Start building your future with PowerEdge T420, a workhorse tower server engineered to deliver performance, expandability and reliability in a quiet office setting.
Productive performance
Help enhance office productivity with the 2-socket PowerEdge™ T420, powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 family. Matching the fast and efficient processing with a dense memory footprint enables small and midsize business offices to crunch through critical business applications quickly and efficiently.
Advanced I/O
Improve your I/O capabilities for data intensive tasks through PCIe expansion slots and optional internal GPU acceleration.
Versatile storage
Tailor your storage capacity to fit your needs. The PowerEdge T420 features up to 16 hot-swap drive bays to help maximize data management efficiency.
Designed to grow with you
Implement the T420s versatile performance and efficient management as an office tower server or mount as a rack server as you grow into larger data centers.
Intelligent systems management
Simplify deploying,updating,monitoring and maintaining your PowerEdge servers with the Dell OpenManage portfolio.
Simplify deploying,updating,monitoring and maintaining your PowerEdge servers with the Dell OpenManage portfolio.
Outstanding efficiency and availability
Help keep your workplace efficient, your operating expenses in check and your workflow secure with the T420s designed-in reliability, availability and serviceability features.
Help keep your workplace efficient, your operating expenses in check and your workflow secure with the T420s designed-in reliability, availability and serviceability features.
Flexible deployment
Easily deploy the T420 as an office-environment tower or take advantage of its rack-mount capability to move it into the data center as your business grows.
Easily deploy the T420 as an office-environment tower or take advantage of its rack-mount capability to move it into the data center as your business grows.
The new generation PowerEdge experience
Make IT the engine for your business success. The newest generation of PowerEdge family is engineered with the right combination of features and performance scalability to handle tough workloads for both large and small data center environments.
Improve operational efficiency with enhanced systems management
Streamline operations and help boost productivity to get the most out of every dollar spent. Manage your Dell PowerEdge servers in complex IT environments by automating the most essential server life cycle management tasks: deploy, update, monitor and maintain. For more information, visit dell.com/openmanage.
Global Services and Support
Dell Services can help reduce IT complexity, lower costs and eliminate inefficiencies by making IT and business solutions work harder for you. The Dell Services team takes a holistic view of your needs and designs solutions for your environment and business objectives while using established delivery methods, local talent and in-depth domain knowledge to help you lower your total cost of ownership.
Specifications
Processor
- Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 product family
Processor Sockets:
2
Internal Interconnect:
Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) link: 6.4GT/s; 7.2GT/s; 8.0 GT/s
Cache:
2.5MB per core; core options: 4, 6, 8
Operating System
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V)
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Virtualization options:
Citrix XenServer
VMware vSphere ESXi
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Chipset
- 2 x 500GB 3.5-inch 7.2K RPM SATA II Hard Drive - Non Hotplug
Drive Bays
- Choose from four 3.5 cabled, eight 3.5 hot-plug, or sixteen 2.5 hot-plug drive bays
Slots
- 6 PCIe slots:
Two x16 slot s with x16 bandwidth, 3.0, full-length, full-height
One x8 slot with x4 bandwidth, 3.0, half-length, full-height
One x8 slot with x4 bandwidth, 2.0, half-length, full-height
One x8 slot with x4 bandwidth, 3.0, full-length, full-height
One x8 slot with x1 bandwidth, 2.0, full-length, full-height
GPU options:
One NVIDIA Quadro 6000 graphics card or up to two NVIDIA Quadro 4000 graphics card
RAID Controllers
- Internal controllers:
PERC S110 (SW RAID)
PERC H310
PERC H710
PERC H710P
External HBAs (RAID):
PERC H810
External HBAs (non-RAID):
6Gbps SAS HBA
Network Controller
- Embedded NIC:
Broadcom 5720 GbE Dual Port 1Gb LOM
I/O adapter options:
1Gb Ethernet:
Broadcom 5720 Dual Port 1Gb NIC
Broadcom 5719 Quad Port 1Gb NIC
Intel I350 Dual Port 1Gb stand-up adapter
Intel I350 Quad Port 1Gb stand-up adapter
10Gb Converged Ethernet:
Brocade BR1020 Dual Port 10Gb CNA
Qlogic QLE8262 Dual Port 10Gb DA/SFP+
Broadcom 57810S Dual Port 10Gb Base-T CNA
Broadcom 57810S Dual Port 10Gb DA/SFP+ CNA
10Gb Ethernet:
Intel X520
Dual Port 10Gb DA/SFP+ server adapter
Intel X540 Dual Port 10Gb Base-T adapter
FC8/FC4 HBA:
QLogic QLE2460 4Gb Single Port FC HBA
QLogic QLE2462 4Gb Dual Port FC HBA
QLogic QLE2560 8Gb Single Port FC HBA
OLogic QLE2562 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA
Emulex LPe-12000-E 8Gb Single Port FC HBA
Emulex LPe-12002-E 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA
Brocade 815 8Gb Single Port FC HBA
Brocade 825 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA
Power
- Power Supply:
Platinum efficiency, hot-plug, redundant 495W, 750W, 1100W power supplies
Silver efficiency, cabled 550W power supply
Auto-ranging power supplies
Availability
- Optional high-efficiency, hot-plug, redundant power supplies; hot-plug drive bays; TPM; dual internal SD support; redundant fans; optional bezel; luggage tag; ECC memory; optional interactive LCD screen; extended thermal support; ENERGY STAR compliant; switch independent partitioning
Chassis
- Form factor:
Tower (5U rackable)
Rack Support:
ReadyRails II sliding rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled mounting in 4-post threaded hole racks, with support for optional tool-less cable management arm (for rackable chassis model only)
Management
- Remote Management:
Basic management (default)
iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller
iDRAC7 Express (upgrade option) or iDRAC7 Enterprise (upgrade option)
8GB or 16GB vFlash media (upgrade options)
Systems Management:
IPMI 2.0 compliant
OpenManage Essentials and Dell Management Console
OpenManage Power Center
Dell OpenManage Connections:
OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center
Dell plug-in for VMware vCenter
HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli Netcool, and CA Network and Systems Management (NSM)
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