Up to two 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 28 cores per processor
Operating System
Canonical® Ubuntu® Server LTS Citrix® Hypervisor ® Microsoft® Windows Server® with Hyper-V Red Hat® Enterprise Linux SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server VMware® ESXi®
Accelerators
Up to three 300W or six 150W GPUs Up to three double-wide FPGAs or four single-wide FPGAs GPU and FPGA options available only on 24 x 2.5” drive chassis. Up to two GPUs are supported on NVMe configurations.
Memory
DIMM Speed Up to 2933MT/s
Memory Type RDIMM LRDIMM NVDIMM DCPMM (Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory)
Memory Module Slots 24 DDR4 DIMM slots (12 NVDIMM or 12 DCPMM only) Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only
Maximum RAM RDIMM 1.53TB LRDIMM 3TB NVDIMM 192GB DCPMM 6.14TB (7.68TB with LRDIMM)
Storage
Front Bays Up to 24 x 2.5” SAS/SSD/NVMe, max 184TB Up to 12 x 3.5” SAS, max 192TB
Mid Bay Up to 4 x 3.5” SAS, max 64TB Up to 4 x 2.5” SAS/SSD, max 30.72TB
Rear Bays Up to 4 x 2.5” SAS/SSD, max 30.72TB Up to 2 x 3.5” SAS, max 32TB
Storage Controllers
Internal Controllers: PERC H330, H730P, H740P, HBA330
External Controllers (RAID): H840, 12 Gbps SAS HBA
Embedded / At-the-Server iDRAC9 iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish iDRAC Direct Quick Sync 2 BLE/wireless module
Consoles OpenManage Enterprise OpenManage Power Center
Mobility OpenManage Mobile
Tools Dell EMC RACADM CLI Dell EMC Repository Manager Dell EMC System Update Dell EMC Server Update Utility Dell EMC Update Catalogs iDRAC Service Module OpenManage Server Administrator OpenManage Storage Services
OpenManage Integrations BMC Truesight Microsoft® System Center RedHat® Ansible® Modules VMware® vCenter™
OpenManage Connections IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus IBM Tivoli® Network Manager IP Edition Micro Focus Operations Manager I Nagios® Core Nagios® XI
Power Supplies
495W Platinum 750W Platinum 750W Titanium 750W 240VDC 1100W Platinum 1100W 380VDC 1600W Platinum 2000W Platinum 2400W Platinum 1100W -48VDC Gold Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy option Up to 6 hot plugs fans with full redundancy
Ports
Network Options 4 x 1GbE 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1bGE 4 x 10GbE 2 x 25GbE
Front Ports 1 x Dedicated iDRAC direct USB 2 x USB 2.0 1 x USB 3.0 (optional) 1 x VGA
Rear Ports 1 x Dedicated iDRAC network port 1 x Serial 2 x USB 3.0 1 x VGA
Slots
PCIe 8 x Gen3 slots (4 x 16)
Video Card 1 x VGA
Bezel
Optional LCD bezel or security bezel
Form Factor
2U Rack Server
Dimensions & Weight
Height 86.8m (3.4”)
Width 434mm (17.1")
Depth 737.5mm (29.0")
Weight 33.1kg (73.0lbs.)
Rack Support
ReadyRails™ sliding rails with optional cable management arm for 4-post racks (optional adapter brackets required for threaded hole racks).
Recommended Support
Choose Dell ProSupport Plus for critical systems or Dell ProSupport for premium hardware and software support for your PowerEdge solution. Consulting and deployment offerings are also available. Contact your Dell representative today for more information. Availability and terms of Dell Services vary by region.
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