Dell PowerEdge R420 Technical Guide - Page 5

1 System overview Introduction The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R420 is a 2- socket, 1U rack- mount server offering powerful performance and scalability in a dense 1U rack form factor. It is an excellent fit for compute- intense applications and high- performance computing (HPC) workloads. The R420's low profile also makes it highly attractive for departmental email, workgroup collaboration, and file and print in space- constrained environments at departmental or remote sites of large businesses and public organizations. Performance and reliability combined for confidence The R420 features the extensive performance of two Intel® Xeon® E5- 2400 processors. Powerful processors alone, however, are not enough to deliver balanced performance. Compute power must be combined with sufficient memory and I/O bandwidth to prevent performance bottlenecking. The R420 complements its processors with 12 DIMM slots and two PCI Express® (PCIe) 3.0- enabled I/O 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 key design requirements when supporting consolidated and virtualized environments, 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 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. The PowerEdge server line The PowerEdge family is engineered with the right combination of features and performance scalability to handle tough workloads for both large and small data center environments. The Dell OpenManage™ systems management portfolio includes Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller. This embedded feature helps IT administrators manage Dell servers in physical, virtual, local and remote environments, operating in- band or out- of- band, with or without a systems management software agent. The OpenManage systems management portfolio also integrates and connects to third- party systems management solutions so 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 Dell PowerEdge servers. 5 PowerEdge R420 Technical Guide