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Base Standard Capabilities
| Feature | PowerEdge T420 technical specification | |
|---|---|---|
| Form factor | Tower (5U rackable) | |
| Processors | Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family | |
| Processor sockets | 2 | |
| Internal interconnect | Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) link: 6.4GT/s, 7.2GT/s, 8.0 GT/s | |
| Cache | 2.5MB per core; core options: 4, 6, 8 | |
| Chipset | Intel C600 series | |
| Memory | Up to 384GB (12 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600MT/s | |
| I/O slots | 6 PCIe slots: • Two x16 slots with x16 bandwidth, 3.0, full-length, full-height • One x8 slot with x4 bandwidth, 3.0, half-length, full-height • One x8 slot with x4 bandwidth, 2.0, half-length, full-height • One x8 slot with x4 bandwidth, 3.0, full-length, full-height • One x8 slot with x1 bandwidth, 2.0, full-length, full-height | |
| GPU options | One NVIDIA Quadro 6000 graphics card or up to two NVIDIA Quadro 4000 graphics cards | |
| RAID controller | Internal controllers: PERC S110 (SW RAID) PERC H310 PERC H710 PERC H710P | Internal HBAs (non-RAID): Internal tape adapter External HBAs (RAID): PERC H810 External HBAs (non-RAID): 6Gbps SAS HBA |
| Drive bays | Choose from four 3.5” cabled, eight 3.5” hot-plug, or sixteen 2.5” hot-plug drive bays | |
| Maximum internal storage | Up to 32TB | |
| Hard drives | Hot-plug hard drive options: 2.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K, 10K), SAS SSD, SATA SSD 3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K) Self-encrypting drives available | Cabled hard drive options: 3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K) |
| Embedded NIC | Broadcom® 5720 GbE Dual Port 1Gb LOM | |
| I/O adapter options | 1Gb Ethernet: Broadcom 5720 Dual Port 1Gb NIC Broadcom 5719 Quad Port 1Gb NIC Intel I350 Dual Port 1Gb stand-up adapter Intel I350 Quad Port 1Gb stand-up adapter 10Gb Converged Ethernet: Brocade® BR1020 Dual Port 10Gb CNA QLogic® QLE8262 Dual Port 10Gb DA/SFP+ Broadcom 57810S Dual Port 10Gb Base-T CNA Broadcom 57810S Dual Port 10Gb DA/SFP+ CNA | 10Gb Ethernet: Intel X520 Dual Port 10Gb DA/SFP+ server adapter Intel X540 Dual Port 10Gb Base-T adapter FC8/FC4 HBA: QLogic QLE2460 4Gb Single Port FC HBA QLogic QLE2462 4Gb Dual Port FC HBA QLogic QLE2560 8Gb Single Port FC HBA QLogic QLE2562 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA Emulex® LPe-12000-E 8Gb Single Port FC HBA Emulex LPe-12002-E 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA Brocade 815 8Gb Single Port FC HBA Brocade 825 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA |
| Power supply | Platinum efficiency, hot-plug, redundant 495W, 750W, 1100W power supplies Silver efficiency, cabled 550W power supply Auto-ranging power supplies | |
| Availability | Optional high-efficiency, hot-plug, redundant power supplies; hot-plug drive bays; TPM; dual internal SD support; redundant fans; optional bezel; information tag; ECC memory; optional interactive LCD screen; extended thermal support; ENERGY STAR® compliant; switch independent partitioning | |
| Remote management | Basic management (default), iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller, iDRAC7 Express (upgrade option) or iDRAC7 Enterprise (upgrade option), 8GB or 16GB vFlash media (upgrade options) | |
| Systems management | IPMI 2.0 compliant OpenManage™ Essentials and Dell Management Console OpenManage Power Center Dell OpenManage Connections: • OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft® System Center • Dell plug-in for VMware® vCenter® • HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli® Netcool®, and CA Network and Systems Management (NSM) | |
| Rack support | ReadyRails™ II sliding rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled mounting in 4-post threaded hole racks, with support for optional tool-less cable management arm | |
| Operating systems | Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V® v2) Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Optional embedded hypervisors: Citrix® XenServer® VMware® vSphere® ESX™ and ESXi™ Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization® For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit Dell.com/OSsupport. | |
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| Feature | PowerEdge T410 | PowerEdge T420 |
|---|---|---|
| Chassis | 5U tower | 5U rackable tower |
| Processors | IntelXeonprocessors 5500 and 5600 series | Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families |
| Internal interconnect | Intel QuickPath Interconnect | Intel QuickPath Interconnect |
| Memory | Up to 8 x DDR3 RDIMM and UDIMM | Up to 12 x DDR3 RDIMM and UDIMM |
| Hard drive bays | Up to 6 x 3.5”or 2.5” hot-plug or cabled | 16 x 2.5“ hot-plug or 8 x 3.5“/2.5” hot-plug or 4 x 3.5” cabled |
| RAID controller | PERC 6/i, SAS 6/iR, PERC 6/E, H200, H700, H800, S100, S300 | PERC H310, H710, H710P, H810, S110 |
| PCI slots | Up to 4 PCIe 2.0 and 1 PCIe 1.0 | Up to 4 PCIe 3.0 and 2 PCIe 2.0 |
| Embedded NIC | Dual Broadcom® 1GbE LOM | Dual Broadcom 1GbE LOM |
| Power supplies | Non-redundant 525W Redundant 580W | Non-redundant 550W or hot-plug redundant 495W, 750W, or 1100W |
| Dell OpenManage Systems Management | Dell OpenManage Lifecycle Controller 1.x iDRAC6 (Express or Enterprise) with Lifecycle Controller | OpenManage Essentials OMSA Agent OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller) OpenManage Integrations and Connections Basic management (standard option) |
| Internal GPU | Not supported | Up to 2 single-width or 1 double-width |
| Power efficiency | Gold | Platinum |
| Availability | Hot-plug drives Hot-plug redundant power supply units | Hot-plug drives Hot-plug redundant power supply units Fan fault tolerance Fault-resilient memory Internal dual SD modules |
