DELL PowerEdge M640 blade 2x Xeon Gold 6150 18C 128GB 2x960GB H330 57810S-K iDRAC9 Enterprise

Dense compute blade for virtualised workloads

The Dell PowerEdge M640 is a half-height blade server built for high-density virtualisation, private cloud and high-performance computing. It fits into PowerEdge MX or M1000e chassis and uses two Intel Xeon Gold 6150 processors, each with 18 cores running at 2.7 GHz base and 3.7 GHz turbo. The system ships with 128 GB of DDR4 2666 MHz registered ECC memory across eight slots, leaving eight additional slots free for expansion up to 1.5 TB.

Upgrade path from single-socket or lower-core blades

This configuration replaces single-processor blades or dual-socket models with fewer than 36 total cores when workloads demand more parallel threads per chassis slot. The jump is worth it when consolidation ratios rise or when memory capacity per blade becomes the limiting factor. Two 960 GB SATA SSDs on a PERC H330 controller provide RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 or 50 for local storage, while the Broadcom 57810S-K dual-port 10 Gb daughter card handles network I/O.

Sustained throughput with remote management

Under continuous load the dual Xeon Gold 6150 CPUs maintain high clock speeds within the blade's thermal envelope, and the DDR4 memory subsystem delivers steady bandwidth for memory-intensive applications. The PERC H330 controller manages sustained write streams to the SATA SSDs without a dedicated cache, so write-heavy workloads should be sized accordingly. iDRAC9 Enterprise provides out-of-band monitoring, firmware updates and power control for lights-out operation across the chassis.