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How To Configure Raid Levels In Dell Poweredge R720 R720xd
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Owner's Manual - Page 1
Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Owner's Manual
Regulatory Model: E14S Series Regulatory Type: E14S001
Owner's Manual - Page 136
...more information on software RAID, see the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) documentation at support.dell.com/manuals. Up ... two processors
Up to 768 GB (PowerEdge R720xd with 2.5 inch hard-drive configuration) Up to 512 GB Up to ...PowerEdge R720) Four-hard-drive systems
Eight-hard-drive systems
Sixteen or eight plus eight-hard-drive systems
Twelve-hard-drive systems
Hard drives (PowerEdge R720xd...
Technical Guide - Page 6
... hypervisor and take advantage of NIC technologies. Dell embedded server management features help maximize your application needs, enabling added I /O capabilities to four) enable performance-enhancing, in -band or out-of-band, with or without using up to match your virtual machines' uptime. OpenManage solutions
6 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
Keep pace with the explosion...
Technical Guide - Page 11
... Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd implement a new chassis design which supports an increased number of DIMMs, PCIe slots, and hard drives, relative to eight 3.5" front-accessible, hot-plug hard drives that a chassis cannot be reconfigured or upgraded after point of purchase. For information on features and descriptions for these systems, see the Dell PowerEdge R720...
Technical Guide - Page 14
...drives plus two optional back-accessible hot-plug hard drives (R720xd only)
14 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
Table 4 lists the chassis features for the R720 and R720xd systems. For additional information on these features, see the Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. Feature Power button and indicator NMI button
System identification...
Technical Guide - Page 15
...DVD+/-RW drive; For more information on the R720 LCD control panel, see the Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. R720xd does not support an internal optical drive Slide-out... the chassis can be scanned by a phone application to access information about the server
The R720 system control panel is located on the front of the chassis to provide user ...
Technical Guide - Page 18
...R710) to 768GB (R720/R720xd) Intel Integrated I/O has support for up to reduce network and storage bottlenecks, unleashing the processor's performance capabilities. The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd feature the Intel&#...including: Up to two additional cores and up to 8MB more last level cache More memory-six additional DIMMs and support for up to 32GB DIMMs...
Technical Guide - Page 19
..., visit Dell.com. Each GPU can support up to four 150W, full-length, single-wide GPUs.
For the latest information on the R720, which can support two 300W, full-length, double-wide GPUs or up to eight cores per processor.
not supported on processor installation and configuration, see Table 18.
19 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical...
Technical Guide - Page 21
...
SDDC
Yes (with the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd-greater capacities, higher frequencies, and more flexibility.
More memory options are available than ever before with advanced ECC mode)
Yes
Address parity
Yes
Yes
LRDIMM Yes Yes
1066 or 1333MT/s
4 32GB
3
x4 Yes Yes
Yes Yes
21 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide Increase your memory...
Technical Guide - Page 22
...memory configuration and population, see the Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual on supported memory, visit Dell.com. Table 8 lists the DIMMs supported on the R720 and R720xd, ...Flexible memory configurations are supported on the R720 and R720xd.
Each server has four memory channels per channel.
DIMMs must be installed in a dual-processor configuration). For...
Technical Guide - Page 24
...address lines of memory as a spare.
For information on memory mirroring and sparing configurations, see the Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Owner's Manual on the R720 and R720xd. The mirrored copy of the memory is stored in rapid, accurate diagnosis of the...protects against any portion of a single memory chip. Memory RAID is not supported.
24 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
Technical Guide - Page 25
... storage options, the R720 and R720xd offer various drive types, internal and external storage controllers, and different chassis and backplanes for a variety of implementations, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments and collaboration solutions. PowerEdge server Chassis option 16 x 2.5" drives 8 x 2.5" + 8 x 2.5" drives (with dual RAID controllers) 8 x 2.5" drives...
Technical Guide - Page 30
... Adapter family is purpose-built and includes flexible LAN on Motherboard (LOM) card options for rack servers (shown Figure 12). The rack NDC options supported on 10GbE connections. The PowerEdge R720 and R720xd support one for Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers. The Select Network Adapter form factor delivers the value of LOM integration with the system, including...
Technical Guide - Page 34
...consumption. PowerEdge servers maximize performance per watt through a combination of sensors that uses infrastructure and thermal analysis to help you choose the best, most efficient configuration possible.... for servers, power distribution units, and uninterruptible power supplies.
34 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide Table 19 lists the tools and technologies Dell offers to...
Technical Guide - Page 39
The optional cable management arm (CMA) can be fully extended out of Dell racks. The rack rail systems for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd provide toolless support for 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round mounting holes, including all generations of the rack for service and are available with ...
Technical Guide - Page 42
... Datacenter
Web Standard Enterprise Datacenter HPC
42 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide Operating System Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC
Platform x32 x64 x64
x64
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 x64
Edition N/A N/A N/A N/A
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
x64
N/A
Microsoft® Windows...
Technical Guide - Page 48
... with comprehensive reporting features. ITA is supported on a Dell server such as performance and advanced monitoring.
48 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide DMC can perform basic hardware management and can create deployment disks as well as create and manage customized repositories.
Dell OpenManage Server Update Utility-The Dell Server Update Utility (SUU) is a DVD-based...
Technical Guide - Page 52
...)
52 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide Xa
Xb
Y
482.4mm 444.0mm 87.3mm
Za
Za
(with bezel) (without bezel)
Zb
Zc
32.0mm
18.0mm
684.0mm 723.0mm
Table 30 lists the weight of the R720 and R720xd chassis at maximum configuration as well as empty of the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd chassis.
Figure...
Technical Guide - Page 54
...) 8, 16, 32 8, 16, 32 8, 16, 32 8, 16, 32 - 8, 16, 32 8, 16, 32
54 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
The following additional restrictions apply to 35,000ft)
Airborne contaminant level
G1 as defined by ISA-S71.04-1985
The Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd integrated Dell remote access controller (iDRAC) incorporates an integrated video subsystem. The graphics controller is...
Technical Guide - Page 57
...information and resources for installing the server in HTML and PDF format at the Dell support site. It is provided with the R720 or R720xd systems, and also in a rack...replace procedures
Troubleshooting
Diagnostics
Jumpers and connectors
Support.Dell.com/Manuals
PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Getting Started Guide
This guide is printed and shipped with the system, and ...
