Dell PowerEdge C6525
A compute-dense 2U/4N hyperscale sled server: up to four hot-swap C6525 single- or dual-socket AMD EPYC nodes share one C6400 2U chassis, aimed at HPC, web-tech and other core-hungry scale-out workloads.
Memory
- Slots
- 8 DIMM per single-socket node, 16 DIMM per dual-socket node
- Max
- 2 TB per node (16 x 128 GB LRDIMM, dual-socket)
- Type
- DDR4 RDIMM (8/16/32/64 GB) or LRDIMM (128 GB), ECC, up to 3200 MT/s
- Notes
- Older 32 GB x4/8Gb RDIMMs cannot mix with newer 32 GB x8/16Gb RDIMMs in the same node; 2666 MT/s and 3200 MT/s 128 GB LRDIMMs cannot mix
Storage
- Front bays
- 24 x 2.5" direct-backplane (up to 6 SAS/SATA per node); 24 x 2.5" NVMe backplane (up to 2 NVMe + 4 SAS/SATA per node, PCIe Gen3); or 12 x 3.5" direct-backplane (up to 3 SAS/SATA per node)
- Internal boot
- microSD (riser 1A only) or M.2 SATA BOSS 1.0
- Controllers
- PERC H745, H345, HBA345, HBA355i (10.5-port, hardware RAID); chipset SATA / software RAID S150
Graphics
- Options
- 1 x single-wide low-profile GPU per node
Expansion
- Slot 1
- PCIe Gen4 x16, Riser 1A (CPU 1)
- Slot 2
- PCIe Gen4 x16, Riser 2C (CPU 1)
- OCP
- 1 x OCP 3.0 SFF x16 Gen4
- M.2 riser
- 1 x PCIe x8 Gen3 M.2 riser
Networking
- Onboard
- 1 x Broadcom BCM54210S 1 GbE LOM per node
- OCP 3.0 cards
- 1/10/25 GbE Broadcom; 10/25 GbE QLogic; 10/25 GbE Mellanox; 1/10/25 GbE Intel
- PCIe LP NIC options
- 1/10/25/100 GbE Intel; 1/10/10GBASE-T/25 GbE Broadcom; 10/25 GbE QLogic; HDR100 VPI / 25 GbE Mellanox; 25 GbE SolarFlare
Power
- Supplies
- Dual hot-plug redundant 1600 W, 2000 W, 2400 W or 2600 W AC Platinum, or 2000 W AC/DC mix-mode, shared by the chassis
- Cooling
- Air cooling or direct contact liquid cooling (DCLC, CoolIT cold plates); 4 x 60 mm dual-rotor fans per node, not hot-plug redundant
Ports
- Rear (per node)
- 1 x iDRAC Direct micro-USB, 1 x mini-DisplayPort, 1 x iDRAC-or-NIC RJ45, 1 x USB 3.0
Physical
- Dimensions (chassis)
- 86.8 mm x 448.0 mm x 790.0 mm (H x W x D), 2U/4N C6400 chassis
- Weight
- 45.53 kg (3.5" backplane) to 35.15 kg (no backplane) max, full 4-node chassis
Management
- Embedded
- iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller, iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish, iDRAC Direct
- Consoles
- OpenManage Enterprise, OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager, OpenManage Mobile
- Security
- Cryptographically signed firmware, Secure Boot, Secure Erase, Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown, TPM 1.2/2.0 or TCM 2.0 optional, AMD SME/SEV
Operating systems
- Supported
- Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS, CentOS (RHEL 8.0 kernel), Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi
Processors
- AMD EPYC 7773X
- AMD EPYC 7573X
- AMD EPYC 7373X
- AMD EPYC 7713P
- AMD EPYC 7513
- AMD EPYC 7543P
- AMD EPYC 7443
- AMD EPYC 7443P
- AMD EPYC 74F3
- AMD EPYC 7313P
- AMD EPYC 7413
- AMD EPYC 7313
- AMD EPYC 7H12
- AMD EPYC 7742
- AMD EPYC 7702
- AMD EPYC 7502
- AMD EPYC 7402
- AMD EPYC 7452
- AMD EPYC 7302
- AMD EPYC 7262
- AMD EPYC 7542
- AMD EPYC 7352
- AMD EPYC 7642
- AMD EPYC 7643
- AMD EPYC 7552
- AMD EPYC 7282
- AMD EPYC 7252
- AMD EPYC 7272
- AMD EPYC 72F3
- AMD EPYC 7702P
- AMD EPYC 7502P
- AMD EPYC 7402P
- AMD EPYC 7302P
- AMD EPYC 7232P
- AMD EPYC 7662
- AMD EPYC 7663
- AMD EPYC 7532
- AMD EPYC 7F72
- AMD EPYC 7F52
- AMD EPYC 7F32
- AMD EPYC 7713
- AMD EPYC 7543
- AMD EPYC 7763