Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models

This article is to serve to better help identify the underlining PowerEdge hardware of VxRail whether to identify which drivers to pull down from Dell support or flashing the Personality Module if there is system board replacements.

16G

VxR (Intel)VE660 / (AMD)VE-6625 PowerEdge R660

Notable features Both Intel and AMD-based systems share the same PowerEdge model number R660 Suffix VE denotes a combination of V(VDI) and E(everything) as the VE-660 can be outfield with GPUs  This can be shipped with all flash or hybrid storage configurations Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device BOSS M.2 drives are hot-swappable from the rear of the system located on the rear left of the system BOSS M.2 drives are installed on a "card carrier" in which is inserted from the rear into a BOSS module slot iDRAC and rear USB and VGA are built into a Rear IO(RIO) module and are removable or replaceable Outside of NICs provided by the OCP module a removable 2x1gb Light Out Management(LOM) is included driven by a BCM5720 chipset Utilizes HBA 355e as the Storage Controller Utilizes iDRAC9 Utilizes OCP 3.0

 

VxR (Intel)VP-760/ (AMD)VP-7625 (Intel) PowerEdge R760 / (AMD) PowerEdge R7625

Notable features In non-GPU configurations(pictured bottom) a rear 4x2.5" flex bay is added allowing an additional of 4 more drives to be installed allowing up to 28 drives In the rear flex bay configuration there are an additional 3x hot-swappable fans installed in the rear flex bay Only shipped in all flash-based storage Suffix VE denotes the combination of V(VDI) and P(Performance) Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device BOSS M.2 drives are hot-swappable from the rear of the system located in the middle above Half Height PCI slot 6(with rear flex bay) above Half Height PCI slot 3(W/O rear flex bay) BOSS M.2 drives are installed on a "card carrier" in which is inserted from the rear into a BOSS module slot iDRAC and rear USB and VGA are built into a Rear IO(RIO) module and are removable or replaceable Outside of NICs provided by the OCP module a removable 2x1gb Light Out Management(LOM) is included driven by a BCM5720 chipset Cache Drives are located at the rear of the system installed in the 2.5in rear flex bay Utilizes HBA 355e as its Storage Controller No IDSDM remote RASR only or pre-prepared RASR USB needed for RASR Utilizes iDRAC9 Utilizes OCP 3.0

 

15G

VxR (Intel)E660(F)(N) / (AMD)E665(F)(N) (Intel)PowerEdge R650 / (AMD)PowerEdge R6525

Notable features Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device BOSS M.2 drives are hot-swappable from the rear of the system located on the rear left of the system BOSS M.2 drives are installed on a "card carrier" in which is inserted from the rear into a BOSS module slot iDRAC and rear USB and VGA are built into a Rear IO(RIO) module and are removable or replaceable Outside of NICs provided by the OCP module a removable 2x1gb Light Out Management(LOM) is included driven by a BCM5720 chipset Utilizes HBA 355e as its Storage Controller Utilizes iDRAC9 Utilizes OCP 3.0

 

VxR (Intel)(P)(V)670(F)(N) / (AMD)(P)675(F/N) (Intel) PowerEdge R750 / (AMD) PowerEdge R7525

Notable features AMD chassis are only available for the all-flash NVMe (F/N) P series Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device BOSS M.2 drives are hot-swappable from the rear of the system located in the middle above Half Height PCI slot 3 BOSS M.2 drives are installed on a "card carrier" in which is inserted from the rear into a BOSS module slot iDRAC and rear USB and VGA are built into a Rear IO(RIO) module and are removable or replaceable Outside of NICs provided by the OCP module a removable 2x1gb Light Out Management(LOM) is included driven by a BCM5720 chipset Utilizes HBA 355e as its Storage Controller No IDSDM remote RASR only or pre-prepared RASR USB needed for RASR Utilizes iDRAC9 Utilizes OCP 3.0

 

VxR S670 PowerEdge R750(LFF)

Notable features Extra 3x hot-swappable fans installed in the rear flex bay Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device BOSS M.2 drives are hot-swappable from the rear of the system iDRAC and rear USB and VGA are built into a Rear IO(RIO) module and are removable or replaceable Outside of NICs provided by the OCP module a removable 2x1gb Light Out Management(LOM) is included driven by a BCM5720 chipset Cache Drives are located at the rear of the system installed in the 2.5in rear flex bay Utilizes HBA 355e as its Storage Controller No IDSDM remote RASR only or pre-prepared RASR USB needed for RASR Utilizes iDRAC9 Utilizes OCP 3.0

 
 

Chassis: VxR VD-4000Z(W)/Poweredge XR4000Z(W) Compute sled: VxR VD-4510c/Poweredge XR4510c

Notable features Chassis format VD-4000Z (Stackable) The VD-4000Z Chassis can be outfitted with 2x VD-4510c with 1x VD-4000w embedded witness server located right side of the system next to redundant PSU Storage is internal to node as an internal m.2 riser module suppling up to 4 m.2 slots no front loading drives replacing drives nesstates power off and removal of affected compute sled Compute sled network uses an embedded to system board intel E823-C LOM coming in either 4-port 25GB or 10GB networking System fans are part of the compute sled, fan replacement would require power down and removing affected compute sled Utilizes dual M.2 Boss riser as ESXI boot device BOSS M.2 drives are not hot-swappable requiring to power down and remove affected compute node from chassis The suffix C denotes compute sled and W denotes witness Utilizes iDRAC9

14G

VxR E560(F)(N) PowerEdge R640

Notable features Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller Utilizes iDRAC9 Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment Can have a NVMe Cache disk using expansion card N series uses all NVMe drives

  
 

VxR D560(F) PowerEdge XR2

Notable features Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller Utilizes iDRAC9 Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment Can have a NVMe Cache disk using expansion card N series uses all NVMe drives

  

VxR (P-V) 570(F) PowerEdge R740XD(SFF)

Notable features Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller Utilizes iDRAC9 Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment Only the P series can have a NVMe based cache drive using expansion card

 

VxR S570(F) PowerEdge R740XD(LFF)

Notable features Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment Utilizes iDRAC9

 

VxR G560(F) PowerEdge C6420

Notable features Utilizes a single SATA based M.2 card on a PCI x16 riser as the ESXI boot device unlike the RAID 1 dual m.2 drives in other 14G models HBA 330 Has only a single SD card RASR environment Can have a NVMe based cache disk Utilizes an Open Compute Project (OCP) card for NIC Utilizes iDRAC9

 

VxR P580N PowerEdge R840

Notable features Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device N series uses all NVMe drives Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment Utilizes iDRAC9

13G

VxR E460(F) PowerEdge R630

Notable features Utilizes satadom as the ESXI boot device Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR Utilizes iDRAC8

 

VxR (P-V) 470 PowerEdge R730

Notable features Utilizes satadom as the ESXI boot device Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment Utilizes iDRAC8

 

VxR S470 PowerEdge R730XD LFF

Notable features Utilizes satadom as the ESXI boot device Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment Utilizes iDRAC8

Prefixes:
D: 1U VxRail models designed for industrial durability in mind ideal for offsite Remote Office Branches(ROBO).
E: 1U VxRail models are ideal for small and remote deployments designed for entry-level VDI or graphics workloads.
G: 2U VxRail models that offer a compute dense platform designed for general-purpose workloads.
P: 2U VxRail models that are performance intensive in memory or I/O intensive workloads offering high core counts per processor, and processor clock speed.
V: 2U VxRail models that offer GPU hardware for graphics-intensive desktops and workloads optimized for VDI
S: 2U VxRail models that offer a storage-dense solution to capacity-demanding applications such as Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, big data, analytics, and video surveillance.

Suffixes:
F: Denotes the model is all Flash.
N: Used with the F suffix denotes that the Flash storage is all NVMe based.
VE: Denotes a combination of V(VDI) and E(everything) 
VP: Denotes a combination of V(VDI) and P(Performance)