Did the either the C6220 or C6220 II come with onboard 10Gbe, because the nodes that I have, ESXi shows 4x 10Gbe NICs, (2 onboard, and 2 from the Mezz), I have confirmed this by booting up with Kali linux, and running ethtool, and hooking two nodes together (Don't have a 10GBE copper switch), and running iperf.
Kali shows that the onboard NICs are Intel x540-AT2
I can't seem to find any good information on what I actually have here.
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I ended up just searching everything I could find, and noticed that I had a newer bios listed than what is listed on Dell's site for either the 6220 or the II, so I searched looking for bios version 3.5.3 in relation to thse things, and it turns out that the nodes that I have in my system are C8220 nodes and look identical to this: CNW04 Dell Motherboards Server
Two heat sinks on the I/O end, one is for the X540-AT2 NICs JLx540at2 is the exact chip, and the other I would assume is the chipset.
I'm still a bit confused on this whole chassis as it seems to have the official dell sticker on the top saying DCS 6220 II, but as I said in my previous comment, the Service Tag comes back as 6220 non-II, and all 4 service tags for the nodes come back as 6220 non-II.
So, based on that information as from my research I can't find any 6220 systems that came with onboard 10GBE with the x540 chipset, and that only being availble as on option on the 8220 I have pulled the spec sheet for the 8220 https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocument...s_Documents/en/PowerEdge_C8220_Spec_Sheet.pdf Would you all concur that I may be able to run the v2 CPUS? I have one on it's way to test.
Kali shows that the onboard NICs are Intel x540-AT2
I can't seem to find any good information on what I actually have here.
Edit:
I ended up just searching everything I could find, and noticed that I had a newer bios listed than what is listed on Dell's site for either the 6220 or the II, so I searched looking for bios version 3.5.3 in relation to thse things, and it turns out that the nodes that I have in my system are C8220 nodes and look identical to this: CNW04 Dell Motherboards Server
Two heat sinks on the I/O end, one is for the X540-AT2 NICs JLx540at2 is the exact chip, and the other I would assume is the chipset.
I'm still a bit confused on this whole chassis as it seems to have the official dell sticker on the top saying DCS 6220 II, but as I said in my previous comment, the Service Tag comes back as 6220 non-II, and all 4 service tags for the nodes come back as 6220 non-II.
So, based on that information as from my research I can't find any 6220 systems that came with onboard 10GBE with the x540 chipset, and that only being availble as on option on the 8220 I have pulled the spec sheet for the 8220 https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocument...s_Documents/en/PowerEdge_C8220_Spec_Sheet.pdf Would you all concur that I may be able to run the v2 CPUS? I have one on it's way to test.
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