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Dell PowerEdge FC430 Server for the FX2 - System Overview

FC630 Compute Module

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The Dell PowerEdge FC630 is a half-width, two-socket compute module that can support a maximum of two Xeon E5-2600 v3 or E5-2600 v4 processors. Up to four FC630s can be installed in the FX2s chassis and each automatically connects maps to two of the eight PCIe modules. The FC630 can also be used in conjunction with other compute modules or the PowerEdge FD332 storage module for dense direct attached storage. The FC630 has 24 DIMM slots that can provide up to 1.5TB of memory. With four FC630 sleds installed in the FX2s enclosure, a maximum of 6TB of memory is available. Up front there's room for two 2.5-inch drives or another FC630 chassis that supports up to eight 1.8-inch SSDs. This unit is deal for large databases or highly virtualized environments.

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FC830 Compute Module

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The FC830 is a four socket, full-width compute module that supports the Xeon E5-4600 v3 or v4 processors. It can be used in conjunction with the other compute modules or with the FD332 for Direct Attached Storage. The FX2s chassis can support two of the full-width FC830 compute sleds or a single node with four FC430s, two FC630s, or two FD332 storage modules. Each FC830 has 48 DDR4 DIMM slots, 12 slots per processor, for 1.5TB of memory per sled with transfer speeds of up to 2400 MT/s when paried with an appropriate Xeon v4 processor. The FC830 also features generous, scalable on-board storage with either eight 2.5-inch drives or an optional configuration with 16 x 1.8" SAS or SATA HDDs or SSDs. The FC830 is ideal for the database tier of web tech, HPC environments or large-scale virtualization.

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FD332 Storage Module

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Each compute module features its own hot-plug storage, either SAS or SATA HDDs or SSDs. For more storage, Administrators can install up to three FD332 storage blocks for dense, scalable DAS. Each FD332 supports up to 16 hot-plug direct attached SFF drives either SAS or SATA SSDs or HDDS. An optional dual RAID controller provides split access to the supported drives. Depending on configuration up to three FD332s can be installed on the system with either the FC430, FC630, or the FC830 compute sleds.

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FM120x4 Compute Module for the FX2 chassis (no PCI)

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The FM120x4 is a half-width compute module designed specifically for the FX2 enclosure without any PCIe slots. Offering a cost effective option, each compute sled features four Atom C2000 processors. The C2000 Atom processors are described by Intel as a system-on-a-chip (SoC). With four modules installed up to 16 micro-servers are available in each FX2 chassis. The FM120x4 is the only compute module that uses the Intel Atom C2000 System on a Chip processor with up to eight cores. Each module supports four processors and each processor supports two DIMM modules, UDIMM only, for 8 DIMMS per sled. Each processor also supports one 2.5-inch HD or two 1.8-inch SSDs. No PCI slots are available and communications are handled by the pass through, with 2 per processor for 8 total that are capable of 1Gb through the FX2 chassis. Only software RAID is supported. This system is a lower cost alternative to the FX2s and is ideal for static web hosting and light-weight processing.

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Dell PowerEdge FC430 Server for the FX2 - Specifications

Form Factor

    Quarter-width - supports up to 8 sleds per PowerEdge FX2 enclosure

Processor

  • Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family
  • Processor sockets: 2
  • Cache: 2.5MB per core
  • Core options: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18
  • Chipset: Intel C610 series

Operating System

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1,(includes Hyper-V)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (includes Hyper-V)
  • Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Chipset

    Intel C610 series

Memory

    Up to 512GB (8 DIMM slots):

  • 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB/64GB DDR4 up to 2133MT/s

Hypervisor Support

    Optional supported hypervisors:

  • VMWare® vSphere® ESXi™

Storage

    Hot-plug hard drive options:

  • Up to 2 x 1.8" uSATA SSDs

Slots

    1 x PCIe 3.0 (x8) expansion slot

RAID Controllers

    Internal controllers: PERC S130 (SW RAID)

Communications

  • 2 x LOM options: 2 x 10GbE or 2 x 1GbE. In addition, they can support one of the PCIe slots, with the cards below.
  • NDC options: 2 x 10GbE, 4 x 10GbE, 4 x 1GbE NDC mezzanine cards supported in FX2s chassis configuration
  • Broadcom® 4 x 1GbE, Intel 4 x 1GbE
  • Mellanox® ConnectX®-3 2 x 10GbE
  • Emulex® 2 x 10GbE
  • Broadcom® 2 x 10GbE
  • Intel 2 x 10GbE
  • Qlogic® FC8
  • Emulex® FC8
  • The FC430 has a front-access mezzanine port Mellanox
  • InfiniBand® connection

Power

    Chassis level - FX2 hot-plug PSUs:

  • 2000W or 1600W in 1+1 redundant, RAO (Redundancy Alerting Only)
  • or 2+0 non-redundant configurations

Chassis

  • The FC430 is a quarter-width server node;
  • PowerEdge FX2 enclosure supports up to 8 x FC430 server nodes

Dell PowerEdge FC430 Server for the FX2 - Documentation

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