Dell External OEMR XL R720XD Technical Manual

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7 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guidesimplify the lifecycle of deploying, updating, monitoring, and maintaining your Dell PowerEdgeservers.New technologies featured on the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd systems are detailed in Table 1.New technologies Detailed descriptionsIntel Xeon processorE5-2600 product familyThis new family of Intel processors has embedded PCIe lanes for improved I/Operformance. See the Processors section for details.Intel C600 series chipset The Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip is used on the R720 and R720xd.1600 MT/s DDR3memoryCertain models of E5-2600 series processors support 1600 MT/s memory. TheR720 and R720xd support two DIMMs per channel at 1600 MT/s with theseprocessors. See the Memory section for details.LRDIMMThis new memory option, load reduced DIMM (LRDIMM), is designed with a bufferchip (or chips) to replace the register to help minimize loading. LRDIMMs canincrease overall server system memory capacity and speed. See the Memorysection for more information.Flexible LOMDell’s Select Network Adapter options allow you to customize your LAN portcombinations from your choice of controller vendors. See the Networking andPCIe section for details.Next generation PERCoptionsThe R720 and R720xd support new PERC controller cards with improvedfunctionality and faster performance. See the Storage section for details.PERC S110 softwareRAID solutionThis new software RAID solution supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 and supports amaximum of four hot-plug SATA HDDs or SSDs. See the Storage section for details.Express Flash drives1Dell Express Flash PCIe solid-state drives provide fast performance withoutrequiring processor resources or capturing DRAM. The R720 supports up to fourExpress Flash drives. The R720xd does not support Express Flash drives.iDRAC7 with LifecycleControllerThe new embedded system management solution for Dell servers featureshardware and firmware inventory and alerting, in-depth memory alerting, fasterperformance, a dedicated gigabit port and many more features. See the DellOpenManage systems management section for details.Internal GPU supportThe R720 supports internal graphics processing units (GPUs) for extremecomputing power to solve high performance computing (HPC) needs. The R720xddoes not support internal GPUs. See the Processors section for details.Advanced powermanagementThe R720 and R720xd support advanced power monitoring and power cappingtools that can help manage power consumption.DC power supply1 A new 1100W DC power supply option will be available for the R720 and R720xd.Failsafe hypervisorsThe internal dual SD module enables Dell's unique Failsafe Virtualizationarchitecture, ensuring uptime by providing failover capability for embeddedhypervisors, such as VMware® ESXi™.Fresh air coolingDell has tested and validated an integrated data center solution that enables you tooperate at higher temperatures or even chiller-less. See the Power, thermal, andacoustics section for details.1Available Q2 2012