Dell PowerEdge R220 Technical Manual

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6 Dell PowerEdge R220 Technical Guide1 System OverviewIntroductionThe PowerEdge R220 1U rack server is an excellent choice for growing businesses and organizationsneeding a short-depth rack-optimized chassis delivering performance, data protection andenterprise-class systems management. The R220 is ideal for web hosting, mail serving, file and printserving, video streaming, as well as a wide range of general-purpose productivity applications — andwith a short chassis depth of 15.5” and quiet office acoustics, you can install it virtually anywhere.Realize greater efficiencyDrive applications and media faster with powerful, multi-core Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v3 processors —boasting 33% more cache per core than previous generation E3 processors. Or, choose from arange of Intel Celeron®, Pentium® or Core® processors to meet your specific performance andbudget requirements. Experience faster response times with four DIMM slots for memory expansion up to 32GB. Drive fast I/O transfers and application performance with a latest-generation, widest-bandwidthPCIe 3.0 x16 expansion slot. Protect critical workloads requiring continuous access to data with hardware RAID options.Discover greater versatilitySpecifically designed for space-constrained environments, the PowerEdge R220 has a short-depth15.5” chassis and quiet-office acoustics so it can operate unobtrusively virtually anywhere. And, withfive USB ports, you can quickly and flexibly attach more devices.Experience greater simplicitySpeed deployment and ease ongoing administration with simplified, intuitive, enterprise-classsystems management. Dell OpenManage™ systems management saves time, reduces the numberof steps taken to accomplish tasks, and reduces potential for error, helping IT administratorsenhance their productivity and free up time to focus on more strategic tasks. The optionalintegrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller provides agent-freemanagement capabilities throughout the server lifecycle, without the hassle and potential for errorinvolved with managing a software management agent.New technologiesTable 1 summarizes new technologies featured on the Dell PowerEdge R220 rack server.New technologiesTable 1.New technology Detailed descriptionIntel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 product familyand Intel C222 serieschipsetThe Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 product family combined with the IntelC220 series chipset enables memory speeds of up to 1600MT/s, improved I/Othroughput and power efficiency enhancements. See the Processor section fordetails.Next-generation PERCoptions The PowerEdge R220 supports the PERC8 controller cards with improvedfunctionality and faster performance. See the Storage section for details.Next-generation SWRAIDPERC S110 (SW RAID) supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10. PERC S110 supports up to fourhot-swap SATA HDDs or SATA SSDs.