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Positioning Performance infrastructure server Entry business
application server
Workgroup		 Value internal storage server for growing businesses Lowest cost, multi-terabyte storage Performance business
application server
WEB infrastructure		 Entry scalable enterprise system for memory-intensive workloads Price Performance for growing workloads Top performance, workload optimized
Form factor 1U Rack 1U Rack 2U Rack 2U Rack 2U Rack 2U Rack 2U Rack 4U Rack
Processor type (maximum cores) Intel® Xeon®
(quad-core)		 Intel® Xeon®
(six-core)		 Intel® Xeon®
(six-core)		 Intel® Xeon®
(six-core)		 Intel® Xeon®
(six-core)		 Intel® Xeon®
(eight-core)		 AMD Opteron
(12-core)		 Intel® Xeon®
(eight-core)
Processor sockets / maximum cores 1 / 4 2 / 6 2 / 6 2 / 12 2 / 6 2 / 16 4 / 48 4-8 / 32-64
HDD type SAS & SATA
(SS & HS)		 SAS & SATA
(SS & HS)		 SAS & SATA (SS & HS) SAS & SATA
(hot swap)		 SAS & SATA
(SS & HS)		 SAS & SATA
(SS & HD)		 SAS & SATA
(HS)		 SAS & SATA
(SSD & HDD)
Maximum # HDDs (2) 3.5"
(4) 2.5"		 (8) 2.5" (4 to 8) 3.5" (14) 3.5" or (28) 2.5" (16) 2.5" (16) 2.5"
(24) 1.8"		 (8) 3.5" (8) 2.5"
(16) 1.8"
Maximum memory 4 DIMMs
32 GB		 192 GB 96 GB 12 DIMMs / 96 GB 192 GB 32 DIMMs, 500GB
w/ MAX5:
64 DIMMs, 1 TB		 32 DIMMs
256 GB		 64 DIMMs, 1 TB
w/ MAX5:
96 DIMMs, 1.5 TB
Maximum I/O slots (2) PCIe (2) PCIe &
(2) GbE		 (3) PCIe (3) PCIe (2 external, 1 internal) (2) PCIe &
(2) GbE		 (5) PCIe (4) PCIe (7) PCIe
Sample
applications		 -Networking
-Proxy caching
-Security
-System management		 - WEB serving
- e-business
- Collaboration
- Distributed database
- ERP applications
- Virtualization		 -Networking
- File/print
- Networking -WEB serving
- e-business
- Workgroup applications - WEB serving
- Streaming media -Database		 -Backup server
-Web 2.0
- Video/photo sharing
- Online gaming
- Blogging
-Web searching
-Video recording
-Mail server
-Workgroup database
-File/print		 - WEB serving
- e-business
- Collaboration
- Distributed database
- ERP applications
- Virtualization		 -Database
-Virtualization
-Virtual desktop		 - Business Intelligence
- Mid-size database
- Value virtualization - High Performance Computing		 -Database
-Scalable virtualization
-Enterprise-class applications