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1. 59 One t9 ohe and Me TO May QS aS arrasan TOT T 44 Power supply SpecifiCatiONS ooooooccccccccccnnnonononononnnonnnnnnnonononnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnos 45 Slot gie ie FRI IUO esheets cece EET 46 Supported video modes for back VGA port occccccncncncnococooononononnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnos 47 Subo Fe GN ICC modes Tor ONE iC Soo pM adoracion coo 47 Rail adjustability PANE leer 48 mausteirstana aracoOc LIIMSNES nagra ciar T 49 seo a a AMP e A E E POE E 50 POMC VIEW LO drWe Day WIAOUEDezOl PER EU I TU T ias 11 dieat WIDE ZO circa td apta de ia a e tn ta 12 sequi M 12 PON SPU Ay 15 Rackable ront view WIEDOBUE DOZ 8L kc vimus e n iii 15 erro D e oo 15 A t ts 15 Fs Eos deeem 50 OIG ES el Is A e o A 55 DEl Systems management SOU ONS e ta adn sl Systems management server lifecycle cessisse seen eese ta dna a aar aaa aa aa da aaa a aS RERO RR T Eon aA aa aaa 435 TOW edo dejo o NT m m MTM 45 1420 system Board DIOCK CAAT rc dd ini 52 1 System overview Introduction The 2 socket Dell PowerEdge 1420 tower server delivers balanced performance and expandability for non disruptive growth Optional red
2. Figure 1 Front view 16 drive bay without bezel i A i i i i y i i i J l ii j if 11 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Figure 2 shows the optional lockable bezel on the front of the 1420 chassis Figure 2 Front view with bezel Figure 5 shows the features on the back panel of the 1420 including USB connectors Ethernet connectors serial connector video connector PCle slots power supplies DRAC dedicated port and many other components and features described in this guide Figure 3 Back view Sx o M 9 ow mm 6 RONG mh ASA 1L ASA v X y EON o 12 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide ut The chassis design of the 1420 is optimized for easy access to components and for airflow for effective and efficient cooling Figure 4 provides an internal view of the 1420 including the DIMMs PCle card slots power supplies fans and processors Internal view Figure 4 Figure 5 shows the front view of the rackable 1420 chassis without a bezel Figure 5 Rackable front view without bezel ron con emn um LI EJ crm cn oD AA AA AA xq lt __ 15 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Chassis features Table 5 lists the various features on the 1420 For additional information see the Dell PowerEdge 1420 Systems Owner s Manual on Support Dell com Manuals Table 5 Chassis features Feature Description Power button ACPI compliant power button with an integrated green power L
3. Optional embedded hypervisors Citrix XenServer VMware vSphere including ESX and ESXi Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization For more information on the specific versions and additions visit Dell com OSsupport Optional kit available for field conversion from tower to rackable unit GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating environment and will be less 10 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide 5 Chassis views and features The Dell PowerEdge 1420 is a 5U 2 socket rackable tower server For additional system views and features see the Dell PowerEdge 1420 Systems Owner s Manual on Support Dell com Manuals Chassis views Table 4 lists the possible chassis configurations available for the 1420 Table 4 Chassis configurations Number of Drive types Controller Front drive bays control panel 4 cabled 3 5 SATA and drive bays SAS HHD PERG SITO P1510 M710 H7I0F LED 3 5 SATA and drive bays 2 5 SAS SSD HHD PERG 5110 H310 4 10 710P LCD 16 hot plug 2 5 SATA and drive bays SASSSD HHD PER FAO A710 HALF LCD Power supply Rack option Cabled 550W No Cabled 550W or hot plug 495W 750W or 1100W Yes Hot plug 495W 5OW Yes 1100W Figure 1 shows the features on the front of the 1420 16 drive bay chassis including the front control panel USB connectors and many other components and features described in this guide
4. Table 30 Table 31 Figures Figure T Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8 Figure 9 Figure 10 Figure 11 Figure 12 Figure 15 IV PowerEdge 420 Technical Guide Additional TESQUICES ccc cc cece cece cece eee RR sese esee eene s esee eese nens 50 ey cu apBeecifedelee dm e f MERERI T TOTO 52 Ago a e AA e O o 6 Comparing the PowerEdge 1410 to PowerEdge 14 20 occocccccinniincncnnanccnononcconcnonancniacnnacnona nara cnnonn nr nano nicas are Es ide IM eL 8 Eye OI OI WT 11 A APP o E EEE EEE E EEEE 14 O AP A 16 0 qdo e PR eo O 18 Memory technologies ooo MAMMA eo o o E 19 Play SED su Metacritic cherie e ell PEE E EEE E MUS ED CE EM NONU 20 Memory speed capabilities preci od da om m ner zl Memor RAS features MIRI M 21 SUDOR CORSO GOES aora iia 25 oe quen RAID CONT OUG PME T 24 SUpported extemal os A 25 Supported e e 00 EOS E a 26 Power tools and tE CANO s E E T T OT SS 28 POWEr SUDOV as E e e rl PE E EEEE ESE S0 Acoustical DOMINA NE ato T T E m o TE 52 I TIE KI 0 EE etalon o e e A E In 55 ia ages isc a ASA A E UU o A D Virtualization e dE 56 IDRAC 7 with Lifecycle Controller functions and DenefltS occiinnnannconncconccnoconenonocionenaanarnnononcnocanornnaninaninns 30 Feature comparison for basic management IDRAC Express and DRAC 7 Enterprise
5. The following additional memory population guidelines apply to the 1420 e Up to two quad rank OR dual rank DR or single rank SR DIMMs may be populated per channel e DIMMs must be installed in each channel starting with the DIMM farthest from the processor e DIMMs should be installed with largest rank count to smallest For example if DR DIMMS are mixed with SR DIMMs DR DIMMS should be placed in the lowest DIMM slots followed by the SR DIMMs For more information on memory configuration see the Dell PowerEdge 1420 Systems Owner s Manual on Support Dell com Manuals 20 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Memory speed The T420 supports memory speeds of 1600MT s 1333MT s 1066MT s and 800MT s depending on the DIMM types installed and the configuration All memory on all processors and channels run at the same speed and voltage By default the systems run at the highest speed for the channel with the lowest DIMM voltage and speed The operating speed of the memory is also determined by the maximum speed supported by the processor the speed settings in the BIOS and the operating voltage of the system Table 10 lists memory configuration and performance details for the 1420 based on the population of the number and type of DIMMs per memory channel Table 10 Memory speed capabilities Number Speed MT s E Du ARE o 800 1066 1333 1600 S SR 1 o e e DR 1 o e e UDIMM SR SR 2 o e e SR DR 2 o e e DR DR 2 o SR 1 o e
6. rack and data center level redundant PSU only Hot spare reduces power consumption of redundant power supplies Thermal control of fan speed optimizes the thermal settings for your environment to reduce fan consumption and lower system power consumption Idle power enables Dell servers to run as efficiently when idle as when at full workload l l With the thermal design and reliability of Dell products you can have the Fresh Air cooling capability to operate at excursion based temperatures beyond the industry redundant PSU only standard of 35 C 95 F without impacting your availability model This solution takes into account servers networking storage and other infrastructure Find additional information at Dell com FreshAir Dell offers some of the industry s highest efficiency power infrastructure solutions including e Power distribution units PDUs Rack infrastructure e Uninterruptible power supplies UPS e Energy Smart containment rack enclosures Find additional information at http content dell com us en enterprise power and cooling technologies components rack infrastructure aspx Find additional information at Dell com PowerAndCooling and Power com PowerCenter Power supply units Energy Smart power supplies redundant PSUs only have intelligent features such as the ability to dynamically optimize efficiency while maintaining availability and redundancy Also featured are enhanced power consumption reductio
7. DIB Fl FI DIB DIB DIB DIB 11 Dell OpenManage systems management Whether your IT environment consists of a few servers or a few thousand servers Dell OpenManage systems management solutions provide comprehensive management for evolving IT environments OpenManage is based on open standards and provides agent based and agent free server lifecycle management functionality for Dell PowerEdge servers OpenManage solutions help you automate and streamline essential hardware management tasks The advanced management capabilities of Dell OpenManage also integrates into offerings from other popular systems management solutions that you may already use making Dell platforms easy to manage and deploy in any IT environment This ensures your IT services are available when your business needs them If you have already standardized on offerings from industry leaders such as BMC Software Microsoft Symantec VMware or other vendors you can leverage OpenManage integration and connections developed to use with your existing systems management framework to efficiently manage Dell servers storage business client PCs and network devices Start with a firm foundation for efficient hardware management using OpenManage tools utilities and management consoles OpenManage systems management solutions consist of a combination of embedded management features and software products that help you automate and simplify the entire server lifecycle dep
8. This guide provides information on the following e Initial setup steps e Key system features e Technical specifications This printed document is provided with the rack kits The document provides the instructions for installing the server in a rack This printed document is provided with the CMA kits The document provides the instructions for installing the cable management arm on the rails This document is printed and shipped with the system and is also available in PDF format on the Dell support site This document provides information on system updates The system information label documents the system board layout and system jumper settings Text is minimized due to space limitations and translation considerations The label size is standardized across platforms 50 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Support Dell com Manuals Support Dell com Manuals Support Dell com Manuals Support Dell com Manuals Support Dell com Manuals Inside the system chassis cover Resource Description of contents W eTer u o 0 Quick Resource Locator QRL Dell Energy Smart Data Center Assessment Energy Smart Solution Advisor Power and cooling technologies Energy management Operating system matrix for Dell PowerEdge systems Processor and chipset Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers Power distribution unit Uninterruptible power supply Volatility information Dell Enterprise Acoustics
9. This code on the chassis can be scanned by a phone application to access additional information and resources for the server including videos reference materials service tag information and Dell contact information This tool uses infrastructure and thermal analysis to help maximize system efficiency The Dell Energy Smart Solution Advisor ESSA enables easier and more meaningful estimates to help you determine the most efficient configuration possible Use ESSA to calculate the power consumption of your hardware power infrastructure and storage Provides details for improving energy efficiency in the data center Provides information on Dell s Fresh Air cooling solutions Provides updated information on which operating systems are available on which PowerEdge systems Provides more information about the 1420 processors and chipset Provides more information about Dell PERCs Provides help selecting a rack based power distribution unit Provides help selecting an uninterruptible power supply model Contact your Dell sales representative White paper that explores the mechanisms of people s reaction to language of and Dell s work to control noise from Enterprise products 51 PowerEdge 420 Technical Guide Inside the system chassis cover Dell com EnergySmart Dell com ESSA Dell com PNC Dell com FreshAir Dell com OSsupport Intel com Dell com PERC DellPDU com DellUPS com Dell com www d
10. Trusted Platform Module www trustedcomputinggroup org Specification v1 2 UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware www uefi org specs Interface Specification v2 1 USB Universal Serial Bus Specification www usb org developers docs Rev 2 0 Windows Logo Windows Logo Program System and www microsoft com whdc winlogo hwrequirements mspx Device Requirements v3 10 49 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide out Appendix C Additional resources Table 1 provides a list of documents and websites that provide for more information on the Dell PowerEdge 1420 Resource Table 31 Additional resources W eTer d 0 0 PowerEdge T420 Systems Owner s Manual PowerEdge T420 Getting Started Guide Rack Installation Instructions Cable Management Arm Installation Instructions Information Update System Information Label Description of contents This manual is provided in HTML format on the CD provided with the 1420 system and also in HTML and PDF format at the Dell support site A printed version is available in Asian languages as a customer orderable option This manual provides information on the following e Chassis features e System Setup program e System messages e System codes and indicators e System BIOS e Remove and replace procedures e Troubleshooting e Diagnostics e Jumpers and connectors This guide is printed and shipped with the system and is also available in PDF format on the Dell support site
11. and quiet Benefiting from smart cooling fan speed control the 1420 can keep both high performance and good acoustics across a wide range of ambient temperatures from 10 C to 35 C 50 F to 95 F and to extended ambient temperature ranges see Table 26 Operating environments for the 1420 can vary from the data center to general use spaces In a typical configuration the 1420 is suitable for an open office environment 50 PowerEdge 420 Technical Guide Thermal design The thermal design of the PowerEdge 420 reflects the following Multiple sensors are monitored for thermal feedback control The PowerEdge 1420 dynamically controls system cooling fan speed based on responses from component temperature sensors including processors hard disk drives DIMMs storage cards and the inlet ambient temperature Thermal control detects and responds to hardware configuration Thermal management adjusts cooling according to what the system really needs and draws lower fan power draw and generates lower acoustical noise levels than servers without such controls Environmental specifications The optimized thermal management makes the 1420 reliable under a wide range of operating environments as shown in the environmental specifications in Table 26 Many configurations are also compliant under expanded operating temperature environments but a few are not Acoustical design The acoustical design of the PowerEdge 1420 reflects the following Quiet l
12. higher fan speeds which produce higher acoustic levels Hot spare feature of power supply unit In system default setting the hot spare feature is disabled acoustical output from the power supplies is lowest in this setting If the feature is enabled and the system power loading is low the power supply fan speed hence noise will be higher RAID Setup with PERC H310 A system configured as non RAID will have a higher noise level than a system configured as RAID With non RAID the temperature of the hard disk drives is not monitored which causes the fan speed to be higher to ensure sufficient cooling resulting in higher noise level Noise ramp and descent during bootup from power off Fan speed noise levels ramp during the boot process from power off to power on to add a layer of protection for component cooling in case the system does not boot properly To keep the bootup process as quiet as possible the fan speed reached during bootup is limited to about half of full speed 51 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide ut Table 18 details the acoustical performance for the 1420 Table 18 Acoustical performance 2 Configuration Power PCI Tees P ee RE 23 2 C CPUs aug supply Memory card HDD bue pur diu Dal ambient unit controller bels dBA 4x35 3 E dris PE Idle a dls Typical 2 SAS X 6x4GB ee qs 720W 1x PERC an a H710P Stress 5 2 42 stress 1 x 10GbE nite Idle 4 7 38 1 x 1GbE 8 x 2 5 2x i2 x NIC Yes by hard Feature
13. model supported PERC S110 3Gb s SATA software RAID Supports up to 4 System controller that supports up hot plug SATA drives board Software E 0 1 5 10 Entry level RAID to 4 physical disks or 8 no expansion Microsoft embedded virtual disks Windows only SATA Optical drive The 1420 hot plug chassis supports up to three media bays through one of the following options e Up to two SATA half height DVD ROM or DVD R W drive one SAS interface tape drive e Upto one SATA half height DVD ROM or DVD R W drive one internal RD1000 drive one SAS interface tape drive The 1420 cabled chassis supports up to two media bays through one of the following options e Up to two SATA half height DVD ROM or DVD R W drive e Up to one SATA half height DVD ROM or DVD R W drive one internal RD1000 drive or SAS interface tape drive e Up to one internal RD1000 drive one SAS interface tape drive Tape drive The 1420 supports the external storage device types listed in Table 14 For additional information visit Dell com Storage Table 14 Supported external storage Tape devices Interface cards LTO5 140 SAS Internal tape adapter LTO4 120 HH SAS Internal tape adapter LTO3 080 SAS Internal tape adapter RD1000 SATA Onboard SATA External SAS tape 6Gb SAS HBA External FC tape FC HBA External RD1000 USB 25 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide 7 Networking and PCIe The Dell PowerEdge T420 offers balanced scalable I O capabilities including integ
14. on the T420 however enhanced functionality is now available with OpenManage Essentials OpenManage systems management tools and utilities Dell OpenManage systems management tools and utilities consist of the following Dell Repository Manager The Dell Repository Manager RM is a standalone GUI based productivity tool that helps simplify the process of managing downloads and baseline BIOS firmware and driver updates Repository Manager can create deployment disks as well as create and manage customized repositories 41 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Dell OpenManage Server Update Utility The Dell Server Update Utility SUU is a DVD based application for identifying and applying BIOS and firmware updates to your Dell PowerEdge servers Dell OpenManage Systems Build and Update Utility The Dell System Build and Update Utility SBUU provides one to one and one to many deployment and single server update capabilities in the pre operating system environment Dell Update Packages The Dell Update Packages DUP is a self contained executable in a standard package format that updates a software element on a Dell server such as the BIOS a driver firmware and other software updates Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit DTK is a CLI based tool that includes a set of utilities for configuring and deploying Dell PowerEdge systems and can be used to build scripted unattended OS installation
15. rich 2 SATA 1100W 3GB drive at 10K 1 icis stress 5 2 x 150W Stress 4 7 58 GPU Dbua ULE is the upper limit sound power levels Lwa calculated per section 4 4 1 of ISO 9296 1988 and measured in accordance to ISO 7779 2010 Ta is the average bystander position A weighted sound pressure level calculated per section 4 3 of ISO 9296 1988 and measured in accordance with ISO 7779 2010 The system is placed within a rack enclosure base of system is 75 cm above floor Prominent tone Criteria of D 6 and D 11 of ECMA 74 11th ed 2010 are followed to determine if discrete tones are prominent The system is placed in center of ISO 7779 table and binaural head is at front operator position reference ISO 7779 2010 Section 8 6 1 position P4 Idle Reference ISO 7779 2010 definition 3 1 7 system is running in its operating system but no other specific activity Stress An operating mode per ISO 7779 2010 definition 3 1 6 The software MemBWA is activated to stress the processors For more information on Dell s acoustical design see the Dell Enterprise Acoustics white paper 32 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide out 9 Rack rails and cable management The sliding rail system for the Dell PowerEdge 1420 provides tool less support for 4 post racks with square or unthreaded round mounting holes Compared to the T610 sliding rails that required the use of adapter brackets the sliding rails for the 1420 now offer support for
16. single width or 1 double width Platinum Hot plug drives Hot plug redundant power supply units Fan fault tolerance Fault resilient memory Internal dual SD modules Specifications Table 3 summarizes the specifications for each of the PowerEdge 1420 features For the latest information on supported features for the PowerEdge 1420 visit Dell com Table 3 Technical specifications Feature PowerEdge T420 technical specification Form factor 5U rackable tower Processors Intel Xeon processor E5 2400 product family Processor sockets 2 sockets Internal interconnect 1 Intel QuickPath Interconnect OPI link 6 4GT s 7 2GT s 8 0GT s Cache 2 5MB per core with core options of 4 6 or 8 Chipset Intel C600 Memory Up to 584GB 12 DIMM slots 2GB 4GB 8GB 16GB 32GB DDR3 up to 1600MT s 6 PCle slots e 2x16 slots with x16 bandwidth 3 0 full height full length e 1x8 slot with x4 bandwidth 3 0 full height half length PCle slots e 1x 8 slot with x4 bandwidth 2 0 full height half length e 1x 8 slot with x4 bandwidth 3 0 full height full length e 1x 8 slot with x1 bandwidth 2 0 full height full length Internal controllers Internal HBAs non RAID PERC S110 SW RAID Internal tape adapter PERC H310 External HBAs RAID pe CONECO PERC H710 PERC H810 PERC H710P External HBAs non RAID 6Gbps SAS HBA Drive bay options 4 x 3 5 cabled SAS or SATA drives or 8 x 3 5 or 2 5 hot plug SAS SATA or SSD drives
17. specifications Fresh Air temperature humidity altitude de rating Continuous 10 C to 35 C 50 F to 95 F at 10 to 80 relative humidity with 26 C 78 8 F maximum operation dew point maximum wet bulb temperature De rate maximum allowable dry bulb temperature at 1 C per 500m above 950m 1 F per 547 ft above 3117 ft Expanded When operating in the expanded temperature range system performance may be impacted operation and ambient temperature warnings may be reported on the LCD and in the System Event Log 10 of annual operating hours 5 C to 10 C and 35 C to 40 C with no direct sunlight on the equipment at 5 to 85 relative humidity with 26 C dew point maximum wet bulb temperature Outside the standard operating temperature 10 C to 35 C the system can operate down to 5 C or up to 40 C for a maximum of 10 of its annual operating hours For temperatures between 35 C and 40 C 95 F to 104 F de rate maximum allowable dry bulb temperature by 1 C per 175m above 950m 1 F per 319 ft above 3117 ft lt 1 of annual operating hours 5 C to 5 C and 40 C to 45 C with no direct sunlight on the equipment at 5 to 90 relative humidity with 26 C dew point maximum wet bulb temperature Outside the standard operating temperature 10 C to 35 C the system can operate down to 5 C or up to 45 C for a maximum of 1 of its annual operating hours For temperatures between 40 C and 45 C 104 F to 11
18. 5 F de rate maximum allowable dry bulb temperature by 1 C per 125m above 950m 1 F per 228 ft above 3117 ft Expanded operation restrictions e No cold startup below 5 C e Maximum altitude for the operating temperature must be 5050m 10 000ft e Upto two redundant fans back fans required e Redundant PSU configuration required e Not supported GPU LRDIMM A Peripheral cards not qualified by Dell Peripheral cards greater than 25W Temperature Operating See Fresh Air for temperature information Storage 40 C to 65 C 40 F to 149 F with a maximum temperature gradation of 20 C per hour Relative humidity Operating See Fresh Air for relative humidity information Storage 5 to 95 at a maximum wet bulb temperature of 33 C 91 F atmosphere must be condensing at all times Maximum vibration Operating 0 26 Grms at 5Hz to 550Hz in all orientations Storage 1 87 Grms at 10Hz to 500Hz for 15 minutes all six sides tested 46 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide out Operating Half sine shock in all operational orientations of 31G 5 with a pulse duration of 2 6ms 10 Storage Half sine shock on all six sides of 71G 5 with a pulse duration of 2ms 10 square wave shock on all six sides of 27G with velocity change at 235 in sec or greater Operating 15 2m to 3048m 50 ft to 10 000 ft Storage 15 2m to 12 000m 50 ft to 39 370 ft Airborne contaminant level Class G1 or lo
19. ED Front bezel Covers the system s front loading hard drives and locks for security Used to troubleshoot software and device driver errors use only if directed NMI button to do so by qualified support personnel or by the operating system s documentation Buttons on the back and front of a system to help identify the unit in a data System identification button center environment Hard drives Up to sixteen 2 5 inch drives USB connectors Connects USB devices to the server Information tag Slide out label panel for recording system information Connects a monitor to the server the tower chassis has one port on the Video connector back of the chassis the rack chassis has a port on both the front and back of the chassis Displays system ID status information and system error messages LCD panel and buttons the hot plug chassis has two navigation buttons to scroll through the menu on the LCD and one select button Optical drive Optional half height DVD or DVD RW drive Power supply units Supplies power to the server Power supply indicators Indicates whether server has power NIC indicators Indicates network activity and status PCle slots Connects PCle expansion cards to the server Ethernet connectors Connects integrated 10 100 1000 NICs to the server Serial connector Connects a serial device to the server IDRAC7 Enterprise port Dedicated management port for optional iDRAC Ports card 14 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide CO Front control p
20. Edge family is engineered with the right combination of features and performance scalability to handle tough workloads for businesses and organizations of all sizes 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 Dell OpenManage solutions integrate with and connect to third party systems management solutions so you can maintain your single point of control and capitalize on your existing investment Dell OpenManage capabilities simplify IT administrator tasks and reduce potential for error throughout the server lifecycle spanning deployment deploying updating monitoring and maintaining your Dell PowerEdge servers 5 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide New technologies Table 1 summarizes the newest technologies used in the Dell PowerEdge 1420 tower server Table 1 New technologies New technologies Detailed descriptions Intel Xeon processor This new family of Intel processors has embedded PCIe lanes for improved I O E5 2400 product family performance See the Processor section for details Intel C600 series chipset The Intel Platform Controller Hub PCH chip is implemented on the T420 server Certain models of the Intel Xeon processor E5 2400 p
21. Eg t UU 29 iae E oE aat a E m E Em 50 9 Rack Pans anid cable TIANA CCCI uiae sisi ii A is 55 o A 25 Alo oo ee ee eee 54 MS iS AUG Sy e it pes A A Dininin 35 supported operating SUSTO casaca A A aa DO SUDOR MIE ANI o ETC 56 11 Dell OpenManage systems managenment sess eise nnnnnnnh nasa ananas sanas ane t iaa as R RR dada da aaa adds sanno sese nas 56 Ec e cis AP TEUER 5 OpenManage systems management cccccccccccceeessessessestensneccesceeeeeceeesseseeeensasnecenseseeeeesesedseseesnecansesteeeeeeseserseseesnensennes 58 Dell server management operatiONS aoieanna atte Eu Ra A 45 Appendix A Additional SpecifiCatiONS cccccccnnncccoooooocnnnnnnnccnnnononononnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnrnrnnnnnnnnnnnns 45 Chassis dimensions and WY SI ING tion oi m m mc 45 Power SUPPIY SS ely arc qd 0 gc M NORTE Tm A5 FIG OTA US CIC Ne rancia tibia 46 NNO SING isi AE OU rm 47 ele q Eso elec RITE Em mm 47 BI eti MENTRE ea 48 Appendix B Standar CIS COM ON ENC EE OO OT 49 lil PowerEdge 420 Technical Guide out Appendix C Appendix D Tables Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Table 5 Table 6 Table 7 Table 8 Table 9 Table 10 Table 11 Table 12 Table 13 Table 14 Table 15 Table 16 Table 17 Table 18 Table 19 Table 20 Table 21 Table 22 Table 23 Table 24 Table 25 Table 26 Table 27 Table 28 Table 29
22. PowerEdge T420 Technical Guide The quiet powerful scalable PowerEdge T420 delivers performance capacity and high avallability features to drive your business or organization forward This document is for informational purposes only Dell reserves the right to make changes without further notice to any products herein The content provided is as is and without express or implied warranties of any kind Dell the DELL logo PowerEdge EqualLogic PowerVault PowerConnect OpenManage KACE and ReadyRails are trademarks of Dell Inc Intel and Xeon are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U S and other countries Microsoft Windows Windows Server SQL Server BitLocker ActiveX Internet Explorer and Hyper V are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries SUSE is a registered trademark of Novell Inc in the United States and other countries IBM Tivoli and Netcool are registered trademarks of IBM in the United States Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products Dell disclaims proprietary interest in the marks and names of others OCopyright 2012 Dell Inc All rights reserved Reproduction or translation of any part of this work beyond that permitted by U S copyright laws without the written permission of Dell Inc is unlawful and strictly forbidden Oc
23. anel The T420 control panel is located on the front of the chassis as shown in Figure 6 For more information about the LCD control panel see the Dell PowerEdge 1420 Systems Owner s Manual on Support Dell com Manuals Figure 6 LCD control panel PowerEdge T420 lt v gt B Setup View Quick Resource Locator A useful feature included with Dell PowerEdge 12 generation servers is the Quick Resource Locator ORL a model specific Quick Response QR code that is located inside the T420 chassis cover see Figure 7 Use your smartphone to access the Dell QRL app to learn more about the server Figure 7 QRL location This QRL code allows you to View step by step videos including overviews of system internals and externals as well as detailed concise task oriented videos and installation wizards Locate reference materials including searchable owner s manual content LCD diagnostics and an electrical overview Look up your service tag so you can quickly gain access to your specific hardware configuration info and warranty information Contact Dell directly by link to get in touch with technical support and sales teams and provide feedback to Dell These codes provide an easy way to retrieve the critical support information you need when you need it making you more efficient and effective in managing your hardware 15 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Security features The latest generation of PowerEdge servers has the fea
24. d Turbo threads speed E5 2450 2 1GHz 95W 20MB 8 16 8 0 GT s 1600MT s Yes E5 2440 2 4GHz 95W 15MB 6 12 7 GIS 1333MT s Yes E5 2430L 2 0GHZ 60W 15MB 6 12 7 2 GT s 1333MT s Yes E5 2430 2 2GHz 95W 15MB 6 12 7 2 GT s 1333MT s Yes E5 2420 L9GHZ 95W 15MB 6 12 7 2 GT s 1333MT s Yes E5 2407 22GHz 80W 10MB 4 8 6 4 GT s 1066MT s NA E5 2403 1 8GHz 80W 10MB 4 8 6 4 GT s 1066MT s NA For information on processor installation and configuration see the Dell PowerEdge 1420 Systems Owners Manual on Support Dell com Manuals GPU support The 1420 supports graphics processing unit GPU technology providing accelerated performance for a variety of applications such as VDI and medical imaging GPU cards The T420 supports two nVidia Q4000 full length single width or one nVidia Q6000 full length double width GPU GPU cards are available through certified factory installation CFI or field upgrade only Each GPU supports up to 6GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory and is actively cooled Each GPU has one or two power connectors to meet the high demand for power delivery The power connectors are located on the back of the card GPU configuration options The GPUs from nVidia have PCle 2 0 that can be installed in the 1420 PCle x16 3 0 slots 3 and 5 slot 5 requires a two processor configuration The interface for the next generation GPU cards will be PCle 5 0 The following system configuration restrictions apply when a GPU is installed e 1100W redundant po
25. d energy efficiency With the rise in the cost of energy coupled with increasing data center density Dell provides tools and technologies to help you realize greater performance with less energy cost and waste More efficient data center usage can reduce costs by slowing the need for additional center space Table 16 lists the tools and technologies Dell offers to help you achieve your data center goals by lowering power consumption and increasing energy efficiency Table 16 Power tools and technologies Co Power supply unit PSU Dell s PSU portfolio includes intelligent features such as dynamically portfolio optimizing efficiency while maintaining availability and redundancy Find redundant PSU only additional information in the Power supply units section Dell Energy Smart Solution Advisor ESSA is a tool that helps you determine the most efficient configuration possible With ESSA you can calculate the power consumption of your hardware power infrastructure and storage ESSA can help you determine exactly how much power your server will use Tools for right sizing ata given workload and the PSU Advisor can help you choose the best most efficient PSU for your workload Learn more at Dell com calc Energy Smart Data Center Assessment is a Dell Services offering that uses infrastructure and thermal analysis to help maximize system efficiency Learn more at Dell com EnergySmart Dell s servers are compliant with all relevant in
26. dge RAID Controller cards offer high I O performance for database applications and streaming digital media environments The internal RAID controllers have a dedicated connection to the system board The 1420 supports the new PERC 8 family of controllers with improved functionality and faster performance The 1420 supports the adapter type PERC only plus the new software RAID solution that supports RAID O 1 5 and 10 as shown in Table 15 For more information about the latest PERC offerings see Dell com PERC Table 13 Supported RAID controllers Controller Description Features RAID Form factor Usage modes model supported Includes 1GB NV DDR3 cache premium PERC H810 Eight port external and performance and feature UL 10 9 Adapter Premium External 6Gp s PCle RAID controller set security SED EKMS 50 6 60 performance and SSD as cache Includes 1GB NV DDR3 PERC H710P Fight port internal 6Gb s poe qiero DES Aaa Premium Internal PCle RAID controller i 90 6 560 p performance set security SED EKMS and SSD as cache Includes 512MB NV PERC H710 Eight port internal 6Gb s DDR3 cache advanced 0 1 10 5 Internal PCle RAID controller feature set security 50 6 60 Pope DEHIOHIUOHGE SED EKMS PERC H310 Eight port internal 6Gb s Supports hot plug drives O 1 10 5 Adapter YE Internal PCle RAID expansion pass through 50 24 PowerEdge 420 Technical Guide Controller Description Features RAID Form factor Usage modes
27. ds Table 15 lists the supported add in NICs and HBAs for the T420 Table 15 Supported NICs and HBAs Type Adapter Broadcom 5720 Dual Port 1Gb Base T Broadcom 5719 Quad Port 1Gb Base T Intel 1550 Dual Port 1Gb Base T 1Gb 10Gb NICs Intel 1550 Quad Port 1Gb Base T Broadcom 5 8105 Dual Port 10Gb Base T CNA Broadcom 578105 Dual Port 10Gb DA SFP CNA Intel X520 Dual Port 10Gb SFP 26 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Type Adapter Intel X540 Dual Port 10Gb Base T QLogic QLE8262 Dual Port 10Gb DA SFP Brocade BR1020 Dual Port 10Gb SFP CNA QLogic QLE2460 Single Port 4Gbps QLogic QLE2462 Dual Port 4Gbps QLogic QLE2560 Single Port 8Gbps QLogic QLE2562 Dual Port 8Gbps FC4 FC8 HBAs Emulex LPe12000 Single Port 8Gbps Emulex LPe12002 Dual Port 8Gbps Brocade BR815 Single Port 8Gbps Brocade BR825 Dual Port 8Gbps For the latest information on all supported add in PCle expansion cards for the 1420 visit Dell com 2 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide 8 Power thermal and acoustics Lower overall system level power draw is a result of breakthrough system design The Dell PowerEdge 1420 server maximizes performance per watt through a combination of power and cooling energy efficient technologies and tools Additionally the PowerEdge T420 has an extensive collection of sensors that automatically track thermal activity which helps regulate temperature thereby reducing server noise and power consumption Power consumption an
28. dustry certifications and MAUSE coniplapce guidelines including 80 PLUS Climate Savers and ENERGY STAR PSU power monitoring improvements include Power monitoring e Dell s power monitoring accuracy is currently 1 whereas the industry accuracy standard is 5 redundant PSU only e More accurate reporting of power e Better performance under a power cap Use Dell s systems management to set the power cap limit for your systems Power capping to limit the output of a PSU and reduce system power consumption Dell is redundant PSU only the first hardware vendor to leverage Intel Node Manager for circuit breaker fast capping IDRAC7 Enterprise provides server level management that monitors reports and controls power consumption at the processor memory and Systems management system level redundant PSU only Dell OpenManage Power Center delivers group power management at the rack row and data center level for servers power distribution units and uninterruptible power supplies 28 PowerEdge 420 Technical Guide out Feature Description Intel Node Manager is an embedded technology that provides individual server level power reporting and power limiting functionality Dell offers a complete power management solution comprised of Intel Node Manager accessed through Dell DRAC7 Enterprise and OpenManage Power Center that allows policy based management of power and thermals at the Active power management I dividual server
29. e e DR 1 o e e e QR 1 o e Sh SR 2 o e e RDIMM SR DR 2 e e o o DR DR 2 o e e e QR SR 2 o e QR DR 2 o e QR QR 2 o e Although the T420 supports DIMM speeds of 800MT s and 1066MT s you can only purchase this system with DIMM speeds of 1333MT s and 1600MT s on Dell com Memory RAS features RAS features help keep the system online and operational without significant impact to performance and can decrease data loss and crashing due to errors RAS aids in rapid accurate diagnosis of faults that require service Table 11 describes the RAS features supported on the T420 Table 11 Memory RAS features Feature Description Dense configuration Increased memory reliability can be a result from this selectable platform profile optimized profile that adjusts parameters to reduce faults regarding refresh rates speed temperature and voltage 21 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Feature Description Memory demand and Demand scrubbing is the ability to write corrected data back to the memory once patrol scrubbing a correctable error is detected on a read transaction Patrol scrubbing proactively searches the system memory repairing correctable errors Recovery from single Recovery from Single DRAM Device Failure SDDC provides error checking and DRAM device failure correction that protects against any single memory chip failure as well as multi bit errors from any portion of a single memory chip Failed DIMM isolation This feature
30. ections throughout the system with support for DDR3 1600MT s memory and 8 0GT s QPI e Intel Data Direct I O DDIO allows I O traffic to skip the main system memory and be directed straight to the processor cache which can provide a significant reduction in latency as well as allowing memory to remain in a low power state e High bandwidth low latency bidirectional ring interconnect allows faster access to the 20MB multi banked last level cache e Intel Advanced Vector Extensions offer up to double the floating point operations per clock cycle by doubling the length of registers which can be useful for addressing very complex problems or dealing with large number calculations which are integral to many technical financial and scientific computing problems e Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2 0 which allows processor cores to run faster than the base operating frequency if its operating below power current and temperature specification limits delivers up to double the boost than the previous generation e Continued improvements to both Intel TXT and AES NI help to better protect systems and data For more information on the Intel Xeon processor E5 2400 product family visit Intel com Supported processors Table 7 lists the Intel Xeon processors supported by the PowerEdge 1420 For the latest information on supported processors visit Dell com PowerEdae 17 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Table 7 Supported processors Cache QPI an
31. el Xeon processor E5 2400 product family which offers an ideal combination of performance power efficiency and cost These processors provide substantial performance and capacity for entry and mainstream workloads as well as applications requiring significant memory and I O scalability no matter what your constraint is floor space power or budget In addition to providing raw performance gains improved I O is also made possible with Intel Integrated I O which can reduce latency by adding more lanes and doubling bandwidth This helps to reduce network and storage bottlenecks unleashing the processor s performance capabilities Processor features The new Intel Xeon processor E5 2400 product family provides the following features e 2 socket processor design with power and dimensions optimized for density Up to 8 execution cores per processor e Intel Hyper Threading technology enables up to 16 computational threads e Micro architecture on 52nm process for greater performance per watt e Support for more memory 4 additional DIMMs up to 12 DIMM slots and support for up to 52GB DIMMs increasing the memory capacity from 128GB to 384GB e Integrated memory controller with 5 channels of DDR3 and 46 bit physical addressing facilitate greater memory capacity Intel Integrated I O has support for up to 24 lanes per socket of PCle 3 0 links for more information on PCle lanes see the specifications in the System features section e Faster conn
32. ell com downloads g lobal products pedge en ac oustical education dell enterprise white paper pdf Appendix D System board block diagram Figure 13 T420 system board block diagram CHO M com j Pere Gerd xi6 mecen CHI iun 7 em CPU2 amp ie x1 p 6 CH 1 e QPI SATA SATA PCle x4 USB x1 D I LPC South X4 DMI 2GB e e DDR3 Memory DMII S 1066 1333 1600 MHz a ala Cle Gan x2 1GB s x16 CHO 7 EN DMI QPI x4 d for Pole Gens a AGBs Geni xed 4Gb s CHI e M booting m x4 PU 1 M Serial Pon G lg MIO o a D CH2 ii M BroadCom M M 255MB DDFR3 1066MHz 1GbE x2 ifo E ee ee ee MEET Cable PSU PDB for RDNT PSU PME PIB P i VY SUIT TBU DE Power puit i Conn fpe ls Power i l va 5 L i Lonn Conn I i L i pen ds a Power Supply 2 Power Supply 1 p OEP 495 7504 100W 495 7504 100W a i 2Ux86mm i 52 PowerEdge T420 Technical Guide
33. erall health of all systems in the IT environment The Dell systems management portfolio includes several powerful consoles depending upon your needs including the following Dell OpenManage Essentials OpenManage Essentials OME is a recently released systems management console that provides a comprehensive view of Dell systems devices and components in an enterprise network It is used to monitor Dell PowerEdge servers EqualLogic and PowerVault storage and PowerConnect switches to update and configure Dell servers and to create asset reports OpenManage Essentials also communicates health status alerts for Dell servers storage and network devices to the Dell KACE K1000 service desk OpenManage Essentials is available as a no charge software download from Support Dell com Dell Management Console Dell Management Console DMC offers sophisticated data center management capabilities with comprehensive reporting features DMC can perform basic hardware management and can manage operating systems and applications using various plug ins from Symantec Dell IT Assistant Dell IT Assistant ITA is a console for managing Dell servers storage arrays and other components distributed throughout a network Dell IT Assistant allows for easy identification of system issues through alerts helping to reduce system downtime Systems administrators can easily monitor systems anywhere within their network using ITA ITA is supported
34. es Yes Although the T420 supports DIMM speeds of 800MT s and 1066MT s you can only purchase this system with DIMM speeds of 1333MT s and 1600MT s on Dell com 19 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide The 1420 supports the DIMMs listed in Table 9 For the latest information on supported memory visit Dell com Table 9 DIMMs supported Capacity Speed Ranks per Data SDDC support Voltage GB MT s YPE DIMM width 2 1535 RDIMM I x8 Advanced ECC Too 2 1553 UDIMM 1 x8 Advanced ECC 1 99 2 1600 RDIMM 1 x8 Advanced ECC 1 9 4 1555 RDIMM 2 x8 Advanced ECC 1 99 4 135353 RDIMM 1 x4 All modes Loo 4 15 53 UDIMM 2 x8 Advanced ECC 1 55 4 1600 RDIMM 2 x8 Advanced ECC 1 5 8 1555 RDIMM 2 x4 All modes 1 55 8 1600 RDIMM 2 x4 All modes 1 5 16 15253 RDIMM 2 x4 All modes 1 50 16 1600 RDIMM 2 x4 All modes 19 Se 1535 RDIMM 4 x4 All modes 1355 Memory configurations Flexible memory configurations are supported on the T420 ranging from capacities of 2GB to 584GB The system supports up to 6 DIMMs per processor up to 12 DIMMs in a 2 processor configuration The 1420 has 5 memory channels per processor with each channel supporting up to 2 DIMMs The T420 supports a flexible memory configuration according to these basic rules e Speed If DIMMs of different speeds are mixed all channels across all processors operate at the Slowest DIMM s common frequency e DIMM type Only one type of DIMM can be used in a system UDIMMs and RDIMMs cannot be mixed
35. ia Enhanced power management expanded coverage than previous versions of DRAC Enabled with iDRAC7 Enterprise Integration with Intel Node Manager provides data center level power monitoring and capping requires iDRAC7 Enterprise 58 PowerEdge 420 Technical Guide an issue alerts include a direct embedded URL in the email notification to further speed resolution Allows for use of a non Dell SD card Fine tune data center power policies capping and usage report on historical power usage by rack row or room using Power Center Manager new Feature Function Benefit If iDRAC7 Express or IDRAC7 Enterprise is ordered during initial point of sale license key is installed If Basic Management is Upgrades to iDRAC7 Express or ordered during initial point of sale customer iDRAC7 Enterprise by software must request a license key through the Dell Electronic licensing key and license portal may Licensing Portal licensing de require installation of hardware option For most server models embedded server for 200 500 series servers management and electronic licensing enables feature enhancements that do not require installation of additional hardware or system downtime Feature comparison The systems management default for the 1420 is basic management with an upgrade option for IDRAC Express or DRAC7 Enterprise A detailed feature comparison of basic management IDRAC7 Express and IDRAC7 Enterprise is show
36. ibrary acoustics The PowerEdge 420 is quiet enough for an office setting when minimally configured and for the office under the desk with a typical configuration Adherence to Dell s high sound quality standards Sound quality is different from sound power level and sound pressure level in that it describes how humans respond to annoyances in sound like whistles hums and so on One of the sound quality metrics in the Dell specification is prominence ratio of a tone which is listed in Table 18 Configurable for low acoustics The following are configuration considerations you should make If acoustics Is important to you Storage devices Because hard drive noise scales with spindle speed the quietest option for rotational storage media is a 7200 rpm SATA drive The loudest option is a 15k SAS drive Solid state drives are even quieter than rotational drives because they have no sound associated with spinning Noise levels increase with the quantity of hard drives using fewer hard drives will have a lower acoustical output Impact of cards Quantity of PCle cards When more than two PCle cards are installed the system fan speed noise level will be higher Types of PCle cards The fan speed noise level will be higher if a GPU and PERC H710 are installed System Profile settings in BIOS and Thermal settings in iDRAC Performance Per Watt is the quietest option Other options such as Performance Optimized or Dense Configuration require
37. ing and maintaining your Dell PowerEdge servers IDRAC with Lifecycle Controller The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 IDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller is the heart of the second generation of Dell PowerEdge server embedded management functionality In addition to enabling agent free management IDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller provides remote access to the system whether or not there is a functioning operating system running on the server These embedded features improve all aspects of a typical server lifecycle Table 22 describes the functions and benefits of IDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller Table 22 iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller functions and benefits Function Benefit Feature IDRAC offers real time OOB discovery inventory deployment monitoring alerting and updates for servers and internal storage Out of band OOB Manage servers independent of the OS type or status even if an OS is not installed All server types have the same embedded management hardware and firmware Simplified and consistent maintenance Single code base across server platforms Dedicated GigE port Gigabit Ethernet replaces 10 100 on Fast throughput for better performance PowerEdge predecessor IDRACO compatibility with setup for switches rack and tower systems More detail allows IT administrators to be Simplified more informative and more efficient in diagnosing and remediating Email alerts vFlash med
38. l health monitoring and a context sensitive launch of OpenManage Server Administrator e Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIBus This connection provides event monitoring capabilities to monitor Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell EqualLogic systems It allows event monitoring automatic event correlation and launching device consoles from the Netcool OMNIbus console Dell server management operations Dell OpenManage systems management is centered on automating the server management lifecycle deploy update monitor and maintain To manage an infrastructure properly and efficiently you must perform all of these functions easily and quickly iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller technology provides you with these intelligent capabilities embedded within the server infrastructure This allows you to invest more time and energy on business improvements and less on maintenance Figure 11 illustrates the various operations that can be performed during the server s lifecycle Figure 11 Systems management server lifecycle Table 24 lists the products that are available for one to one and one to many operations and when they are used in the server s lifecycle 45 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Table 24 One to one and one to many operations One to one Operation One to many e Lifecycle Controller e Symantec Deployment e Dell Server Deployment Pack GUI Server DSDP for Microsoft System e DTK e Dell Management Plug i
39. loy update monitor and maintain OpenManage solutions are innovatively designed for simplicity and ease of use to help you reduce complexity save time achieve efficiency control costs and empower productivity Systems management solutions Dell systems management solutions include a wide variety of tools products and services that enable you to leverage an existing systems management framework As shown in Figure 10 Dell systems management solutions are centered around OpenManage server management featuring IDRAC with Lifecycle Controller Figure 10 Dell systems management solutions Dell consoles Dell OpenManage Essentials OpenManage integration with third party consoles insole IT Assistant Microsoft BMC KACE Software VMware Dell OpenManage server management Dell Services VIS Virtual Integrated System inRAC with Lifecycle Dell Managed Services Dell AIM Dell Creator Controller Professional Services E SaaS Deploy Update Monitor Maintain ES N OpenManage Tools and utilities Connections Repository Manager with third party consoles OpenManage Server CA NSM HP Operations Administrator Manager IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus 37 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide out OpenManage systems management The Dell OpenManage systems management portfolio includes powerful hardware and software management tools and consoles OpenManage simplifies the lifecycle of deploying updating monitor
40. memory interactive LCD screen extended power range ENERGY STAR compliant switch independent partitioning e OpenManage Essentials e Dell Management Console o IT Assistant e OMSA Agent e OpenManage Power Center requires iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Dell OpenManage ESO En OpenManage Integrations and Connections OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center Dell Management Plug in for VMware vCenterTM Systems Management Agent free or with OpenManage Server Connections for HP Operations Manager IBM Tivoli Netcool and CA Administrator OMSA Network and Systems Management Agent e Basic management standard option Upgrade to IDRAC Express or Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller Upgrade to 8GB vFlash media or 16GB vFlash media for IDRAC Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller Trial evaluations available for IDRAC7 Express and Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller ReadyRailsTM Il sliding rails for tool less mounting in 4 post racks with square or Rack support unthreaded round holes or tooled mounting in 4 post threaded hole racks with support for optional tool less cable management arm Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 x64 includes Hyper V v2 Operating systems Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide out Feature PowerEdge T420 technical specification
41. moved if applicable as measured from the front mounting flanges of the rack USB peripherals USB peripherals are supported through the front and back USB ports on the T420 These ports are USB 2 0 compliant 48 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Appendix B Standards compliance The Dell PowerEdge 1420 conforms to the industry standards listed in Table 30 Table 30 Industry standard documents Standard URL for information and specifications ACPI Advance Configuration and Power WWW acpi info Interface Specification v2 0c Ethernet l IEEE 8023 2005 standards ieee org getieee802 802 3 html HDG Hardware Design Guide Version 3 0 www microsoft com whdc system platform pcdesign desquide serverd for Microsoft Windows Server MSRA IPMI Intelligent Platform Management www intel com design servers ipmi Interface v2 0 DDR3 Memory DDR3 SDRAM Specification www jedec org download search JESD79 3C paf Rev 3A LPC Low Pin Count Interface developer intel com design chipsets industry lpc htm Specification Rev 1 1 PCI Express PCI Express Base Specification Rev www pcisig com specifications pciexpress 2 0 and 3 0 PMBus Power System Management pmbus info specs html Protocol Specification v1 2 SAS Serial Attached SCSI v1 1 ees 10 019 SATA Serial ATA Rev 2 6 SATA Il SATA www sata 10 Org 1 0a Extensions Rev 1 2 SMBIOS System Management BIOS www dmtf org standards smbios Reference Specification v2 7 TPM
42. ms Management Overview Guide on Support Dell com Manuals 44 PowerEdge 420 Technical Guide Appendix A Additional specifications Chassis dimensions and weight Figure 12 details the dimensions of the Dell PowerEdge 1420 chassis Figure 12 Tower and rack chassis dimensions TOP VIEW Zo 2 Ya Yb 5 5 Bezel or Outer Most Feature Tower Foot Optional Caster Za without Zb bezel 304 5mm foot 218 0mm 450 5mm 443 3mm 471 3mm 16 4mm 0 0mm 542 2mm 5 8 42mm 507 9mm caster Zb goes to the nominal back wall external surface where the I O connectors reside The maximum system weight for the T420 is 30 2 kg 66 57 lb Power supply specifications Table 25 lists power supply specifications for the PowerEdge T420 Table 25 Power supply specifications Specification Redundant 1100W Redundant 750W Redundant 495W Non redundant 550W Current consumption 12A 6 5A 10A 5A 6 5A 5A 4A 5 Supply voltage 100 240VAC 100 240VAC 100 240VAC 100 240VAC Frequency 50 60Hz 50 60Hz 50 60Hz 50 60Hz Heat dissipation 4100 2891 1908 2517 BTU hr max Auto ranging 45 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Environmental specifications Table 26 details the environmental specifications for the 1420 For additional information about environmental measurements for specific system configurations see Dell com environmental_datasheets Table 26 Environmental
43. n Center Configuration Manager e SBUU for VMware vCenter and Dell Lifecycle Controller e KACE K1000 Appliance Integration DLCI for Microsoft Deploy e Lifecycle Controller System Center Configuration Remote Services Manager e BMC BladeLogic integration with Lifecycle Controller e IDRAC7 with LifeCycle e Dell OpenManage e Dell Update Catalogs for Controller Essentials Microsoft System Center Lifecycle Controller GUI Dell OpenManage ITA Dell Management Console Configuration Manager e Dell Lifecycle Controller e Repository Manager e Lifecycle Controller Integration DLCI for Microsoft e DUP Remote Services System Center Configuration Update e SUU Manager e SBUU e Dell Management Plug in for VMware vCenter e DRAC7 e Dell OpenManage e Dell Management Plug in for e OMSA Essentials VMware vCenter e Dell OpenManage ITA e BMC ProactiveNet e BMC ProactiveNet e Dell Server Management Pack Monitor Performance Management Suite for Microsoft System e Dell OpenManage Power Center Operations Manager Center SCOM e Dell Management Console e IPMI e Lifecycle Controller Remediate e DRAC7 Remote Services e Dell Server PRO Management e Lifecycle Controller Pack for Microsoft System GUI Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM Maintain Replace parts e Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration DLCI for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager For additional detailed information on Dell s systems management portfolio see the Dell Syste
44. n in Table 23 Table 23 Feature comparison for basic management iDRAC7 Express and iDRAC7 Enterprise Feature function Basic IDRAC7 iDRAC7 management Express Enterprise Local configuration with Lifecycle Controller GUI IPMI 2 0 e Embedded diagnostics Local OS install e Local updates e Driver pack e e Shared NIC LOM Remote update e Power control e e Power monitoring e e Encryption e IPv6 e Auto discovery E Auto recovery e Web GUI e 59 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide out Basic IDRAC7 iIDRAC7 Feature function management Express Enterprise Remote CLI Local SSH CLI Serial redirection Remote config Email alerts SNMP alerts Comprehensive monitoring o o Crash screen capture o Dedicated NIC 1Gbps 100MB in iDRAC6 e Part replacement Backup and restore configurations Virtual console 4 user Virtual console chat Support for customer supplied SD cards for vFlash media Virtual flash partitions Virtual media Virtual folders Remote file share Crash video playback Boot record playback Power capping Enterprise group power management Directory services AD LDAP PK authentication Two factor authentication Rack and tower systems only Feature available with IPMI not web GUI Requires OMSA agent on target server Uses Microsoft ActiveX on I
45. n technologies such as high efficiency power conversion and advanced thermal management techniques and embedded power management features including high accuracy power monitoring The 1420 power supply subsystem consists of a single cabled power supply or up to two AC DC redundant power supplies The following power supply options are available for the 1420 e 550W AC cabled non redundant e 495W AC hot plug redundant e 5OW AC hot plug redundant e 1100W AC hot plug redundant 29 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide out Figure 8 shows a 750W power supply unit extended from the 1420 chassis Figure 8 750W power supply unit The PowerEdge T420 supports up to two PSUs with 1 1 redundancy auto sensing and auto switching capability The 1420 also supports PSU 2 0 configurations for configurations that exceed the output of a single PSU in this case 1 1 redundancy is not supported Use the Dell Energy Smart Solution Advisor at Dell com ESSA to help you configure your system optimal power performance Dell PSUs have achieved Platinum efficiency levels as shown in Table 17 Table 17 Power supply efficiency Efficiency targets by load Form factor Output 100 495W AC Platinum 82 0 90 0 94 0 91 0 Redundant 86mm 750W AC Platinum 82 0 90 0 94 0 91 0 1100W AC Platinum 89 0 93 0 94 5 92 0 Non redundant 550W AC Silver N A 85 0 88 0 85 0 Thermal and acoustics Optimized thermal management makes the PowerEdge 1420 cool
46. nal dual SD module enables Dell s unique failsafe virtualization architecture ensuring uptime by providing failover capability for embedded hypervisors such as VMware vSphere ESXITM See the Supported virtualization section for details Failsafe hypervisors Failure of one fan rotor Is tolerated with degradation in performance through Fan fault tolerance active throttling and increased fan speeds This feature helps reduce downtime by allowing you to schedule a fan replacement within 560 hours of a fan failure 6 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide out 2 System features Compared to the previous generation PowerEdge 1410 the 1420 supports up to 33 more processor cores 50 more DIMM slots 166 more internal hard drive storage capacity and the greater I O bandwidth of PCle 3 0 Its high quality is backed by high availability features including redundant SD cards for failsafe hypervisors and soft fault tolerant fans and optional features such as redundant high efficiency power supplies and hot plug hard drives Comparison of PowerEdge systems The 1420 is the new generation PowerEdge server replacing the 1410 Table 2 compares some of the 1420 features to the 1410 features Comparing the PowerEdge 1410 to PowerEdge T420 Table 2 Feature Chassis Processors Internal interconnect Memory Hard drive bays RAID controller PCI slots Embedded NICs Power supplies Dell OpenManage Systems Management Internal GPU P
47. nternet Explorer only 40 PowerEdge 420 Technical Guide Agent based management Most systems management solutions require pieces of software called agents to be installed on each node in order to be managed within the IT environment Additionally the same agent is often used as a local interface into the hardware health and may be accessed remotely as a management interface typically referred to as a one to one interface For customers that continue to use agent based solutions Dell provides OpenManage Server Administrator OpenManage Server Administrator The Dell OpenManage Server Administrator OMSA agent gives you a comprehensive one to one systems management solution for both local and remote servers and their storage OMSA can help simplify single server monitoring with a secure command line interface CLI or Web based management graphical user interface GUI It can also be used to view system configuration inventory health and performance Agent free management Because Dell PowerEdge servers have embedded server lifecycle management in many cases there Is no need to install an OpenManage systems management software agent into the operating system of a Dell PowerEdge server This greatly simplifies and streamlines the management footprint Dell consoles The central console in a systems management solution is often referred to as the one to many console The central console provides a rapid view and insight into the ov
48. or 16 x 2 5 hot plug SAS SATA or SSD drives Hot plug hard drive options Hard drives 2 5 SATA 7 2K nearline SAS 7 2K SAS 15K 10K SAS SSD SATA SSD 3 5 SATA 7 2K nearline SAS 7 2K SAS 15K Self encrypting drives available Cabled hard drive options 5 5 SATA or SAS Embedded NIC Broadcom 5720 1GbE Dual Port LOM 1Gb Ethernet Broadcom 5720 Dual Port 1Gb Base T I O adapter options Broadcom 5 19 Quad Port 1Gb Base T Intel 1550 Dual Port 1Gb Base T Intel 1550 Quad Port 1Gb Base T 8 PowerEdge 420 Technical Guide Feature PowerEdge T420 technical specification 10Gb Converged Ethernet Brocade BR1020 Dual Port 10Gb SPF QLogic QLE8262 Dual Port 10Gb DA SFP Broadcom 5 8105 Dual Port 10Gb Base T Broadcom 57810S Dual Port 10Gb DA SFP 10Gb Ethernet Intel X520 Dual Port 10Gb DA SFP Intel X540 Dual Port 10Gb Base T FC8 FC4 HBA QLogic QLE2460 Single Port 4Gbps QLogic QLE2462 Dual Port 4Gbps QLogic QLE2560 Single Port 8Gbps QLogic QLE2562 Dual Port 8Gbps Emulex LPe 12000 E Single Port 8Gbps Emulex LPe 12002 E Dual Port 8Gbps Brocade 815 Single Port 8Gbps Brocade 825 Dual Port 8Gbps Platinum efficiency 495W 750W or 1100W power supply Power supply Silver efficiency cabled 550W power supply Auto ranging power supplies Optional high efficiency hot plug redundant power supplies hot plug hard drives TPM dual internal SD support redundant fans optional bezel information tag ECC Pana BIO
49. or 5 5 inch hot plug drive bays e 16x2 5 inch hot plug drive bays Supported hard drives The T420 supports up to sixteen 2 5 inch or eight 3 5 inch hard drives or solid state drives Self encrypting drives SED are available Table 12 lists more information about these drives For additional information see Dell com PowerEdge Table 12 Supported hard drives Form Speed Capacities factor rom Nearline SAS 7 2K 500G 1TB SAS 10K 300GB 600GB 900GB SAS 15K 146GB 500GB 2 5 SAS SSD N A 200GB 400GB SATA SSD N A 100GB 200GB SATA 7 2K 250GB 500GB ITB SATA 7 2K 500GB 1TB 2TB 3TB 5 5 Nearline SAS 7 2K LIB 2TB STB SAS 15K 500GB 600GB External storage External storage for the 1420 is available through SAS 6Gbps For more information see Dell com Storage 25 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Storage controllers Dell provides highly capable RAID options for you to ensure that your data remains safe Dell s RAID controller options offer impressive performance improvements including the following features o FastPath I O This feature can help accelerate performance when operating on SSDs e Split mirror This function allows you to break mirrored disk connection in order to quickly replace a drive e Physical disk power management Dimmer Switch M This feature allows for power control of spare or idle drives which can save energy and operating expenses Supported RAID controllers The newest line of PERC PowerE
50. ower efficiency Availability PowerEdge T410 5U tower Intel Xeon processors 5500 and 5600 series Intel QuickPath Interconnect Up to 8 x DDR3 RDIMM and UDIMM Upto 6x 350r 2 0 hot plug or cabled PERC 6 i SAS 6 iR PERC 6 H200 H700 H800 S100 500 Up to 4 PCle 2 0 and 1 PCle 1 0 Dual Broadcom 1GbE LOM Non redundant 525W Redundant 580W Dell OpenManage Dell Management Console DMC Lifecycle Controller 1 x IDRACO Express or Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller Not supported Gold Hot plug drives Hot plug redundant power supply units Optional kit available for field conversion from tower to rackable unit GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating environment and will be less PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide PowerEdge T420 5U rackable tower Intel Xeon processor E5 2400 product family Intel QuickPath Interconnect Up to 12 x DDR3 RDIMM and UDIMM 16 x 2 5 hot plug or 8 x 3 5 2 5 hot plug or 4 x 3 5 cabled PERC H310 H 10 H710P H810 5110 Up to 4 PCle 5 0 and 2 PCle 2 0 Dual Broadcom 1GbE LOM Non redundant 550W or hot plug redundant 495W 750W or 1100W OpenManage Essentials Dell Management Console IT Assistant OMSA Agent OpenManage Power Center requires iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller OpenManage Integrations and Connections Basic management standard option Up to 2
51. owerEdge 1420 Technical Guide mounted in the back of the rack such as power distribution units PDUs and the overall depth of the rack For detailed information about sliding rails see the Rack rail specifications section in Appendix A For more information on installing the 1420 in a rack see the Rack Installation Instructions on Support Dell com Manuals Cable management arm The optional CMA organizes and secures the cords and cables exiting the back of the server and unfolds to allow the server to extend out of the rack without having to detach the cables Some key features of the 1420 CMA include e e e e Large U shaped baskets to support dense cable loads Open vent pattern for optimal airflow Ability to be mounted on either side Use of hook and loop straps rather than plastic tie wraps to eliminate the risk of cable damage during cycling Low profile fixed tray to both support and retain the CMA in its fully closed position Ability to mount the CMA and tray without the use of tools due to snap in designs 54 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide 10 Operating systems and virtualization The Dell PowerEdge 1420 supports a wide range of industry standard operating systems and virtualization software Supported operating systems Table 20 lists the primary operating systems supported on the 1420 For the latest information on supported operating systems see Dell com OSsupport Table 20 Primary operating system suppor
52. provides the ability to identify a specific failing DIMM channel pair thereby enabling the user to replace only the failed DIMM pair Memory mirroring Memory mirroring is a method of keeping a duplicate secondary or mirrored intra socket copy of the contents of memory as a redundant backup for use if the primary memory fails The mirrored copy of the memory is stored in memory of the same processor socket Memory address parity This feature provides the ability to detect transient errors on the address lines of protection the DDR channel Memory sparing rank Memory sparing allocates one rank per channel as a spare If excessive correctable errors occur in a rank or channel it is moved to the spare area while the operating system is running to prevent the error from causing an uncorrectable failure Memory thermal This feature helps to optimize power performance and can also be used to throttling prevent DIMMs from overheating For information on memory mirroring and sparing configurations see the Dell PowerEdge 1420 Systems Owner s Manual on Support Dell com Manuals 22 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide out 6 Storage The Dell PowerEdge 1420 supports internal and external storage options and controllers different drive types and different chassis configurations for a varied number of drives Internal storage The T420 has one chassis that supports three different drive bay options e 4x 5 5 inch cabled drive bays e 8x2 5 inch
53. rated PCle 3 0 capable expansion slots The T420 supports up to six PCle slots Embedded NIC controller The T420 system board has one embedded NIC controller The Broadcom 5720 Gigabit NIC chip is connected to the platform controller hub through a PCle 2 0 x 2 link The Broadcom 5720 is a 14 generation 10 100 1000Base T Ethernet LAN controller solution suitable for high performance server applications The Broadcom 5 20 combines dual triple speed IEEE 802 5 compliant Media Access Controllers MACs with dual 10 100 1000 Ethernet transceivers PHYs selectable individually per port a network controller sideband interface NC SI and an on chip memory buffer in a single device The device provides a PCle 2 1 compliant interface which operates at 5GT s or 2 5GT s x2 link width PCle expansion The T420 provides expanded PCle slot capability over the previous servers This is made possible by the 24 PCle lanes available from each processor in the system Dell designed the T420 to be PCle 5 0 compliant in order to take full advantage of the processor capabilities PCle slots PCle connectivity is integrated with the processor in that the number of processors in a system impacts the number of PCle slots and the bandwidth of each PCle slot For a system with one processor five of the PCle slots are available For a system with two processors all six slots are available PCle expansion cards The T420 supports a variety of PCle expansion car
54. roduct family support 1600MT s memory The T420 supports two DIMMs per channel at 1600MT s with certain models See the Memory section for details 1600MT s DDR3 memory Next generation PERC The 1420 supports the new PERC controller cards with improved functionality and options faster performance See the Storage section for details This new software RAID solution supports RAID O 1 5 and 10 and supports a maximum of four hot plug SATA hard drives or SATA solid state drives See the Storage section for details PERC S110 software RAID Solution The new embedded system management solution for Dell servers features IDRAC7 with Lifecycle hardware and firmware inventory and alerting in depth memory alerting faster Controller performance a dedicated gigabit port and many more features See the Dell OpenManage systems management section for details The T420 supports internal graphics processing units GPUs for virtual desktop Stele SUPRON infrastructure VDI and medical imaging See the Processor section for details The 1420 supports advanced power monitoring and power capping tools that can help manage power consumption See the Power thermal and acoustics section for details Advanced power management Dell has tested and validated an integrated data center solution that enables you Fresh Air cooling to operate at higher temperatures or even chiller less See the Power thermal and acoustics section for details The inter
55. s to deploy large numbers of servers in a reliable fashion RACADM The RACADM command line utility provides a scriptable interface that allows you to locally or remotely configure DRAC7 IPMITool IPMITool includes scriptable console application programs used to control and manage remote systems using the IPMI version 1 5 and later protocol Integration with third party consoles Dell OpenManage easily integrates with several leading third party consoles including Dell Server Management Pack Suite for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager SCOM This suite of server management packs enables several functions through System Center Operations Manager including in band discovery and monitoring of racks and towers out of band discovery and monitoring through IDRAC with Lifecycle Controller as well as performance and advanced monitoring Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration DLCI for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager SCCM This pack contains Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration DLCI which integrates OpenManage functions in SCCM to manage the Dell PowerEdge servers including auto discovery operating system deployment and configuration of hardware elements RAID NIC BIOS IDRAC OS and hypervisor agnostic updates firmware management and system viewer utilities Dell Server PRO Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM This pack manages Dell physical servers and ho
56. sts of virtual machines VMs by using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager System Center Essentials SCOM SCE and System Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM It provides guidance for remedial actions based on alerts to best manage virtual machines and handle the impacts appropriately Dell Management Plug in for VMware vCenter This plug in allows IT administrators to monitor provision and manage the physical PowerEdge server hardware and firmware from a dedicated Dell menu accessed through the VMware vCenter console using the same role based access control model as vCenter combining physical server management BMC Software Dell and BMC Software work together to simplify IT by ensuring tight integration between Dell server storage and network management functionality and the BMC Software process and data center automation products 42 PowerEdge 420 Technical Guide OpenManage connections with third party consoles Dell OpenManage provides connections with many third party consoles including e Dell OpenManage Connection for Computer Associates Network and Systems Management his connection allows you to monitor PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage arrays from within the Computer Associates Network and Systems Management CA NSM console e Dell OpenManage Connection for HP Operations Manager his connection enables several functions through HP Operations Manager including auto grouping SNMP trap reception globa
57. t Operating System Platform Edition x52 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 8 SP8 64 N A X Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 2 SP2 x64 N A SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 x64 N A SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 x64 N A Standard Microsoft Windows Server 2012 x64 Data center Standard Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 x64 l Premium Add on x64 Web Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 with Hyper V Standard role enabled Enterprise Not validated for use with GPUs 55 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Supported virtualization One of the key features for virtualization on the PowerEdge 1420 is the support for a fail safe hypervisor By running a hypervisor on an optional SD card and installing a backup copy on the other mirrored SD card you can protect against hardware failure and maximize virtualization uptime Table 21 highlights the virtualization support for the 1420 Table 21 Virtualization support Operating systems Version Options vSphere v4 1 U2 vSphere v4 1 U2 VMware vSphere v4 1 U2 vSphere v5 0 U1 vSphere v5 1 Citrix XenServer v6 O Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization v3 0 Fl factory install DIB drop in box Sphere Fault Tolerance is supported with these versions ESX Classic ESXi Installable ESXi Embedded ESXi one version ESXi one version N A N A No OpenManage support drop in box license registration card only 56 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide DIB
58. threaded hole racks with the ReadyRails II mounting interface Sliding rails The ReadyRails II sliding rails for the 1420 support tool less mounting in 19 wide EIA 510 E compliant square hole and unthreaded round hole 4 post racks The rails also support tooled mounting in threaded hole 4 post racks and are available with or without the optional cable management arm CMA The rails ship in the tool less mounting configuration but can be easily converted to the tooled configuration The optional CMA can be mounted on either the left or right side of the sliding rails without the use of tools for fast and easy deployment The T420 is backward compatible with the T610 rails and CMA The 1420 supports sliding rails only Static rails are not supported Mounting in 2 post racks is not supported Figure 9 shows the sliding rails with the CMA installed Figure 9 Sliding rails with optional CMA Table 19 lists the supported rack types for the 1420 Table 19 Supported rack types Rack Types Supported Rail Product Identifier Mounting Interface Rail Type 4 Post 2 Post Square Round Thread Flush Center 1420 Ce ReadyRails Il Sliding v v v X X Screws are not included in the kit due to the fact that threaded racks are offered with a variety of thread designations Other factors to consider when deploying the T420 include the spacing between the front and rear mounting flanges of the rack the type and location of any equipment 55 P
59. tober 2012 Version 2 0 ii PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide out Table of contents NES O oa ol eee ee o ep 9 qaigeejeio D NEW EEO OGI O cC m 6 CEA C NI cIi ERNEUT Comparison or PowerEdge SVUSLelTIS ssec niuis aqec tet Tace Ad RUE POUR E DETUR DN EGRE MuR 7 P O RERO A Ex E EEECR 8 5 Chassis views and features sese eeeeenee eerie RR R 3 R3 R RN RR RN 4 ARR NER EESERRRRNYA AR A RR RR NR ARRA ARR P ERR RRRR NY a Fa aaa sss daa Eneee 11 0 2 11 ES OM A SS E T 14 a f OP A 17 a A o oo OS PU EEE OE EE EE EE EAEE 17 SUDO POCOS SES acti 17 CUE A EEEE E e ii Pe RE 0 Oo 18 CAID paper cee eet eect een ete artnet Aca ance E utter EEA E EE E eet And E AE EEE 18 3S i0o pt 19 Poco et i9 Em tmm 19 Menor COSA CULONAS raras ta TQ DEN 20 991019 ES e T T ER En A ee 21 Memon dai e o e e no 21 Mio Es 9 NOIL o e o na 25 laa Eo o ASAS A nn 25 Hi a D m uc ean ta cence esl E T 25 OS CONOS MR tm 24 Senar Kedi M vce Ad aid 2 E AA O II A N 25 E E M OPA A Po o TEE A E TET 26 EMbedasa NIC CONOUG costra na een 26 A PP 26 S POWER Hernia ana AEQUSIOS quM rcc 28 Power consumption and energy efficiency ari cu xerit Ra wan ne Ru ui ra UR nu E nnn 28 els aee
60. tures listed in Table 6 to help ensure the security of your data center Table 6 Security features Security feature Description A tooled latch is integrated on the chassis top of rack chassis or side of tower Cover latch chassis with a coin key lock to secure the system An optional metal bezel is mounted to the chassis front to provide the Dell ID A lock on the bezel protects un authorized access to the hard drives and optical Bezel drive Although the bezel has an open area to allow access to the tape backup in bay 2 the rest of the system remains locked System status is viewable on the LCD screen when the bezel is installed The Trusted Platform Module TPM is used to generate store keys protect authenticate passwords and create store digital certificates It also TPM supports the Intel Xeon TXT functionality TPM can also be used to enable the BitLocker M hard drive encryption feature in Windows Server 2008 TPM 1 2 is supported No TPM version is available for China or Russia Power off security BIOS has the ability to disable the power button function Intrusion alert An internal switch is used to detect chassis intrusion BIOS has the ability to enter a secure boot mode through system setup This Secure mode mode includes the option to lock out the power and NMI switches on the control panel or set up a system password 16 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide out 4 Processor The Dell PowerEdge 1420 features the Int
61. undancy and hot pluggability of key components helps to protect data and keep the business running The T420 is an excellent fit for a wide range of applications including workgroup collaboration email file and print and small to mid size database applications such as Business Analytics and Intelligence In addition the 1420 s performance and capacities make it highly attractive for consolidation and virtualization A versatile workhorse Featuring the powerful performance of two Intel Xeon processors E5 2400 product family and complemented by substantial memory capacity and broad I O bandwidth the T420 provides high balanced performance and built in room for growth Its twelve DIMM slots and six PCle slots provide memory density and wide I O bandwidth to support both memory intensive and data intensive applications and databases Built in capacity for up to eight 3 5 inch or sixteen 2 5 inch hard drives accommodate data storage as your business or organization grows These combined technology features are highly beneficial when implementing consolidated and virtualized environments a role in which the T420 also shines To protect your virtualized workloads the PowerEdge 1420 offers dual SD media making your hypervisors redundant and 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 PowerEdge server line The Power
62. wer as defined by ISA S71 04 1985 Video specifications The Dell PowerEdge 1420 IDRAC incorporates an integrated video subsystem The graphics controller is the 2D Matrox G200 The video frame buffer 16MB is contained within the iDRAC RAM 256MB device The T420 system supports the 2D graphics video modes listed in Table 27 and Table 28 Table 27 Supported video modes for back VGA port Resolution Refresh Rate Hz Color Depth bit 640 x 480 60 70 8 16 32 800 x 600 60 75 8 16 52 1024 x 768 60 75 0 10 32 1152 x 864 60 75 8 16 32 1280 x 1024 60 9 115 52 Table 28 Supported video modes for front VGA port Resolution Refresh Rate Hz Color Depth bit 640 x 480 60 70 8 16 32 800 x 600 60 75 8 16 32 1024 x 768 60 9 10 32 Rack rail specifications Table 29 lists the spacing dimensions for the T420 sliding rails 47 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide Table 29 Rail adjustability range Rail adjustability range mm Rail depth mm Rail ene identifier Rail type Square Round Threaded without with CMA CMA Min Max Min Max Min Max 1420 C2 Sliding 686 7 756 072 749 686 7 1 760 840 The adjustment range of the rails is a function of the type of rack in which they are being mounted The min max values listed above represent the allowable distance between the front and rear mounting flanges in the rack Rail depth without the CMA represents the minimum depth of the rails with the outer CMA brackets re
63. wer supply is recommended e System can support only one 5 25 inch device Operating system support for GPUs Some operating systems have not been validated to support GPUs See Table 20 for more information on operating system support of GPUs Chipset The Intel C600 chipset is implemented on the PowerEdge 1420 For more information visit InteLcom 18 PowerEdge 1420 Technical Guide 5 Memory More options are available for the Dell PowerEdge 12 generation servers than in previous generations more capacity choices and more frequency choices The PowerEdge 1420 supports up to 584GB of memory with speeds of up to 1600MT s providing high performance in a variety of applications The new reliability availability serviceability RAS features like memory mirroring and sparing help you increase your uptime and reduce data loss RAS aids in the rapid and accurate diagnosis of faults that require service increasing your memory reliability Supported memory The T420 supports the memory technologies shown in Table 8 Table 8 Memory technologies supported Feature UDIMM RDIMM Register No Yes Buffer No No Frequencies 800 1066 or 1533MT s 800 1066 1333 or 1600MT s Ranks supported lor 2 1 2 or4 Capacity per DIMM 2 or 4GB 2 4 8 16 or 52GB Maximum DIMMs per channel 2 2 DRAM technology x8 x4 or x8 Temperature sensor Yes Yes Error Correction Code ECC Yes Yes adi A ESOS Yes with advanced ECC mode Yes Address parity Y

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