Specifications

9 PowerEdge M420 Technical Guide
Feature
Technical specification
External storage:
For information about Dell external storage options, visit Dell.com/Storage
USB ports
2 front
NIC/LOM
Embedded Broadcom
®
57810S-k 2P 10Gb
I/O mezzanine card
options
1Gb/10Gb Adapters:
Broadcom 5719 Serdes 4P 1Gb
Intel I350 Serdes 4P 1Gb
Broadcom 57810S-k 2P 10Gb
Intel X520 – x/k 2P 10Gb
Qlogic
®
QME8262-k 2P 10Gb
Brocade
®
BR1741M-k 2P 10Gb
Infiniband:
Mellanox
®
FDR10 CX-3 40Gb
Fibre Channel:
QLogic QME2572 2P 8Gb
Emulex
®
LPe1205-M 2P 8Gb
I/O slots
One PCIe 3.0 x8 fully populated mezzanine card slot and switch modules yields 2
redundant I/O fabrics per blade
RAID controller
Internal controller:
PERC H310 embedded
Power supplies and
fans
Supplied by M1000e blade enclosure
Dell OpenManage
Systems Management
(Agent-free or with
OpenManage Server
Administrator [OMSA]
Agent)
 OpenManage Essentials
 Dell Management Console
 IT Assistant
 OMSA Agent
 OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle
Controller)
 Chassis Management Controller 4.x (available with the M1000e Modular Blade
Enclosure)
 OpenManage Integrations and Connections:
- OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft
®
System Center
- Dell Management Plug-in for VMware
®
vCenter™
- Connections for HP
®
Operations Manager, IBM
®
Tivoli
®
Netcool
®
and CA
Network and Systems Management
 iDRAC7 Express for Blades with Lifecycle Controller (standard option)
- Upgrade to iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller
- Upgrade to 8GB vFlash media or 16GB vFlash media for iDRAC7 Enterprise
with Lifecycle Controller
- Trial evaluation available for IDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller