Designed for demanding workloads
The extensive memory, storage, and I/O capacities of the R520 make it ideal for consolidation and virtualization. Delivering the performance of two Intel® Xeon® E5-2400 processors and complemented by up to twelve DIMMs, up to four PCIe Gen3-enabled slots and up to eight internal hard drives, the R520 delivers balanced performance. With built-in redundancy, the R520 is a trustworthy platform for your business-critical databases and applications. The dense form factor and innovative systems management of the R520 allow you to save space and to use your IT administrator’s time efficiently.
Manage and secure your data
Features that protect your business data and keep the server running are essential. The extensive storage capacity of the R520 can be protected with both hardware RAID controllers and software solutions to protect your data and ensure that it is readily available. Built-in reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features such as hot-pluggable hard drives and power supplies minimize the need to disrupt production work to take a server offline in the event of a component failure. Redundant, failsafe hypervisors also add an additional layer of protection for virtualized environments.
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 leading third-party systems management solutions you may already own, 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 R520 technical specification |
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Form factor |
2U 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 |
4 PCIe slots: With two processors: • One x16 PCIe slot with x16 bandwidth, half-length, half-height • One x16 PCIe slot with x8 bandwidth, full-length, full-height • Two x16 PCIe slots with x8 bandwidth, half-length, full-height With one processor: • One x8 PCIe slot with x4 bandwidth, half-length, half-height • One x16 PCIe slot with x8 bandwidth, full-length, full-height • Two x8 PCIe slots with x4 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 3.5” hot-plug SAS, SATA or SSD |
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Maximum internal storage1 |
Up to 24TB |
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Hard drives |
Hot-plug hard drive options: 2.5” SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K) 3.5” SAS (15K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (15K) Self-encrypting drives available |
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Embedded NIC |
Broadcom® 5720 GbE Dual Port |
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Power supply |
Platinum efficiency, hot-plug redundant 495W or 750W power supplies Silver efficiency, cabled 550W power supply Gold efficiency, 1100W DC power supply Auto-ranging power supplies |
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Availability |
High-efficiency, hot-plug, redundant power supplies; DC power supply; hot-plug hard drives; TPM; dual internal SD support; fan fault tolerance; optional bezel; luggage tag; ECC memory, interactive LCD screen; ENERGY STAR® compliant; extended power range; switch independent partitioning |
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Remote management |
Basic management (default) iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller iDRAC7 Express (upgrade), iDRAC7 Enterprise (upgrade) 8GB vFlash (upgrade), 16GB vFlash (upgrade) |
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Systems management |
IPMI 2.0 compliant OpenManage™ Essentials and Dell Management Console 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 (NSM) |
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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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