Dell PowerEdge R540

Flexible by design

Adapt to a variety of application demands with a 2-socket, 2U rack server that offers an ideal balance of resources and affordability.

Processor

Up to two 2nd 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 Module