DELL EMC Power edge R540
The PowerEdge R540 delivers the versatility and flexibility to power a variety of applications. With a balanced set of resources, expandability and affordability the R540 adapts to the demands of the modern data center with the ideal value optimized design. Automatically optimize performance with one button application tuning and scale for future demands with up to 14 3.5” drives.
- • Scale compute resources with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and tailor performance based on your unique workload requirements.
- • Automatically optimize application performance with one-button tuning.
- • Flexible storage with up to 14 3.5” drives.
- • Free up storage with boot optimized M.2 SSDs.
Front view
| 1. | Left control panel | 2. | Drive slots | 3. | Right control panel | 4. | Information tag | 5. | Optical drive (optional) |
Rear View
| 1. | Serial port | 2. | Drive (rear) | 3. | Low profile riser right slot |
| 4. | Low profile riser left slot | 5. | Power supply unit (PSU) | 6. | LOM riser ports |
| 7. | Ethernet ports | 8. | USB 3.0 ports | 9. | iDRAC9 dedicated network port |
| 10. | VGA port | 11. | CMA power port | 12. | System identification button |
| 13. | Full height riser slot | 14. | Butterfly riser slot | 15. | PCIe slot |
Internal View
| 1. | Information tag | 2. | Drive backplane | 3. | Cooling fans |
| 4. | Memory module | 5. | CPU 1 | 6. | CPU 2 |
| 7. | System board | 8. | LOM riser card | 9. | Internal PERC riser |
| 10. | Air shroud | 11. | Butterfly riser | 12. | Air shroud (12 x 3.5 inch + 2 x 3.5 inch rear hard drive system) |
| 13. | Low profile riser right | 14. | Low profile riser left | 15. | Drive cage (rear) |
Dell EMC PowerEdge R540- Features
Power your applications with a versatile 2-socket rack server
Satisfy a variety of applications with the flexible PowerEdge R540. Its balanced combination of resources, expandability and affordability adapt to the changing demands of a modern data center. Optimize your application performance with one-button tuning. Scale for future requirements with up to 14 x 3.5″ drives. Embedded diagnostics and Support Assist help to maximize uptime without added effort, in a worry-free environment.
Achieve performance at scale with the PowerEdge portfolio
Our modern compute platforms are built to scale easily and take advantage of technologies that lift application performance. The PowerEdge R540 rack server combines affordably and versatility, so you can adapt to a variety of applications and meet future demands.
Scale compute resources with the Intel Xeon Scalable processor family that delivers a 27% increase in processing cores and 50% increase in bandwidth over the previous generation of processors.
Optimize application performance with one-button tuning.Enable storage flexibility with up to 14 x 3.5″ drives.Free up storage with boot-optimized M.2 SSDs.
Gain productivity with intelligent, embedded management
Dell EMC OpenManage intelligent automation enables you to spend less time on routine maintenance so you can focus on business-critical priorities.
Help maximize uptime with proactive diagnostics and automated remediation that increase productivity up to 90%.
Leverage existing management consoles with easy integrations for VMware vSphere, Microsoft System Center and Nagios.
Improve productivity with agent-free Dell EMC iDRAC9 for automated management.
Simplify deployment with OpenManage next-generation console and server profiles to fully configure and prep servers rapidly and scalably.
Fortify your data center with comprehensive protection
A comprehensive, cyber-resilient architecture with security embedded into every server helps to protect your data. Protect server configuration and firmware from malicious changes with new Configuration Lock-down.
Use system erase of local storage to help ensure data privacy when you repurpose or retire servers.
Automate updates that check file dependencies and proper update sequence, before deploying them independently from the OS/hypervisor.
Take control of your firmware consoles with embedded authentication that is designed to allow only properly signed updates to run.
| Processor : | Up to two 2nd Generation 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 |
| Storage controllers : | Internal controllers: PERC H750, H350, H740P, H730P, H330 External controllers: HBA355e, H840, 12Gb/s Ext SAS HBA Software RAID: S140 SAS Host Bus Adapters: HBA350i, HBA330 |
| Internal Boot : | Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS):HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 240GB or 480GB Internal Dual SD Module |
| Storage : | Front drive bays: Up to 12 x 3.5” SAS/SATA HDD max 192TB Rear drive bays: Up to 2 x 3.5 SAS/SATA HDD max 32TB Optional DVD-ROM, DVD+RW |
| Power supplies : | Platinum 495W, 750W, 750W 240V HVDC3 , 1100W, 1100W 380V HVDC3 Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy option |
| I/O & Ports : | Network options: 2 x 1GbE LOM + (optional) LOM Riser 2 x 1GbE or 2 x 10GbE SFP+ or 2 x 10GbE BaseT Front ports: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC Direct USB, 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x Video Rear ports: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC network port, 1 x Serial, 2 x USB 3.0, 1 x Video 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 |
| Tools : | Dell EMC Repository Manager Dell EMC Update Package Dell EMC System Update Dell EMC Server Update Utility |
