1 About Oracle Communications Server E6-2L

Product Description

The system supports these components and configurations.

Oracle Communications Server E6-2L is an enterprise-class, two rack unit (2U) server that supports multiple configurations. Each configuration uses the same server but is provisioned differently. Some supported features are specific to individual configurations, while other features are common across configurations. Front and back panel configurations can include Oracle Communications Server E6-2L provisioned with:

  • NVMe storage drives: 4-Drive bay front panel, either 9-slot PCIe card back panel or Full Height PCIe card capable back panel
  • SAS storage drives: 12-Drive bay front panel, 9-slot PCIe card back panel

Oracle Communications Server E6-2L supports the following components:

Table 1-1 System Components

Feature System Components
System chassis 2U chassis
Processor

One or two processors with twelve memory channels per processor, 12 DIMMs per processor. Up to two AMD Turin SP5 Classic processors (P0 and P1) with the following capabilities are supported (factory installed):

  • AMD Turin, 96-core, 2.8GHz, 400W processors, 384 MB L3 cache
  • AMD Turin, 32-core, 3.4GHz, 210W processors, 128 MB L3 cache
Memory

Server memory configurations can include the following:

Dual-processor systems support up to twenty-four DDR5 128-GB, 96-GB, 64-GB, and 32-GB RDIMMs, for a maximum of twelve per processor, with speeds up to 6400MT/sec. Total supported memory is up to 3 TB.

  • 24 DDR5 128-GB RDIMMs 6400 MT/sec 3.0 TB
  • 24 DDR5 96-GB RDIMMs 6400 MT/sec 2.3 TB
  • 24 DDR5 64-GB RDIMMs 6400 MT/sec 1.5 TB
  • 24 DDR5 32-GB RDIMMs 6400 MT/sec 512 G

Single-processor systems support up to twelve DDR5 128-GB, 96-GB, 64-GB, and 32-GB RDIMMS with speeds up to 6400 MT/sec. Total supported memory is up to 1.5 TB.

  • 12 DDR5 128-GB RDIMMs 6400 MT/sec 1.5 TB
  • 12 DDR5 96-GB RDIMMs 6400 MT/sec 1.15 TB
  • 12 DDR5 64-GB RDIMMs 6400 MT/sec 768 G
  • 12 DDR5 32-GB RDIMMs 6400 MT/sec 384 G
Storage Drives

Storage drive configuration can comprise either solid state drives (SSDs) or hard disk drives (HDDs). Oracle Communications Server E6-2L front panel storage drive bays can be provisioned with:

  • Up to four 2.5-inch hot-pluggable PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs:
    • Oracle 6.8 TB (7.68 TB Max) 2.5-inch NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD
    • Oracle 3.84TB 2.5-inch NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD
  • SAS storage drives:
    • Up to twelve 3.5-inch hot-pluggable SAS-3 hard disk drives (HDDs)
  • Two hot-pluggable internal M.2 Gen3 480 GB or 960 GB NVMe SSDs
PCI Express (PCIe) slots

Oracle Communications Server E6-2L 4-Drive backplane configuration:

  • 9-slot PCIe card back panel configurations support up to nine half height PCIe cards
  • Full-height PCIe card capable back panel configurations support half height PCIe cards or full-height PCIe cards.

Oracle Communications Server E6-2L 12-Drive backplane configuration:

9-slot PCIe card back panel configurations support up to nine half height PCIe cards.
9-slot PCIe Configuration

9-slot PCIe Configuration

9-slot PCIe card back panel: Oracle Communications Server E6-2L supports up to nine half-height PCIe cards. Up to nine PCIe Gen5 vertical card slots are supported when the low profile Add In Card (AIC) chassis is utilized.

Up to nine PCIe card Gen5 slots are supported in dual-processor systems.

  1. Slot 1 - PCIe5 x16 electrical interface
  2. Slot 2 - PCIe5 x16 electrical interface
  3. Slot 3 - PCIe5 x8 electrical interface
  4. Slot 4 - PCIe5 x8 electrical interface
  5. Slot 5 - PCIe5 x16 electrical interface
  6. Slot 6 - PCIe5 x8 electrical interface, x16 electrical interface with motherboard PCIe Flyover cable attached
  7. Slot 7 - PCIe5 x8 electrical interface with motherboard PCIe cable attached (Note: If slot 6 is PCIe5 x16 electrical interface, slot 7 is not functional.)
  8. Slot 8 - PCIe5 x8 electrical interface
  9. Slot 9 - PCIe5 x8 electrical interface, x16 connector
Full Height PCIe Configuration

Full Height PCIe Configuration

Two Riser back panel: Up to two vertical PCIe Gen5 slots and up to four horizontal PCIe Gen 3 and PCIe Gen 4 cards are supported.

  1. Slot 1 - PCIe5 x16 electrical interface
  2. Slot 2 - PCIe4 x16 electrical interface full-height PCIe card
  3. Slot 3 - PCIe4 not used
  4. Slot 4 - PCIe3 x1 electrical interface, full-height PCIe card
  5. Slot 5 - PCIe5 x16 electrical interface
  6. Slot 6 - PCIe4 x8 electrical interface, x16 electrical interface with motherboard PCIe Flyover cable installed, full-height PCIe card
  7. Slot 7 - PCIe4 not used
  8. Slot 8 - PCIe3 x1 electrical interface, full-height PCIe card
PCIe Riser Two CEM Risers: Supports a single-wide PCIe CEM compliant PCIe card.
PCIe cards
  • Up to eight Oracle Flash Accelerator F680 PCIe Cards: 6.8 TB, NVMe PCIe 5.0
  • Up to three Oracle Dual Port CX6-LX 2x25Gb NICs (LP ADAPTER, DUAL SFP28 25GBE,CX6 LX,PCIE4 0x8)
    • Up to six Oracle Dual Port CX6-LX 2x25Gb NICs are supported in the ZS11-2 configuration
  • Up to three Oracle Dual Port CX6-DX 2x100Gb NICs (LP ADAPTER, DUAL QSFP56 200GBE,CX-6 DX,PCIE4.0x16)
  • Up to three Oracle Dual Port CX7 2x200Gb NICs (Connect X-7 2x200Gbit/Sec PAM4 PCIe Gen5 X16, Ethernet NIC)
    • Up to four Oracle Dual Port CX7 2x200Gb NICs with PCIe slot 9 populated in the ZS11-2 configuration
  • Up to seven Oracle Quad Port 4x10Gb NICs
  • Up to two HBAs, BROADCOM 9500-8e, 12GB SAS PCIe, 8 PORT, EXTERNAL
  • Up to two HBAs, BROADCOM 9500-16i, 12GB SAS PCIe, 16 PORT, INTERNAL
  • Up to four HBAs, BROADCOM 9500-16e,12GB SAS PCIe, 16-PORT, EXTERNAL
  • Up to six HBAs, DUAL PORT 32GB FC LP PCIe (Narvi-Q)
  • One Oracle Dual Port 100 Gb RoCE Adapter
  • Up to four GPUs, Nvidia L4
Root-of-Trust card One Root-of-Trust (RoT) card back panel slot
Power supplies Two hot-swappable and highly-redundant 1400W power supplies (PS0 and PS1)
Cooling fans Six hot-swappable fan modules (FM0-5), each containing a 60mm x 56mm counter-rotating dual motor fan for chassis cooling.
I/O ports

NET 0: One 1GbE 100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) port, labeled NET 0

NET MGT: One 1GbE 100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) service processor (SP) network management Ethernet port

SER MGT: One RJ-45 serial management Ethernet port
USB port One USB 3.1 port
Service processor (SP) One server integrated service processor (SP) provides local or remote management capabilities with Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM), primarily for fan control and thermal monitoring. The service processor (SP) is based on the ASPEED AST2600 chip.
Management software

Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) on the service processor (SP). Refer to Oracle ILOM Documentation.

Oracle Hardware Management Pack available as a standalone product for supported operating systems. Refer to Oracle Hardware Management Pack documentation at Servers Documentation - Systems Management.

BIOS Setup Utility Menu Options The server supports the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). UEFI provides an interface between system firmware and all supported operating systems. With UEFI BIOS Setup Utility, you can configure platform-specific information, and some of the run-time and boot-time characteristics of your system using a simple graphical interface.

If you are managing multiple servers, you can use Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center. For information about Ops Center, refer to Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c Release 3.

See System Specifications

Front Panel Components

The NVMe Storage Drive Configuration supports up to four NVMe storage drives. The SAS Storage Drive Configuration supports up to twelve SAS storage drives.

NVMe Storage Drive Configuration

Oracle Communications Server E6-2L supports up to four 2.5-inch hot-pluggable PCIe Gen5 NVM-Express (NVMe) solid-state drives (SSDs) on the front panel.


Front panel

Callout Description
1 Product Serial Number (PSN) label and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag
2 Front LED Indicator Module (FIM)
3 Storage drive 0 NVMe
4 Storage drive 1 NVMe
5 Storage drive 2 NVMe
6 Storage drive 3 NVMe
7 Service Information QR Code

SAS Storage Drive Configuration

Oracle Communications Server E6-2L supports up to twelve 3.5-inch hot-pluggable SAS-3 hard disk drives (HDDs) on the front panel.


SAS Storage

Callout Description
1 Product Serial Number (PSN) label and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag
2 Front LED Indicator Module (FIM)
3 Storage drive 0 SAS HDD
4 Storage drive 1 SAS HDD
5 Storage drive 2 SAS HDD
6 Storage drive 3 SAS HDD
7 Storage drive 4 SAS HDD
8 Storage drive 5 SAS HDD
9 Storage drive 6 SAS HDD
10 Storage drive 7 SAS HDD
11 Storage drive 8 SAS HDD
12 Storage drive 9 SAS HDD
13 Storage drive 10 SAS HDD
14 Storage drive 11 SAS HDD
15 Service Information QR Code

Front LED Indicator Module

Oracle Communications Server E6-2L NVMe Storage Drive and SAS Storage Drive configurations support a Front LED status indicator module (FIM) on the front panel.


Front LED

Callout Description
1 Front LED Indicator Module (FIM)
2 Locate Button/LED: white
3 Fault-Service Action Required LED: amber
4 System OK LED: green
5 On/Standby button
6 TOP FAN Fault-Service Required LED for internal access Fan Modules: amber
7 REAR PS Fault-Service Required LED for back panel Power Supplies: amber
8 Overtemp Fault-Service Required LED: System Over Temperature Warning: amber
9 SP Service Processor OK LED: green
10 DO NOT SERVICE LED: white

Back Panel Components

The 9-slot PCIe half height card configuration supports up to nine half height PCIe cards. Using PCIe risers, the full height PCIe configuration supports up to four full height and two half height PCIe cards.

Nine-slot PCIe Card Configuration

Oracle Communications Server E6-2L, in 9-slot PCIe card back panel half height PCIe configuration, supports up to nine vertically mounted half height PCIe cards.


rear view

Callout Description
1 Power supply (PS1)
2 Power Supply 1 (PS1) status indicators: Fault-Service Required LED: amber; AC OK LED: green
3 Power Supply 1 (PS1) AC Power Inlet (AC1)
4 Power supply (PS0)
5 Power Supply (PS0) status indicators: Fault-Service Required LED: amber; AC OK LED: green
6 Power Supply (PS0) AC Power Inlet (AC0)
7 (Oracle internal use only) Dedicated Root-of-Trust (RoT) card slot
8 PCIe slot 1 (PCIe5, x16 electrical interface)
9 PCIe slot 2 (PCIe5, x16 electrical interface)
10 PCIe slot 3 (PCIe5, x8 electrical interface)
11 PCIe slot 4 (PCIe5, x8 electrical interface)
12 PCIe slot 5 (x16 electrical interface)
13 PCIe slot 6 (PCIe5, x8 electrical interface, x16 electrical interface with MB PCIe Flyover cable)
14 PCIe slot 7 (PCIe5, x8 electrical interface with PCIe Flyover cable)
15 PCIe slot 8 (PCIe5, x8 electrical interface)
16 PCIe slot 9 (PCIe5, x8 electrical interface, x16 electrical connector)
17 LOCATE: Server Locate Button/LED
18 SP: Reset service processor (SP)
19 NET 0: Network (NET) 1GbE 100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) port
20 NET MGT: Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) service processor (SP) network management (NET MGT) 1GbE RJ-45 100/1000BASE-T port
21 USB 3.1 connector
22 SYSTEM: Fault-Service Required: amber; System OK: green.
23 SER MGT: Serial management (SER MGT) RJ-45 serial port

Note:

Single-processor systems: PCIe slots 1-4 are nonfunctional in single-processor systems.

Full Height PCIe Configuration

Oracle Communications Server E6-2L, in full-height PCIe card capable back panel configuration, supports four full-height, full-width PCIe cards horizontally mounted in two PCIe risers, and two half-height, half-width PCIe cards vertically mounted in slots 1 and 5.


rear view

Callout Description
1 Power Supply (PS1)
2 Power Supply 1 (PS1) status indicators: Fault-Service Required LED: amber; AC OK LED: green
3 Power Supply 1 (PS1) AC Power Inlet (AC1)
4 Power Supply (PS0)
5 Power Supply 0 (PS0) status indicators: Fault-Service Required LED: amber; AC OK LED: green
6 Power Supply 0 (PS0) AC Power Inlet (AC0)
7 (Oracle internal use only) Dedicated Root-of-Trust (RoT) card slot
8 PCIe slot 1 (PCIe 5, x16 electrical interface)
9 PCIe slot 2 (PCIe 4, x16 electrical interface) Riser 2
10 PCIe slot 3 (Blank), Riser 2
11 PCIe slot 4 (PCIe 3, x16 electrical interface(1)) Riser 2 x16 connector, x1 Electrical Gen3, Riser 2
12 PCIe slot 5 (PCIe 5, x16 electrical interface)
13 PCIe slot 6 (PCIe 4, x16 electrical interface) Riser 6 x16 connector, x1 Electrical Gen3, Riser 6
14 PCIe slot 7 (Blank), Riser 6
15 PCIe slot 8 (PCIe 3, x16 electrical interface (1)) Riser 6
16 LOCATE: Server Locate Button/LED
17 SP: Reset service processor (SP)
18 NET 0: Network (NET) 1GbE 100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) port
19 NET MGT: Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) service processor (SP) network management (NET MGT) 1GbE RJ-45 100/1000BASE-T port
20 USB 3.1 connector
21 SYSTEM: Fault-Service Required: amber; System OK: green
22 SER MGT: Serial management (SER MGT) RJ-45 serial port

See Server Status Indicator LEDs. Single-processor systems: PCIe slots 1-4 are nonfunctional in single-processor systems.

Illustrated Parts Breakdown

Identify major components of Oracle Communications Server E6-2L with 4-Drive Backplane and Oracle Communications Server E6-2L with 12-Drive Backplane.

Oracle Communications Server E6-2L with 4-Drive Backplane

The following figure identifies Oracle Communications Server E6-2L major components with 4-Drive backplane.


breakdown

Callout Description
1 Storage drives, up to four 2.5-inch hot-pluggable PCIe-based NVMe SFF SSDs in 4-Drive backplane
2 Storage drive bay cage
3 4-Drive backplane (DBP)
4 System chassis
5 Front LED indicator module (FIM)
6 Six fan modules (FM0-5)
7 Fan tray
8 Motherboard assembly (MB)
9 Processors (P0, P1) and heatsinks (Single-processor systems contain only a single processor in socket P0; socket P1 contains a cap to protect processor socket pins.)
10 24 DIMMs (Twelve DIMMs are supported in single-processor systems and the DIMMs must be installed in P0 DIMM sockets.)
11 Internal M.2 SSD memory with two internal M.2 Risers
12 Top cover
13 Air baffle
14 System RTC battery
15 Two power supplies (PS0, PS1)
16 (Optional) Oracle RoT card
17 (Optional) Nine HHHL PCIe cardsPCIe slots 1 through 4 are nonfunctional in single-processor systems.
18 (Optional) Two PCIe Risers (2 and 6) for FHFL PCIe cardsCEM compliant riser configurations

Oracle Communications Server E6-2L with 12-Drive Backplane

The following figure identifies Oracle Communications Server E6-2L major components with 12-Drive backplane.


Drive breakdown

Callout Description
1 Storage drives, up to twelve 3.5-inch hot-pluggable SAS-3 LFF HDDs in 12-Drive backplane
2 Four storage drive bay cages
3 12-Drive backplane (DBP)
4 System chassis
5 Front LED indicator module and temperature sensor (FIM)
6 Six fan modules (FM0-5)
7 Fan tray
8 Motherboard assembly (MB)
9 Processors (P0, P1) and heatsinks (Single-processor systems contain only a single processor in socket P0; socket P1 contains a cover to protect processor socket pins.)
10 24 DIMMs (Twelve DIMMs are supported in single-processor systems and the DIMMs must be installed in P0 DIMM sockets.)
11 Internal M.2 SSD memory with two internal M.2 Risers
12 Top cover
13 Air baffle
14 System RTC battery
15 PCIe card shroud (9-slot PCIe card back panel)
16 (Optional) Oracle RoT card
17 Nine HHHL PCIe cardsPCIe slots 1 through 4 are nonfunctional in single-processor systems.
18 Two power supplies (PS0, PS1)

Replaceable Components

This table lists server replaceable components and provides associated links to service replacement instructions.

Table 1-2 Components

Component Service Instructions Description Service Level
Storage drives Storage drive configurations can be comprised of NVMe solid state drives (SSDs) or SAS-3 hard disk drives (HDDs). Configurations may include up to four 2.5-inch hot-pluggable PCIe-based NVMe SSDs or up to twelve 3.5-inch hot-pluggable SAS-3 HDDs. Hot service
Power supplies Two fully redundant AC-powered power supplies. PS0, PS1 Hot service
Fan modules Six fan modules FM0-5 cool server components. Hot service
Fan Tray One Fan Tray. See Fan modules Cold service
M.2 flash SSDs Up to two hot-pluggable internal M.2 NVMe SSDs in up to two SSD Risers. Hot service
DIMMs Add or replace memory modules in the system. Cold service
Battery Lithium coin-cell battery that powers CMOS BIOS and RTC real-time clock. Cold service
PCIe cards Optional PCIe Add-in cards (AIC) that can expand server functionality. (Note: Oracle Flash Accelerator F680 PCIe Card: 6.8 TB, NVMe PCIe 5.0 in Exadata Database Server X11M, Exadata Storage Server X11M, and Exadata Control Plane Server X11M) Cold service Hot service
PCIe risers Two optional PCIe Risers to accommodate Full Height PCIe Cards labeled Riser 2 and Riser 6. Cold service
Air baffle Directs cool air towards the system components. Cold service
Motherboard assembly Motherboard (MB) Provides connectors for the DIMMs, processors, PCIe risers, and other components. Cold service
Processor Processor with heatsink that carries out the instructions of the system. Cold service
Disk backplane 4 or 12 disk backplane (DBP) provides power and communications connectors for 4 NVMe SFF or 12 SAS-3 LFF storage drives. Cold service
Front LED indicator module FIM contains the push-button circuitry and LEDs that are displayed on the front panel. Cold service
SAS cables Provides SAS-3 signals between card located in PCIe slots and the disk backplane. Cold service