Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC XC740xd XC Series Appliance and XC Core System Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- Overview
- Documentation resources
- Technical specifications
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Pre-operating system management applications
- Options to manage the pre-operating system applications
- System Setup
- Viewing System Setup
- System Setup details
- System BIOS
- Viewing System BIOS
- System BIOS Settings details
- System Information
- Viewing System Information
- System Information details
- Memory Settings
- Viewing Memory Settings
- Memory Settings details
- Persistent Memory details
- Processor Settings
- Viewing Processor Settings
- Processor Settings details
- SATA Settings
- Viewing SATA Settings
- SATA Settings details
- Boot Settings
- Viewing Boot Settings
- Boot Settings details
- Choosing system boot mode
- Changing boot order
- Network Settings
- Viewing Network Settings
- Network Settings screen details
- UEFI iSCSI Settings
- Viewing UEFI iSCSI Settings
- UEFI iSCSI Settings details
- Integrated Devices
- Viewing Integrated Devices
- Integrated Devices details
- Serial Communication
- Viewing Serial Communication
- Serial Communication details
- System Profile Settings
- Viewing System Profile Settings
- System Profile Settings details
- System Security
- Viewing System Security
- System Security Settings details
- Creating a system and setup password
- Using your system password to secure your system
- Deleting or changing system and setup password
- Operating with setup password enabled
- Redundant OS Control
- Viewing Redundant OS Control
- Redundant OS Control screen details
- Miscellaneous Settings
- Viewing Miscellaneous Settings
- Miscellaneous Settings details
- iDRAC Settings utility
- Device Settings
- Dell Lifecycle Controller
- Boot Manager
- PXE boot
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Optional front bezel
- System cover
- Backplane cover
- Inside the system
- Air shroud
- Cooling-fan assembly
- Cooling fans
- Intrusion switch
- Hard drives
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Opening and closing the PCIe card holder latch
- Removing the expansion card from expansion card riser
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser
- Removing an expansion card riser 1
- Installing an expansion card riser 1
- Removing an expansion card riser 2
- Installing an expansion card riser 2
- Removing an expansion card riser 3
- Installing an expansion card riser 3
- IDSDM/vFlash card
- Network daughter card
- Hard drive backplane
- System battery
- Power supply units
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Control panel
- Using system diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
- BOSS card
Table 18. Expansion card riser specifications (continued)
Riser
configuration
and supported
risers
Slot
description
PCIe slots on
riser 1 (Height
and length)
Processo
r
connectio
n
PCIe slots on
riser 2 (Height
and length)
Processor
connectio
n
PCIe slots on
riser 3 (Height
and length)
Processo
r
connecti
on
Riser
configuration 6
(1D+2A+3A)
Five x8 and
three x16 slots
Slot1: x16 full-
height, full
length
Processor
1
Slot 4: x16 full-
height, full length
Processor
2
Slot 7: x8 full-
height, full
length
Processor
2
Slot 2: x8 full-
height, full
length
Processor
1
Slot 5: x8 full-
height, full length
Processor
2
Slot 8: x16 full-
height, full
length
Processor
2
Slot 3: x8 full-
height, half
length
Processor
1
Slot 6: x8 low
profile, half
length
Processor
1
Memory specifications
The XC740xd Series Hyper-converged Appliances support up to twenty four 288-pins RDIMMS and LRDIMMS with speeds of
2667 MT/s with support for memory optimized operation.
Table 19. Memory specifications
DIMM
type
DIMM rank
DIMM
capacity
Single processor Dual processors
Minimum RAM Maximum RAM Minimum RAM Maximum RAM
LRDIMM Octa rank 128 GB 128 GB 1536 GB 256 GB 3072 GB
LRDIMM Quad rank 64 GB 64 GB 768 GB 128 GB 1536 GB
RDIMM Dual rank 16 GB 16 GB 192 GB 32 GB 384 GB
RDIMM Dual rank 32 GB 32 GB 384 GB 64 GB 768 GB
Storage controller specifications
The XC740xd Series Hyper-converged Appliances support Internal storage controller cards: HBA330 and Boot Optimized Server
Storage (BOSS).
Drive specifications
Hard drives
The XC740xd Series Hyper-converged Appliances support SAS, SATA, Nearline SAS hard drives/SSDs, or NVMe drives.
Table 20. Supported hard drive options for the XC740xd Series Hyper-converged Appliances
Hard drive SSD options
12 drives system Up to 12 3.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) front accessible drives in slots 0 to
11
24 drives system Up to 24 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) front accessible drives in slots 0 to
23
24 drives system Up to 20 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) front accessible drives in slots 0 to
19 and 4 2.5 inch NVMe drives in 12 universal slots 20 to 23
Technical specifications 23