Table Of Contents - Dell External R720 T Technical Manual

Table of contents

1 System overview ................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6
New technologies .............................................................................................................................................................. 7
2 System features .................................................................................................................................................................. 9
Comparison of PowerEdge systems .............................................................................................................................. 9
Specifications ................................................................................................................................................................... 10
3 Chassis views and features .............................................................................................................................................. 13
Chassis views ..................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Chassis features ................................................................................................................................................................ 16
4 Processors ......................................................................................................................................................................... 20
Processor features ........................................................................................................................................................... 20
Supported processors ...................................................................................................................................................... 21
GPU support ...................................................................................................................................................................... 21
Chipset ............................................................................................................................................................................... 22
5 Memory .............................................................................................................................................................................. 23
Supported memory ......................................................................................................................................................... 23
Memory configurations .................................................................................................................................................. 24
Memory speed ................................................................................................................................................................. 25
Memory RAS features...................................................................................................................................................... 26
6 Storage ............................................................................................................................................................................... 27
Internal storage ................................................................................................................................................................ 27
External storage ............................................................................................................................................................... 29
Storage controllers .......................................................................................................................................................... 29
Optical drives ..................................................................................................................................................................... 31
Tape drives ......................................................................................................................................................................... 31
7 Networking and PCIe ...................................................................................................................................................... 32
Select Network Adapters ................................................................................................................................................ 32
PCIe expansion ................................................................................................................................................................ 34
8 Power, thermal, and acoustics ...................................................................................................................................... 36
Power consumption and energy efficiency ................................................................................................................ 36
Power supply units .......................................................................................................................................................... 37
Thermal and acoustics.................................................................................................................................................... 38
9 Rack rails and cable management .................................................................................................................................41
Sliding and static rail systems .........................................................................................................................................41
Cable management arm................................................................................................................................................. 43
10 Operating systems and virtualization ........................................................................................................................... 44
Supported operating systems ........................................................................................................................................ 44
Supported virtualization ................................................................................................................................................. 45
11 Dell OpenManage systems management .................................................................................................................... 46
Systems management solutions ................................................................................................................................... 46
OpenManage systems management ........................................................................................................................... 47
Dell server management operations ............................................................................................................................. 51
Appendix A. Additional specifications .......................................................................................................................... 54
Chassis dimensions ......................................................................................................................................................... 54
Chassis weight.................................................................................................................................................................. 54
Environmental specifications ........................................................................................................................................ 55
Power supply specifications .......................................................................................................................................... 56
Video specifications ........................................................................................................................................................ 56
Rack rail specifications ................................................................................................................................................... 57
USB peripherals ................................................................................................................................................................ 57
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