Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 Installation and Service Manual
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing enclosure components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled
- PERC battery
- Air shroud
- System memory
- Support bracket
- Linking board and PCIe cable
- Processor and heat sink module
- Removing a processor and heat sink module
- Installing a processor and heat sink module
- Removing the fabric processor from the processor heat sink module
- Installing the fabric processor into the processor heat sink module
- Removing the non-fabric processor from the processor and heat sink module
- Installing the non-fabric processor into a processor and heat sink module
- Removing the fabric and sideband cables
- Installing the fabric and sideband cables
- Expansion cards
- PCIe slot priority
- Removing the expansion card riser assembly
- Installing the expansion card riser assembly
- Removing an expansion card
- Installing an expansion card
- Removing the riser card
- Installing the riser card
- Removing the M.2 SATA x16 riser
- Installing the M.2 SATA x16 riser
- Removing the M.2 SATA card
- Installing the M.2 SATA card
- M.2 SSD module
- Mezzanine and OCP cards
- System battery
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- System diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 overview
The PowerEdge C6420 sled supports up to two Intel Xeon Scalable processors with 28 cores per processor. The sled also
supports dedicated mezzanine, PCIe and Open Compute Project (OCP) adapters for expansion and connectivity.
NOTE: The Intel Xeon Scalable processor with fabric connector is also known as Native Omnipath.
Topics:
• Supported configurations
• Back view of the PowerEdge C6420 sled
• Network ports indicator codes
• Sled to hard drive mapping
• Expander zoning
• Locating the Service Tag of your system
• System information label
Supported configurations
The PowerEdge C6420 system supports the following configurations:
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