DELL R420 R420-7496 Leaflet

Product codes
R420-7496
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The Dell PowerEdge R420 is a 2-socket,  
1U rack-mount server offering an aggressive  
entry-price point combined with internal 
expandability, enabling configurations to 
be tailored to specific workloads and user 
requirements, and supporting growth through 
the life of the server. The R420 is an excellent fit 
specializing in departmental email, workgroup 
collaboration, web hosting, e-commerce and 
file 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 
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 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 fills well. To protect 
your virtualized workloads, the R420 offers 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 simplifies 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