Dell PowerEdge R420 Owner's manual

The Dell PowerEdge R420 is a two-socket,
1U rack-mount server oering an aggressive
entry-price point combined with internal
expandability, enabling congurations to be tailored
to specic workloads and user requirements, and
supporting growth through the life of the server.
The R420 is an excellent t for departmental
email, workgroup collaboration, web hosting,
e-commerce and le and print in space-constrained
environments and in departmental or remote sites
of large businesses and public organizations. The
R420 is also highly attractive for compute-intense
applications in space-constrained areas, as well as
high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
Consistent worldwide support makes it appealing to
multinational businesses and organizations.
Performance, reliability and
condence
The R420 features the extensive performance of the Intel®
Xeon®processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product
families. Powerful processors alone, however,
are not enough to deliver balanced performance.
Compute power must be combined with sucient
memory and I/O bandwidth to prevent performance
bottlenecking. The R420 complements its
processors with 12 DIMMs and two PCI Express®
(PCIe) 3.0-enabled expansion slots, providing
a substantial memory footprint and wide I/O
bandwidth to support both memory-intensive and
data-intensive applications and databases. These
combined technology features are also necessary to
support consolidated and virtualized environments.
To protect your virtualized workloads, the R420
oers dual SD media, making your hypervisors
redundant and failsafe. Other reliability and
availability features include up to four 3.5-inch or
eight 2.5-inch hot-plug hard drives, both hardware
and software RAID options, and redundant, hot-plug
power supplies.
Enterprise-wide systems
management
PowerEdge embedded management technology,
Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7)
with Lifecycle Controller, helps IT administrators
manage Dell servers in physical, virtual, local and
remote environments — agent-free or with a
systems management software agent installed.
iDRAC7 Enterprise features include a multi-
administrator virtual console, virtual media and
remote le share that enable IT admins to operate
servers “as if they were there,” ensuring secure
access to servers from anywhere in the world.
OpenManage Essentials, a comprehensive
monitoring and management console available
as a no-charge software download, simplies and
automates basic hardware management tasks while
Dell SupportAssist helps you maintain a healthy and
productive environment.
PowerEdge R420
PowerEdge R420
• Intel Xeon E5-2400 and
E5-2400 v2 processors
• Up to eight 2.5-inch hot-plug
hard drives
• Up to 12 DIMMs with RAS
• PCIe 3.0-enabled expansion
slots
• Easy-to-use systems
management features
A two-socket, 1U rack server, the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R420 delivers
mainstream performance and density.
January 2014
www.dell.com/QRL/Server/PER420

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Feature PowerEdge R420 technical specication
Form factor 1U rack
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
Memory1Up to 384GB (12 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600MT/s
I/O slots
2 PCIe slots:
With 2 processors:
• 1 x16 PCIe slot with x16 bandwidth, 3.0, half-length, half-height
• 1 x16 PCIe slot with x16 bandwidth, 3.0, half-length, full-height
With 1 processor:
• 1 x8 PCIe slot with x4 bandwidth, 2.0, half-length, half-height
• 1 x16 PCIe slot with x16 bandwidth, 3.0, half-length, full-height
RAID controller
Internal controllers: PERC S110 (SW RAID), PERC H310, PERC H710, PERC H710P
External HBAs (RAID): PERC H810
External HBAs (non RAID): 6Gbps SAS HBA
Drive bays Up to eight 2.5” hot-plug SSD, SAS, or SATA or up to four 3.5” hot-plug SAS, SATA, or SSD
Maximum internal storage1Up to 16TB
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)
Cabled hard drive options:
3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K)
Self-encrypting drives available
Embedded NIC Broadcom®5720 dual-port 1Gb LOM
I/O adapter options
1Gb Ethernet:
Broadcom 5720 dual-port 1Gb NIC
Broadcom 5720 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 t 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 supplies Platinum eciency 550W and 350W (for one processor only) power supplies
Silver eciency cabled 550W power supply, auto-ranging power supplies
Availability High-eciency, 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
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
Dell OpenManage Power Center
Dell OpenManage Connections:
• OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft® System
Center
• OpenManage Integration for VMware®vCenter™
• HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli® Netcool®, and CA
Network and Systems Management
Rack support
ReadyRails™ II sliding rails for toolless mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled
mounting in 4-post threaded hole racks, with support for optional toolless cable management arm. ReadyRails static
rails for toolless mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled mounting in 4-post
threaded and 2-post (Telco) racks.
Operating systems
Microsoft Windows® Server® 2012 R2 b (includes Hyper-V®)
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (includes Hyper-V)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes
Hyper-V)
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011
Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
Red Hat®Enterprise Linux®
Virtualization options:
Citrix® XenServer®
VMware vSphere® ESXi™
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization®
For more information on the specic versions and
additions, visit Dell.com/OSsupport.
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