New Technologies; Table 1. New Technologies - Dell PowerEdge M420 Technical Manual

New technologies

A number of new technologies are featured on the PowerEdge M420 system, as shown in Table 1.
New technology
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Intel Xeon processor
E5-2400 and
E5-2400 v2 product
families
Intel C602 series chipset
Next-generation
PERC H310
iDRAC7 with Lifecycle
Controller
Advanced power
management
Failsafe hypervisors
Dell Fresh Air cooling
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Table 1.
Detailed description
This new family of Intel processors has embedded PCI Express
improved I/O performance and additional new features. See the Processors
section for details.
The Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip is implemented on the M420.
The M420 supports the new Dell PERC H310 controller card with improved
functionality and faster performance. See the Storage section for details.
The second generation embedded systems management solution for Dell servers
provides agent-free hardware and firmware inventory and alerting, in-depth
memory alerting, faster performance, a dedicated gigabit port and many more
features.
The M420 supports advanced power monitoring and power capping tools that can
help manage power consumption in the data center.
The internal dual SD module enables Dell's unique failsafe virtualization
architecture, ensuring uptime by providing failover capability for embedded
hypervisors, such as VMware
®
2012 R2 Hyper-V .
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.
New technologies
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vSphere ESXi™ and Microsoft Windows Server
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(PCIe) lanes for