Dell PowerEdge R420 Features

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The Dell PowerEdge R420 is a two-socket,1U rack-mount server offering an aggressiveentry-price point combined with internalexpandability, enabling configurations to be tailoredto specific workloads and user requirements, andsupporting growth through the life of the server.The R420 is an excellent fit for departmentalemail, workgroup collaboration, web hosting,e-commerce and file and print in space-constrainedenvironments and in departmental or remote sitesof large businesses and public organizations. TheR420 is also highly attractive for compute-intenseapplications in space-constrained areas, as well ashigh-performance computing (HPC) workloads.Consistent worldwide support makes it appealing tomultinational businesses and organizations.Performance, reliability andconfidenceThe R420 features the extensive performance of the Intel®Xeon® processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 productfamilies. Powerful processors alone, however,are not enough to deliver balanced performance.Compute power must be combined with sufficientmemory and I/O bandwidth to prevent performancebottlenecking. The R420 complements itsprocessors with 12 DIMMs and two PCI Express®(PCIe) 3.0-enabled expansion slots, providinga substantial memory footprint and wide I/Obandwidth to support both memory-intensive anddata-intensive applications and databases. Thesecombined technology features are also necessary tosupport consolidated and virtualized environments.To protect your virtualized workloads, the R420offers dual SD media, making your hypervisorsredundant and failsafe. Other reliability andavailability features include up to four 3.5-inch oreight 2.5-inch hot-plug hard drives, both hardwareand software RAID options, and redundant, hot-plugpower supplies.Enterprise-wide systemsmanagementPowerEdge embedded management technology,Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7)with Lifecycle Controller, helps IT administratorsmanage Dell servers in physical, virtual, local andremote environments — agent-free or with asystems management software agent installed.iDRAC7 Enterprise features include a multi-administrator virtual console, virtual media andremote file share that enable IT admins to operateservers “as if they were there,” ensuring secureaccess to servers from anywhere in the world.OpenManage Essentials, a comprehensivemonitoring and management console availableas a no-charge software download, simplifies andautomates basic hardware management tasks whileDell SupportAssist helps you maintain a healthy andproductive environment.PowerEdge R420PowerEdge R420• Intel Xeon E5-2400 andE5-2400 v2 processors• Up to eight 2.5-inch hot-plughard drives• Up to 12 DIMMs with RAS• PCIe 3.0-enabled expansionslots• Easy-to-use systemsmanagement featuresA two-socket, 1U rack server, the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R420 deliversmainstream performance and density.January 2014www.dell.com/QRL/Server/PER420

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