The Dell PowerEdge R520 is a 2-socket, 2U rack-mount server offering an excellent balance of processing power, storage capacity, and redundancy. The R520's price per performance, configuration flexibility, and headroom for growth make it highly appealing for consolidation and virtualization, web hosting, for use as a medium-size mail server, or as a general-purpose server. Tailor your system with up to eight internal drives, four PCI Express (PCIe) expansion slots and either hardware or software RAID options for data protection so you can leverage the PowerEdge R520's scalable design and wide array of reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features to help fuel your business growth.
Helpful features include:
- Extensive Performance - The high-density R520 design features up to 12 DIMMs to support both consolidated and virtualized environments.
- Scalable Storage Density - Put the balanced computing and scalable high-capacity storage of the PowerEdge R520 to work for you in a wide range of mainstream as well as data-intensive small-to-midsize business applications
- Unmatched Server Reliability - Numerous options exist within the R520 features that help ensure fast, highly available service
Form Factor: |
2U Rackmount Server |
Processors: |
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family Processor Socket: 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 |
Chipset: |
Intel C602 |
Memory: |
Up to 384GB (12 DIMM slots) 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600M T/s |
Slots: |
4 PCIe slots: With two processors: One x16 PCIe slot with x16 bandwidth, half-length, half-height One x16 PCIe slot with x8 bandwidth, full-length, full-height Two x16 PCIe slots with x8 bandwidth, half-length, full-height With one processor: One x8 PCIe slot with x4 bandwidth, half-length, half-height One x16 PCIe slot with x8 bandwidth, full-length, full-height Two x8 PCIe slots with x4 bandwidth, half-length, full-height |
Management: |
Remote Managment: Basic management (default) iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller iDRAC7 Express (upgrade) iDRAC7 Enterprise (upgrade) 8GB vFlash (upgrade), 16GB vFlash (upgrade) System Managment: IPMI 2.0 compliant OpenManage™ Essentials 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) |
RAID controller: |
Internal controllers: PERC S110 (SW RAID) PERC H310 PERC H710 PERC H710P External HBAs (RAID): PERC H810 External HBAs (non RAID): 6Gbps SAS HBA |
Drive Bays: |
Up to eight 3.5" hot-plug SAS, SATA or SSD |
Maximum Internal Storage: |
32TB |
Hard Drives: |
3.5" SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K, 10K), SAS SSD, SATA SSD Self-encrypting drives available |
NIC: |
Embedded NIC: Broadcom® 5720 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 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 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: |
Titanium efficiency, hot-plug redundant 750W power supply Platinum efficiency, hot-plug redundant 750W or 495W power supply Silver efficiency, cabled 550W power supply 91% efficiency, 1100W DC power supply Auto-ranging power supplies |
More information can be found on the official Dell PowerEdge R520 Specs PDF.
PowerEdge R520
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