DELL PowerEdge R930 4U rack server 4x Xeon E7-8891 v4 2.8GHz 10-core 384GB DDR4 4x 1.8TB SAS

Four-socket Xeon E7-8891 v4 server

The Dell PowerEdge R930 is a 4U rack server equipped with four Intel Xeon E7-8891 v4 processors, each running at 2.8 GHz with 10 cores. It ships with 384 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across 48 modules and four 1.8 TB 10 K SAS hard drives managed by a PERC H330 controller. The system includes quad-port networking with two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ ports, iDRAC8 Enterprise remote management, four 1100 W platinum power supplies, rails and a front bezel.

Check power, rack space and memory needs

Verify that your facility can supply four 1100 W power connections and that a 4U rack bay is available. The chassis supports up to 24 hot-plug 2.5-inch SAS or SATA drives plus eight front-accessible NVMe PCIe SSDs, so plan drive counts accordingly. Memory scales to 12 TB across 96 DDR4 slots; the current 384 GB configuration uses 48 of them. Ensure your operating system and hypervisor support the LGA 2011 socket and Intel C602J chipset.

Suits memory-heavy databases and virtualization.

This server targets OLTP, OLAP, ERP, CRM, SAP HANA, Oracle and SQL Server workloads that benefit from high core counts and massive memory capacity. Buyers who need GPU acceleration, single-threaded frequency above 3.5 GHz, or a smaller form factor should look elsewhere. The Matrox G200 graphics with 8 MB video memory is intended only for basic console output.