Dell PowerEdge R540 Rack Server

Power your applications with a versatile 2-socket rack server

Satisfy a variety of applications with the flexible Dell PowerEdge R540 Rack Server. Its balanced combination of resources, expandability, and affordability adapts 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 SupportAssist help to maximize uptime without added effort, in a worry-free environment.

Ideal for:

Virtualization
Mail
Messaging
Video streaming

Description

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Dell PowerEdge R540 Rack Server Features and Design

Dell PowerEdge R540 Rack Server Resources

PowerEdge R540 Spec Sheet
PowerEdge R540 Technical Guide
PowerEdge Rack Servers Quick Comparison Guide
PowerEdge R540 Generation Comparison Matrix
PowerEdge Server Solutions Brochure

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 Dell 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 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and tailor performance based on your unique workload requirements.

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.

Power your applications with a versatile 2-socket rack server

Satisfy a variety of applications with the flexible Dell PowerEdge R540 Rack Server. Its balanced combination of resources, expandability and affordability adapts 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 SupportAssist help to maximize uptime without added effort, in a worry-free environment.

Ideal for:

Virtualization

Mail

Messaging

Video streaming

The New Generation of PowerEdge Servers

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 and reduce the IT effort to resolve issues by up to 72%* with ProSupport Plus and SupportAssist.

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 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 erases 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.

Dell PowerEdge R540 Rack Server Processor

Up to two 2^nd Generation Intel^® Xeon^® Scalable processors with up to 20 cores per processor

Operating System

Canonical^® Ubuntu^® Server LTS
Citrix^® Hypervisor ^®
Microsoft^® Windows Server^® with Hyper-V
Red Hat^® Enterprise Linux
SUSE^® Linux Enterprise Server
VMware^® ESXi^®

Memory

DIMM Speed
Up to 2666MT/s

Memory Type
RDIMM
LRDIMM

Memory Module Slots
16 DDR4 DIMM slots
Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only

Maximum RAM
RDIMM 512GB
LRDIMM 1TBⁱ

Storage

Front Bays
Up to 12 x 3.5” SAS/SATA HDD max 168TB
DVD-ROM, DVD+RW (optional)

Rear Bays
Up to 2 x 3.5” SAS/SATA HDD max 28TB

Storage Controllers

Internal Controllers
PERC H330, H730P, H740P, HBA330

External Controllers
H840, 12 Gbps SAS HBA

Software RAID
S140

Internal Boot
Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS):
HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 240GB, 480 GB

Internal Dual SD Moduleⁱ

Management

Embedded / At-the-Server
iDRAC9
iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
iDRAC Direct
Quick Sync 2 BLE/wireless module

Consoles
OpenManage Enterprise
OpenManage Power Center

Mobility
OpenManage Mobile

Tools
Dell EMC Repository Manager
Dell EMC System Update
Dell EMC Server Update Utility
Dell EMC Update Catalogs
iDRAC Service Module
OpenManage Server Administrator
OpenManage Storage Services

OpenManage Integrations
BMC Truesight
Microsoft® System Center
RedHat® Ansible® Modules
VMware® vCenter

OpenManage Connections
IBM Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus
IBM Tivoli® Network Manager IP Edition
Micro Focus® Operations Manager I
Nagios® Core
Nagios® XI

Power Supplies

495W Platinum
750W Platinum
750W 240HVDC Platinumⁱ
1100W Platinum
1100W 380V HDC Platinumⁱ
Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy option

Ports

Network Options
2 x 1GbE LOM +
(optional) LOM Riser 2 x 1GbE, or
2 x 10GE SFP+, or
2 x 10GE 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