Dell PowerEdge R730 Rack Server – Specifications

Form Factor

2U Rack Server

Processor

• Intel® Xeon® E5 2600 v3 processors

or

• Intel® Xeon® E5 2600 v4 processors

Both processors must be the same generation and model

Operating System

• Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
• Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
• VMware® ESX®

Chipset

• Intel C610 series chipset

Memory

• DDR4 DIMMs at up to 2133MT/s (v3 processors)

or

• DDR4 DIMMs at up to 2400MT/s (v4 processors)
• Maximum RAM: Up to 1.5TB (24 DIMM slots): 4GB/8GB/16GB/32/64GB DDR4

Embedded Hypervisor (Optional)

Optional Supported Hypervisors

• Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012, with Hyper-V®
• Citrix® XenServer®
• VMware® vSphere® ESXiTM

Storage

HDD: SAS, SATA, Near-line SAS SSD: SAS, SATA

• 16 x 2.5″ – up to 29TB via 1.8TB hot-plug SAS hard drives
• 8 x 3.5″ – up to 64TB via 8TB hot-plug NL SAS hard drives

Drive Bays

Internal hard drive bay and hot-plug backplane:

• Up to 16 x 2.5″ HDD: SAS, SATA, Near-line SAS SSD: SAS, SATA
• Up to 8 x 3.5″ HDD: SAS, SATA, Near-line SAS SSD: SAS, SATA

Expansion Slots

Slot configuration #1:

• Slot 1: Half Length, Half Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector) low profile bracket
• Slot 2: Half Length, Half Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector) low profile bracket
• Slot 3: Half Length, Half Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector) low profile bracket
• Slot 4: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x16 (x16 connector)
• Slot 5: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector)
• Slot 6: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector)
• Slot 7: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector)
• Dedicated RAID card slot

Slot configuration #2:

• Slot 1: Half Length, Half Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector) low profile bracket
• Slot 2: Half Length, Half Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector) low profile bracket
• Slot 3: Half Length, Half Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector) low profile bracket
• Slot 4: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x16 (x16 connector)
• Slot 5: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector)
• Slot 6: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x16 (x16 connector)
• Dedicated RAID card slot

Expansion Slots

Slot configuration #1:

• Slot 1: Half Length, Half Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector) low profile bracket
• Slot 2: Half Length, Half Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector) low profile bracket
• Slot 3: Half Length, Half Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector) low profile bracket
• Slot 4: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x16 (x16 connector)
• Slot 5: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector)
• Slot 6: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector)
• Slot 7: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector)
• Dedicated RAID card slot

Slot configuration #2:

• Slot 1: Half Length, Half Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector) low profile bracket
• Slot 2: Half Length, Half Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector) low profile bracket
• Slot 3: Half Length, Half Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector) low profile bracket
• Slot 4: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x16 (x16 connector)
• Slot 5: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x8 (x16 connector)
• Slot 6: Full Length, Full Height, PCIe Gen3 x16 (x16 connector)
• Dedicated RAID card slot

Raid Controllers

Internal:

• PERC S130
• PERC H330
• PERC H730
• PERC H730P

External:

• PERC H830

Network Controller

4 x 1Gb, 2 x 1Gb + 2 x 10Gb, 4 x 10Gb

Communications

• Broadcom® 5719 quad-port 1Gb NIC
• Broadcom 5720 dual-port 1Gb NIC
• Broadcom 57810 dual-port 10Gb DA/SFP+ CNA
• Broadcom 57810 dual-port 10Gb Base-T network adapter
• Intel® Ethernet I350 dual-port 1Gb server
• Intel Ethernet I350 quad-port 1Gb server adapter
• Intel Ethernet X540 dual-port 10GBASE-T server adapter
• Mellanox® ConnectX®-3 dual-port 10Gb Direct Attach/SFP+ server network adapter
• Mellanox ConnectX-3 dual-port 40Gb Direct Attach/QSFP server network adapter
• Emulex® LPE 12000, single-port 8Gb Fibre Channel HBA
• Emulex LPE 12002, dual-port 8Gb Fibre Channel HBA
• Emulex LPe16000B, single-port 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA
• Emulex LPe16002B, dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA
• Emulex OneConnect OCe14102-U1-D 2-port PIe 10GbE CNA
• QLogic® 2560, single-port 8Gb Optical Fibre Channel HBA
• QLogic 2562, dual-port 8Gb Optical Fibre Channel HBA
• Qlogic 2660, single-port 16GB, Fibre Channel HBA, full height
• Qlogic 2662, dual-port 16GB, Fibre Channel HBA, full height

Power

• 1100W AC, 86 mm (Platinum)
• 1100W DC, 86 mm (Gold)
• 750W AC, 86 mm (Platinum)
• 750W AC, 86 mm (Diamond)
• 495W AC, 86 mm (Platinum)

Availability

• ECC memory
• Hot-plug hard drives
• Hot-plug redundant cooling
• Hot-plug redundant power
• iDRAC8
• Internal Dual SD Module
• Single Device Data Correction (SDDC)
• Spare Rank
• Tool-less chassis
• Support for high availability clustering and virtualization
• Proactive systems management alerts
• iDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller

Chassis

Dimensions: H: 8.73 cm (3.44 in.) x W: 44.40 cm (17.49 in.) x D: 68.40 cm (26.92 in.)

Management

• Dell OpenManage portfolio of systems management solutions, including:
• OpenManage Essentials console
• iDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller
• iDRAC Direct
• iDRAC Quick Sync
• OpenManage Mobile