Dell PowerEdge 2970

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2970 server features technology that optimizes the balance between
performance, energy efficiency, and value.

Versatility & Performance Increased Manageability to Simplify

The PowerEdge 2970 is a general-purpose 2-socket Operations
2U server targeted to meet the needs of a broad Dell offers businesses the most manageable
array of customers ranging from small and medium systems in the industry by providing two paths to
businesses to large enterprise customers. The server management: Dell developed tools and partner
easily supports network infrastructure applications integrations. At the center of our management
such as file/print and web infrastructures as well capabilities, the Dell OpenManage™ suite of
as small databases and virtualized servers. The hardware management applications provides
small form factor enables customers to balance comprehensive deployment, monitoring, and change
the size of the server with robust performance management functionality. For businesses seeking
and high-availability feature options. Key features a broader solution, Dell has partnered with leading
on the PowerEdge 2970 include AMD Opteron™ systems management vendors—such as Altiris, Novell,
processors, hot-plug redundant power and cooling, Microsoft, and LANDesk—to provide deployment and
embedded RAID, optional advanced remote change management of your entire IT environment.
management, dual Gigabit NICs, up to eight hot-plug For large enterprise frameworks—such as CA, HP, or
2.5” SAS/SATA hard drives, eight memory DIMM slots, IBM—we offer connections that allow Dell systems to
and three PCIe slots. be managed with those tools.
A Compelling Choice for Virtualization
Virtualization helps businesses reduce operational
costs and energy consumption in the data center
through effective scaling, improved utilization and
simplified operations. Dell delivers fully tested,
integrated solutions including the right hardware,
software and services to help businesses take full
advantage of the benefits of virtualizing their IT
environments. The PowerEdge 2970, combined with
Dell’s leadership with key industry partners such as
VMware and Microsoft, offers a compelling choice The PowerEdge 2970
for business looking to capitalize on virtualization.
offers a compelling
Lower Energy Consumption and Reduced
Operating Costs choice for businesses
PowerEdge servers optimize system resources
to lower total energy consumption and reduce
looking to capitalize on
operating costs without sacrificing performance
levels required to run mainstream enterprise
virtualization.
applications. The PowerEdge 2970 features Dell’s
unique low-power design and runs on AMD
Opteron™ processors featuring AMD PowerNow!™
technology to optimize processor power utilization
based on workload, ultimately helping to save money
by saving energy.
 Feature Technical Specification
Form Factor 2U rack
Processors Up to Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 2400 series processors
Processor Sockets 2
Front Side Bus or HT1, HT3 available depending on processor selected
HyperTransport
Cache 6x512k Dedicated L2 and up to 6MB L3 Cache
Chipset Broadcom HT-2100 and HT-1000 server I/O controllers
Up to 64GB (8 DIMM slots): 512MB/1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB ECC DDR2
Memory 1
667MHz SDRAM
I/O Slots Three PCIe slots, (one x4 with x8 connector and two x8)
Optional PERC 5/i integrated SAS/SATA II daughtercard controller with 256MB cache, PERC 5/e adapter, PERC 6/i and SAS
RAID Controller 6/iR, or PERC 6.2 Firmware
8 x 2.5” Hard Drive Option or 6 x 3.5” Hard Drive Option;
Peripheral bay options; Floppy Drive, PowerVault™ 100T Tape Drive;
Drive Bays Slim optical drive bay with choice of CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or
Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM
Maximum Internal Storage1 6TB SATA or Near Line SAS
2.5” 6Gbs SAS (10K): 300GB, 600GB
2.5” SAS (10K RPM): 73GB, 146GB, 300GB
2.5” SAS (15K RPM) 36GB, 73GB, 146GB
2.5” SATA II (5.4K RPM): 80GB, 160GB, 250GB
Hard Drives1 2.5” SATA II (7.2K RPM): 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, 250GB
3.5” SATA (7.2K): 80 GB,160GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1TB
3.5” SAS (10K): 400GB, 600GB
3.5” SAS (15K): 73GB, 146GB, 300GB , 400GB
3.5” Near-Line SAS (7.2K): 500GB, 750GB, 1TB
Dual embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II™ 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC with failover and load balancing. TOE (TCPIP
Offload Engine) supported on Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, SP1 or higher with Scalable Networking Pack
Brocade® CNA Dual-port adapter
Communications Brocade® FC4 and 8 GB HBAs
Emulex® CNA iSCSI HBA stand up adapter OCE10102-IX-D
Brocade® CNA BR1020
Standard 750 Watt hot-plug AC power supply; Optional redundant 750 watt
Power Supply AC hot-plug power supply; Auto-switching universal 110/220 Volts
ECC DDR2 SDRAM, SDDC, Spare Bank; hot-plug hard drives; optional hot-plug redundant power supplies; dual embedded
Availability NICs with failover and load balancing support; PERC 6/i; optional PERC5/i integrated daughtercard controller with battery-
backed cache; hot-plug redundant cooling; tool-less chassis; fibre and SAS cluster support; validated for Dell/EMC SAN
Video Embedded ATI ES1000 with 16MB memory
Standard Baseboard Management Controller with IPMI 2.0 support;
Remote Management optional DRAC5 for advanced capabilities
Dell™ OpenManage™
Systems Management Microsoft® System Center Essential (SCE) 2010 v2
Rack Support RapidRails™/VersaRails™ sliding rail system & cable management arm
Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server 2008
Microsoft® Windows® Essential Business Server 2008
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V™)
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2, x64 (includes Hyper-V™ v2)
Windows® HPC Server 2008 R2
Novell® SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
Operating Systems Sun® Solaris™
Optional Embedded Hypervisors:
Citrix® XenServer™
Microsoft® Hyper-V™ via Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008
VMware® vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX® 4.1 or VMware ESXi™ 4.1)

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1
GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating environment and will be less.

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