T420 | 16 x 2.5" Bays

• Form factor
  • Tower (5U rackable)

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

Processor sockets 2

Internal interconnect

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

Cache

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

Chipset

• Intel C602

Memory

• Up to 384GB (12 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600MT/s

I/O slots

• 6 PCIe slots:
  • 2 x16 with x16 bandwidth, 3.0, full-length, full-height
  • 1 x8 with x4 bandwidth, 3.0, half-length, full-height
  • 1 x8 with x4 bandwidth, 2.0, half-length, full-height
  • 1 x8 with x4 bandwidth, 3.0, full-length, full-height
  •  1 x8 with x1 bandwidth, 2.0, full-length, full-height
    

GPU options

• One NVIDIA® Quadro® 6000 graphics card or up to two NVIDIA Quadro 4000 graphics cards

RAID controller

• Internal controllers:
  • PERC S110 (SW RAID)
  • PERC H310
  • PERC H710
  • PERC H710P
• Internal HBAs (non-RAID):
  • Internal tape adapter
  • External HBAs (RAID):
  • PERC H810
• External HBAs (non-RAID):
  • 6Gbps SAS HBA

Drive bays

• Choose from four 3.5” cabled, eight 3.5” hot-plug, or sixteen 2.5” hot-plug drive bays

Maximum internal storage

• Up to 32TB

Hard drives

• Hot-plug hard drive options:
  • 2.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K, 10K), SAS SSD, SATA SSD
  • 3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K)
• Self-encrypting drives available
• Cabled hard drive options:
  • 3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K)

Embedded NIC

• Broadcom® 5720 GbE dual-port 1Gb LOM

I/O adapter options

• 1Gb/10Gb 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
  • Intel X520 dual-port 10Gb DA/SFP+ server adapter
  • Intel X540 dual-port 10Gb Base-T 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
• 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
    

Power supply

• Platinum efficiency, hot-plug, redundant 495W, 750W, 1100W power supplies
• Silver efficiency, cabled 550W power supply
• Auto-ranging power supplies

Availability

Optional high-efficiency, hot-plug, redundant power supplies; hot-plug drive bays; TPM; dual internal SD support; redundant fans; optional bezel; information tag; ECC memory; optional interactive LCD screen; extended thermal support; ENERGY STAR® compliant; switch independent partitioning

Remote management

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

Systems management

• IPMI 2.0 compliant
• Dell OpenManage Essentials
• Dell OpenManage Mobile
• Dell OpenManage Power Center
• Dell OpenManage Integrations:
  • Dell OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft

System Center

• Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware® vCenter®
• Dell OpenManage Connections:
  • HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli® Netcool® and CA

Network and Systems Management

• Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Oracle® Database

Manager

Rack support

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

Operating systems

• Microsoft Windows Server® 2012 R2 (includes Hyper-V®)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V)
• Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
• Optional embedded hypervisors:
  • Citrix® XenServer®
  • VMware vSphere® ESXi™
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualizations