System Overview; Introduction - Dell PowerEdge T320 Technical Manual

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System overview

Introduction

The one-socket Dell™ PowerEdge™ T320 tower server delivers performance, scalability and
enterprise-class reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) capabilities, enabling users to grow
their businesses and organizations and become more productive. The T320's balanced combination
of compute power, memory capacity and I/O bandwidth make it an excellent fit for collaboration
and productivity applications, file and print serving, mail and messaging, and data coordination and
sharing. In addition, the T320's robust design and innovative manageability make it a trustworthy
server for branch offices and remote sites that might not have IT staffing.
Powerful and quietly confident
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Featuring the extensive performance of the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2
product families, and boasting up to six DIMM slots for memory and five PCIe slots for broad I/O
bandwidth, the T320 delivers balanced performance and built-in room for growth. Capacity for up
to eight 3.5-inch or 16 2.5-inch hard drives accommodate storage as your business or organization
expands. For users not needing the enterprise-class high performance of the Intel Xeon E5-2400
and E5-2400 v2 product families, the T320 also supports the more price-sensitive Intel Xeon
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processor E5-1410 and Intel Pentium processor 1400 series.
Users selecting the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families can choose to
implement advanced memory protection capabilities (memory sparing and memory mirroring)
previously not seen in the 1-socket x86 server space. These capabilities are not possible with the
Intel Xeon processor E5-1410 and the Intel Pentium processor 1400 series. Regardless of the
processor type, you can take advantage of other high availability features offered on the T320. To
protect your virtualized workloads, the T320 offers redundant dual SD media cards making your
hypervisors failsafe. Other reliability and availability features include hot-plug hard drives, both
hardware and software RAID options, redundant fans, and hot-plug power supplies. The T320's
quiet acoustical profile allows it to fit unobtrusively into quiet office environments.
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.
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