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Base Standard Capabilities
| Feature | PowerEdge M420 technical specification |
|---|---|
| Form factor | Quarter-height blade |
| Enclosure | M1000e Blade Enclosure |
| Processors | Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family |
| Internal interconnect | Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI): 6.4 GT/s; 7.2 GT/s; 8.0 GT/s |
| Cache | 2.5MB per core; core options: 4, 6, 8 |
| Memory | Up to 6 DIMM slots and 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600MHz |
| Chipset | Intel C600 |
| Primary storage | Hot-plug hard drive options: Up to two 1.8” SATA SSD (50GB or 200GB) |
| USB ports | 2 front |
| I/O mezzanine card options | Ethernet:
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| I/O slots | Fully populated mezzanine card slots and switch modules yield three redundant I/O fabrics per blade. |
| RAID controller | Internal controller: PERC H310 |
| Power supplies and fans/td> | Supplied by Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e Blade Enclosure |
| Remote management | iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller for Blades (default), iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller (upgrade option) |
| Systems management | IPMI 2.0 compliant Dell OpenManage™ Essentials and Dell Management Console Dell OpenManage Power Center Dell OpenManage Connections:
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| Operating systems | Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V™ v2) Microsoft Windows® Small Business Server 2011 SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server Red Hat® Enterprise Linux Virtualization options: Citrix® XenServer™ VMware® vSphere |
| Embedded hypervisor | Two internal SD cards dedicated for hypervisor One dedicated for vFlash media support |
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| Feature | PowerEdge M420 | PowerEdge M520 | PowerEdge M620 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chassis; enclosure | Ultra-dense, quarter-height blade; PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure | General purpose, halfheight blade; PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure | General purpose, halfheight blade; PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure |
| Processors | Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families | Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families | Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 and E5-2600v2 product families |
| Internal interconnect | Intel QuickPath Interconnect | Intel QuickPath Interconnect | Intel QuickPath Interconnect |
| Memory | 6 x DDR3 RDIMMs | 12 x DDR3 RDIMMs and UDIMMs | 24 x DDR3 RDIMMs, UDIMMs and LRDIMMs |
| Hard drive bays (hot plug) | 2 x 1.8” | 2 x 2.5” | 2 x 2.5” |
| Embedded NIC | 2 x 10GbE dual-port LOM | 2 x 1GbE dual-port LOM | Dual Port Select Network Adapter, 3 options of 2 x 10GbE |
| RAID | H310 | S110, H310, H710, H710P | S110, H310, H710, H710P |
| Express Flash drives | Not supported | Not supported | Up to 2 |
| Mezzanine slots | 1 PCIe 3.0 x8 mezzanine card slot | 2 PCIe 3.0 x8 mezzanine card slots | 2 PCIe 3.0 x8 mezzanine card slots |
| Optional SD port | 2 Internal SD slots (2 for redundant hypervisor or 1 for vFlash) | 3 Internal SD slots (2 for redundant hypervisor and 1 for vFlash) | 3 Internal SD slots (2 for redundant hypervisor and 1 for vFlash) |
| Dell OpenManage Systems Management | • OpenManage Essentials • OMSA Agent • OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller) • CMC 4.x (available with the M1000e Modular Blade Enclosure) • OpenManage Integrations and Connections • iDRAC7 Express for Blades with Lifecycle Controller (standard option) | • OpenManage Essentials • OMSA Agent • OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller) • CMC 4.x (available with the M1000e Modular Blade Enclosure) • OpenManage Integrations and Connections • iDRAC7 Express for Blades with Lifecycle Controller (standard option) | • OpenManage Essentials • OMSA Agent • OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller) • CMC 4.x (available with the M1000e Modular Blade Enclosure) • OpenManage Integrations and Connections • iDRAC7 Express for Blades with Lifecycle Controller (standard option) |
