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The Dell® PowerEdge® 6350, which features Intel® Pentium® II Xeon™ processors, is a feature-rich, enterprise-class server that offers the highest performance, availability, scalability, manageability, and investment protection features in an industry-leading, rack-dense form factor. The PowerEdge 6350 provides a robust, reliable, rackoptimized platform on which large corporate customers can deploy their mission-critical applications. This chapter describes the major hardware and software features of the computer system, provides information about the indicators and controls on the system's front panel, and discusses connecting external devices to the system. The PowerEdge 6350 systems offer the following major features: One to four Intel Pentium II Xeon microprocessors with an internal operating frequency of 400 megahertz (MHz) and an external bus speed of 100 MHz. The Pentium II Xeon microprocessor includes MMX™ technology designed to handle complex multimedia and communications software. This microprocessor incorporates new instructions and data types as well as a technique called single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) that allows the microprocessor to process multiple data elements in parallel, thereby improving overall system performance. A secondary (L2) cache of 512 kilobytes (KB) to 1 megabyte (MB) of static random-access memory (SRAM) is included within the single-edge contact (SEC) cartridge that contains the microprocessor. Math coprocessor functionality is internal to the microprocessor. Support for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) is available by installing up to three more Pentium II Xeon microprocessors. SMP greatly improves overall system performance by dividing microprocessor operations among the independent microprocessors. To take advantage of this feature, you must use an operating system that supports multiprocessing, such as Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 or Novell® NetWare® 4.11 (and later versions). NOTE: If you decide to upgrade your system by installing additional microprocessors, you must order microprocessor upgrade kits from Dell. Not all versions of the Pentium II Xeon microprocessor will work properly as additional Introduction 1-1

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Introduction
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The Dell
®
PowerEdge
®
6350, which features Intel
®
Pentium
®
II Xeon™ processors, is
a feature-rich, enterprise-class server that offers the highest performance, availability,
scalability, manageability, and investment protection features in an industry-leading,
rack-dense form factor. The PowerEdge 6350 provides a robust, reliable, rack-
optimized platform on which large corporate customers can deploy their
mission-critical applications.
This chapter describes the major hardware and software features of the computer
system, provides information about the indicators and controls on the system’s front
panel, and discusses connecting external devices to the system.
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The PowerEdge 6350 systems offer the following major features:
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One to four Intel Pentium II Xeon microprocessors with an internal operating fre-
quency of 400 megahertz (MHz) and an external bus speed of 100 MHz.
The Pentium II Xeon microprocessor includes MMX
™
technology designed to
handle complex multimedia and communications software. This microprocessor
incorporates new instructions and data types as well as a technique called single
instruction, multiple data (SIMD) that allows the microprocessor to process multi-
ple data elements in parallel, thereby improving overall system performance.
²
A secondary (L2) cache of 512 kilobytes (KB) to 1 megabyte (MB) of static ran-
dom-access memory (SRAM) is included within the single-edge contact (SEC)
cartridge that contains the microprocessor. Math coprocessor functionality is
internal to the microprocessor.
²
Support for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) is available by installing up to three
more Pentium II Xeon microprocessors. SMP greatly improves overall system
performance by dividing microprocessor operations among the independent
microprocessors. To take advantage of this feature, you must use an operating
system that supports multiprocessing, such as Microsoft
®
Windows NT
®
4.0 or
Novell
®
NetWare
®
4.11 (and later versions).
NOTE: If you decide to upgrade your system by installing additional micro-
processors, you must order microprocessor upgrade kits from Dell. Not all
versions of the Pentium II Xeon microprocessor will work properly as additional