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Dell PowerEdge R520 CTO Server – With warranty and technical service for installation or support.
Dell PowerEdge R520 CTO Server – With warranty and technical service for installation or support.
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Product Description Dell PowerEdge R520 CTO Rack Server
A powerful 2-socket rack server, the Dell PowerEdge R520 offers balanced performance and storage scalability for data-intensive applications.
PowerEdge R520
- Up to 12 DIMMs with RAS
- PCIe 3.0-enabled expansion slots
- 8 3,5-inch drive bays with LCD diagnostics
- Powered by Intel Xeon E5-2400 processors
The Dell PowerEdge R520 is a 2-socket 2U rackmount server that offers an excellent balance of processing power, storage capacity and redundancy. The R520's price for performance, configuration flexibility and room for growth make it highly attractive for consolidation and virtualization, web hosting, for use as a mid-size email server or as a general purpose server. The R520 is optimized to run a wide variety of basic applications, such as small and medium-sized e-mail server, Web server, small-scale hosting and database server. Consistent worldwide support makes it highly attractive to larger companies and organizations with distributed offices.
Designed for demanding workloads
The R520's extensive memory, storage, and I/O capabilities make it ideal for consolidation and virtualization. Offering the performance of two Intel Xeon E5-2400 processors and complemented by up to twelve DIMMs, up to four PCIe 3.0-enabled slots and up to eight internal hard drives, the R520 delivers balanced performance. With integrated redundancy, the R520 is a trusted platform for your business-critical databases and applications. The R520's dense form factor and innovative systems management allow you to save space and use IT administrator time efficiently.
Manage and protect your data
Features that protect your business data and keep your server up and running are essential. The R520's extensive storage capacity can be protected with hardware RAID controllers and software solutions to protect your data and ensure it is readily available. Built-in reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features such as hot-plug hard drives and power supplies minimize the need to interrupt production work to take a server offline in the event of a component failure. Redundant and fail-safe hypervisors also add an additional layer of protection to virtualized environments.
R520 frame
R520 (8 x 3,5 inches)
Performance and scalability
Get more from a wide range of applications with the configuration flexibility and scalability of the PowerEdge R520.
Flexible computing platform
Meet your key business applications and virtualization requirements with the power and versatility of the PowerEdge R520. With Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families and up to 12 DIMMs of memory, the R520 is designed to deliver the best combination of performance, built-in features, and optional features for your growing business.
High Capacity Storage Options
Configure storage options according to your needs. The PowerEdge R520 allows you to customize your system with up to eight internal drives, four PCI Express (PCIe) expansion slots, and hardware or software RAID options for data protection.
Extended I/O bandwidth
Get results quickly for your data-intensive applications and databases with PCIe 3.0-enabled expansion slots and flexible I/O options.
Operational efficiency
Take advantage of the R520's scalable design and a wide range of reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features to help drive your business growth.
Scalable Storage Density
Be able to grow your business and meet unpredictable application demands with the R520's high scalable capacity.
Intelligent systems management
Simplify deployment, upgrade, monitoring and maintenance of your PowerEdge servers with the Dell OpenManage portfolio.
Excellent server reliability
Take advantage of PowerEdge RAS features that help ensure fast and highly available service from your R520 server.
R520 rear
| Features | PowerEdge R520 technical specification | |
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| Form factor | 2U Rack | |
| Processors | Intel Xeon E5-2400 processor product family | |
| Processor sockets | 2 | |
| Internal interconnection | Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) link: 6.4GT / s; 7,2 GT/s; 8.0GT / s | |
| cache | 2,5 MB per core; main options: 4, 6, 8 | |
| chipset | Intel C600 series | |
| Memory | Up to 384 GB (12 DIMM slots): 2 GB / 4 GB / 8 GB / 16 GB / 32 GB DDR3 up to 1600 MT / s | |
| I/O slots | 4 PCIe slots: With two processors: One PCIe x16 slot with x16, 3.0 bandwidth, half length, half height One PCIe x16 slot with x8, 3.0 bandwidth, total length, total height Two PCIe x16 slots with x8, 3,0, bandwidth half length, full height |
With a processor: One PCIe x8 slot with x4, 2.0, half-length bandwidth, half height One x16 PCIe slot with x8 bandwidth, 3.0, length full height Two PCIe x8 slots with x4, 3.0, half-length bandwidth, total height |
| RAID controller | Internal controllers: PERC S110 (RAID SW) PERC H310 PERC H710 PERC H710P |
External HBAs (RAID): PERC H810 External HBAs (non-RAID): 6 Gbps SAS HBA |
| Drive bays | Up to eight 3,5 or 2,5 hot-plug SAS, SATA or SSD | |
| Maximum internal storage | Up to 32 TB | |
| Hard drives | Hot-plug hard drive options: SSD 2,5 SAS, SSD SATA, SAS (15K, 10K) or 3,5 SAS (15K), nearline SAS (7,2K), SATA (7,2K) available self-encryption units |
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| built-in NIC | Broadcom 5720 Dual Port 1Gb LOM | |
| I/O adapter options | 1 Gb Ethernet: Broadcom 5720 Dual Port 1Gb NIC Broadcom 5720 Quad Port 1Gb NIC Intel I350 Dual Port 1 Gb 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 |
FC16 / FC8 / FC4 HBA: QLogic QLE2460 4Gb Single Port FC HBA QLogic QLE2462 4Gb Dual Port FC HBA QLogic QLE2560 8Gb Single Port FC HBA QLogic QLE2562 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA QLogic QLE2660 16Gb Single Port FC HBA QLogic QLE2662 16Gb Dual Port FC HBA Emulex LPe-12000-E 8 Gb single port FC HBA Emulex LPe-12002-E 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA Brocade 815 8Gb FC HBA Single Port Brocade 825 8 Gb Dual Port FC HBA |
| Power | Titanium efficiency with autorange, 750W AC hot-plug redundant power supply; Platinum efficiency with auto range, 750W or 495W AC hotplug redundant power supply; Silver efficiency with automatic range, 550 W wired power supply; Source of 1100W DC power supply |
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| Availability | Redundant, hot-plug and high-efficiency power supplies; DC power supply; hot-plug hard drives; TPM; dual built-in SD support; fan fault tolerance; optional frame; information tag; ECC memory, interactive LCD screen; ENERGY STAR Compliant ; extended power range; toggle independent partitioning |
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| Remote management | Basic Management (default), iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller, iDRAC7 Express (upgrade), iDRAC7 Enterprise (upgrade), 8GB vFlash (upgrade), 16GB vFlash (upgrade) | |
| Systems management | OpenManage Essentials compatible with IPMI 2.0 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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| rack support | ReadyRails II slide rails for toolless mounting on 4-post racks with round holes, square or not threaded or tool mounting in 4 post threaded hole racks, with optional tool-less cable management arm support. ReadyRails static rails for tool-free mounting on 4-post racks with square or non-round holes threaded or tool-mounted on 4-post and 2-post threaded racks (Telco) |
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| Operational systems | Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V v2) Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Virtualization Options Red Hat Enterprise Linux : Citrix XenServer VMware vSphere including ESX and ESXi Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for more information on versions and specific additions, visit Dell.com/OSsupport. |
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