Dell PowerEdge R540 3106/8G/600G SAS 10K/H330/DVD/495W/3.5-12 Server

Dell PowerEdge R540 Specification

Processor

Up to two Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 20 cores per processor

Memory

16 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, speeds up to 2666MT/s, 1TB max*

(*768GB max memory is recommended for performance optimized configurations.)

Storage controllers

Internal controllers: PERC H330, H730p, H740p, Software RAID (SWRAID) S140

Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem: HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 120GB, 240 GB

External PERC (RAID): H840

External HBAs (non-RAID): 12 Gbps SAS HBA

Drive bays

Front drive bays: Up to 12 x 3.5” SAS/SATA HDD max 168TB

Rear drive bays: Up to 2 x 3.5 SAS/SATA HDD max 28TB

Optional DVD-ROM, DVD+RW

Power supplies

Titanium 750W, Platinum 495W, 750W, and 1100W 450W bronze

240HVDC 750W, 1100W 380 VDC

Six hot pluggable fans for N+1 redundancy

Dimensions

Form factor: Rack (2U)

Chassis max depth: 693.81 mm (without bezel)

Max depth: 707.74 mm (with bezel)

Bezel

Optional LCD or security bezel

Embedded / At-Server

iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller

iDRAC Direct

iDRAC REST API with Redfish

Quick Sync 2 BLE/wireless module

OpenManage™ Software

OpenManage Enterprise

OpenManage Essentials

OpenManage Mobile

OpenManage Power Center

Integrations

OpenManage integrations: Microsoft® System Center, VMware® vCenter™, BMC Software

Connections

Nagios Core and Nagios XI, HPE Operations Manager i (OMi)

Tools

Dell EMC Repository Manager

Dell EMC Update Package

Dell EMC System Update

Dell EMC Server Update Utility

iDRAC Service Module

OpenManage Server Administrator

OpenManage Storage Services

Security

TPM 1.2/2.0 optional

Cryptographically signed firmware

Silicon Root of Trust

Secure Boot

System Lockdown

System Erase

I/O & Ports

Network options: 2 x 1GE LOM + (optional) LOM Riser 2 x 1GE or 2 x 10GE SFP+ or 2 x 10GE BaseT

Front ports: Video, 1 x USB 2.0, dedicated IDRAC Direct USB

Rear ports: Video, serial, 2 x USB 3.0, dedicated iDRAC network port

With Optional Riser: Non rear storage config: 1xFH/FL + 1xHH/HL (2U Right riser) slots + 3 HH/HL slots

Rear storage config: 1xHH/HL (1U Left Riser) + 1xHH/HL (1U Right risers) slot or 1xHH/HL (1U Left Riser) + 1x FH/HL (1U Right riser)

Supported operating

systems

Canonical® Ubuntu® LTS

Citrix® XenServer®

Microsoft Windows Server® with Hyper-V

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server

VMware® ESXi