Dell PowerEdge C6520
A 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable compute sled for the shared-infrastructure C6400 chassis: up to four independent two-socket nodes per 2U, with PCIe Gen4 I/O, OCP 3.0 networking and an all-NVMe backplane option for web-scale, HPC and cloud workloads.
Memory
- Slots
- 16 DIMM per node, 8 channels per processor, 1 DIMM per channel
- Max
- 2 TB per node (16 x 128 GB LRDIMM)
- Type
- DDR4 RDIMM (16/32/64 GB) or LRDIMM (128 GB) ECC, up to 3200 MT/s
Storage
- Bays
- 24 x 2.5" (direct or NVMe-capable, up to 8 NVMe with 2 universal slots per sled), 24 x 2.5" all-NVMe, 12 x 3.5" direct, or no-backplane chassis
- Drive types
- 2.5" SATA SSD 120 GB-7.68 TB; 2.5" SATA 7.2K 1-2 TB; 2.5" SAS 7.2K 2 TB; SAS SSD 400 GB-12.8 TB; SAS 10K 600 GB-2.4 TB; SAS 15K 300-900 GB; M.2 SATA SSD 240/380 GB; U.2 NVMe SSD 960 GB-15.36 TB
- Controllers
- S150 software RAID (SATA/NVMe, entry); H350/H345/HBA355i/HBA345 (value); H750/H745 (value performance) PERC 10 controllers
- Boot
- Internal uSD card (16/32/64 GB) or M.2 SATA BOSS 1.5
Expansion
- I/O slots
- 2 x PCIe Gen4 x16 half-height/half-length slots (network, storage, AIC)
- OCP
- 1 x OCP 3.0 Gen4 x16 slot
Networking
- Integrated
- Single-port 1 GbE LOM (Broadcom)
- OCP 3.0 cards
- 1GbE BASE-T (Intel, Broadcom); 10GbE BASE-T/SFP+ (Intel, Broadcom, QLogic); 25GbE SFP28 (Intel, Broadcom, QLogic, Mellanox)
Power
- Supplies
- Dual hot-plug redundant, 1600 W / 2000 W / 2400 W / 2600 W (80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium), shared across the chassis
- Configuration
- 1+1 fault-tolerant redundant (factory default) or 2+0 non-redundant
Ports
- USB
- Micro-USB port for iDRAC Direct (per node)
- Video
- Mini DisplayPort, Matrox G200 controller (per node)
- Management
- 1 GbE RJ45 port for systems management and/or host (per node)
Physical
- Dimensions (HxWxD)
- 86.8 mm x 448 mm x 790 mm (2U C6400 chassis)
- Weight
- 43.62 kg max (3.5" direct backplane); 41.46 kg max (2.5" direct/NVMe backplane); 34.56 kg max (no backplane); 5.58 kg empty
Management
- Embedded
- iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller
- Consoles
- OpenManage Enterprise, OpenManage Power Manager
Operating systems
- Supported
- See Dell Enterprise Solutions Supported Operating Systems list
Processors
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8380
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8368Q
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8368
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8362
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8360Y
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8358
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8352Y
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8352V
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8352M
- Intel Xeon Gold 6354
- Intel Xeon Gold 6348
- Intel Xeon Gold 6346
- Intel Xeon Gold 6338
- Intel Xeon Gold 6330
- Intel Xeon Gold 6314U
- Intel Xeon Gold 6312U
- Intel Xeon Gold 6342
- Intel Xeon Gold 6334
- Intel Xeon Gold 6336Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 6326
- Intel Xeon Gold 5317
- Intel Xeon Gold 5320
- Intel Xeon Gold 5315Y
- Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y
- Intel Xeon Silver 4310
- Intel Xeon Silver 4316
- Intel Xeon Silver 4314
- Intel Xeon Silver 4309Y