Processor
Up to two 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 28 cores per processor
Operating System
Canonical® Ubuntu® LTS
Citrix® XenServer®
Microsoft Windows Server® with Hyper-V
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
VMware® ESXi
Chassis
Optional LCD or Security bezel
Data Protection
TPM 1.2/2.0 optional Cryptographically signed firmware
Secure Boot
System Lockdown
Secure erase
Dimensions & Weight
Form factor:
Rack (1U)
Chassis Max depth (with bezel):
757.75 mm – For the 8 x 2.5” front bay drive configuration.
808.51 mm – For the 4 x 3.5” or 10 x 2.5” front bay drive configurations (plus up to 2 rear drives).
Drive Bays
Front drive bays:
Up to 10 x 2.5” with up to 8 NVMe, SAS/SATA/SSD/NVMe, max 76.8TB , or up to 10 NVMe drives max 64TB. Or Up to 4 x 3.5” SAS/SATA, max 56TB
Rear drive bays:
Up to 2 x 2.5” SAS/SATA/SSD/NVMe, max 15.36TB
GPU
Accelerators
Up to 1 single-width FPGA or up to 1 single-width GPU
Memory*
24 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, speeds up to 2993MT/s, 3TB max
Up to 12 NVDIMM, 192 GB Max
Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only
Management
Embedded / At-the-Server
iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller (Express, Enterprise)
iDRAC Direct
iDRAC REST API with Redfish
Quick Sync 2 BLE/wireless module
Consoles
OpenManage Enterprise
OpenManage Essentials
OpenManage Power Center
Mobility
OpenManage Mobile
Tools
iDRAC Service Module
OpenManage Server Administrator
OpenManage Storage Services
Dell EMC Repository Manager
Dell EMC System Update
Dell EMC Server Update Utility
Dell EMC Update Catalogs
OpenManage Integrations
Microsoft® System Center
VMware® vCenter™
BMC software (available from BMC)
OpenManage Connections
Nagios Core and Nagios XI
HPE Operations Manager i (OMi)
IBM Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus
IBM Tivoli® Network Manager IP Edition
Ports
Network daughter card options:
4 x 1GE or 2 x 10GE + 2 x 1GE or 4 x 10GE or 2 x 25GE
Front ports:
Video, 1 x USB 2.0, available USB 3.0, dedicated IDRAC Direct USB
Rear ports:
Video, serial, 2 x USB 3.0, dedicated iDRAC network port
Video card:
VGA, NVIDIA NVS310 available as PCIe card Up to 3 x Gen3 slots, all x16
Power
Titanium 750W, Platinum 495W, 750W, 1100W, and 1600W
48VDC 1100W, 380HVDC 1100W, 240HVDC 750W
Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy option Up to 8 hot plugs fans with full redundancy
Storage Controllers
Internal controllers:
PERC H330, H730P, H740P, Software RAID (SWRAID) S140
Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem:
HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 240GB or 480GB
External PERC (RAID):
H840
12Gbps SAS HBAs (non-RAID):
External- 12Gbps SAS HBA (non-RAID)
Internal- HBA330 (non-RAID)
Uncompromising performance and density for data center productivity and scale
The poweredge R640 is the ideal dual-socket platform for dense scale-out data center computing and storage. Benefit from the flexibilty of 2.5” or 3.5” drives, the performance of NVMe and embedded intelligence to ensure optimized application performance in a secure platform. With embedded diagnostics and SupportAssist, the R640 delivers maximum uptime in a worry-free environment.
Ideal workloads:
- Dense software-defined storage
- Service providers: application tier
- Dense private cloud
- Virtualization
- HPC
