7 PowerEdge R320 Technical Guide
2 System features
Compared to the previous generation of PowerEdge R310, the R320 supports up to 100% more
processor cores, enterprise-class RAS features including memory sparing and memory mirroring,
100% more internal hard drives, innovative systems management delivered by iDRAC7 with Lifecycle
Controller, and has a Dell Fresh Air compliant configuarion available. Table 2 compares some of the
features of the R320 to its R310 predecessor. Table 3 lists all of the R320ās specifications.
Comparison of PowerEdge systems
The R320 is the new generation PowerEdge server replacing the R310. Table 2 compares some of
the R320 features to those of the R310.
Table 2. Comparing the PowerEdge R310 to PowerEdge R320
Intel Xeon processors 3400 series
Intel Core
ā¢
i3 processor 500 series
Intel Pentium
Ā®
G6950
Intel Celeron
Ā®
G1101
Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2
product families
Intel Xeon processor E5-1410
Intel Pentium processor 1400 product family
4 x 1333 DDR3 UDIMM or
6 x 1333 DDR3 RDIMM
Up to 32GB
6 x DDR3 RDIMM and UDIMM
Up to 192GB
Hard drive bays
(hot-plug)
Up to 4 x 3.5ā cabled or hot-plug
Up to 4 x 3.5ā cabled or hot-plug
Up to 8 x 2.5ā hot-plug
PERC 6/i, SAS6/iR, PERC6/E, S100,
S300, H200, H700, H800
PERC S110, H310, H710, H810
1 PCIe 3.0 slot and 1 PCIe 2.0 slot
Broadcom
Ā®
Dual Port 1GbE LOM
Broadcom Dual Port 1GbE LOM
Non-redundant 350W
Redundant 400W
Non-redundant 350W
Redundant 350W
Redundant 550W
Dell OpenManage
Systems Management
Dell OpenManage
Lifecycle Controller 1.x
iDRAC6 (Express or Enterprise) with
Lifecycle Controller
OpenManage Essentials
OMSA Agent
OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7
Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller)
OpenManage Integrations and Connections
Basic management (standard option)