Categories: Servers, Dell PowerEdge, Dell Rack Servers, 2U Servers
The PowerEdge R720 is a 2-socket 2U rack server allowing for 24 dimm slots and up to 16 cores for high density installations and plenty of virtualization power by utilizing the latest Intel Xeon E5 processors and robust I/O capabilities including integrated PCIe Gen3-capable expansion slots.
orm Factor
2U rack
Processors
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family
Processor Sockets
2
Internal interconnect
2 x Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links; 6.4 GT/s; 7.2 GT/s; 8.0 GT/s
Cache
2.5MB per core; core options: 2, 4, 6, 8
Chipset
Intel C600
Power supply
​Auto-ranging Titanium efficiency, hot-plug redundant 750W AC power supply; Auto-ranging Platinum efficiency, hot-plug redundant 495W, 750W or 1100W AC power supply; 1100W DC power supply
Memory
Up to 768GB (24 DIMM Slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600MT/s
Maximum Internal Storage
32TB
Hard Drives
Hot-plug hard drive options: 2.5” PCIe SSD, SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K); 3.5” SAS (15K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K); Self-encrypting drives available
Systems management
IPMI 2.0 compliant; Dell OpenManage™ Essentials and Dell Management Console; Dell OpenManage Power Center; Dell OpenManage Connections:
Dell OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft® System Center
Dell plug-in for Vmware® vCenter™
HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli® Netcool®, and CA Network and Systems Management
Embedded NIC
Broadcom® 5720 Quad Port 1GbE BASE-T (no TOE or iSCSI offload); Intel I350 Quad Port 1GbE BASE-T (no TOE or iSCSI offload); Intel X540 Dual Port 10GbE BASE-T with 2 x 1GbE (FCoE capability enabled on the 10GbE ports); Broadcom 57800S Dual Port 10GbE Base-T with 2 x 1GbE (TOE and iSCSI offload available on 10GbE ports; Broadcom 57800S Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ with 2 x 1GbE (TOE and iSCSI offload available on 10GbE port
