Dell PowerEdge XE9680 Rack Server

Processor

• Two 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 64 cores per processor
• Two 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 56 cores per processor

Operating System

• Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS
• RedHat Enterprise Linux
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
• VMware ESXi

Chipset

• Intel C741 Chipset

Accelerators

• 8 NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology or,
• 8 NVIDIA HGX H200 141GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology or,
• 8 AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB 750W OAM accelerator with AMD Infinity Fabric connectivity or,
• 8 Intel Gaudi3 128GB 900W OAM accelerator with embedded RoCE ports for ethernet connectivity

Memory

• DIMM Speed
  • Up to 5600 MT/s on the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
  • Up to 4800 MT/s on the 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
• Memory Type
  • RDIMM
• Memory Module Slots
  • 32 DDR5 DIMM slots
• Maximum RAM
  • RDIMM 4 TB max

Storage

• Front Bays
  • Up to 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe/SAS/SATA SSD drives max 122.88 TB
  • Up to 16 x E3.S NVMe direct drives max 122.88 TB
  • Note: Only 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe SSD drives are supported with Intel Gaudi3.

Storage Controllers

• Internal Controllers
  • PERC H965i (Not supported with Intel Gaudi3)
• Internal Boot
  • Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (NVMe BOSS-N1): HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSDs

Security

• Cryptographically signed firmware
• Secure Boot
• Secure Erase
• Silicon Root of Trust
• System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter)
• TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ
• Secured Component Verification (Hardware integrity check)
• Data at Rest Encryption (SEDs with local or external key mgmt)

Management

• Embedded / At-the-Server
• iDRAC9
• iDRAC Direct
• iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
• iDRAC Service Module

Consoles

• OpenManage Enterprise
• OpenManage Power Manager plugin
• OpenManage Service plugin
• OpenManage Update Manager plugin
• CloudIQ for PowerEdge plug in

Tools

• iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
• IPMI
• RACADM CLI
• Dell System Update
• Enterprise Catalogs
• Dell Repository Manager

OpenManage Integrations

• BMC Truesight
• OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow

Power Supplies

• 2800W Titanium 200-240 VAC or 240 VDC redundant, hot swap

Fans

• Up to 6 High performance (HPR) gold grade fans installed in mid tray
• Up to ten high performance (HPR) gold grade fans installed on the rear of the system (up to 12 fans with Intel Gaudi3)
• All are hot swap fans

Embedded OSFP

• 6 x 800 Gb (available only with Intel Gaudi3)

Ports

• Network Options
  • 1 x OCP 3.0 (optional)
  • 2 x 1GbE LOM (optional)
• Front Ports
  • 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB) port
  • 1 x USB 2.0
  • 1 x VGA
• Rear Ports
  • 1 x USB 2.0
  • 1 x USB 3.0
  • 1 x VGA
  • 1 x RJ45 iDRAC9 ethernet port

Slots

• PCIe
  • Up to 10 x16 Gen5 (x16 PCIe) full-height, half-length (8 PCIe slots with Intel Gaudi3)

Bezel

• Optional LCD bezel or security bezel

Form Factor

• 6U rack server

Dimensions & Weight

• Height
  • 10.36 in. (263.20 mm)
• Width
  • 18.97 in. (482.00 mm)
• Depth
  • 39.71 in. (1008.77 mm) with bezel
  • 39.17 in. (995.00 mm) without bezel
• Weight
  • up to 114.05 kg (251.44 lbs.)