PowerEdge R540 Rack Server
Power your applications with a versatile 2-socket rack server
Satisfy a variety of applications with the flexible PowerEdge R540. Its balanced combination of resources, expandability and affordability adapt to the changing demands of a modern data center. Optimize your application performance with one-button tuning. Scale for future requirements with up to 14 x 3.5" drives. Embedded diagnostics and SupportAssist help to maximize uptime without added effort, in a worry-free environment.
Ideal for:
- Virtualization
- Messaging
- Video streaming
Achieve performance at scale with the PowerEdge portfolio
Our modern compute platforms are built to scale easily and take advantage of technologies that lift application performance. The PowerEdge R540 rack server combines affordably and versatility, so you can adapt to a variety of applications and meet future demands.
- Scale compute resources with the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family that delivers a 27% increase in processing cores and 50% increase in bandwidth over the previous generation of processors.*
- Optimize application performance with one-button tuning.
- Enable storage flexibility with up to 14 x 3.5" drives.
- Free up storage with boot-optimized M.2 SSDs.
Gain productivity with intelligent, embedded management
Dell EMC OpenManage intelligent automation enables you to spend less time on routine maintenance so you can focus on business-critical priorities.
- Help maximize uptime with proactive diagnostics and automated remediation that increase productivity up to 90%.*
- Leverage existing management consoles with easy integrations for VMware® vSphere®, Microsoft® System Center and Nagios®.
- Improve productivity with agent-free Dell EMC iDRAC9 for automated management.
- Simplify deployment with OpenManage next-generation console and server profiles to fully configure and prep servers rapidly and scalably.
Fortify your data center with comprehensive protection
A comprehensive, cyber-resilient architecture with security embedded into every server helps to protect your data.
- Protect server configuration and firmware from malicious changes with new Configuration Lock-down.
- Use system erase of local storage to help ensure data privacy when you repurpose or retire servers.
- Automate updates that check file dependencies and proper update sequence, before deploying them independently from the OS/hypervisor.
- Take control of your firmware consoles with embedded authentication that is designed to allow only properly signed updates to run.
Specifications | |
Dimensions | Form factor 2RUChassis depth Max depth: 707.74 mm (w/bezel) Max depth: 693.81 mm (w/o bezel) |
Drive Bays | Front drive bays: Up to 12 x 3.5” SAS/SATA HDD max 168TB Rear drive bays: Up to 2 x 3.5 SAS/SATA HDD max 28TB Optional DVD-ROM, DVD+RW |
Fan | Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy option |
I/O (Input/Output) Ports | Network options 2 x 1GE LOM + (optional) LOM Riser 2 x 1GE or 2 x 10GE SFP+ or 2 x 10GE BaseTFront ports Video, 1 x USB 2.0, dedicated IDRAC Direct USBRear ports Video, serial, 2 x USB 3.0, dedicated iDRAC network portPCIe Non rear storage config: 1 x FH/FL + 1 x HH/HL (2U Right riser) slots + 3HH/HL slots Rear storage config: 1 x HH/HL (1U Left Riser) + 1 x HH/HL (1U Right risers) slot or 1 x HH/HL (1U Left Riser) + 1 x FH/HL (1U Right riser) |
Management | iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller (Express, Enterprise) iDRAC Direct iDRAC REST API with Redfish Quick Sync 2 BLE/wireless module |
Memory | 16 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, speeds up to 2666 MT/s, 1TB* max |
Operating Systems (OS) Supported | Canonical® Ubuntu® LTS Citrix® XenServer® Microsoft Windows Server® with Hyper-V Red Hat® Enterprise Linux SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server VMware® ESXi |
Power Supplies | Titanium 750W, Platinum 495W, 750W, and 1100W, Bronze 450W 240HVDC 750W, 1100W 380 VDC |
Processor | Up to two Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 20 cores per processor |
Security | TPM 1.2/2.0 optional Cryptographically signed firmware Secure Boot System Lockdown Secure erase |
Storage Controller | Internal controllers: PERC H330, H730p, H740p, HBA330, Software RAID (SWRAID) S140 Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem: HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 120GB, 240 GB |
Supported Clients | 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 |