Designed to drive faster insights, the PowerEdge R840 delivers four-socket performance in a dense 2U design. Power your business-critical workloads with up to 24 direct-attached NVMe drives.
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Maximise application performance and density
The R840 delivers consistent, high performance results for data-intensive applications and data analytic workloads. With powerful Intel Xeon Scalable processors and up to 112 cores, the R840 can quickly turn analytics into insights to drive your business forward faster. Create an optimal configuration of NVMe, SSD, HDD and GPU resources to address your most demanding workloads - all in a 2U chassis.
- Scale capacity and performance with up to 26 2.5" HDDs and SSDs, 62% more than the previous generation.
- Accelerate applications with up to 2 double-wide GPUs or up to 2 FPGAs.
- Speed data transfers with a fully integrated ultra path interconnect across all four sockets.
- Eliminate bottlenecks with up to 48 DIMMs, including up to 12 NVDIMMs.
Automate maintenance with Dell EMC OpenManage
Dell EMC OpenManage portfolio helps deliver peak efficiency for PowerEdge server customers, delivering intelligent, automated management of routine tasks. Combined with unique agent-free management capabilities, the R840 is easy to manage, and by doing routine work automatically, you can free up time for higher-value projects.
- Unify monitoring and management of your IT infrastructure with OpenManage Enterprise.
- Utilise a variety of OpenManage integrations and connections to take advantage of your existing IT management platform.
- Take advantage of Quick Sync 2 capabilities and gain access to your servers easily through your phone or tablet.
Guard your data centre with built in security
Every PowerEdge server is made with a cyber-resilient architecture, delivering security into all parts of a server's life cycle. The R840 uses these new security features so you can reliably and securely deliver the right data to where your customers are, no matter where they are. Dell EMC considers each part of system security, from to end of life, to ensure trust and deliver worry-free systems.
- Rely on a secure component supply chain to ensure protection from factory to the data centre.
- Maintain data safety with cryptographically signed firmware packages and Secure Boot.
- Prevent unauthorised or malicious change with Server Lockdown.
- Wipe all data from storage media including hard drives, SSDs and system memory quickly and securely with System Erase.
Part No. | R840 |
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Manufacturer | Dell Technologies |
End of Life? | No |
Rack Units | 2U |
Weight [Kg] | 36.60 |
CPU Socket(s) | Up to four Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 28 cores per processor |
Memory Slot(s) | 48 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM/LRDIMM, up to 2666MT/s, 6TB maxUp to 12 NVDIMMs, 384GB MaxSupports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only |
Drive Bays | Front drive bays: Up to 8x 2.5" SAS SATA (HDDs/SSDs) max 30TB, or up to 24 x 2.5" SAS/SATA (HDDs/SSDs) with up to 12 NVMe PCIe SSDs max 122TB, or up to 24 NVMe PCIe SSDs max 153TB Rear drive bays: Up to 2 x 2.5" SAS/SATA (HDDs/SSDs), max 7.68TB |
Supported OS | Canonical Ubuntu LTS Citrix XenServer Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V Red Hat Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server VMWare ESXi |
USB Port(s) | Front: 2x USB 2.0, dedicated iDRAC Direct Micro-USBRear: 2x USB 3.0 |
PCI Slot(s) | Up to 6 x Gen3 slots, (4x 16 slots or 4x8 slots) |
Serial Ports | Rear: 1x serial port |