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Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd2

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd2 is an enterprise content server 
designed to address demanding, data-heavy workloads and 
applications, such as media streaming, Software Defined Storage 
(SDS), and on-premise e-mail/messaging. The R740xd2 offers 
flexible capacity and performance resources that help you meet 
increasing business and storage demands in a high-capacity, 
space-saving 2U rack server. Bring compute closer to storage with 
the R740xd2 to deliver fast response times.

Technical Guide

Summary of Contents for PowerEdge R740xd2

Page 1: ...ions such as media streaming Software Defined Storage SDS and on premise e mail messaging The R740xd2 offers flexible capacity and performance resources that help you meet increasing business and storage demands in a high capacity space saving 2U rack server Bring compute closer to storage with the R740xd2 to deliver fast response times Technical Guide ...

Page 2: ...8 Dell Inc or its subsidiaries All rights reserved Dell EMC and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc or its subsidiaries Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners 2018 10 Rev A0X ...

Page 3: ...set 13 5 Memory 15 Supported memory 15 Memory speed 15 Memory configurations 15 Memory RAS features 16 6 Storage 17 Drives 17 Storage controller specifications 18 Internal Dual SD Module IDSDM 18 Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem BOSS 18 7 External storage 19 Optical drive 19 Tape drive 19 8 Networking and PCIe 20 9 Power thermal and acoustics 21 Power supply units 21 Power supply efficiency 21 The...

Page 4: ...cifications 36 13 Appendix B Standards compliance 37 14 Appendix C Additional resources 38 15 Appendix D Support and deployment services 39 ProDeploy Enterprise Suite and Residency Services 39 ProDeploy Plus 39 ProDeploy 39 Basic Deployment 39 Residency Services 40 Deployment services 40 Remote Consulting Services 40 Data Migration Service 40 ProSupport Enterprise Suite 40 ProSupport Plus 41 ProSu...

Page 5: ... OCP technologies New technologies The following table shows new technologies incorporated in the PowerEdge R740xd2 Technology Detailed Description Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family The Intel Xeon processor scalable family has advanced features that deliver exceptional performance and value See the processors section for more information Intel C621 Chipset Series The R740xd2 incorporates the In...

Page 6: ...W HVDC 750W or 1100W hot plug power supplies with full redundancy option 6 fans with N 1 redundancy USB Front 2 x USB 2 0 Micro USB iDRAC x1 1 x USB 2 0 USB Rear 2 x USB 3 0 USB Internal 1 x USB 3 0 Serial Port Yes Video Yes 1x standard VGA Rear SATA ports from PCH Up to 12 SATA ports 2 rear drives onboard SATA Support Disk Drives 3 5 hard disk drives 2 5 SSD drives with 3 5 carrier hot pluggable ...

Page 7: ...atures Specifications 12Gbps SAS HBAs non RAID Internal HBA330 Optical Drive Optional external USB DVD ROM Embedded Management Remote iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller Systems Management OpenManage iDRAC 7 ...

Page 8: ...latch 5 Left release latch Rear view of the system Figure 2 Back panel features of 24 x 3 5 inch 2 x 3 5 inch rear drive system with Low profile risers 1 Serial port 2 Drives 2 3 Low profile riser 1 slot 2 4 Low profile riser 2 slot 3 5 Power supply unit PSU 1 6 Information tag 7 Power supply unit PSU 2 8 LOM ethernet port 2 slot 1 9 Ethernet port Gb1 10 Ethernet port Gb2 8 ...

Page 9: ...2 11 iDRAC9 dedicated network port 12 VGA port 13 System identification button Figure 4 Back panel features of 24 x 3 5 inch drive system with butterfly riser 1 Serial port 2 Butterfly riser full height slot 2 3 Butterfly riser low profile slot 3 4 Low profile PCIe expansion card slot 4 5 Low profile PCIe expansion card slot 5 6 Low profile PCIe expansion card slot 6 7 Power supply unit PSU 1 8 In...

Page 10: ...Ie expansion card slot 6 5 Power supply unit PSU 1 6 Information tag 7 Power supply unit PSU 2 8 LOM ethernet port 2 slot 1 9 Ethernet port Gb1 10 Ethernet port Gb2 11 USB 3 0 port 2 12 iDRAC9 dedicated network port 13 VGA port 14 System identification button Inside the system NOTE Components that are hot swappable are marked orange and touch points on the components are marked blue 10 ...

Page 11: ... butterfly riser 1 Drive bay 1 2 Drive bay 2 3 Cooling fans 4 Memory module 5 Processor and heatsink module 1 6 Processor and heatsink module 2 7 System board 8 LOM riser card 9 Internal PERC riser 10 Air shroud 11 Butterfly riser 11 ...

Page 12: ...ive bay 2 3 Cooling fans 4 Memory module 5 Processor and heatsink module 1 6 Processor socket 2 7 System board 8 1 x Full height riser or 2 x Low profile riser 9 Internal PERC riser 10 Drive cage rear 11 Air shroud 24 x 3 5 inch 2 x 3 5 inch rear hard drive system 12 ...

Page 13: ...loads Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 Intel AVX 512 with a single AVX512 fused multiply add FMA execution units SKUs which support Advanced RAS enable a 2nd FMA execution unit Security without Compromise Near zero encryption overhead enables higher performance on all secure data transactions Supported processors The following table shows the supported processors for the PowerEdge R740xd2 Meda...

Page 14: ...ose Input Output GPIO Low Pin Count interface interrupt controller and timer functions System Management Bus Specification Version 2 0 Integrated Clock Controller Real Time Clock Controller Intel High Definition Audio and Intel Smart Sound Technology Integrated 10 1 Gb Ethernet Integrated 10 100 1000 Mbps Ethernet MAC Supports Intel Rapid Storage Technology Enterprise Supports Intel Active Managem...

Page 15: ...e of the system The following table lists the memory configuration and performance details based on the quantity and type of DIMMs per memory channel Table 2 DIMM performance details DIMM type DIMM ranking Capacity DIMM rated voltage speed RDIMM 1R 2R 8GB 16GB 32GB DDR4 1 2V 2666 Memory configurations The PowerEdge R740xd2 servers support flexible memory configurations ranging from capacities of 8...

Page 16: ...ery from single DRAM device failure SDDC Recovery from Single DRAM Device Failure SDDC provides error checking and correction that protects against any single memory chip failure as well as multi bit errors from any portion of a single memory chip Failed DIMM isolation This feature provides the ability to identify a specific failing DIMM channel pair thereby enabling the user to replace only the f...

Page 17: ... Rear drives for boot or as a hot tier 2 5 inch SATA SSDs would have to be hosted in a 3 5 inch carrier Drives The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd2 system supports Up to 24 x 3 5 inch SATA or Nearline SAS drives front accessible drives in slots 0 through 23 Up to 2 x 3 5 inch SATA or Nearline SAS drives rear accessible drives in slots 24 through 25 Up to 8 x 2 5 inch SAS SATA SSDs front accessible drive...

Page 18: ...DSDM with vFlash module is installed in a Dell proprietary PCIe x1 slot using a USB 3 0 interface as the host In this generation of servers the IDSDM and vFlash card features microSD in place of an SD card The supported capacities for the IDSDM microSD cards are 16 32 64 GB while for vFlash the capacity is limited to 16 GB only The write protect switch is built on the IDSDM with vFlash module Boot...

Page 19: ... optical drive options DVD ROM Tape drive The PowerEdge R740xd2 do not support internal tape drives However external tape backup devices will be supported The list below shows the supported external tape drives External RD1000 USB External LTO 5 LTO 6 and LTO 7 6 Gb SAS tape drives 114X rack mount chassis with LTO 5 LTO 6 and LTO 7 6 Gb SAS tape drives TL1000 with LTO 5 LTO 6 and LTO 7 6 Gb SAS ta...

Page 20: ... list the supported PCIe slots Slot 6 PCie Gen3 x4 from PCH Slot 5 PCie Gen3 x4 from CPU1 Slot 4 PCie Gen3 x16 from CPU2 left riser slot 3 Slot 3 PCIe Gen3 x8 from CPU1 Right riser riser 1 slot Slot 2 PCIe Gen3 x8 or x16 from CPU1 Right riser riser 1 slot Slot 1 LOM riser connector A x8 from CPU1 Internal PERC Slot PCie Gen3 x8 from CPU1 20 ...

Page 21: ... 1 1 redundancy auto sensing and auto switching capability If two PSUs are present during POST a comparison is made between the wattage capacities of the PSUs In the event that the PSU wattages don t match the larger of the two PSU s is enabled Also there is a PSU mismatch warning displayed in BIOS iDRAC or on the System LCD If a second PSU is added at run time in order for that particular PSU to ...

Page 22: ...t of circumstances or expectations from the system in this generation of servers we have introduced limited user configurable settings in the iDRAC9 BIOS setup screen For more information see the Dell EMC PowerEdge system Installation and Service Manual on Dell com Support Manuals and Advanced Thermal Control Optimizing across Environments and Power Goals on Dell com Cooling redundancy The system ...

Page 23: ...d operating systems for the PowerEdge R740xd2 Canonical Ubuntu LTS Citrix XenServer Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper V Red Hat Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server VMware ESXi For specifications and interoperability details see dell com OSsupport 23 ...

Page 24: ...ucts that help you automate and simplify the entire server lifecycle deploy update monitor and maintain OpenManage solutions are innovatively designed for simplicity and ease of use to help you reduce complexity save time achieve efficiency control costs and empower productivity OpenManage centers around efficient management of server lifecycle Figure 8 Server lifecycle management operations iDRAC...

Page 25: ...Yes Yes Yes Yes SMASH CLP SSH only Yes Yes Yes Yes Telnet Yes Yes Yes Yes SSH Yes Yes Yes Yes Serial redirection Yes Yes Yes Yes WSMAN Yes Yes Yes Yes Network Time Protocol No Yes Yes Yes Connectivity Shared NIC Yes Yes N A Yes Dedicated NIC Yes Yes Yes Yes VLAN tagging Yes Yes Yes Yes IPv4 Yes Yes Yes Yes IPv6 Yes Yes Yes Yes DHCP new default no static IP Yes Yes Yes Yes DHCP with Zero Touch No N...

Page 26: ... Power control Yes Yes Yes Yes Boot control Yes Yes Yes Yes Serial over LAN Yes Yes Yes Yes Virtual Media No No Yes Yes Virtual Folders No No No Yes Remote File Share No No No Yes Virtual Console No No Yes Yes HTML5 access to virtual console No No Yes Yes VNC connection to OS No No No Yes Quality bandwidth control No No No Yes Virtual Console collaboration 6 users No No No Yes Virtual Console chat...

Page 27: ...Yes Yes Yes NIC monitoring Yes Yes Yes Yes HD monitoring enclosure Yes Yes Yes Yes Out of Band Performance Monitoring No No No Yes Alerts for excessive SSD wear Yes Yes Yes Yes Customizable settings for Exhaust Temperature Yes Yes Yes Yes Update Remote agent free update Yes Yes Yes Yes Embedded update tools Yes Yes Yes Yes Sync with repository scheduled updates No No No Yes Auto update No No No Ye...

Page 28: ...th status indicator Yes Yes Yes Yes LCD screen iDRAC9 requires optional bezel Yes Yes N A Yes iDRAC Direct front USB mgmt port Yes Yes Yes Yes iDRAC Service Module iSM embedded Yes Yes Yes Yes iSM to inband alert forwarding to consoles Yes Yes Yes Yes Crash screen capture No Yes Yes Yes Crash video capture No No No Yes Boot capture No No No Yes Manual reset for iDRAC LCD ID button Yes Yes Yes Yes ...

Page 29: ...eeds including the following Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials OpenManage Essentials is the one to many management console for monitoring Dell HW infrastructure including server storage and networking as well as for lifecycle management of PowerEdge servers It support Windows Linux VMware and HyperV environments OME provides a simple and easy interface for system administrators to maximize the uptime...

Page 30: ...ssentials management console Acknowledge forward and delete alerts from your mobile device Browse through device details firmware inventory and event logs of individual systems Perform several server management functions such as power on power cycle reboot and shutdown from the mobile application Key Features of OpenManage Mobile When connected through iDRAC Connect to any 14th gen 13th gen or 12t...

Page 31: ...uted in GUI or in CLI mode For more information see Dell EMC Update Packages User s Guide available at www delltechcenter com DSU Dell Remote Access Controller Administration RACADM CLI The RACADM command line utility provides a scriptable interface to perform inventory configuration update and health status check of PowerEdge servers RACADM operates in multiple modes Local supports running RACADM...

Page 32: ...s and open source software SNMP The Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP helps in standardizing the management of network devices SNMP allows commercial management consoles created for monitoring network switches and routers to also monitor X86 severs SNMP is primarily used to deliver event messages to alert administrators of problems on their systems but can also be used to discover inventory ...

Page 33: ... OpenManage Plug in for Nagios Core OpenManage Plug in for Nagios XI 33 ...

Page 34: ... chassis dimensions Xa Xb Y Za Zb Zc 482 0 mm 18 9 inches 448 0 mm 17 63 inches 86 8 mm 3 41 inches With bezel 35 93 mm 1 41 inches Without bezel 22 0 mm 0 866 inches 810 264 mm 31 9 inches 844 826mm 33 260 inches NOTE Zb refers to the nominal rear wall external surface where the system board I O connectors are located 34 ...

Page 35: ...6 32 1680 x 1050 60 8 16 32 1920 x 1080 60 8 16 32 1920 x 1200 60 8 16 32 NOTE 1920 x 1080 and 1920 x 1200 resolutions are only supported in reduced blanking mode USB ports specifications Table 10 Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd2 system USB specifications Front Back Internal USB port type No of ports USB port type No of ports USB port type No of ports USB 2 0 compliant port One USB 3 0 compliant ports T...

Page 36: ...Environmental specifications See Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd2 installation service manuals on Dell com Support Manuals for detailed environmental specifications 36 ...

Page 37: ...esign servers ipmi DDR4 Memory DDR4 SDRAM Specification jedec org standards documents docs jesd79 4 pdf PCI Express PCI Express Base Specification Rev 2 0 and 3 0 pcisig com specifications pciexpress PMBus Power System Management Protocol Specification v1 2 pmbus info specs html SAS Serial Attached SCSI v1 1 t10 org SATA Serial ATA Rev 2 6 SATA II SATA 1 0a Extensions Rev 1 2 sata io org SMBIOS Sy...

Page 38: ...ls Information Update This document ships with the system is also available in PDF format online and provides information on system updates Dell com Support Manuals System Information Label The system information label documents the system board layout and system jumper settings Text is minimized due to space limitations and translation considerations The label size is standardized across platform...

Page 39: ...onments Certified Dell EMC experts start with extensive environmental assessments and detailed migration planning and recommendations Software installation includes set up of most versions of Dell EMC SupportAssist and OpenManage system management utilities Post deployment configuration assistance testing and product orientation help you rest easy knowing your systems have been deployed and integr...

Page 40: ...oint of contact to manage your data migration project Your project manager will work with our experienced team of experts to create a plan using industry leading tools and proven processes based on global best practices to migrate your existing files and data so your business gets up and running quickly and smoothly ProSupport Enterprise Suite With Dell EMC ProSupport Services we can help you keep...

Page 41: ...ons and maximize availability of your PowerEdge server workloads with 24x7x365 access to certified hardware and software experts Collaborative 3rd party support Hypervisor and OS support Consistent level of support available for Dell EMC hardware software and solutions Onsite parts and labor response options including next business day or four hour mission critical ProSupport One for Data Center P...

Page 42: ...l support plans but features vary based on service level agreement Figure 13 SupportAssist model Get started at Dell com SupportAssist TechDirect Boost your IT teams productivity when supporting Dell EMC systems With over 1 4 million self dispatches processed each year TechDirect has proven its effectiveness as a support tool You can Self dispatch replacement parts Request technical support Integr...

Page 43: ...you quickly identify high impact short duration projects that deliver return on investment ROI and free up resources The results are practical action oriented plans with specific predictable measurable outcomes From data center optimization to server virtualization to systems management our consulting services can help you build a more efficient enterprise Dell EMC Managed Services Dell EMC Manage...

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