Dell 12g server naming rules and model classification (1)

Compared with PCs, users generally know little about servers. In the face of 5U tower servers or rack-mounted servers, it is usually difficult to distinguish between the application scope and performance of each server, currently, for small and medium-sized enterprise servers, Tower, blade, and rack-mounted products are the mainstream x86 products in the market. How can we identify server details by server name, take the Dell PowerEdge server as an example.

From the 10th generation of servers, Dell has redefined the server naming rules. Take 12g mainstream PowerEdge servers as an example:

 

 

12g mainstream PowerEdge servers

The product usually comes with letters indicating the server type, mainly including:

R: Rack, Rack Server

T: Tower, Tower server

M: Modular. Modular means blade servers.

C: a high-density server proposed by Dell for the data center solution department, also known as a microserver. The naming method is also different from other series.