System Overview; Introduction - Dell PowerEdge R620 Technical Manual

1 System overview

Introduction

Designed for extraordinary performance on a wide range of applications, the Dell™ PowerEdge™
R620 rack server is an impressive general-purpose platform that is perfect for data centers with
space constraints. With its hyper-dense memory — up to 768GB in a 1U form factor — and powered
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by the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 and E5-2600 v2 product families, the R620 shines when
handling virtualization, high-performance computing (HPC), and workgroup collaboration
applications.
Accomplish more
Pack more computing power into a space-challenged data center with the PowerEdge R620, which
offers an exceptionally large memory footprint along with balanced, scalable I/O capabilities,
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including integrated PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 capable expansion slots. With reliability, availability and
serviceability (RAS) features like hot-pluggable fans, drives, power supply units (PSUs) and even
redundant failsafe hypervisors, the R620 keeps your data center running with rock-steady reliability.
Dense design for demanding workloads
Virtualization environments demand high memory capacity to maximize the number of virtual
machines per server, and the PowerEdge R620 was designed specifically with these environments in
mind. The R620 also offers outstanding computational density for HPC application clusters by
providing powerful processing capabilities in a compact form factor.
Tailor your network fabric
The R620's network features allow you to tailor your network throughput to match your application
needs, enabling added I/O performance. Dell Select Network Adapters, our flexible NIC technology,
let you choose the right network fabric without using up a valuable PCI slot. You can pick speed,
technology, vendor, plus other options such as switch independent NIC partitioning, which lets you
share and manage bandwidth on 10GbE connections.
Simplified systems management, without compromise
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 installed.
OpenManage iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller integrates and connects to leading third-party
systems management solutions (such as those from Microsoft, VMware and BMC Software), so users
can maintain a single point of control and capitalize on an existing systems management investment.
OpenManage simplifies the lifecycle of deploying, updating, monitoring and maintaining Dell
PowerEdge servers.