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.... Appendix B. Technical specifications...8 Table 3. Security features ...16 Table 6. Supported external storage device types...27 Table 14. PCIe expansion slots...32 Table 17. Power supply specifications ...53 Table 32. Standards compliance ...56 Appendix C. Comparison of PowerEdge R710, R720, and R720xd 10 Table 4. Supported hard drives ...26 Table 13. Supported NICs and HBAs...32 Table...
.... Appendix B. Technical specifications...8 Table 3. Security features ...16 Table 6. Supported external storage device types...27 Table 14. PCIe expansion slots...32 Table 17. Power supply specifications ...53 Table 32. Standards compliance ...56 Appendix C. Comparison of PowerEdge R710, R720, and R720xd 10 Table 4. Supported hard drives ...26 Table 13. Supported NICs and HBAs...32 Table...
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... that are designed to run complex workloads using highly scalable memory, I /O and storage capabilities of the R720 and R720xd. The R720 can also help IT Administrators manage Dell servers in physical, virtual, local and remote environments, operating in -box storage tiering. Keep pace with ...with highly expandable memory (up to match. Dell embedded server management features help maximize your single point of our system management capability to manage both physical and virtual assets. The R720 supports up to sixteen internal hard drives to increase your virtual environment using ...
... that are designed to run complex workloads using highly scalable memory, I /O and storage capabilities of the R720 and R720xd. The R720 can also help IT Administrators manage Dell servers in physical, virtual, local and remote environments, operating in -box storage tiering. Keep pace with ...with highly expandable memory (up to match. Dell embedded server management features help maximize your single point of our system management capability to manage both physical and virtual assets. The R720 supports up to sixteen internal hard drives to increase your virtual environment using ...
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... H710P External HBAs (RAID): PERC H810 External HBAs (non-RAID): 6Gbps SAS HBA R720 drive bay options: Up to 16 x 2.5" Up to 8 x 2.5" + 8 x 2.5" (with dual RAID controllers) Up to 8 x 2.5" Up to 8 x 2.5" + 4 x 2.5" Express Flash2 or up to 12 x 3.5" (front) + 2 x 2.5" (back) Hard drive ... Intel C600 Up to 768GB (24 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to the previous generation of Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, the R720 and R720xd have more drive bay options, more PCIe slots, a larger memory footprint, flexible I/O, Express Flash PCIe solid...
... H710P External HBAs (RAID): PERC H810 External HBAs (non-RAID): 6Gbps SAS HBA R720 drive bay options: Up to 16 x 2.5" Up to 8 x 2.5" + 8 x 2.5" (with dual RAID controllers) Up to 8 x 2.5" Up to 8 x 2.5" + 4 x 2.5" Express Flash2 or up to 12 x 3.5" (front) + 2 x 2.5" (back) Hard drive ... Intel C600 Up to 768GB (24 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to the previous generation of Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, the R720 and R720xd have more drive bay options, more PCIe slots, a larger memory footprint, flexible I/O, Express Flash PCIe solid...
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...R720 (new) PowerEdge R720xd (new) 2U rack 2U rack 2U rack Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 and 5600 series product family product family Front Side Bus (FSB) Intel QuickPath Interconnect Intel QuickPath Interconnect Intel QuickPath Interconnect Memory1 Hard...iR, PERC 6/E, H200, H700, H800 PERC S110, H310, H710, H710P, H810 (external); For the latest information on supported features, visit Dell.com. The PowerEdge R720 and R720xd are replacements for the predecessor R710 system, three systems which are compared in ...
...R720 (new) PowerEdge R720xd (new) 2U rack 2U rack 2U rack Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 and 5600 series product family product family Front Side Bus (FSB) Intel QuickPath Interconnect Intel QuickPath Interconnect Intel QuickPath Interconnect Memory1 Hard...iR, PERC 6/E, H200, H700, H800 PERC S110, H310, H710, H710P, H810 (external); For the latest information on supported features, visit Dell.com. The PowerEdge R720 and R720xd are replacements for the predecessor R710 system, three systems which are compared in ...
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...are secured by a removable front bezel. The 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... the chassis features. The following sections provide external and internal views of drive bays. For information on features and descriptions for these systems, see the Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. The R720 supports up to sixteen 2.5" or up to...
...are secured by a removable front bezel. The 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... the chassis features. The following sections provide external and internal views of drive bays. For information on features and descriptions for these systems, see the Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. The R720 supports up to sixteen 2.5" or up to...
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The R720xd supports up to twenty-four 2.5" or up to twelve 3.5" front-accessible, hot-plug hard drives that are secured by a removable front bezel. The R720 back panel includes features such as redundant hot-plug power supply units (PSUs), four Ethernet connectors, PCI expansion slots, and many other features that are described in the rest of this guide. 12 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide Other front-panel features include an LED control panel, a USB connector, and a video connector.
The R720xd supports up to twenty-four 2.5" or up to twelve 3.5" front-accessible, hot-plug hard drives that are secured by a removable front bezel. The R720 back panel includes features such as redundant hot-plug power supply units (PSUs), four Ethernet connectors, PCI expansion slots, and many other features that are described in the rest of this guide. 12 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide Other front-panel features include an LED control panel, a USB connector, and a video connector.
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... For additional information on these features, see the Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. For additional system views, see the Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. functionality is activated only when iDRAC ... driver errors; Feature Power button and indicator NMI button System identification button Hard drive activity LEDs USB connectors vFlash media reader Video connector LCD control panel LED panel Hard drives Description ACPI-complaint power button with an integrated green power LED Recessed...
... For additional information on these features, see the Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. For additional system views, see the Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. functionality is activated only when iDRAC ... driver errors; Feature Power button and indicator NMI button System identification button Hard drive activity LEDs USB connectors vFlash media reader Video connector LCD control panel LED panel Hard drives Description ACPI-complaint power button with an integrated green power LED Recessed...
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...tooled latch is integrated in managing your specific hardware configuration info and warranty information Contact Dell directly (by -step videos, including overviews of system internals and externals, as well as detailed, concise, task-oriented videos and installation wizards Locate reference... gain access to your hardware. System status is installed. 16 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide The latest generation of your phone to access the Dell QRL application to hard drives. A useful feature included with technical support and sales teams and...
...tooled latch is integrated in managing your specific hardware configuration info and warranty information Contact Dell directly (by -step videos, including overviews of system internals and externals, as well as detailed, concise, task-oriented videos and installation wizards Locate reference... gain access to your hardware. System status is installed. 16 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide The latest generation of your phone to access the Dell QRL application to hard drives. A useful feature included with technical support and sales teams and...
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TPM can also be used to disable the power button function. BIOS has the ability to enable the BitLocker™ hard drive encryption feature in Windows Server® 2008. It also supports the Intel Xeon TXT functionality. TPM 1.2 is available for China or Russia. An internal ... Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is used to lock out the power and NMI switches on the control panel or set up a system password. 17 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
TPM can also be used to disable the power button function. BIOS has the ability to enable the BitLocker™ hard drive encryption feature in Windows Server® 2008. It also supports the Intel Xeon TXT functionality. TPM 1.2 is available for China or Russia. An internal ... Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is used to lock out the power and NMI switches on the control panel or set up a system password. 17 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
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...PCIe solid-state drives (available Q2 2012) and CacheCade™ provide vastly accelerated performance over hard drives or traditional solid-state drives. The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd provide storage expandability that the chassis option must be selected at the point of .... Note that allows you to adapt to 26 internal 2.5-inch drives. With comprehensive storage options, the R720 and R720xd offer various drive types, internal and external storage controllers, and different chassis and backplanes for a variety of purchase and cannot be changed or upgraded...
...PCIe solid-state drives (available Q2 2012) and CacheCade™ provide vastly accelerated performance over hard drives or traditional solid-state drives. The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd provide storage expandability that the chassis option must be selected at the point of .... Note that allows you to adapt to 26 internal 2.5-inch drives. With comprehensive storage options, the R720 and R720xd offer various drive types, internal and external storage controllers, and different chassis and backplanes for a variety of purchase and cannot be changed or upgraded...
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... 100GB, 200GB 175GB, 350GB Express Flash drives use a standardized, 2.5-inch hot-plug form factor, which saves critical PCIe slot space by the R720 and R720xd. Also, Express Flash drives use PCIe and SSD technologies to four hot-plug Express Flash PCIe SSD drives (available Q2 2012) in...resources or capturing DRAM. The R720xd does not support Express Flash drives. 26 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide For the latest information on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com. Table 12 lists the internal hard drives supported by moving drives from the back to the front of the system ...
... 100GB, 200GB 175GB, 350GB Express Flash drives use a standardized, 2.5-inch hot-plug form factor, which saves critical PCIe slot space by the R720 and R720xd. Also, Express Flash drives use PCIe and SSD technologies to four hot-plug Express Flash PCIe SSD drives (available Q2 2012) in...resources or capturing DRAM. The R720xd does not support Express Flash drives. 26 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide For the latest information on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com. Table 12 lists the internal hard drives supported by moving drives from the back to the front of the system ...
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...Motherboard -embedded Entry-level SATA For more information about the latest PERC offerings, see Dell.com/PERC. This can dramatically increase how your applications respond when they are under peak...software RAID controller that perform lots of random reads, and saves the cost of accessing the hard disk drives. CacheCade is a technology that cached data is a low-cost, entry-level ...storage tiering on the R720 and R720xd. Table 14 lists the RAID controllers supported on SSDs with the PERC H810 and H710P. Controller Description PERC H810 External Eight-port, external, 6Gb/s PCIe RAID...
...Motherboard -embedded Entry-level SATA For more information about the latest PERC offerings, see Dell.com/PERC. This can dramatically increase how your applications respond when they are under peak...software RAID controller that perform lots of random reads, and saves the cost of accessing the hard disk drives. CacheCade is a technology that cached data is a low-cost, entry-level ...storage tiering on the R720 and R720xd. Table 14 lists the RAID controllers supported on SSDs with the PERC H810 and H710P. Controller Description PERC H810 External Eight-port, external, 6Gb/s PCIe RAID...
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...typical office environments. For more acoustic noise than that of lower rotational-speed hard drives, and noise increases with one fan failure in Table 32. The following : Versatility: The R720 and R720xd save you , several different responses from all system-component temperature... sound, like SSDs. 15k hard drives generate more information, see the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals and "Advanced Thermal Control: Optimizing across Environments and Power Goals" on Dell.com. Cooling redundancy: The R720 and R720xd allow N+1 fan ...
...typical office environments. For more acoustic noise than that of lower rotational-speed hard drives, and noise increases with one fan failure in Table 32. The following : Versatility: The R720 and R720xd save you , several different responses from all system-component temperature... sound, like SSDs. 15k hard drives generate more information, see the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals and "Advanced Thermal Control: Optimizing across Environments and Power Goals" on Dell.com. Cooling redundancy: The R720 and R720xd allow N+1 fan ...
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... None 2 6 x 300GB 2 x SAS (10K) 750W 8 x 8GB H710, 1 x GbE Stressed4 4.5 26 None NIC Configuration (23 ± 2°C CPUs ambient) Hard drives Power supply unit PCI Memory card/HDD controller Operating mode LWA-UL1 LpA2 (bels) (dBA) Prominent tones3 Minimum 1 1 x 250GB 1 x SATA (7.2k) 495W 1 x... backup. The system is placed in this setting. Installation of more information on Dell's acoustical design, see the Dell Enterprise Acoustics white paper. 38 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide Table 21 and Table 22 detail the acoustical performance for ...
... None 2 6 x 300GB 2 x SAS (10K) 750W 8 x 8GB H710, 1 x GbE Stressed4 4.5 26 None NIC Configuration (23 ± 2°C CPUs ambient) Hard drives Power supply unit PCI Memory card/HDD controller Operating mode LWA-UL1 LpA2 (bels) (dBA) Prominent tones3 Minimum 1 1 x 250GB 1 x SATA (7.2k) 495W 1 x... backup. The system is placed in this setting. Installation of more information on Dell's acoustical design, see the Dell Enterprise Acoustics white paper. 38 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide Table 21 and Table 22 detail the acoustical performance for ...
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..., the maximum operating temperature is derated 1°F/550ft -15.2ft to 10,668m (-50ft to PowerEdge R720xd: Maximum 95W processor is supported on 3.5-inch hard drive chassis Maximum 115 W processor is the 2D Matrox® G200. Resolution 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1152 x 864 1280 x 800 (UI) ... shock pulses in Table 33. 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 maximum operating temperature is derated 1°F/550ft -15.2ft to 10,668m (-50ft to PowerEdge R720xd: Maximum 95W processor is supported on 3.5-inch hard drive chassis Maximum 115 W processor is the 2D Matrox® G200. Resolution 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1152 x 864 1280 x 800 (UI) ... shock pulses in Table 33. 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.