comparison matrix The PowerEdge R740 system has the following features compared with the R730 system.
Feature PowerEdge R740 PowerEdge R730
Processor Up to two 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Up to two Intel® Xeon® processor Scalable processors with up to 28 cores per E5-2600 v4 product family with up to 22 processor cores per processor Chipset Intel® C620 series chipset Intel® C610 series chipset Accelerators Up to three 300W or six 150W GPUs Up to two 300W or four 150W GPUs Up to three double-width or four single- NA width FPGAs Memory DIMM Speed Up to 2933MT/s Up to 2400MT/s Memory Type • RDIMM • RDIMM • LRDIMM • LRDIMM • NVDIMM • DCPMM (Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory)
LRDIMM 3TB LRDIMM 1.5TB NVDIMM 192GB DCPMM 6.14TB (7.68TB with LRDIMM) Storage Front Bays Up to 16 x 2.5" SAS/SATA/SSD, max Up to 16 x 2.5" SAS/SATA/SSD, max 29TB 122.88TB Up to 8 x 3.5" SAS/SATA, max 112TB Up to 8 x 3.5" SAS/SATA/SSD, max 64TB Storage Controllers Internal Controllers • HBA330 • HBA330 • H330 • H330 • H730P • H730 • H740P • H730P
External Controllers • H840P • H830
• 12Gbps SAS HBA
Software RAID S140 S130
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Feature PowerEdge R740 PowerEdge R730 Internal Boot Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem NA (BOSS): HW RAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 240GB or 480GB Internal USB Internal USB Internal Dual SD Module and vFlash* Internal Dual SD Module and vFlash* NOTE: *ESXi (only OS supported) NOTE: *ESXi (only OS supported)
Operating Systems • Canonical® Ubuntu® Server LTS • Canonical® Ubuntu® Server LTS • Citrix® Hypervisor® • Citrix® Hypervisor® • Microsoft® Windows Server® with • Microsoft® Windows Server® with Hyper-V Hyper-V • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux • SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server • SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server • VMware® ESXi® • VMware® ESXi®
Security Cryptographically signed firmware Cryptographically signed firmware
Secure Boot Secure Erase Secure Erase Silicon Root of Trust System Lockdown (requires iDRAC Enterprise) System Lockdown (requires iDRAC Enterprise) TPM 1.2/2.0, TCM 2.0 (optional) TPM 1.2/2.0, TCM 2.0 (optional) Management Embedded/At-the-Server iDRAC9 iDRAC8 with Lifecycle controller iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish iDRAC Direct iDRAC Direct Quick Sync 2 BLE/wireless module iDRAC Quick Sync Consoles OpenManage Enterprise OpenManage Enterprise OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager Mobility OpenManage Mobile OpenManage Mobile Tools Dell EMC RACADM CLI Dell EMC RACADM CLI Dell EMC Repository Manager Dell EMC Repository Manager Dell EMC System Update Dell EMC System Update Dell EMC Server Update Utility Dell EMC Server Update Utility Dell EMC Update Catalogs Dell EMC Update Catalogs iDRAC Service Module iDRAC Service Module IPMI Tool IPMI Tool OpenManage Server Administrator OpenManage Server Administrator OpenManage Integrations BMC Truesight Microsoft® System Center Microsoft® System Center RedHat® Ansible® Modules VMware® vCenter VMware® vCenter OpenManage Connections IBM Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus IBM Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus
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Feature PowerEdge R740 PowerEdge R730 IBM Tivoli® Network Manager IP Edition HP Operations Manager Micro Focus® Operations Manager I Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Oracle® Database Manager Nagios® Core Nagios® XI Power Supply 495W AC Platinum 495W AC Platinum 750W AC Platinum/Titanium 750W AC Platinum/Diamond 750W 240V HVDC Platinum 750W 240V HVDC Platinum 1100W AC Platinum 1100W AC Platinum 1100W 380V HVDC Platinum 1100W 380V HVDC Platinum 1100W -48VDC 1600W AC Platinum 2000W AC Platinum 2400W AC Platinum Up to 6 fans with full redundancy Up to 6 fans with full redundancy Ports Network Options 4 x 1GbE 4 x 1GbE 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE 4 x 10GbE 4 x 10GbE 2 x 25GbE Front Ports 1 x Dedicated iDRAC direct USB 1 x Dedicated iDRAC USB Type A 2 x USB 2.0 1 x USB 2.0 1 x USB 3.0 (optional) 1 x VGA 1 x VGA Rear Ports 4 x 1GbE 4 x 1GbE 1 x Dedicated iDRAC network 1 x Dedicated iDRAC network 1 x Serial 1 x Serial 2 x USB 3.0 2 x USB 3.0 1 x VGA 1 x VGA Internal Ports 1 x USB 3.0 1 x USB 3.0 Slots PCIe 8 x Gen3 slots (4 x16) 7 x Gen3 slots (x16) Video Card 1 x VGA 1 x VGA Bezel Optional LCD bezel or security bezel Optional LCD bezel or security bezel Form Factor 2U Rack Server 2U Rack Server Dimensions and Weight Height 86.8mm (3.4") 87.3mm (3.44") Width 434.0mm (17.1") 444.0mm (17.49") Depth 737.5mm (29.0") 755.8mm (29.75")
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