Specification Sheet

The Dell PowerEdge R420 is a 2-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
specializing in 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 and reliability combined for
condence
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 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, a role the R420 lls well. 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.
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 (iDRAC) 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. OpenManage 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 simplies the
lifecycle of deploying, updating, monitoring, and
maintaining your Dell PowerEdge servers.
Dell PowerEdge R420
PowerEdge R420
• Intel Xeon E5-2400 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 2-socket, 1U rack server, the Dell PowerEdge R420 delivers mainstream
performance and density.
December 2012
www.dell.com/QRL/Server/PER420