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......21 Supported memory ...21 Memory configurations ...22 Memory speed ...23 Memory RAS features...24 6 Storage ...25 Internal storage ...25 External storage ...27 Storage controllers ...27 Optical drives...29 Tape drives ...29 7 Networking and PCIe ...30 Select Network Adapters ...30 PCIe expansion ...32 8 Power, thermal, and acoustics ...34 Power consumption and energy efficiency...34 Power supply units ...35 Thermal and acoustics...36 9 Rack rails and cable management ...39 Sliding and static rail systems ...39 Cable management arm...41 10 Operating systems and virtualization ...42 Supported...
......21 Supported memory ...21 Memory configurations ...22 Memory speed ...23 Memory RAS features...24 6 Storage ...25 Internal storage ...25 External storage ...27 Storage controllers ...27 Optical drives...29 Tape drives ...29 7 Networking and PCIe ...30 Select Network Adapters ...30 PCIe expansion ...32 8 Power, thermal, and acoustics ...34 Power consumption and energy efficiency...34 Power supply units ...35 Thermal and acoustics...36 9 Rack rails and cable management ...39 Sliding and static rail systems ...39 Cable management arm...41 10 Operating systems and virtualization ...42 Supported...
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... data with Lifecycle Controller. Select Network Adapters, Dell's flexible NIC technology, let you to tailor your network throughput to match your virtual machines' uptime. The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd are Dell's latest 2-socket, 2U rack servers that are designed to run complex workloads using highly scalable memory, I /O capabilities to match. Maximize your data center's application capacity by expanding your capacity, while optional hot-plug, front-access Express Flash PCIe...
... data with Lifecycle Controller. Select Network Adapters, Dell's flexible NIC technology, let you to tailor your network throughput to match your virtual machines' uptime. The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd are Dell's latest 2-socket, 2U rack servers that are designed to run complex workloads using highly scalable memory, I /O capabilities to match. Maximize your data center's application capacity by expanding your capacity, while optional hot-plug, front-access Express Flash PCIe...
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... R720xd support two DIMMs per channel at higher temperatures or even chiller-less. Flexible LOM Dell's Select Network Adapter options allow you to help manage power consumption. Next generation PERC options The R720 and R720xd support new PERC controller cards with a buffer chip (or chips) to replace the register to operate at 1600 MT/s with Lifecycle Controller Internal GPU support Advanced power management Dell Express Flash PCIe solid-state drives provide fast performance without requiring processor...
... R720xd support two DIMMs per channel at higher temperatures or even chiller-less. Flexible LOM Dell's Select Network Adapter options allow you to help manage power consumption. Next generation PERC options The R720 and R720xd support new PERC controller cards with a buffer chip (or chips) to replace the register to operate at 1600 MT/s with Lifecycle Controller Internal GPU support Advanced power management Dell Express Flash PCIe solid-state drives provide fast performance without requiring processor...
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... Processors Processor sockets Front side bus (FSB) Cache Chipset Memory1 PCIe slots RAID controller Hard drives (hot-plug) Specification 2U rack Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family 2 2 Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links; 6.4 GT/s; 7.2 GT/s; 8.0 GT/s 2.5MB per core; Table 2 lists the technical specifications for the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd systems. For the latest information on supported features, visit Dell.com. core options: 2, 4, 6, 8 Intel C600 Up to 768GB (24 DIMM slots...
... Processors Processor sockets Front side bus (FSB) Cache Chipset Memory1 PCIe slots RAID controller Hard drives (hot-plug) Specification 2U rack Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family 2 2 Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links; 6.4 GT/s; 7.2 GT/s; 8.0 GT/s 2.5MB per core; Table 2 lists the technical specifications for the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd systems. For the latest information on supported features, visit Dell.com. core options: 2, 4, 6, 8 Intel C600 Up to 768GB (24 DIMM slots...
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... control panel, two USB connectors, a video connector, and a vFlash media card slot. 11 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide 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 their predecessor servers. 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...
... control panel, two USB connectors, a video connector, and a vFlash media card slot. 11 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide 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 their predecessor servers. 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...
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... 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 non-maskable interrupt (NMI) button used to buttons, display, and I/O interfaces (R720 only) Indicates the status of the system and the R720x slot is enabled Connects a monitor to the system Provides user access to troubleshoot software and device driver errors; For additional system views, see the Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. Table 4 lists the chassis...
... 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 non-maskable interrupt (NMI) button used to buttons, display, and I/O interfaces (R720 only) Indicates the status of the system and the R720x slot is enabled Connects a monitor to the system Provides user access to troubleshoot software and device driver errors; For additional system views, see the Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. Table 4 lists the chassis...
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...two back-accessible, hot-plug power supplies Indicate whether system has power Indicate network activity and status This code on the chassis can be scanned by a phone application to access information about the server The R720 system control panel is located on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. 15 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide The R720xd LED panel is located on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. Feature Optical drive (optional) System identification panel Serial connector iDRAC7 Enterprise port Security cable slot PCIe expansion card slots Ethernet connectors Power supply units Power supply...
...two back-accessible, hot-plug power supplies Indicate whether system has power Indicate network activity and status This code on the chassis can be scanned by a phone application to access information about the server The R720 system control panel is located on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. 15 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide The R720xd LED panel is located on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. Feature Optical drive (optional) System identification panel Serial connector iDRAC7 Enterprise port Security cable slot PCIe expansion card slots Ethernet connectors Power supply units Power supply...
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... link) to get in Figure 11). A lock on the server (shown in touch with Dell™ PowerEdge 12th generation servers is the Quick Resource Locator (QRL)-a model-specific Quick Response (QR) code that is located on the bezel is mounted to the chassis front to the rack chassis. Just use your data center. An optional metal bezel is used to protect un-authorized access to hard drives. A useful feature included with technical support...
... link) to get in Figure 11). A lock on the server (shown in touch with Dell™ PowerEdge 12th generation servers is the Quick Resource Locator (QRL)-a model-specific Quick Response (QR) code that is located on the bezel is mounted to the chassis front to the rack chassis. Just use your data center. An optional metal bezel is used to protect un-authorized access to hard drives. A useful feature included with technical support...
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... help keep the system online and operational without significant impact to performance, and can decrease data loss and crashing due to replace only the failed DIMM pair. Recovery from Single DRAM Device Failure (SDDC) provides error checking and correction that adjusts parameters to reduce faults regarding refresh rates, speed, temperature and voltage Demand scrubbing is not supported. 24 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide Memory RAID is the ability to write...
... help keep the system online and operational without significant impact to performance, and can decrease data loss and crashing due to replace only the failed DIMM pair. Recovery from Single DRAM Device Failure (SDDC) provides error checking and correction that adjusts parameters to reduce faults regarding refresh rates, speed, temperature and voltage Demand scrubbing is not supported. 24 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide Memory RAID is the ability to write...
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... to adapt to your workload and operational demands. Due to the processor and chipset and are optional 25 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide CacheCade uses Dell PERC storage controllers to 26 internal 2.5-inch drives. 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 8 x 2.5" + 4 x Express Flash1 drives 8 x 3.5" drives 24 x 2.5" drives (front) + 2 x 2.5" drives (back)2 12 x 3.5" drives (front) + 2 x 2.5" drives (back) 2 1Available Q2 2012 2Back-accessible 2.5" drives are easily accessible by hot-plug drive bay...
... to adapt to your workload and operational demands. Due to the processor and chipset and are optional 25 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide CacheCade uses Dell PERC storage controllers to 26 internal 2.5-inch drives. 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 8 x 2.5" + 4 x Express Flash1 drives 8 x 3.5" drives 24 x 2.5" drives (front) + 2 x 2.5" drives (back)2 12 x 3.5" drives (front) + 2 x 2.5" drives (back) 2 1Available Q2 2012 2Back-accessible 2.5" drives are easily accessible by hot-plug drive bay...
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... external iSCSI tape products Supports NAS software stack Supports connection to current PowerVault NAS (Network Attached Storage) products Supports connection to current PowerVault direct-attach storage (DAS) (including JBOD and RBOD enclosures) products Supports connection to current PowerVault storage area network (SAN) (including Dell EqualLogic™, iSCSI, Dell-EMC arrays, and JBOD disk enclosures) products Supports connection to quickly replace a drive. Physical disk power management (Dimmer Switch™): This feature allows for power control of PowerEdge RAID Controllers...
... external iSCSI tape products Supports NAS software stack Supports connection to current PowerVault NAS (Network Attached Storage) products Supports connection to current PowerVault direct-attach storage (DAS) (including JBOD and RBOD enclosures) products Supports connection to current PowerVault storage area network (SAN) (including Dell EqualLogic™, iSCSI, Dell-EMC arrays, and JBOD disk enclosures) products Supports connection to quickly replace a drive. Physical disk power management (Dimmer Switch™): This feature allows for power control of PowerEdge RAID Controllers...
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...-boot: Use the Dell Lifecycle Controller graphical user interface (GUI) to set configuration such as bandwidth allocation or firmware revision level Post-boot: Agent-free out-of-band or high-speed in-band connection over LOM through the Operating System/BMC pass-thru feature for the R720 and R720xd. Table 15 lists the available Select Network Adapter options and supported features for sensory information Automation of firmware and driver version deployment...
...-boot: Use the Dell Lifecycle Controller graphical user interface (GUI) to set configuration such as bandwidth allocation or firmware revision level Post-boot: Agent-free out-of-band or high-speed in-band connection over LOM through the Operating System/BMC pass-thru feature for the R720 and R720xd. Table 15 lists the available Select Network Adapter options and supported features for sensory information Automation of firmware and driver version deployment...
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... system-component temperature sensors, as well as processors, DIMMs, chipset, the inlet air ambient, hard disk drives, NDC, and GPU. Open and closed loop thermal fan speed control: Open loop thermal control uses system configuration to determine fan speed based on inlet air ambient temperature. The acoustical design of the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd reflect the following is a list of items that impact fan speeds and acoustical output: > iDRAC7 BIOS settings: Performance Per...
... system-component temperature sensors, as well as processors, DIMMs, chipset, the inlet air ambient, hard disk drives, NDC, and GPU. Open and closed loop thermal fan speed control: Open loop thermal control uses system configuration to determine fan speed based on inlet air ambient temperature. The acoustical design of the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd reflect the following is a list of items that impact fan speeds and acoustical output: > iDRAC7 BIOS settings: Performance Per...
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... processors. Installation of more information on Dell's acoustical design, see the Dell Enterprise Acoustics white paper. 38 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide acoustical output from the four bystander positions calculated per ISO7779 (2010) definition 3.1.6. system is lowest in this setting. > The quantity and type of power supply unit: In the system default setting, the Hot Spare Feature is configured as Express flash drives and Fusion-io® cards require...
... processors. Installation of more information on Dell's acoustical design, see the Dell Enterprise Acoustics white paper. 38 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide acoustical output from the four bystander positions calculated per ISO7779 (2010) definition 3.1.6. system is lowest in this setting. > The quantity and type of power supply unit: In the system default setting, the Hot Spare Feature is configured as Express flash drives and Fusion-io® cards require...
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... room using OpenManage Power Center New systems come with setup for better performance; The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller is a functioning operating system running on predecessor iDRAC6 Simplified, more efficient in e-mail alert notifications enables launch to iDRAC7 GUI or virtual console vFlash media Enabled with iDRAC7 Enterprise Allows for use of Dell PowerEdge server embedded management functionality. The Dell OpenManage™ systems management portfolio includes powerful hardware and software management...
... room using OpenManage Power Center New systems come with setup for better performance; The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller is a functioning operating system running on predecessor iDRAC6 Simplified, more efficient in e-mail alert notifications enables launch to iDRAC7 GUI or virtual console vFlash media Enabled with iDRAC7 Enterprise Allows for use of Dell PowerEdge server embedded management functionality. The Dell OpenManage™ systems management portfolio includes powerful hardware and software management...
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...) Part replacement Backup and restore configurations Virtual console (4 user) Virtual console chat Support for customer-supplied SD cards for the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd, and Dell also offers an option of iDRAC7 Express. Feature (function) Local configuration with USC IPMI 2.0 Embedded diagnostics Local OS install Local updates Driver pack Shared NIC (LOM) Remote update Power control Encryption Crash screen capture1 IPv6 Auto-discovery Auto-recovery Web GUI Remote CLI Local/SSH CLI Serial redirection Remote configuration Email alerts SNMP alerts Power monitoring...
...) Part replacement Backup and restore configurations Virtual console (4 user) Virtual console chat Support for customer-supplied SD cards for the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd, and Dell also offers an option of iDRAC7 Express. Feature (function) Local configuration with USC IPMI 2.0 Embedded diagnostics Local OS install Local updates Driver pack Shared NIC (LOM) Remote update Power control Encryption Crash screen capture1 IPv6 Auto-discovery Auto-recovery Web GUI Remote CLI Local/SSH CLI Serial redirection Remote configuration Email alerts SNMP alerts Power monitoring...
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... and remote servers and their storage. This greatly simplifies and streamlines the management footprint. The central console provides a rapid view and insight into the hardware health and may be managed within the IT environment. It can help simplify single-server monitoring with a secure command-line interface (CLI) or Web-based management graphical user interface (GUI). to update and configure 47 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide The Dell systems management portfolio includes several powerful consoles...
... and remote servers and their storage. This greatly simplifies and streamlines the management footprint. The central console provides a rapid view and insight into the hardware health and may be managed within the IT environment. It can help simplify single-server monitoring with a secure command-line interface (CLI) or Web-based management graphical user interface (GUI). to update and configure 47 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide The Dell systems management portfolio includes several powerful consoles...
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... Lifecycle Controller, as well as a no-charge software download from Symantec. Dell IT Assistant-Dell IT Assistant (ITA) is a console for managing Dell servers, storage arrays, and other software updates. Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit-The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) is a CLI-based tool that includes a set of utilities for Dell servers, storage, and network devices to deploy large numbers of managing downloads and baseline BIOS, firmware, and driver updates. Repository Manager can manage operating systems and applications using the IPMI version...
... Lifecycle Controller, as well as a no-charge software download from Symantec. Dell IT Assistant-Dell IT Assistant (ITA) is a console for managing Dell servers, storage arrays, and other software updates. Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit-The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) is a CLI-based tool that includes a set of utilities for Dell servers, storage, and network devices to deploy large numbers of managing downloads and baseline BIOS, firmware, and driver updates. Repository Manager can manage operating systems and applications using the IPMI version...
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....mspx 56 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide SATA II, SATA 1.0a Extensions, Rev. 1.2 SMBIOS System Management BIOS Reference Specification, v2.7 TPM Trusted Platform Module Specification, v1.2 UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification, v2.1 USB Universal Serial Bus Specification, Rev. 2.0 Windows Logo Windows Logo Program System and Device Requirements, v3.10 URL for Microsoft Windows Server IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface, v2.0 DDR3 Memory DDR3 SDRAM Specification, Rev. 3A LPC Low Pin Count Interface Specification, Rev. 1.1 PCI Express PCI Express Base...
....mspx 56 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide SATA II, SATA 1.0a Extensions, Rev. 1.2 SMBIOS System Management BIOS Reference Specification, v2.7 TPM Trusted Platform Module Specification, v1.2 UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification, v2.1 USB Universal Serial Bus Specification, Rev. 2.0 Windows Logo Windows Logo Program System and Device Requirements, v3.10 URL for Microsoft Windows Server IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface, v2.0 DDR3 Memory DDR3 SDRAM Specification, Rev. 3A LPC Low Pin Count Interface Specification, Rev. 1.1 PCI Express PCI Express Base...
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...: Initial setup steps Key system features Technical specifications Support.Dell.com/Manuals Rack Installation Instructions Cable Management Arm Installation Instructions System Information Label Quick Resource Locator (QRL) code Information Update This printed document is printed and shipped with the rack kits. Table 36 provides a list of contents Location PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual This manual is also available in HTML format on the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd. This document provides updated system information and...
...: Initial setup steps Key system features Technical specifications Support.Dell.com/Manuals Rack Installation Instructions Cable Management Arm Installation Instructions System Information Label Quick Resource Locator (QRL) code Information Update This printed document is printed and shipped with the rack kits. Table 36 provides a list of contents Location PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Systems Owner's Manual This manual is also available in HTML format on the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd. This document provides updated system information and...