Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) 9
Software (optional)
OpenManage Essentials
Windows Server 2016 Datacenter comes with Storage Spaces Direct

Regulatory

Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page
Dell and the Environment

Chassis

Hybrid capacity PowerEdge R740xd
12 x 3.5” front + 4 x 3.5” mid + 2 x 3.5” rear

Hybrid balanced PowerEdge R740xd
12 x 3.5” front

All-NVMe PowerEdge R740xd
24 x 2.5” front with 12 NVMe drives

All-flash PowerEdge R740xd
24 x 2.5” front

Hybrid capacity PowerEdge R640
10 x 2.5” front + 2 x 2.5” rear

Hybrid balanced PowerEdge R640
10 x 2.5” front

All-flash capacity PowerEdge R640
10 x 2.5” front + 2 x 2.5” rear flex

All-flash balanced PowerEdge R640
10 x 2.5” front

Storage: OS Boot

BOSS with dual M.2 240GB (RAID 1)

Storage Devices

Storage capacity
Hybrid capacity PowerEdge R740xd
Up to 12 x 3.5” NL-SAS/SATA HDD

Hybrid balanced PowerEdge R740xd
4 or 8 x 3.5” NL-SAS/SATA HDD

All-NVMe PowerEdge R740xd
4 – 12 PCIe SSD NVMe mixed use

All-flash PowerEdge R740xd
4 – 24 x 2.5” SAS/SATA SSDs

Hybrid capacity PowerEdge R640
4/8/9 NL-SAS/SATA/SAS 10K HDD

Hybrid balanced PowerEdge R640
4/6/8 NL-SAS/SATA/SAS 10K HDD

All-flash capacity PowerEdge R640
4–12 x 2.5” SAS/SATA SSDs

All-flash balanced PowerEdge R640
4–10 x 2.5” SAS/SATA SSDs

Cache

Hybrid capacity PowerEdge R740xd
Up to 6 x SAS/SATA WI/MU SSDs

Hybrid balanced PowerEdge R740xd
2 or 4 x SAS/SATA WI/MU SSDs

Hybrid capacity PowerEdge R640
2/3/4 x SAS/SATA WI/MU SSDs

Hybrid balanced PowerEdge R640
2x SAS/SATA WI/MU SSDs

Networking

Hybrid capacity PowerEdge R740xd
Add-in-card:
1 or 2x Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 Lx dual port 25GbE or
1 or 2x Qlogic FastLinQ QL41262 dual port 25GbE
NDC: Dual port 10GbE with + dual port 1GbE

Hybrid balanced PowerEdge R740xd
1 or 2x Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 Lx dual port 25GbE or
1 or 2 x Qlogic FastLinQ QL41262 dual port 25GbE
NDC: Dual port 10GbE + dual port 1GbE

All-NVMe PowerEdge R740xd
1 or 2x Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 Lx dual port 25GbE or
1 or 2x Qlogic FastLinQ QL41262 dual port 25GbE
NDC: Dual port 10GbE + dual port 1GbE

All-Flash PowerEdge R740xd
1 or 2x Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 Lx dual port 25GbE or
1 or 2x Qlogic FastLinQ QL41262 dual port 25GbE
NDC: dual port 10GbE + dual port 1GbE

Hybrid capacity PowerEdge R640
Add-in-card:
1 or 2x Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 Lx dual port 25GbE or
1 or 2x Qlogic FastLinQ QL41262 dual port 25GbE
NDC: Dual port 10GbE + dual port 1GbE

Hybrid balanced PowerEdge R640
Add-in-card:
1 or 2x Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 Lx dual port 25GbE or
1 or 2x Qlogic FastLinQ QL41262 dual port 25GbE
NDC: Dual port 10GbE + dual port 1GbE

All-flash capacity PowerEdge R640
NDC: Mellanox® ConnectX-4 Lx dual port 25GbE or
Qlogic FastLinQ QL41262 dual port 25GbE

All-flash balanced PowerEdge R640
Add-in-card:
1 or 2x Mellanox® ConnectX-4 Lx dual port 25GbE or
1 or 2x Qlogic FastLinQ QL41262 dual port 25GbE
NDC: Dual port 10GbE + dual port 1GbE

Power

PowerEdge R640, R740xd
Redundant; 1,100 or 750 watts

Drive Controllers

Internal HBA330

Resources

Dell EMC Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes - Solution Overview

Features

Hardware designed just for Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct

Dell EMC Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes are pre-configured with certified components and validated building blocks that can simplify ordering and reduce deployment risks while providing a superb customer support experience.

Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016

Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers with local-attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. Its converged or hyper-converged architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment, while features like caching, storage tiers, and erasure coding, together with the latest hardware innovation like RDMA networking and NVMe drives, deliver unrivaled efficiency and performance.

Confidence

Tested and certified by Dell EMC and Microsoft to take the guesswork out of building Storage Spaces Direct clusters.

Convenience

Pre-configured Dell EMC Ready Nodes make adoption very convenient. And they reduce administrative work with fewer interfaces, fewer steps and less need for specialized knowledge.

Customer support

Supported globally by Dell EMC, providing streamlined, collaborative support from the first call.

Solutions & Services

This product is part of our VDI solutions

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Dell EMC Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes

Software-defined storage building blocks

Starting at $30,199.01

Tech Specs & Customization

Processor

Compute

Memory*

Software