Dell EMC PowerEdge R840
Turbocharge your data analytics

Overview:

Designed to drive faster insights, the PowerEdge R840 delivers four-socket performance in a dense 2U design. Power your business-critical workloads with up to 24 direct-attached NVMe drives. Speed up data analytics for faster insights with this entry-level four-socket server. Designed to balance compute with extensive local storage.

Maximize performance for demanding workloads

The R840 delivers consistent, high performance results for data-intensive applications and data analytic workloads. With powerful 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and up to 112 cores, the R840 can quickly turn analytics into insights to drive your business forward faster. Create an optimal configuration of NVMe, SSD, HDD and GPU resources to address your most demanding workloads - all in a 2U chassis.

• Scale capacity and performance with up to 26 2.5” HDDs and SSDs, 62% more than the previous generation.
• Accelerate applications with up to 2 double-width GPUs or up to 2 FPGAs.
• Speed data transfers with a fully integrated ultra path interconnect across all four sockets.
• Eliminate bottlenecks with up to 48 DIMMs, including up to 24 PMems or 12 NVDIMMs.

Automate everyday tasks with Dell EMC OpenManage

The Dell EMC OpenManage portfolio helps deliver peak efficiency for PowerEdge server customers, delivering intelligent, automated management of routine tasks. Combined with unique agent-free management capabilities, the R840 is easy to manage, and by doing routine work automatically, you can free up time for higher-value projects.

• Unify monitoring and management of your IT infrastructure with OpenManage Enterprise.
• Utilize a variety of OpenManage integrations and connections to take advantage of your existing IT management platform.
• Take advantage of QuickSync 2 capabilities and gain access to your servers easily through your phone or tablet.

Guard your data center with built in security

Every PowerEdge server is made with a cyber-resilient architecture, delivering security into all parts of a server’s life cycle. The R840 uses these new security features so you can reliably and securely deliver the right data to where your customers are, no matter where they are. Dell EMC considers each part of system security, from design to end of life, to ensure trust and deliver worry-free systems.

• Rely on a secure component supply chain to ensure protection from factory to the data center.
• Maintain data safety with cryptographically signed firmware packages and Secure Boot.
• Protect your server from malicious malware with iDRAC9 Server Lockdown mode (requires Enterprise or Datacenter license)
• Wipe all data from storage media including hard drives, SSDs and system memory quickly and securely with System Erase.

Features:

Your innovation engine

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R840, powered by a 2rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor, is the optimal rack server to address application performance and acceleration.

Power your business-critical workloads

The PowerEdge R840 accelerates business insights and delivers unprecedented performance density for your in-database analytics. Deliver consistent results for demanding applications with powerful, four-socket performance and large memory. Even as your workloads become more complex, OpenManage Enterprise simplifies management of your IT infrastructure so you can focus on your business objectives. Integrated security and proven reliability helps ensure maximum uptime in your enterprise data center.

Ideal workloads:

• Data intensive applications
• Data analytics

Scale application performance for demanding data analytics workloads

The R840 offers versatile resources that allow you to meet changing business demands. Maximize performance and minimize latency with direct-attached NVMe drives.

• Boost performance with up to four 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and up to 112 processing cores
• Address large data sets with up to 48 DIMMs (24 of which can be DCPMMs) and up to 15.36TB of memory
• Scale capacity and performance with up to 26 2.5” HDDs/SSDs (up to 24 NVME drives)
• Accelerate applications with two doublewide GPUs or two FPGAs
• Speed data transfers with fully integrated ultra path interconnects (UPIs)

Systems Management and Security Solutions

Technical Specifications:

Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 Specifications
Processors	Up to four 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, up to 28 cores each
Memory	48 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, up to 2933MT/s, 6TB max Up to 12 NVDIMM, 384GB Max Up to 24 Intel Optane DC persistent memory PMem, max 12.28TB, (15.36TB max with PMem and LRDIMM) Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only
Storage controllers	Internal Controllers: PERC H330, H730P, H740P, HBA330 External Controllers: H840, 12 Gbps SAS HBA, HBA355e Software RAID:S140 Internal Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS):HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 240GB, 480GB Internal Dual SD Module
Drive bays	Front drive bays: Up to 8 x 2.5” SAS SATA (HDDs/SSDs) max 61.44TB, or up to 24 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (HDDs/SSDs) with up to 12 NVMe PCIe SSDs max 184.32TB, or up to 24 NVMe PCIe SSDs max 153TB Rear drive bays: Up to 2 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (HDDs/SSDs), max 15.36TB
Power supplies	Gold: 1100W - 48VDC Platinum: 750W, 750W 240VDC2, 1100W, 1100W 240VDC2, 1600W, 2000W, 2400W Titanium: 750W Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy option 6 hot plugs fans with N +1 redundancy
Dimension	Height: 86.8mm (3.4”) Width: 434.0mm (17.08”) Depth: 835.9mm (32.9”) Weight: 36.6kg (80.7lbs.)
Form Factor	2U rack server
Embedded management	iDRAC9 iDRAC Direct Quick Sync 2 BLE/wireless module
Bezel	Optional bezel or security bezel
OpenManage Software	OpenManage Enterprise OpenManage Power Center OpenManage Mobile
Integrations and Connections	Integrations: Microsoft System Center VMware vCenter BMC Truesight Red Hat Ansible Modules Connections: IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Micro Focus Operations Manager I Nagios Core Nagios XI
Tools	Dell EMC Repository Manager Dell EMC Update Package Dell EMC System Update Dell EMC Server Update Utility iDRAC Service Module iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish OpenManage Server Administrator OpenManage Storage Services
Security	TPM 1.2/2.0, TCM 2.0 optional Cryptographically signed firmware Silicon Root of Trust Secure Boot System Lockdown (requires iDRAC Enterprise or Datacenter) System Erase
I/O & Ports	Network Daughter Card Options: 4 x 1GbE, 4 x 10GbE, 2 x 10GbE+2 x 1GbE, or 2 x 25GbE Front ports: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC Direct Micro USB, 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x VGA. (Optional 1 x USB 3.0 only offered on the 8-drive configuration) Rear ports: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC port, 1 x Serial, 2 x USB 3.0, 1 x VGA Internal port: 1 x USB 3.0 Video card: 2 x VGA PCIe: Up to 6 x Gen3 slots, (4x16 slots or 2x16 + 4x8 slots)
Accelerator options	Up to 2 doublewidth GPUs or up to 2 full-height FPGAs3
Supported operating systems	Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS Citrix Hypervisor Microsoft Windows Server LTSC with Hyper-V Red Hat Enterprise Linux Oracle Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server VMware ESXi
OEM-ready version availabe	From bezel to BIOS to packaging, your servers can look and feel as if they were designed and built by you.

¹ ESXi (only OS supported)
² Available in China only.
³ GPUs/FPGAs not available with the 2 x 2.5” rear drive bay

Support & Services:

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Documentation:

Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 Datasheet (.PDF)