DELL PowerEdge M640 Blade Server 2x Xeon 8160 2.1GHz 512GB DDR4 2x 1.92TB SSD H330 57810S-K iDRAC9 Enterprise

Blade Server for Virtualisation and HPC

The Dell EMC PowerEdge M640 is a half-height blade server built for dense compute in PowerEdge MX or M1000e chassis. Two Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 processors deliver 24 cores each at 2.1 GHz with 3.7 GHz turbo. 512 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory fills 16 slots. A PERC H330 controller manages two 1.92 TB SATA SSDs in RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 or 50.

Suits Scale-Out Cloud and Database Workloads

Organisations running large virtualisation clusters, private clouds or in-memory databases gain from the 512 GB DDR4 capacity and dual 10 Gb network ports. Buyers who need GPU acceleration or more than two processor sockets should evaluate alternative platforms. The half-height form factor also limits local drive bays to two 2.5 inch devices.

512 GB DDR4 Determines Consolidation Ratio

The installed 512 GB of DDR4 2666 MHz registered ECC memory across 16 slots sets the practical ceiling for virtual-machine density and in-memory dataset size. Memory can be expanded to 2 TB using the remaining capacity of the 16 DIMM slots. If the target workload exceeds this memory footprint, a different server configuration is required.