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High performance in a rackable 2-socket tower, now with Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors.The PowerEdge 2900 is designed with next generation performance features,large memory capacity and exceptional expandability,availability and manageability to reliably drive your business applications.
 Increased Commonality = Reduced ComplexityOnly Dell delivers next-generation servers specifically designed to reduce complexity. Hence, it’s easier than ever to manage Dell servers through innovative design changes and increased management functionality, including a new Behavioral Specification that helps ensure consistency is maintained over future generations. Plus, Dell’s industry-leading software commonality takes steps to help reduce software complexity and drive down the number of updates. You can even break down the new servers and service without tools. |  Flexible and ExpandableThe Dell PowerEdge 2900 server is built with flexibility in mind. You can choose from tower or 5U rack chassis options with hot-plug SAS or SATA hard drives and several optical devices and tape products, for up to 6.0TB* of internal storage. The system also features six I/O slots. Because Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC) and PERC 5/i integrated controller utilize dedicated daughtercard slots, all six I/O slots are available for expandability. You have the option of adding up to four dual-embedded Gigabit Network Interface Cards (NICs) and two dual-channel storage interface devices for maximum growth potential. |
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High Performance for Today...and Tomorrow
Dell goes the distance to increase price/performance and performance-per-watt* in its newest generation of servers. The latest 64-bit Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors deliver performance gains of up to 63%* over the previous generation.
The Dell 9G PowerEdge servers using the Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 series processors have up to 40% greater performance per watt than the 9G PowerEdge servers using Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100 series (Woodcrest) processors*.
1333MHz FSB facilitates great speed. 64-bit memory addressability provides scalability for large memory footprint applications.
A TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) helps deliver greater network throughput and efficiency by offloading the TCP/IP processing to a dedicated processor, freeing up the main system processor in web-based applications or when using iSCSI.
Memory
The PowerEdge 9th Generation servers offer up to 48GB of fully-buffered DIMM memory, as much as three times the memory capacity of the previous generation. This allows for simultaneous reads/writes of memory and can help improve performance in virtualized workloads.
Storage
Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives deliver the next generation of SCSI performance and reliability for critical business applications, while SATA options provide excellent value for systems that rely on external storage and fibre-channel storage.
Peripherals
PCI Express I/O expansion can facilitate greater I/O throughput and support for high-bandwidth I/O peripherals such as Infiniband, 4Gb fibre channel and future 10Gb Ethernet.
Availability Without Compromise
Dell addresses the need for high availability in the new PowerEdge 9th Generation by providing hot-plug redundant power supplies and hard drives, plus multiple SAS RAID options - without sacrificing expandability, and including support for High Availability Clustering and deployment in SANs. Redundant NICs and redundant cooling fans help keep the servers running smoothly.Setting the Standard for Manageability
SAS hard drive carriers and memory options are common across the entire line of PowerEdge 9th Generation servers. The PowerEdge 1950, 2900 and 2950 feature standardized drivers and BIOS.All servers include an Integrated Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0 management controller (with SMASH Command Line Protocol), plus an optional DRAC 5 remote management card with continuous video and Active Directory integration for robust remote server management.
Processor
- Up to two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5300 sequence processors at up to 3.0GHz
Up to two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 5100 sequence processors at up to 3.0GHz
Operating System
- Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server 2008
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
*Windows Server® 2008 R2 Foundation allows only 15 user accounts and requires certain Active Directory (AD) configurations. If not configured according to the product documentation, the software will generate warnings to correct the configuration. After a certain amount of time, the software will only run for one hour at a time until the configuration is corrected. For more information about these features review the product documentation located at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=143551.
Chipset
- Intel 5000X
Memory*
- 256MB/512MB/1GB/2GB/4GB Fully Buffered DIMMs (FBD) in matched pairs
533MHz or 667MHz; 12 FBD sockets for support up to 48GB*
Storage
- Hard Drives:
73GB* , 146GB* and 300GB* (3.5") 10K RPM hot-plug SAS hard drives
36GB* , 73GB* and 146GB* (3.5") 15K RPM hot-plug SAS hard drives
80GB* , 160GB* , 250GB* and 500GB* (3.5"), 7.2K RPM SATA Hard Drive
Maximum Internal Storage:
Up to 3.0TB*
External Storage Options:
Dell PowerVault™ 22xS SCSI, PowerVault MD1000, Dell/EMC products
Tape Backup Options:
Internal: PowerVault 100T and 110T
External: PowerVault 114T, 122T, 124T, 132T, 136T and ML6000
Drive Bays
- Standard internal hard drive bays support up to eight 3.5" SAS or SATA hot plug hard drives
Flexbay support for up to two 3.5" hot-plug drives or full height tape device
Peripheral bay support for two half-height devices (tape drive plus one optional CD-ROM, optional DVDROM or Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM); optional 3.5" floppy drive bay.
Slots
- Six total: Two x133MHz PCI-X® slots on a single PCI bus
One x8 PCI Express® slot
Three x4 PCI Express slots
Drive Controllers
- PERC 5/i(optional): SAS 3.0 Gb/s RAID controller with Intel IOP333 processor and 256MB cache
SAS 5/i(base): 4 port SAS controller with ARM966 processor(does not support RAID)
RAID Controllers
- Optional PEC 4e/DC (dual-channel PCI Express RAID controller);
Optional PERC 5/E Adapter for external RAID storage
Communications
- Dual embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II™ 5708 Gigabit* Ethernet NIC with fail-over and load balancing
TOE (TCPIP Offload Engine) supported on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, SP1 or higher with Scalable Networking Pack
Optional add-in: Intel® PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter, Gigabit, Copper, PCI-E x4
Intel® PRO/1000 PT Single Port Server Adapter, Gigabit, Copper, PCI-E x1
Intel® PRO/1000 PF Single Port Server Adapter, Gigabit, Optical, PCI-E x4
Broadcom® NetXtreme™ 5721 Single Port Gigabit Ethernet NIC, Copper, PCI-E x1
Broadcom® NetXtreme II™ 5708 Single Port Gigabit Ethernet NIC w/TOE, Copper, PCI-E x4
Optional Conexant V.92 internal modem
Broadcom 10GbE NIC
Power
- 930W, optional hot-plug redundant power
Video Card
- Embedded ATI ES1000 with 16MB memory
Management
- OpenManage™
Standard Baseboard Management Controller with IMPI 2.0 support
Optional DRAC 5/i for advanced capabilities
Environmental Operating Conditions
- Operating Temperature: 10º C to 35º C (50º F to 95º F)
Storage Temperature: -40º C to 65º C (-40º F to 149º F)
Operating Relative Humidity (non-condensing twmax=29C): 20% to 80% non-condensing
Maximum humidity gradient: 10% per hour, operational and non-operational conditions
Storage Relative Humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing (twmax=38C)
Operating Vibration: 0.26G at 5Hz to 350Hz for 2 minutes
Storage Vibration: 1.54Grms Random Vibration at 10Hz to 250Hz for 15 minutes
Operating Shock: 1 shock pulse of 41G for up to 2ms
Storage Shock: 6 shock pulses of 71G for up to 2ms
Operating Altitude: -16 to 3,048m (-50 ft to 10,000 ft)
Storage Altitude: -16m to 10,600m (-50 ft to 35,000 ft)