Dell PowerEdge R740 Technical Guide

April 15, 2021

The Dell PowerEdge R740 and R740xd are two socket, 2U rack servers designed to run complex workloads using highly scalable memory, I/O capacity and network options. The dell PowerEdge R740 and R740xd features the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family, up to 24 DIMMs, PCI Express® (PCIe) 3.0 enabled expansion slots, and a choice of network interface technologies to cover NIC and rNDC.

The dell PowerEdge R740 is a general-purpose platform capable of handling demanding workloads and applications, such as data warehouses,e-commerce, databases, and high-performance computing (HPC). The PowerEdge R740xd adds extraordinary storage capacity options, making it well-suited for data- intensive applications that require greater storage, while not sacrificing I/O performance.

New technology	Detailed description
2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable family	The 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family has advanced features that deliver exceptional performance and value. See the Processors section.
Intel C620 series chipset	Intel® Platform Controller Hub (PCH)
>2933 MT/s DDR4 memory	The 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family supports up to 2933 MT/s memory. The R740 and R740xd supports two DIMMs per channel at 2933 MT/s with select processors. See the Memory section for details.
Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory	Up to 6 per CPU socket. Max 12 for 2S configuration. 256GB, 512GB per DIMM 1866, 2133, 2400, 2666 MT/s Up to 6.14TB max, (7.68TB max with DCPMM and LDRIMM)
iDRAC 9 with Lifecycle Controller	The new embedded system management solution features hardware and firmware inventory and alerting, in-depth memory alerting, faster performance, a dedicated gigabit port and many more features. See the iDRAC section.
Wireless management	The Quick Sync 2.0 will offer feature parity with the previous server generation NFC interface and improved user experience. To extend this Quick Sync feature to wide variety of Mobile OS’s with higher data throughput, the Quick Sync 2.0 version replaces the previous server generation NFC technology with wireless at-the-box system management.

System features

Compared to the previous generation of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, the R740 and R740xd have more drive bay options, more PCIe slots, next-generation RAID controllers and advanced system management.

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System features comparison
Product specifications

Feature	PowerEdge R740/R740xd	PowerEdge R730/R730xd
CPU	2 x 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family	Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family
Intel Ultra Path Interconnect (UPI)	Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (UPI)	Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (QPI)
Memory	24 x DDR4 RDIMM, LRDIMM 12 x NVDIMM 12 x DCPMM (Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory)	24 x DDR4 RDIMM, LRDIMM
Disk drives	3.5 -inch or 2.5 -inch 12Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/s SATA Up to 24 x NVMe	3.5 -inch, 2.5 -inch or 1.8 -inch 12Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/s SATA 4 x PCIe SSD with common slot
Storage controllers	Adapters: HBA330, H330, H730P, H740P, H840, 12G SAS HBA Mini Mono: HBA330, H330, H730P, H740P SW RAID: S140	Adapters: HBA330, H330, H730, H730P, H830 (ext) Mini Mono: HBA330, H330, H730, H730P SW RAID: S130
PCIe slots	Max 8 x PCIe 3.0	Max 7 x PCIe 3.0 or 6 x PCIe 3.0
USB ports	Front: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC direct USB 2 x USB 2.0 1 x USB 3.0 (optional only for R740) 1 x Video Rear: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC network port 1 x Serial 2 x USB 3.0 1 x Video	Front: two ports (USB 2.0), one managed port Rear: two ports (USB 3.0) Internal: one port (USB 3.0)
Rack height	2U	2U

Feature	PowerEdge R740/R740xd	PowerEdge R730/R730xd
Power supply	AC (Platinum): 495W, 750W, 1100W, 1600W,2000W, 2400W AC (Titanium): 750W DC: 1100W DC: 750 W Mixed Mode Platinum (for China only) AC: 750 W Mixed Mode Platinum Mixed mode/HVDC: 750W, 1100W	AC: 495W, 750W, 1100W DC: 750W, 1100W
System management	Lifecycle Controller 3.x, OpenManage, QuickSync2.0, OMPC3, Digital License Key, iDRAC Direct(dedicated micro-USB port), Easy Restore, vFlash	Lifecycle Controller 3.x, OpenManage, QuickSync1.0, PM3, Digital License Key, iDRAC8, iDRAC Direct( dedicated micro-USB port), Easy Restore, vFlash
Internal GPU	*3 x 300W (double-width) or 6 x 150W (single-width)	2 x 300W (double-wide) or 4 x 150W (single-wide) Not supported on R730xd FPGAs not supported on the R730/xd.
Availability	Hot-plug drives Hot-plug redundant cooling Hot-plug redundant power supplies IDSDM support Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS)	Hot-plug drives Hot-plug redundant cooling Hot-plug redundant power supplies IDSDM support

Product specifications

Features	Technical Specification
Processor	Up to two 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors Up to 28 cores per processor
Memory	24 DDR4 DIMM slots Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, 3TB max Speeds up to 2933MT/s Up to 12 NVDIMM, 192 GB Max Up to 12 Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory DCPMM, 6.14TB max, (7.68TB max with DPCMM +LRDIMM)
Storage controllers	Internal controllers: PERC H330 PERC H730P PERC H740P Software RAID (SWRAID) S140 Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem: HW RAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 240GB or 480GB External PERC (RAID): PERC H840 12Gbps SAS HBAs (non-RAID): External – 12Gbps SAS HBA (non-RAID) Internal- HBA330 (non-RAID)
Drive bays	Front drive bays: Up to 16 x 2.5″ SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) max 122.88TB or up to 8 x 3.5″ SAS/SATA HDD max 128TB Optional DVD-ROM, DVD+RW
Power supplies	Titanium 750W Platinum 495W, 750W, 750W Mixed Mode HVDC (for China only), 750 W Mixed Mode 240 V DC (For china only),1100W, 1600W, 2000W, and 2400W 1100W 380VDC (China and Japan only) Gold 1100W -48VDC Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy. Up to 6 hot plugs fans with full redundancy
Dimensions	Form factor: Rack (2U) Height: 86.8mm (3.4”) Width: 434.0mm (17.08”) Depth: 737.5mm (29.03”) Weight: 28.6kg (63lbs.)
Embedded management	iDRAC9, iDRAC RESTful with Redfish, iDRAC Direct, Quick Sync 2 wireless module optional
Bezel	Optional LCD Bezel or Security bezel
OpenManage™ Software	OpenManage Enterprise OpenManage Mobile OpenManage Power Center
Integrations and connections	Integrations: Microsoft® System Center VMware® vCenter™ BMC Truesight Red Hat Ansible Connections: Nagios Core & Nagios XI Micro Focus Operations Manager i (OMi) IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus IBM Tivoli® Network Manager IP Edition
Security	TPM 1.2/2.0, optional TCM 2.0 Cryptographically signed firmware Secure Boot System Lockdown (requires OpenManage Enterprise) Secure erase
I/O & Ports	Network daughter card options 4 x 1GbE 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE 4 x 10GbE 2 x 25GbE Front ports: Video 2 x USB 2.0 1 x USB 3.0 (optional) 1 x Dedicated iDRAC Direct Micro-USB Rear ports: Video, serial 2 x USB 3.0 1 x Dedicated iDRAC network port Video card: VGA Riser options with up to 8 PCIe Gen 3 slots, maximum of 4 x 16 slots
Accelerator options	Up to three 300W or six 150W GPUs, or up to three double-width or four single-width FPGAs.
Supported operating systems	Canonical® Ubuntu® LTS Citrix® Hypervisor Oracle® Linux Microsoft Windows Server® LTSC with Hyper-V Red Hat® Enterprise Linux SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server VMware® ESXi
Recommended support	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.