stack predominantly provides platform availability and resiliency. We didn't add the extra features you don't need to get the job done, such as extensive systems management, broad enterprise storage or same-day support.
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Processor
- Intel® Xeon® 5500 and 5600 series processors
2 quad-core Intel® Xeon® 5500 series
2 quad-core or six-core Intel® Xeon® 5600 series
Operating System
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.54 x86-64
Novell® SUSE™ Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 x64
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 Enterprise and HPC Server 2008 R2 x64
Chipset
- Intel 5500 Tylersburg chipset
Memory*
- Up to 144GB* (18 DDR3 RDIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB ECC DDR3 RDIMM
Dual-rank or quad-rank RDIMM support
Error checking and correction (ECC) and single device data correction (SDDC) technologies maintain system data integrity and help prevent single bit or multi bit errors on DIMMs
8GB low-volt DDR3 Samsung® Green Memory available
Embedded Hypervisor (Optional)
- VMware® ESX Server 4.1
Citrix® XenServer Enterprise 5.6Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V
Storage
- Hard Drives:
2.5 inch 6Gb SAS (10K rpm): 300GB*, 600GB*
2.5 inch 6Gb SAS (15K rpm): 146GB*
2.5 inch 6Gb nearline SAS (7.2K rpm): 500GB*
2.5 inch SATA (7.2K rpm): 160GB*, 250GB*, 500GB*
3.5 inch 6Gb SAS (15K rpm): 300GB*, 450GB*, 600GB*
3.5 inch 6Gb nearline SAS (7.2K rpm): 1TB*, 2TB*
3.5 inch SATA (7.2K rpm): 500GB*, 1TB*, 2TB*
Solid-State Drives:
2.5 inch SLC SATA: 50GB*, 100GB2
Maximum Internal Storage:
Up to 25TB* via 12 x 3.5” hot-plug 2TB* SATA/nearline SAS hard drives and 2 x 2.5” 500GB* SATA hard drives
Drive Bays
- 2 hard drive (HD) base options:
12 x 3.5” hard drive option: up to 12 SAS HDs(15K), NL SAS (7.2k), SATA HDs (7.2k), SSDs (SLC)24 x 2.5” hard drive option: up to 24 SAS
HDs(15K), NL SAS (7.2k), SATA HDs (7.2k), SSDs (SLC)2 x 2.5” internal hard drives: up to 2 SATA HDs (7.2k), SSDs (SLC)
Slots
- Four PCI Express:
2 x 8 Gen 2 slot, full height, half length
1 x 4 Gen 2 proprietary connector, for LSI SAS daughtercard
1 x 4 Gen 2 proprietary connector, for Intel dual-port 10GbE daughtercard
Drive Controllers
- Integrated ICH10R on motherboard
LSI 6Gb SAS2008 daughtercard
Dell PERC H200
Dell PERC H700
LSI MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i
RAID Controllers
- LSI 6Gb SAS2008 mezzanine
Dell PERC H700
LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i
Communications
- Intel® 82576 – 2 x Gb Ethernet and 1 x 100Mb Ethernet dedicated management port
Optional add-in NICs:
Intel Gb ET quad port server adapter, Gb, Copper, PCI-E x4
Intel 82599 dual port server adapter, 10Gb, SFP+, PCI-E x4
Chelsio S320 dual port server adapter, 10Gb, PCI-E x8
Optional add in HBAs:
Mellanox dual port QDR Infiniband HBA
Qlogic QLE 7340 40Gb/s QDR Infiniband HBA (single port) – Red Hat Enterprise Linux native support for the Qlogic 7340 HBA is planned for a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update. Dell-provided drivers for this device are available at http://support.dell.com/ Note that, in terms of support, these are considered third party drivers by Red Hat, Inc.
Power
- Dual hot-plug redundant high-efficiency 750W power supplies or single high-efficiency 750W power supply
Auto-switching universal 110/220 volts
Availability
- Hot-plug hard drives
Hot-plug redundant power
ECC memory
Single device data correction (SDDC)
Cluster support
Video Card
- Integrated AST2050 with 8MB VGA memory
Chassis
- C2100 physical dimensions:
2U Rack-mountable chassis
Height 87.5 cm (3.44")
Width 43.74 cm (17.22")
Depth 72.2 cm (28.42")
Weight (maximum configuration) 28.5 kg (62.8 lb)
Weight (empty) 12 kg (26.5 lb)
Rack Support
4-post (Dell rack), sliding rails
Management
- Standard baseboard management controller with IPMI 2.0 support
DCMI, iKVM, and PXE support
Intel® Intelligent Power Node Manager compliant
Regulatory
- Regulatory Model:
Regulatory Type:
Dell and the Environment
Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page
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