Dell EMC PowerEdge Rack Servers

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Dell EMC PowerEdge rack servers help you build a modern infrastructure that minimizes IT challenges and drives business success. Choose from a complete portfolio of 1, 2, and 4-socket rack servers to deliver high
core density for your traditional applications, virtualization, and cloud-native workloads. Enhanced memory speeds, faster NVMe storage options,1 and BIOS tuning allows you to match performance to your workload for
ultimate efficiency.

15th generation of PowerEdge Servers

Rack Server R750 R750xa R650 R7525 R6525 R7515 R6515 R750xs R650xs R450 R550 XR11 XR12

Key attributes Outstanding Highly intensive High scalability, Powerful Dense Powerful High density Purpose-built 2U Purpose-built, full Value and density- Versatile, Edge-centric, Edge-centric,
performance for the GPU workloads optimized workload performance virtualization performance compute server for growing performance 1U focused, built for value-optimized, short depth and short depth and
most demanding performance and flexibility and scalability scale-out solutions server for dense, general purpose IT virtualization-ready, rugged with reverse rugged with reverse
workloads fast growing scale- built for general mounting options mounting options
out solutions purpose IT
Target workloads Database and AI, ML or DL Mixed workload All flash SDS, VDI, HPC, Dense SDS, Virtualization, Virtualization, HCI Virtualization, Virtualization, Small IT Small IT Telco/5G (MEC, Telco/5G (MEC,
analytics, HPC, training or standardization, and data analytics VDI, and and Data Analytics and NFV medium VM cloud, scale-out infrastructure, light infrastructure, light CDN, vRAN), CDN, vRAN),
traditional corporate inferencing, HPC, database and Virtualization density or VDI, and database and VM, small business VM density, small Military, Retail Military, Retail
IT, VDI, AI, or ML and vitualization analytics, HFT, scale-out database highperformance specific workloads business specific (Analytics - video (Analytics - video
environments environments traditional corporate workloads compute workloads workloads surveillance/POS/ surveillance/POS/
IT, VDI, HPC, AI, or IOT aggregation) IOT aggregation)
ML environments
Type of processor 2 x 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors; up to 40 2 x 2nd or 3rd Generation AMD EPYCTM 1 x 2nd or 3rd Generation AMD EPYCTM 2 x 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable 2 x 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable 1 x 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable
cores per processor processors; up to 64 cores per processor processor; up to 64 cores per processor processors; up to 32 cores per processor processors; up to 24 cores per processor processors; up to 36 cores per processor
Memory (DDR4 DIMM slots 32 (8 TB) 32 (4 TB) 16 (2 TB) 16 (1 TB) 8 (1 TB)
& max)
Disk drives up to: 8 x 2.5” 6 x 2.5” 4 x 3.5” 26 x 2.5” 12 x 2.5” 24 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 4 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 16 x 2.5” 4 x 2.5” 6 x 2.5”
16 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 12 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 12 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 16 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5”
24 x 2.5” 10 x 2.5” 24 x 2.5” 10 x 2.5” 8 x 3.5”
12 x 3.5”
2 x 2.5” (rear) 12 x 3.5” 2 x 2.5” (rear)
2 x 2.5” or
8 x 3.5”
4 x 2.5” (rear)
NVMe drives up to: 24 8 12 24 12 24 10 8 10 N/A 4 6
Gen4 PCIe slots up to: 8 8 3 8 3 2 1 5 3 2 3 3 5
Gen3 PCIe slots up to: N/A 3 N/A 2 1 1 N/A 1 N/A N/A
Accelerator support up to: 2 x 300 W DW or 4 x 150 W SW or 3 x 75 W SW 3 x 300 W DW or 3 x SW 4 x SW; 1 x SW N/A 2 x 75 W SW 2 x 75 W or
4 x 150 W SW or 4 x 300 W DW 6 x 75 W SW 1 x DW; 150 W SW
6 x 75 W SW 2 x 75 W SW 1 x FPGA 2 x 300 W DW
Rack height (U) 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 2
Integrated security TPM 1.2/2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ, Cryptographically Signed Firmware, Chassis Intrusion Alert, and Secure Boot being standard security on all racks. Integrated security features such as Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise
or Datacenter), and System Erase on all racks
Dell EMC PowerEdge Rack Servers
Quick Reference Guide

14th generation of PowerEdge Servers

Rack Server R940 R940xa R840 R740xd R740 R740xd2 R640 R540 R440 R340 R240

Key attributes Powerful Extreme Turbocharge Scalable Optimal Enterprise Performance Balanced and adaptable Scale-out Accelerate Compute made simple
performance acceleration data analytics storage application content server and density computing business
performance performance growth

Target workloads In-memory databases GPU database Data-intensive SDS, service providers, VDI and cloud Media streaming and Dense scale-out data Mail messaging and HPC, web tech, and ROBO productivity Small business and
acceleration and workloads, HFT, and and big data servers workloads SDS center computing and virtualization scale-out infrastructure and data-intensive service provider
machine learning dense virtualization storage applications workloads
Type of processor 1 x Intel Xeon E-2200, Intel Core i3®, Intel
4 x 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors 2 x 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
Pentium®, or Intel Celeron® processor
Memory (DDR4 DIMM
48 (15.36 TB) 24 (7.68 TB) 16 (1 TB) 24 (7.68 TB) 16 (1 TB) 4 (64 GB)
slots & max)
Disk drives up to: 24 x 2.5” 32 x 2.5” 26 x 2.5” 32 x 2.5” 16 x 2.5” 26 x 3.5” 12 x 2.5” 14 x 3.5” 10 x 2.5” 8 x 2.5” 4 x 2.5”2
18 x 3.5” 8 x 3.5” 16 x 3.5” + 4 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5” 4 x 3.5”
10 x 2.5”2
NVMe drives up to: 12 4 24 N/A 10 N/A 4 N/A
Gen4 PCIe slots up to: N/A
Gen3 PCIe slots up to: 13 12 6 8 5 3 5 2 2
Accelerator support
4 x DW GPUs or 4 x DW 2 x DW GPUs or 2 x SW 3 x DW or 6 x SW GPUs or 1 x SW GPU or 1 x SW
up to: N/A N/A N/A
or 8 x SW FPGAs or DW FPGAs 3 x DW or 4 x SW FPGAs FPGA

Rack height (U) 3 4 2 1 2 1 1

Integrated security TPM 1.2/2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ, Cryptographically Signed Firmware, Chassis Intrusion Alert, and Secure Boot being standard security on all racks. Integrated security features such as Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or
Datacenter), and System Erase on all racks

1
Not all features are available on all platforms.
2
Drives use hybrid carrier to fit in 3.5” drive bay. (For the R740xd2 - a hybrid configuration is available with up to 10 2.5” SSDs)

“We’ll save 35 percent on a five-year TCO with the Dell EMC VDI solution. The PowerEdge “Dell EMC PowerEdge servers are the foundation of the work we do here. They provide the
rack servers were ready to go out of the box for hosting our storage requirements. We “We can deploy our PowerEdge servers in minutes because iDRAC is always automation, the security, the flexibility, and the reliability to make sure that we can continue
saved 30 percent compared to a standalone SAN.” on and integrates with Dell EMC OpenManage...” to focus on what we do best as a company.”
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end-to-end. Dell and EMC bring together industry-leading expertise into a common platform to help you the data center serving the needs of your business. A complete portfolio of racks, power and cooling
transform your data center. Dell EMC can deliver PowerEdge technology at any level of integration – solutions lets you scale as your data center needs grow.
from a best-in-breed platform, to a pre-integrated fully turnkey hybrid cloud implementation or any step
in-between. Combining the PowerEdge server infrastructure with Dell Services and Financial Solutions
allows you to modernize your data center faster, more affordably and with less risk.

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To fully implement a modern infrastructure, organizations require Increase the productivity, reliability and cost effectiveness of your Dell EMC PowerEdge servers while
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accelerate adoption of new technologies and maximize Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise console simplifies, intelligently automates and unifies infrastructure
productivity. management tasks. Though primarily designed to monitor, configure and update tower, rack and
modular PowerEdge servers, OpenManage Enterprise also provides end-to-end infrastructure
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