R420 | 8 x 2.5" Bays

• Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families

• Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) link: 6.4GT/s; 7.2GT/s; 8.0 GT/s

• Cache:
  • 2.5MB per core
  • Core options: 4, 6, 8, 10

• Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V®)
• Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

Virtualization options:

• Citrix® XenServer®
• VMware® vSphere® ESXi™
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization®

• Intel® C602

• Up to 384GB

• Up to 1600MT/s DDR3

• 12 DIMM slots (6 DIMMs per CPU)

• Maximum internal storage:
  •  Up to 16TB

Hot-plug hard drive options:

• 2.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K, 10K), SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS 512n (15K)
• 3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K)
• Self-encrypting drives available

Cabled hard drive options:

• 3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K)

• Up to 8 2.5” hot-plug SSD, SAS, or SATA
• Up to 4 3.5” hot-plug SAS, SATA, or SSD

• 2 PCIe slots:
  • With two processors:
    • One x16 PCIe slot with x16 bandwidth, half-length, half-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

• Embedded NIC:
  • Broadcom® 5720 Dual Port 1Gb LOM

I/O adapter options:

• 1Gb Ethernet:
• Broadcom 5720 Dual Port 1Gb NIC
• Broadcom 5719 Quad Port 1Gb NIC
• Intel I350 Dual Port 1Gb stand-up adapter
• Intel I350 Quad Port 1Gb stand-up adapter
• 10Gb Converged Ethernet:
• Brocade® BR1020 Dual Port 10Gb CNA
• QLogic® QLE8262 Dual Port 10Gb DA/SFP+
• Broadcom 57810S Dual Port 10Gb Base-T CNA
• Broadcom 57810S Dual Port 10Gb DA/SFP+ CNA
• 10Gb Ethernet:
• Intel X520 Dual Port 10Gb DA/SFP+ server adapter
• Intel X540 Dual Port 10Gb Base-T adapter
• FC8/FC4 HBA:
• QLogic QLE2460 4Gb Single Port FC HBA
• QLogic QLE2462 4Gb Dual Port FC HBA
• QLogic QLE2560 8Gb Single Port FC HBA
• QLogic QLE2562 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA
• Emulex® LPe-12000-E 8Gb Single Port FC HBA
• Emulex LPe-12002-E 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA
• Brocade 815 8Gb Single Port FC HBA
• Brocade 825 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA

• Platinum efficiency hot-plug 550W and 350W power supplies
• Silver efficiency cabled 550W power supply
• Auto-ranging power supplies

• 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

• 1U Rack

• Internal controllers:
  • PERC S110 (SW RAID)
  • PERC H310
  • PERC H710
  • PERC H710P
• External HBAs (RAID):
• • PERC H810

External HBAs (non RAID):

• 6Gbps SAS HBA

• Remote management:

• • Basic management (default)
  • iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller
  • iDRAC7 Express (upgrade)
  • iDRAC7 Enterprise (upgrade)
  • 8GB vFlash media (upgrade)
  • 16GB vFlash media (upgrade)

• 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®
    • CA Network and Systems Management

• ReadyRails™ II sliding rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled mounting in 4-post threaded hole racks, with support for optional tool-less cable management arm

• ReadyRails static rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled mounting in 4-post threaded and 2-post (Telco) racks

Dell PowerEdge R420 Systems Owner's Manual

Dell PowerEdge R420 Getting Started Guide

Dell PowerEdge R420 Spec Sheet

Dell PowerEdge Servers Troubleshooting Guide