DELL PowerEdge R540 2U 8-Bay 2×Xeon Silver 4114 10C 2.2GHz 32GB H730P

Dual Xeon Silver 4114 server

The Dell PowerEdge R540 is a 2U rack server equipped with two Intel Xeon Silver 4114 processors. Each CPU provides ten cores running at 2.2 GHz with a 3.0 GHz turbo frequency. This configuration targets virtualization hosts, database servers and file storage workloads that benefit from twenty total cores and registered ECC memory reliability.

32 GB DDR4 with 384 GB ceiling

The system ships with 32 GB of DDR4 2666 MHz registered ECC memory across four modules occupying four of sixteen slots. This capacity handles moderate virtual machine density and typical database buffer pools. The 384 GB maximum allows substantial headroom for memory-heavy applications, though reaching it requires populating all slots with higher-density modules not included.

PERC H730P controller and eight 3.5" bays

The Dell PERC H730P 2 GB controller supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through for SATA and SAS drives. Eight front-accessible 3.5-inch trays provide direct-attached storage expansion without occupying PCIe slots. Redundant 750 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC 9 Enterprise remote management simplify ongoing operation, while the lack of installed drives means buyers must supply their own storage media.