Specifications

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R520 is a 2-socket, 2U rack-mount server offering an excellent balance of
processing power, storage capacity, and redundancy. The R520’s price per performance,
configuration flexibility, and headroom for growth make it highly appealing for consolidation and
virtualization, web serving and hosting, departmental database applications such as Business
Analytics, and a wide range of general purpose collaboration and productivity applications.
The extensive memory, storage, and I/O capacities of the R520 make it ideal for consolidation and
virtualization. Delivering the performance of two Intel
®
Xeon
®
E5-2400 processors and
complemented by up to twelve DIMMs, up to four PCI Express
®
(PCIe) 3.0-enabled slots, and up to
eight internal hard drives, the R520 delivers powerful, balanced performance. With built-in
redundancy features, the R520 is a trustworthy platform for your business-critical databases and
applications. The dense rack form factor and innovative systems management of the R520 allow you
to save space and to use your IT administrator’s time efficiently.
Features that protect your business data and keep the server running are essential. The extensive
storage capacity of the R520 can be protected with both hardware RAID controllers and software
solutions to protect your data and ensure that it is readily available. Built-in reliability, availability, and
serviceability (RAS) features such as hot-pluggable hard drives and power supplies minimize the
need to disrupt production work to take a server offline in the event of a component failure.
Redundant, failsafe hypervisors also add an additional layer of protection for virtualized
environments.
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. OpenManage also integrates and
connects to leading third-party systems management solutions you may already own, 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.