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Dell PowerEdge XE2420

A short-depth, dual-socket 2U edge server with front-accessible power and I/O (cold-aisle service) and support for up to four GPU/accelerator cards, built for harsh, non-datacenter environments such as retail, manufacturing, and telco/5G edge sites.

Memory

Slots
16 DIMM (DDR4 RDIMM/LR-DIMM, 12 of 16 balanced)
Max
1.75 TB with LRDIMM; 1 TB with RDIMM
Speed
Up to 2933 MT/s

Storage

Config 1A
2 × 2.5" SATA/NVMe, no PERC/HBA, max 15.36 TB
Config 2C
4 × 2.5" universal SAS/SATA/NVMe with PERC/HBA, max 61.44 TB
Config 3A
6 × EDSFF E1.L SSD, max 92.16 TB
Boot
BOSS HW RAID 1 with 2 × M.2 SATA SSDs (240 GB or 480 GB)
Note
In Config 2C, drive slots 2 and 3 do not support NVMe if only processor 1 is installed.

Graphics

Options
Up to 2 × PCIe x16 FHFL, 300 W passive (e.g. NVIDIA V100/V100S, NVIDIA RTX 6000) or up to 4 × PCIe x8, 75 W passive (e.g. NVIDIA T4)
Cages
Two reinforced GPU expansion cages, each with two 16-lane Gen3 PCIe slots

Expansion

Mezzanine
1 × OCP 2.0 Type 1 x8 mezzanine card slot
Low profile
1 × PCIe x8, low profile
Full height
Up to 2 × PCIe x16 FHFL or up to 4 × PCIe x8 FHFL (shared with GPU cages)
Storage expansion
Up to 2 × FE1 cards (in place of GPU cards), each supporting up to 20 × M.2 drives

Networking

LOM
2 × 1 GbE LOM
Mezzanine NIC
OCP 2.0 mezzanine: 2 × 1 GbE, 2 × 10 GbE SFP+, or 2 × 10 GbE BASE-T

Power

Supplies
2 × 2000 W AC or 2 × 1100 W DC, reverse-flow, hot-plug (N or N+1 redundant)
Cooling
6 hot-plug fans

Ports

Video
1 × VGA
USB
2 × USB 3.0, 1 × internal USB 3.0, 1 × micro-USB 2.0 (iDRAC Direct)
Serial
1 × serial
Management
Dedicated iDRAC9 network port

Physical

Dimensions (H×W×D)
86.92 mm × 444 mm × 483.95 mm
Weight
18.93 kg (41.65 lb), 6 × EDSFF E1.L configuration
Mounting
Static rails
Operating temperature
5–40°C (41–104°F); NEBS Level 3 tested for telco use

Management

Embedded
iDRAC9 (Express, or Enterprise/Datacenter with streaming telemetry)
Direct/API
iDRAC Direct, iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
Security
TPM 1.2/2.0, TCM 2.0 (optional), cryptographically signed firmware, Silicon Root of Trust, Secure Boot, System Erase

Operating systems

Supported
VMware ESXi, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows Server, Canonical Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Processors

  • Intel Xeon Gold 6226