DELL PowerEdge R640 8B SFF 36-Core Rack Server 2x Xeon Gold 6154 3.0GHz 512GB DDR4 H730P CX422A 8x 600GB SAS

Dell PowerEdge R640 Virtualisation Server

This Dell PowerEdge R640 is a 2U rackmount server system built for business workloads such as file storage, virtualisation, databases, backups and application hosting. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 6154 processors running at 3.00GHz, providing 36 physical cores in total. The system includes 512GB of DDR4 memory and an H730P storage controller managing eight 600GB 10K SAS hard drives.

Suits virtualisation hosts needing dense core

Organisations consolidating multiple virtual machines or running memory-heavy databases will benefit from the 36 cores and 512GB DDR4 capacity, expandable to 3TB. The eight 2.5-inch drive bays populated with 10K SAS disks deliver fast throughput for mixed read-write workloads. Buyers who need GPU acceleration for compute workloads or who require more than eight drive bays should evaluate other platforms.

Eight 2.5-inch SAS drive bays with H730P controller

The chassis provides eight front-accessible 2.5-inch bays, all filled with 600GB 10K SAS drives connected to the integrated H730P RAID controller. This configuration determines both the maximum internal storage device count and the RAID levels available without adding external enclosures or switching to a different backplane.