Collection: Dell PowerEdge R720

Cloud Ninjas' Dell PowerEdge R720 Specifications

Chassis
Dell PowerEdge R720 2U Server offers plenty of storage options with a eight-drive or sixteen-drive bay.  The chassis cannot be reconfigured or upgraded after purchase.  The chassis includes optional diagnostic LCD, a lockable bezel, a pull-out tray to record system information, and embedded NIC/iDRAC MAC address labels. 

Standard chassis features include:

• Power button- ACPI-complaint power button with an integrated green power LED.
• Front bezel - Secures front-loading hard drives and can be locked to prevent hard drives from being removed.
• NMI button - Recessed non-maskable interrupt (NMI) button used to troubleshoot software and device driver errors.
• System identification button - Buttons on the back and front of a system to help identify the unit in a data center environment.
• USB connectors - Connects USB devices to the server
  
• Hard drive activity LED - Indicate the status and activity of the hard drives
• Information tag - Slide-out label panel for recording system information
• iDRAC7 Enterprise port - Dedicated management port for optional iDRAC Ports card
• vFlash media reader - Functionality is activated when iDRAC7 Enterprise is enabled.
• Quick Resource Locator (QRL) — 12th generation model-specific Quick Response (QR) code located inside the chassis cover.  *Mobile capable.
  

Storage
The Dell PowerEdge R720 2U Server has excellent storage options for internal and external storage. For internal storage, the Dell PowerEdge R720 can support up to sixteen solid state drive, self-encrypting drives, or hard drives. The level of storage capacity supported is dependent on the drive type which can range from 100 gigabytes to 4 terabytes.  There are several internal storage options for the Dell PowerEdge R720 2U which include:

• Up to 16 x 2.5“
• Up to 8 x 2.5” + 8 x 2.5” (with dual RAID controllers)
• Up to 8 x 2.5”
• Up to 8 x 2.5” + 4 x 2.5” Express Flash Up to 8 x 3.5”

Drive types supported are: 

SAS	2.5 inch	300GB, 600GB, 900GB, 900GB, 1.2TB
SAS	2.5 inch	146GB, 300GB
SAS SSD	2.5 inch	200GB, 400GB
SATA SSD	2.5 inch	100GB, 160GB, 200GB, 300GB, 400GB 600GB
PCIe SSD (R720 only	2.5 inch	175GB, 350GB, 700GB, 1.4TB
Nearline SAS	2.5 inch	500GB, 1TB, 1TB (SED)
SATA	3.5 inch	500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB
Nearline SAS	3.5 inch	1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB
SAS	3.5 inch	300GB, 600GB

Storage Controllers
The Dell PowerEdge R720 is specifically designed to secure your data. The system has PowerEdge RAID controller (PERC) card options for high level performance data input/output; a perfect match for heavy load database applications and streaming media.

External Storage 
For the ultimate in disaster recovery backup, the Dell PowerEdge R720 supports external storage options for external tape, PowerVault SAN,  NAS / IDM appliance software, PowerVault NAS, PowerVault IDM and PowerVault DAM; (RAID): PERC H810,  (non-RAID): 6Gbps SAS, LSI 9207-8i.

Processing Power 
The Dell PowerEdge R720 handles up to twelve cores employing Virtualization and Hyper-Threading Technology.  Processor families include Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2.

Memory 
The Dell PowerEdge R720 supports 24 DIMM Slots and operates on ECC Registered, Load Reduced, or Unbuffered DDR3 Memory Modules. You have the choice of 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB or 32GB memory module sizes which can be used with the server. Maximum RAM equals 768GB . We recommend either the value configuration of 24 x 16GB modules or the next step up, 24 x 32GB. Either way, you will have a fast system to knock out your enterprise service goals.

Systems Management Solutions 
The Dell PowerEdge R720 comes with a wide variety of optional tools, hardware-software products and services to assist you in deploying, updating, monitoring and maintaining your server such as the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller which work seamlessly with the OpenManage,  iDRAC7 Express or iDRAC7 Enterprise systems framework.

Operating Systems and Virtualization
The Dell PowerEdge R720 can work with most operating systems and Citrix® XenServer®, VMware vSphere including ESXi™ and Red Hat Enterprise virtualization software.

Primary OS supported:
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 R2 (includes Hyper-V®)
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V®)
Microsoft Windows® Small Business Server 2011
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 x64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 x64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 x32, x64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 x64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with SP2 x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 x64
Microsoft Windows 2003 x86
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 with SP21 x86, x64