Specifications

6 PowerEdge M420 Technical Guide
New technologies
A number of new technologies are featured on the PowerEdge M420 system, as shown in Table 1.
Table 1. New technologies
New technology
Detailed description
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 C602 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 second generation embedded systems management solution for Dell servers
provides agent-free hardware and firmware inventory and alerting, in-depth
memory alerting, faster performance, a dedicated gigabit port and many more
features.
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
®
vSphere
®
ESXi™ and Microsoft Windows Server
2012 Hyper-V.
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.