The PowerEdge R740 was designed to accelerate application performance, leveraging accelerator cards and storage scalability. The 2-socket, 2U platform has the optimum balance of resources to power the most demanding environments. R740 provides the versatility to adapt to virtually any application.
Expand and optimize application performance
R740 has scalable business architecture and also offers free up storage space. Drives in R740 provide the versatility to adapt to virtually any application and provide the perfect platform for VDI deployments. It has improved compute resources with different processors.
Automate systems management with OpenManage
R740 is supported with Dell EMC OpenManage™ portfolio, and helps deliver efficiency for PowerEdge servers. Combined with unique agent-free management capabilities, the R740 is simply managed, freeing up time for high-profile projects.
Rely on PowerEdge with built-in security
The R740 has cyber resilient architecture that leverages new security features to strengthen protection to deliver and maintain data safety with cryptographically signed firmware packages. Further, you can prevent unauthorized or malicious change with Server Lockdown and clear data from storage media.
Processor:
Up to two Intel®
Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 28 cores per processor
Memory:
24 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, speeds up to 2666MT/s, 3TB max Up to 12 NVDIMM, 192 GB Max Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only
Drive bays Front drive bays:
Front drive bays: Up to 16 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) max 61TB or up to 8 x 3.5” SAS/SATA HDD max 96TB Optional DVD-ROM, DVD+RW
I/O & Ports:
Network daughter card options
4 x 1GE or 2 x 10GE + 2 x 1GE or 4 x 10GE or 2 x 25GE
Front ports: Video, 2 x USB 2.0, available USB 3.0, dedicated IDRAC Direct Micro-USB
Rear ports: Video, serial, 2 x USB 3.0, dedicated iDRAC network port
Video card: VGA
Riser options with up to 8 PCIe Gen 3 slots, maximum of 4 x 16 slots
Supported operating systems:
Canonical® Ubuntu® LTS
Citrix® XenServer®
Microsoft Windows Server® with Hyper-V
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server VMware® ESXi