DELL PowerEdge R520 AS-PER520 Leaflet

Product codes
AS-PER520
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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 
hosting, for use as a medium-size mail server, or as 
a general-purpose server. The R520 is optimized for 
running a wide range of core applications, such as 
small-medium mail server, web server, small-scale 
hosting, and database server. Consistent worldwide 
support makes it highly appealing to larger businesses 
and organizations with distributed offices.
Designed for demanding workloads
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 PCIe Gen3-
enabled slots and up to eight internal hard drives, the 
R520 delivers balanced performance. With built-in 
redundancy, the R520 is a trustworthy platform for 
your business-critical databases and applications. 
The dense form factor and innovative systems 
management of the R520 allow you to save space 
and to use your IT administrator’s time efficiently.  
     
Manage and secure your data
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 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 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.
Dell PowerEdge R520
PowerEdge R520
•  Up to 12 DIMMs with RAS
•  PCIe Gen3-enabled 
expansion slots
•  8 x 3.5-inch drive bays with 
LCD diagnostic
•  Powered by Intel Xeon  
E5-2400 processors
A powerful, 2-socket rack server, the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R520 delivers balanced 
performance and storage expandability for data-intensive applications.
May 2012
www.dell.com/QRL/Server/PER520