Dell EMC Poweredge R740

Introduction

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.

Features

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