Dell EMC Poweredge R640

Introduction

The PowerEdge R640 is a general-purpose platform with up to twelve 2.5-inch drives and versatile I/O options. It's a dual-socket, 1U platform that's perfect for dense scale-out data center computing. Virtualization, dense private cloud, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and software-defined storage are only a few of the demanding workloads that the R640 can manage.

Features

Ideal for Data Centre Applications

 In comparison to the previous version, the Dell PowerEdge R640 has 27% more processing cores, making it suitable for data center applications. This model is built with the best-supported drives to reduce latency and improve application efficiency. The cyber resilient protection, device erase technology, and EMC in R640 manage the portfolio to aid in the automation of many processes.

1U Compact Server for Small Offices

 The R640 server has a 1 rack unit form factor, allowing it to fit into even the tightest of spaces. The server comes with the best features that help to optimize application density and efficiency, even though it is suitable for small offices. Since it is built to lower the overall cost of ownership, the compact server is affordable for small businesses.

 High-performance server with customizability

The Dell R640 is a high-performance server with a flexible architecture that maximizes business performance while allowing configuration flexibility. Additionally, with the Dell PowerEdge R640, you can customize the processor, RAM, and storage space to meet your specific business needs.

Processor:

Up to two 2nd Generation Intel®

Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 28 cores per processor

Memory:

24 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, speeds up to 2933MT/s, 3TB max

Up to 12 NVDIMM, 192 GB Max

Up to 12 Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory DCPMM, 6.14TB max, (7.68TB max with DPCMM + LRDIMM)

Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only 

Drive bays:

Front drive bays: Up to 10 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) with up to 8 NVMe SSD max 76.8TB or up to 10 NVMe drives max 64TB, or up to 4 x 3.5” SAS/SATA HDD max 64TB

Rear drive bays: Up to 2 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD), NVMe SSD max 15.36TB Optional DVD-ROM, DVD+RW 

I/O & Ports:

Networking Options:

4 x 1GbE 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE 4 x 10GbE 2 x 25GbE

Front Ports: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC direct USB 1 x USB 2.0 1 x USB 3.0 (optional) 1 x Video

Rear Ports: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC network port 1 x Serial 2 x USB 3.0 1 x Video

PCIe: 3 x Gen3 slots all x16 Video Card: 2 x VGA 

Supported operating systems:

Canonical® Ubuntu® LTS

Citrix® Hypervisor 

Microsoft Windows Server® LTSC with Hyper-V

Oracle® Linux

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server

VMware® ESXi