Dell PowerEdge R420 Technical Manual

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5 PowerEdge R420 Technical Guide1 System overviewIntroductionThe Dell™ PowerEdge™ R420 is a 2- socket, 1U rack- mount server offering powerful performanceand scalability in a dense 1U rack form factor. It is an excellent fit for compute- intense applicationsand high- performance computing (HPC) workloads. The R420’s low profile also makes it highlyattractive for departmental email, workgroup collaboration, and file and print in space- constrainedenvironments at departmental or remote sites of large businesses and public organizations.Performance and reliability combined for confidenceThe R420 features the extensive performance of two Intel ® Xeon ® E5- 2400 processors. Powerfulprocessors alone, however, are not enough to deliver balanced performance. Compute power mustbe combined with sufficient memory and I/O bandwidth to prevent performance bottlenecking. TheR420 complements its processors with 12 DIMM slots and two PCI Express ® (PCIe) 3.0- enabledI/O slots, providing a substantial memory footprint and wide I/O bandwidth to support bothmemory- intensive and data- intensive applications and databases. These combined technologyfeatures are also key design requirements when supporting consolidated and virtualizedenvironments, a role the R420 fits well. To protect your virtualized workloads, the R420 offers dual,redundant SD media making your hypervisors redundant and failsafe. Other reliability and availabilityfeatures include up to four 3.5- inch or eight 2.5- inch hot- plug hard drives, both hardware andsoftware RAID options, and redundant, hot- plug power supplies.The PowerEdge server lineThe PowerEdge family is engineered with the right combination of features and performancescalability to handle tough workloads for both large and small data center environments.The Dell OpenManage™ systems management portfolio includes Integrated Dell Remote AccessController 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller. This embedded feature helps IT administratorsmanage Dell servers in physical, virtual, local and remote environments, operating in- band orout- of- band, with or without a systems management software agent. The OpenManage systemsmanagement portfolio also integrates and connects to third- party systems management solutionsso 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 DellPowerEdge servers.