Quick Reference Guide

Quick Reference Guide
Dell EMC PowerEdge Rack Servers
Rack Server R940 R940xa R840 R740xd R740 R740xd2 R640 R540 R440 R340 R240
Key attributes Powerful
performance
Extreme
acceleration
Turbocharge
data analytics
Scalable
storage
performance
Optimal
application
performance
Enterprise
content server
Performance
and density
Balanced and adaptable Scale-out
computing
Accelerate
business
growth
Compute made simple
Target workloads In-memory databases GPU database
acceleration and
machine learning
Data-intensive
workloads, HFT, and
dense virtualization
SDS, service providers,
and big data servers
VDI and cloud
workloads
Media streaming and
SDS
Dense scale-out data
center computing and
storage
Mail messaging and
virtualization
HPC, web tech, and
scale-out infrastructure
ROBO productivity
and data-intensive
applications
Small business and
service provider
workloads
Type of processor
4 x 2
nd
Generation Intel
®
Xeon
®
Scalable processors 2 x 2
nd
Generation Intel
®
Xeon
®
Scalable processors
1 x Intel Xeon E-2200, Intel Core i3
®
, Intel
Pentium
®
, or Intel Celeron
®
processor
Memory (DDR4 DIMM
slots & max)
48 (15.36 TB) 24 (7.68 TB) 16 (1 TB) 24 (7.68 TB) 16 (1 TB) 4 (64 GB)
Disk drives up to: 24 x 2.5” 32 x 2.5” 26 x 2.5” 32 x 2.5”
18 x 3.5”
16 x 2.5”
8 x 3.5”
26 x 3.5”
16 x 3.5” +
10 x 2.5”
2
12 x 2.5”
4 x 3.5”
14 x 3.5” 10 x 2.5”
4 x 3.5”
8 x 2.5”
4 x 3.5”
4 x 2.5”
2
4 x 3.5”
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
up to: N/A
4 x DW GPUs or 4 x DW
or 8 x SW FPGAs
2 x DW GPUs or 2 x SW
or DW FPGAs
3 x DW or 6 x SW GPUs or
3 x DW or 4 x SW FPGAs
N/A
1 x SW GPU or 1 x SW
FPGA
N/A
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
“Dell EMC PowerEdge servers are the foundation of the work we do here. They provide the
automation, the security, the flexibility, and the reliability to make sure that we can continue
to focus on what we do best as a company.”
- Ryan Gariepy Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, OTTO Motors
“We can deploy our PowerEdge servers in minutes because iDRAC is always
on and integrates with Dell EMC OpenManage...”
- Aldo Armiento, Chief Technology Officer, Immobiliare.it
“We’ll save 35 percent on a five-year TCO with the Dell EMC VDI solution. The PowerEdge
rack servers were ready to go out of the box for hosting our storage requirements. We
saved 30 percent compared to a standalone SAN.”
- Bruce Salisbury IT Director, Capital Area Human Services
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)
14
th
generation of PowerEdge Servers