Dell EMC Poweredge R740xd2

Introduction

With versatile storage and performance tools in a space-saving design, the R740xd2 addresses growing capacity and business demands. Businesses can improve application efficiency by using this server.

Features

Enterprise Content Server offering comprehensive data center protection

The R740xd2 brings compute closer to storage for faster response times. Large internal storage allows you to keep your data on premises securely. The R740xd2 employs cyber-resilient architecture to deliver the right data to your customers in a reliable and protected manner, while also preventing unwanted or malicious changes and ensuring data security through your server, hard drives, and RAID controllers.

Effectively Respond to data growth

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd2 allows you to expand while still saving space in a 2U rack. The R740xd2 has a variety of storage and performance options to help you meet the growing demands of your business and data. Furthermore, this PowerEdge model can handle huge data sets such as high-definition images, SDS, and large mailboxes.

Management of data centers got easier.

The Dell EMC OpenManage portfolio on the POWEREDGE R740xd2 lets you spend less time on routine maintenance. This server allows for complete lifecycle management, including firmware updates and automatic issues. You may also check the status of all connected physical and virtual disks and set alerts.

Processor:

Up to two 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 22 cores each

Memory :

16 DDR4 RDIMM slots, up to 2666MT/s, 1TB max

Drive Bays: 

Front drive bays: Up to 24 x 3.5” SAS/SATA (HDD) max 384TB, or up 16 x 3.5” SAS/SATA (HDD) plus up to 8 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (SSD)2 max 317.44TB

Rear drive bays: Up to 2 x 3.5” SAS/SATA (HDD) max 32TB or up to 2 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (SSD)* max 15.36TB

I&O and Ports Network options:

2 x 1GbE BaseT LOM + (optional LOM riser) 2 x 1GbE BaseT or 2 x10GbE SFP+ or 2 x 10GbE BaseT or 2x 25GbE SPF+ or 2 x 16Gb Fibre Channel 

Front ports: 1 x USB 3.0, 1 managed (micro-usb), dedicated IDRAC Direct USB. Rear ports: Video, serial, iDRAC dedicated LAN, 2 x USB 3.0

Internal ports: 1 x USB 3.0

Video card: VGA PCIe: Up to 5 x Gen3 slots (3 x16 + 2 x4) 

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