Owners Manual

Riser
conguration
and supported
risers
Slot description PCIe slots on
riser 1 (Height
and length)
Processor
connection
PCIe slots on riser
2 (Height and
length)
Processor
connection
PCIe slots on
riser 3 (Height
and length)
Processor
connection
Slot 3: x16 full-
height, half length
Processor 1 Slot 6: x8 low
prole, half length
Processor 1 Slot 7: x8 full-
height, full length
Processor
2
Riser
conguration 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
prole, half length
Processor 1
Memory specications
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 specications
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 specications
The XC740xd Series Hyper-converged Appliances support Internal storage controller cards: HBA330 and Boot Optimized Server Storage
(BOSS).
Drive specications
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 specications 25