Specifications

6 PowerEdge M420 Technical Guide
A number of new technologies are featured on the PowerEdge M420 system, as detailed in Table 1.
New technologies
Detailed descriptions
Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor
E5-2400 product family
This new family of Intel processors has embedded PCI Express
®
(PCIe) lanes for
improved I/O performance and additional new features. See the Processors
section for details.
Intel C600 series chipset
The Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip is implemented on the M420.
Next-generation
PERC H310
The M420 supports the new Dell PERC H310 controller card with improved
functionality and faster performance. See the Storage section for details.
iDRAC7 with Lifecycle
Controller
The new embedded system management solution for Dell servers features
hardware and firmware inventory and alerting, in-depth memory alerting, faster
performance, a dedicated gigabit port and many more features. See the Systems
management section for details.
Advanced power
management
The M420 supports advanced power monitoring and power capping tools that can
help manage power consumption in the data center.
Failsafe hypervisors
The internal dual SD module enables Dell's unique Failsafe Virtualization
architecture, ensuring uptime by providing failover capability for embedded
hypervisors, such as VMware
®
ESXi™.
Fresh Air cooling
Dell has tested and validated an integrated data center solution that enables you to
operate at higher temperatures or even chiller-less. See the Power, thermal, and
acoustics section for details.