Dell PowerEdge 6950

With the Dell PowerEdge 6950, you won’t have to sacrifice power for energy efficiency. This model features four-socket, quad-core processors, hot-plug redundant power supplies and hard drives and multiple SAS RAID options. It’s a great choice for database, server consolidation, virtualization and migration from RISC based systems.

Dell 6950 Server Features:

Processors: AMD Opteron Models 8347; 8347 HE; 8350; 8222 SE; 8220 SE; 8218; 8216; 8214; 8212
Memory: Up to 128GB (16 DIMM slots): 512MB/1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB DDR2 667MHz ECC SDRAM (Minimum 2GB)
Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 Standard (R2); Windows Server 2003 Enterprise (R2) Windows Server 2003 x64 Standard (R2); Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise (R2); Red Hat Linux Enterprise v4, ES and ES x86-64; Red Hat Linux Enterprise v4, WS and WS x86-64;SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 x86-64

Dell PowerEdge 6950 Product Review

If you’re looking for a server that means business, the Dell PowerEdge 6950 is definitely worth exploring. The Dell PowerEdge 6950 ranks high in the build quality department, which is made evident with the two large grilles at the front panel that improves airflow all through the chassis.

Speaking of the front panel, the Dell PowerEdge 6950 is embedded with a six bay hard drive cage that is able to accommodate 3.5 inch disks. Taking a look the cabin of the Dell PowerEdge 6950, everything seems to be neatly stacked and tucked away, with the sockets of the processor arranged into two groups.

Each of the processor modules is cooled by a large passive heatsink and two pairs of hot swap fans. The airflow in the Dell PowerEdge 6950 is further enhanced with the help of three large plastic shrouds that are discreetly located behind the backplane.

The RAID card included with the Dell PowerEdge 6950 comes with a battery backup pack and there’s also a hardware enabler that proves useful to activate the embedded TCP offload engine. The Dell PowerEdge 6950 is complimented with a plethora of management and installation tools to include the OpenManage Suite that brings in the Array Manager, Server Assistant and IT Assistant utilities.

These tools combines make it easy to remotely manage the Dell PowerEdge 6950 from literally anywhere and even when the server is experiencing downtime.

Vibrant offers complete configurations as well as individual parts and upgrades for this model. For pricing on new or used Dell PowerEdge 6950 servers, upgrades or parts, please contact Vibrant sales at sales@vibrant.com or call 888-443-8606 or 952-653-1700.