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Dell PowerEdge R740

The DELL PowerEdge R740 is a general-purpose platform capable of handling demanding workloads and applications, such as data warehouses, e-commerce, databases, and high-performance computing (HPC).The scalable business architecture of the R740 can scale up to three 300W or six 150W GPUs, or up to four FPGAs. With up to 16 2.5” drives or 8 3.5” drives the R740 provides the versatility to adapt to virtually any application and provides the perfect platform for VDI deployments. 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.

  • Scale your VDI deployments with 3 double-width GPUs, supporting up to 50% more users when compared to R730.
  • Free up storage space using internal M.2 SSDs optimized for boot.
  • Scale compute resources with Intel® Xeon® Scalable delivering a 27% increase in processing cores and 50% increase in bandwidth over previous generation of Xeon processors.

Dell PowerEdge R740

Maximize your application performance with the PowerEdge R740 server, which brings you the perfect balance of accelerator cards, storage and compute resources in a 2U, 2-socket platform. With a wide range of GPU and FPGA options, the R740 has the versatility to adapt to virtually any application and provides the optimum platform for VDI deployments. The R740 offers up to 16 x 2.5” or 8 x 3.5” drives and iDRAC9, so you can scale to meet demands and simplify the entire IT lifecycle.

Internal View

1. Hard drive backplane 2. SAS expander card
3. Cooling fan (6) in the cooling fan assembly 4. Hard drive (4) in the hard drive tray
5. Mid hard drive backplane 6. Rear hard drive backplane
7. Hard drive (2 or 4) in the hard drive cage 8. System board
9. Expansion card riser 1 10. Integrated storage controller card
11. NVDIMM-N battery

Dell PowerEdge R740 - Features

General-purpose workhorse optimized for workload acceleration

Maximize your application performance with the PowerEdge R740 server, which brings you the perfect balance of accelerator cards, storage and compute resources in a 2U, 2-socket platform. With up to three 300W accelerator cards or six 150W cards, the R740 has the versatility to adapt to virtually any application and provides the optimum platform for VDI deployments. The R740 offers up to 16 x 2.5” or 8 x 3.5” drives and iDRAC9, so you can scale to meet demands and simplify the entire IT lifecycle.

Achieve IT transformation with the Dell EMC PowerEdge portfolio

The R740 is a general-purpose workhorse optimized for workload acceleration. With its versatility, the R740 can help you transform your data center for VDI, artificial intelligence and software-defined storage (SDS). Simplify and accelerate VMware vSAN™ deployments with validated, pre-bundled and tailored Ready Nodes. Scale compute resources with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, delivering a 27% increase in processing cores and 50% increase in bandwidth over previous generation of Xeon processors. Scale your VDI deployments with 3 double-width GPUs, supporting up to 50% more users when compared to R730. Free up storage space using internal M.2 SSDs optimized for boot.

Automate productivity with intelligent, embedded management

Dell automation and intelligent management mean you spend less time on routine maintenance so you can focus on bigger priorities. Help maximize uptime with proactive diagnostics and automated remediation that increase productivity up to 90%. Leverage existing management consoles with easy integrations for VMware® vSphere®, Microsoft® System Center and Nagios®. Help improve productivity with agent-free Dell iDRAC9 for automated, efficient management. Simplify deployment with Open Manage next-generation console and server profiles to fully configure and prep servers in rapid, scalable fashion.

Fortify your data center with comprehensive protection

Dell provides a comprehensive, cyber-resilient architecture with security embedded into every server to protect your data. Protect server configuration and firmware from malicious changes with new Configuration Lock-down. Use system erase of local storage to help ensure data privacy when you repurpose or retire servers. Automate updates that check file dependencies and proper update sequence, before deploying them independently from the OS/hypervisor. Take control of your firmware consoles with embedded authentication that is designed to allow only properly designed updates to run.

General
Type: Server
Product Form Factor: 2U Rack
Processor
CPU: Up to two Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 28 cores per processor
Memory
Memory types: • RDIMM
• LRDIMM
• NVDIMM
• DCPMM (Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory)
DIMM Speed: Up to 2933MT/s
Memory Module Slots: • 24 DDR4 DIMM slots (12 NVDIMM or 12 DCPMM only)
• Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only
Maximum RAM : • RDIMM 1.53TB
• LRDIMM 3TB
• NVDIMM 192GB
• DCPMM 6.14TB (7.68TB with LDRDIMM)
Hard Drive
Hard Drive: 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
Storage Controller
Internal Controller: PERC H330, H730p, H740p, Software RAID (SWRAID) S140
Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem: HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 120GB, 240 GB
Dimensions And Weight
Width: 434.0 mm
Depth: 737.5 mm
Height: 86.8 mm
Weight: 28.6 Kg
I/O & Ports
Network options: 4 x 1GE or 2 x 10GE + 2 x 1GE or 4 x 10GE or 2 x 25GE
I/O Slot: 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
Power
Power supply: Titanium 750W, Platinum 495W, 750W, 1100W, 1600W,and 2000W