PowerEdge R640 Rack Server

Processor

Up to two Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 28 cores per processor

Operating System

Canonical® Ubuntu® LTS
Citrix® XenServer®
Microsoft Windows Server® with Hyper-V Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server VMware® ESXi

Chassis

Optional LCD or Security bezel

Data Protection

TPM 1.2/2.0 optional Cryptographically signed firmware
Secure Boot
System Lockdown
Secure erase

Dimensions

Form factor:
Rack (1U)

Chassis Max depth (with bezel):
757.75 mm – For the 8 x 2.5” front bay drive configuration.
808.51 mm – For the 4 x 3.5” or 10 x 2.5” front bay drive configurations (plus up to 2 rear drives).

Drive Bays

Front drive bays:
Up to 10 x 2.5” with up to 8 NVMe, SAS/SATA/SSD/NVMe, max 58TB
Up to 4 x 3.5” SAS/SATA, max 48TB

Rear drive bays:
Up to 2 x 2.5” SAS/SATA/SSD/NVMe, max 12TB

Memory*

24 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, speeds up to 2666, 3TB max
Up to 12 NVDIMM, 192 GB Max
Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only

Management

Embedded / At-the-Server
iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller (Express, Enterprise)
iDRAC Direct
iDRAC REST API with Redfish
Quick Sync 2 BLE/wireless module

Consoles
OpenManage Enterprise
OpenManage Essentials
OpenManage Power Center

Mobility
OpenManage Mobile

Tools
iDRAC Service Module
OpenManage Server Administrator
OpenManage Storage Services
Dell EMC Repository Manager
Dell EMC System Update
Dell EMC Server Update Utility
Dell EMC Update Catalogs

OpenManage Integrations
Microsoft® System Center
VMware® vCenter™
BMC software (available from BMC)

OpenManage Connections
Nagios Core and Nagios XI
HPE Operations Manager i (OMi)
IBM Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus
IBM Tivoli® Network Manager IP Edition

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, 1 x USB 2.0, available USB 3.0, dedicated IDRAC Direct USB

Rear ports:
Video, serial, 2 x USB 3.0, dedicated iDRAC network port

Video card:
VGA, NVIDIA NVS310 available as PCIe card Up to 3 x Gen3 slots, all x16

Power

Titanium 750W, Platinum 495W, 750W, 1100W, and 1600W
48VDC 1100W, 380HVDC 1100W, 240HVDC 750W
Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy option Up to 8 hot plugs fans with full redundancy

Regulatory

Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page
Dell and the Environment

Storage Controllers

Internal controllers:
PERC H330, H730p, H740p, Software RAID (SWRAID) S140

Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem: 
HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 120GB, 240 GB

External PERC (RAID):
H840

12Gbps SAS HBAs (non-RAID): 
External- 12Gbps SAS HBA (non-RAID)
Internal- HBA330 (non-RAID)

Uncompromising performance and density for data center productivity and scale

The poweredge R640 is the ideal dual-socket platform for dense scale-out data center computing and storage. Benefit from the flexibilty of 2.5” or 3.5” drives, the performance of NVMe and embedded intelligence to ensure optimized application performance in a secure platform. With embedded diagnostics and SupportAssist, the R640 delivers maximum uptime in a worry-free environment.

Ideal workloads:

• Dense software-defined storage
• Service providers: application tier
• Dense private cloud
• Virtualization
• HPC

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Drive transformation with the Dell EMC PowerEdge portfolio

Data center evolution starts with modern platforms that easily scale and are optimized for application performance. The PowerEdge R640 is built upon a scalable system architecture and provides the choice and flexibility to easily meet performance demands.

• Simplify deployment and easily scale from 3 to 1000+ nodes for software-defined storage with Dell EMC Ready Node for ScaleIO.
• Maximize storage performance with up to 8 NVMe drives.
• 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*.

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Automate productivity with intelligent, embedded management

Dell EMC 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®.
• Improve productivity with agent-free Dell EMC iDRAC9 for automated, efficient management.
• Simplify deployment with OpenManage next-generation console and server profiles to fully configure and prep servers in rapid, scalable fashion.

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Fortify your data center with comprehensive protection

Dell EMC 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.