Dell Poweredge R640 Rack Server Chassis (8X2.5") | FD8C3

The Dell EMC OpenManage portfolio helps deliver peak efficiency for PowerEdge servers, delivering intelligent, automated management of routine tasks. Combined with unique agent-free management capabilities, the Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 is simply managed, freeing up time for high-profile projects.

• Simplify management with the OpenManage Enterprise console, with customized reporting and automatic discovery.
• Take advantage of QuickSync 2 capabilities and gain access to your servers easily through your phone or tablet.

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 is the ideal dual-socket platform for dense scale-out data center computing and storage. Benefit from the flexibility of 2.5” or 3.5” drives, the performance of NVMe and embedded intelligence to ensure optimized application performance in a secure platform. With embedded diagnostics and SupportAssist, the Dell PowerEdge R640 delivers maximum uptime in a worry-free environment.

Data center evolution starts with modern platforms that easily scale and are optimized for application performance. The Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 is built upon a scalable system architecture and provides the choice and flexibility to easily meet performance demands.

• Simplify deployment and easily scale from 3 to 1000+ nodes for software-defined storage with Dell EMC Ready Nodes.
• Maximize performance with up to 10 NVMe drives and 24 DIMMs, 12 of which can be DCPMMs or NVDIMMs
• Scale compute resources with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and tailor performance based on your unique workload requirements.

The PowerEdge R640 supports up to 24 DIMMs. Depending on the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon Scalable processor CPU, memory speeds of up to 2933 MT/s with 1 DIMM per channel and 2666 MT/s with 2 DIMMs per channel are available. They support flexible memory configurations ranging from capacities of 8 GB minimum to 7.68TB maximum.

Each CPU has 12 memory DIMM slots. Those DIMMs are organized into 6 different channels so there are 2 DIMMs per channel. For best performance, all memory channels should be populated with the same number of DIMMs, either 6 or 12 DIMMs per CPU.

The PowerEdge R440 offers balanced, scalable I/O capabilities, including integrated PCIe 3.0-capable expansion slots. Dell EMC Network Daughter Cards allow you to choose the right network fabric without using up a valuable PCI slot. You can pick the speed, technology, vendor, and other options, such as switch-independent partitioning, which allows you to share and manage bandwidth on 10 GbE connections.

Supported Options

• 4 x 1GbE
• 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE
• 4 x 10GbE
• 2 x 25GbE

With all the risers, the PowerEdge R640 system board provides one x8 PCIe Gen3 slot for dedicated storage controller card and one x8 PCIe Gen3 slot for dedicated NDC.

Riser 1A
Butterfly Riser

Riser 1B
Right Riser Low-Profile

Riser 2A
Left Riser Low-Profile

Riser 2B
Left Riser Full Height

The Dell R640 Rack Server has a dedicated Mini-PERC slot on the system board. It also supports PERC Adapter cards plugged into any of the riser options. You can also use the default system ports that have SW RAID S140 RAID Controller.

The BOSS is recommended for non-virtualized operating systems. Virtualized operating systems are best supported by the IDSDM

IDSDM or vFlash card

The IDSDM with vFlash module has a dedicated slot at the back of the system chassis. This is a Dell EMC-proprietary PCIe x1 slot that uses a USB 3.0 interface to host. In the PowerEdge R440 systems, the IDSDM and vFlash card size changes from SD to microSD and the supported capacity for IDSDM microSD cards are 16 GB, 32 GB, or 64 GB, while for vFlash the capacity is 16 GB only. The write-protect switch is built onboard on the IDSDM module.

Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS)

The Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS) is an alternative, high speed location to install the operating system. This ensures that the drive based storage is not used by the operating system. BOSS is a simple RAID solution card designed specifically for booting the system's operating system, which supports up to two 6 Gbps M.2 SATA drives. This card has a x8 connector using PCIe gen 2.0 x2 lanes, available only in the low-profile and half-height form factor