Performance and reliability combined for confidence
The R420 features the extensive performance of two Intel® Xeon® E5-2400 processors. Powerful processors alone, however, are not enough to deliver balanced performance. Compute power must be combined with sufficient memory and I/O bandwidth to prevent performance bottlenecking. The R420 complements its processors with 12 DIMMs and two PCI Express® (PCIe) 3.0-enabled expansion slots, providing a substantial memory footprint and wide I/O bandwidth to support both memory-intensive and data-intensive applications and databases. These combined technology features are also necessary to support consolidated and virtualized environments, a role the R420 fills well. To protect your virtualized workloads, the R420 offers dual SD media making your hypervisors redundant and failsafe. Other reliability and availability features include up to four 3.5-inch or eight 2.5-inch hot-plug hard drives, both hardware and software RAID options, and redundant, hot-plug power supplies.
The PowerEdge server line
The PowerEdge family is engineered with the right combination of features and performance scalability to handle tough workloads for both large and small data center environments.
The Dell OpenManage™ systems management portfolio includes integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller. This embedded feature helps IT administrators manage Dell servers in physical, virtual, local and remote environments, operating in-band or out-of-band, with or without a systems management software agent. OpenManage also integrates and connects to third-party systems management solutions so you can maintain your single point of control and capitalize on your existing investment. OpenManage simplifies the lifecycle of deploying, updating, monitoring, and maintaining your Dell PowerEdge servers.
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PowerEdge R420 technical specification |
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Form factor |
1U rack |
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Processors |
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family |
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Processor sockets |
2 |
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Internal interconnect |
Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) link: 6.4GT/s; 7.2GT/s; 8.0 GT/s |
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Cache |
2.5MB per core; core options: 4, 6, 8 |
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Chipset |
Intel C600 series |
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Memory1 |
Up to 192GB (12 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB DDR3 up to 1600MHz |
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I/O slots |
2 PCIe slots: With two processors: • One x16 PCIe slot with x16 bandwidth, half-length, falf-height • One x16 PCIe slot with x16 bandwidth, half-length, full-height With one processor: • One x8 PCIe slot with x4 bandwidth, half-length, half-height • One x16 PCIe slot with x16 bandwidth, half-length, full-height |
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RAID controller |
Internal controllers: PERC S110 (SW RAID) PERC H310 PERC H710 PERC H710P |
External HBAs (RAID): PERC H810 External HBAs (non RAID): 6Gbps SAS HBA |
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Drive bays |
Up to eight 2.5” hot-plug SSD, SAS, or SATA or up to four 3.5” hot-plug SAS, SATA, or SSD |
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Maximum internal storage1 |
Up to 12TB |
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Hard drives |
Hot-plug hard drive options: 2.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K, 10K), SAS SSD, SATA SSD 3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K) Self-encrypting drives available Cabled hard drive options: 3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K) |
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Embedded NIC |
Broadcom® 5720 GbE Dual Port |
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Power supply |
Platinum efficiency 550W and 350W (for one processor only) power supplies Silver efficiency cabled 550W power supply Auto-ranging power supplies |
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Availability |
High-efficiency, hot-plug, redundant power supplies; hot-plug hard drives; TPM; dual internal SD support; fan fault tolerance; optional bezel; luggage tag; ECC memory, interactive LCD screen; ENERGY STAR® compliant |
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Remote management |
Basic management (default) iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller iDRAC7 Express (upgrade), iDRAC7 Enterprise (upgrade)8GB vFlash media (upgrade), 16GB vFlash media (upgrade) |
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Systems management |
IPMI 2.0 compliant Dell OpenManage™ Essentials and Dell Management Console Dell OpenManage Power Center Dell OpenManage Connections: • OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft® System Center • Dell plug-in for VMware® vCenter™ • HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli® Netcool®, and CA Network and Systems Management |
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Rack support |
ReadyRails™ sliding rails with optional cable management arm for 4-post racks (optional adapter brackets required for threaded hole racks) |
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Operating systems |
Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V™ v2) Microsoft Windows® Small Business Server 2011 SUSE® Linux®Enterprise Server Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
Optional embedded hypervisors: Citrix® XenServer™ VMware vSphere For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit Dell.com/OSsupport. |
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