New Technologies; Table 1. New Technologies - Dell PowerEdge R420 Technical Manual

New technologies

Table 1 summarizes the newest technologies used in the Dell PowerEdge R420 rack server.
New technologies
Intel Xeon processor
E5-2400 product family
Intel C600 series chipset
1600 MT/s DDR3
memory
Next generation PERC
options
PERC S110 software
RAID Solution
iDRAC7 with Lifecycle
Controller
Advanced power
management
Fresh Air cooling
Failsafe hypervisors
Fan fault tolerance
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Table 1. New technologies
Detailed descriptions
This new family of Intel processors has embedded PCIe lanes for improved I/O
performance. See the Processor section for details.
The Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip is implemented on the R420 server.
Certain models of the Intel Xeon processor E5- 2400 product family support
1600MT/s memory. The R420 supports two DIMMs per channel at 1600MT/s with
certain models. See the Memory section for details.
The R420 supports the new PERC controller cards with improved functionality and
faster performance. See the Storage section for details.
This new software RAID solution supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10, and supports a
maximum of four hot- plug SATA hard drives or SATA solid- state drives. See the
Storage section for details.
The new embedded system management solution for Dell servers features
hardware and firmware inventory and alerting, in- depth memory alerting, faster
performance, a dedicated gigabit port, and many more features. See the Dell
OpenManage systems management section for details.
The R420 supports advanced power monitoring and power capping tools that can
help manage power consumption. See the Power, thermal, and acoustics section
for details.
Dell has tested and validated an integrated data center solution that enables you
to operate at higher temperatures or even chiller- less. See the Power, thermal, and
acoustics section for details.
The internal dual SD module enables Dell's unique Failsafe Virtualization
architecture, ensuring uptime by providing failover capability for embedded
hypervisors, such as VMware
for details.
Failure of one fan rotor is tolerated with degradation in performance through
active throttling and increased fan speeds. The feature helps reduce downtime by
allowing you to schedule a fan replacement within 360 hours of a fan failure.
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vSphere ESXi™. See the Supported virtualization