PowerEdge R740xd 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 (2U)

Max depth:
715.5 mm

Drive Bays

Front bays:
Up to 24 x 2.5” SAS/SSD/NVMe, max 153TB Up to 12 x 3.5” SAS, max 144TB

Mid bay:
Up to 4 x 3.5” drives , max 48TB Up to 4 x 2.5” SAS/SSD/NVMe, max 25TB

Rear bays:
Up to 4 x 2.5” max 25TB
Up to 2 x 3.5” max 24TB

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:
VGA, 2 x USB 2.0, dedicated IDRAC Direct Micro-USB

Rear ports:
VGA, Serial, 2 x USB 3.0, dedicated iDRAC network port

Video card:
VGA
Up to 8 x Gen3 slots, Up to 4 x16

Power

Titanium 750W, Platinum 495W, 750W, 1100W,
1600W, and 2000W
48VDC 1100W, 380HVDC 1100W, 240HVDC 750W
Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy Up to 6 hot plugs fans with full redundancy. Up to 6 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, 240GB

External PERC (RAID):
H840

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

GPU

Accelerator options:

GPU* and FPGA options are available only on 24 x 2.5” drive chassis. Nvidia Tesla P100, K80, K40, Grid M60, M10, P4, Quadro P4000, NVIDIA V100 or Intel Arria® 10 GX

Features

Optimize flexibility and density

Benefit from scalable storage performance and data set processing with the PowerEdge R740xd server. This 2U, 2-socket platform brings you scalability and performance to adapt to a variety of applications. Choose up to 24 NVMe drives, or a total of 32 x 2.5” or 18 x 3.5” drives. As you scale your deployments, scale your productivity with embedded intelligence and automation from iDRAC9 and the entire OpenManage portfolio designed to simplify the IT lifecycle from deployment to retirement.

Ideal workloads:

• Software-defined storage
• Big data server
• Data analysis
• Service providers: data tier

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Accomplish IT transformation with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers

Transform your data center for modern applications and operations with the help of the R740xd. Storage performance and flexibility create the perfect balance for software-defined storage or data set processing and analytics.

• 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 24 NVMe drives and ensure application performance scales to meet demands.
• 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®.
• Help 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.
• Maintain control of server updates with intelligent, embedded authentication designed to allow only properly signed updates.

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