DELL PowerEdge R540 2U 8-Bay 2x Xeon Silver 4114 2.2GHz 10-Core 32GB DDR4 H740P 8x 4TB SAS

PowerEdge R540 2U rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R540 is a 2U rack-mounted server built for virtualization, database hosting and file or application workloads. Dual Intel Xeon Silver 4114 processors provide twenty total cores at 2.2 GHz with 3.0 GHz turbo headroom. Thirty-two gigabytes of DDR4 ECC memory and a PERC H740P controller with 8 GB cache support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 across eight drive bays. iDRAC 9 Enterprise enables full remote management.

Dual 750 W platinum power supplies

Redundant hot-swap 750 W 80+ Platinum power supplies share the load and maintain uptime if one unit fails. The 2U chassis uses Dell's engineered airflow to keep both Xeon CPUs and the eight 3.5-inch 7.2K SAS drives within thermal limits during normal operation. Acoustic output remains low enough for standard data-centre aisles while the power-efficiency rating reduces ongoing electricity cost.

Sustained multi-core throughput

Under continuous load the dual 10-core processors maintain elevated frequencies across all cores, feeding the H740P controller with steady I/O from the eight 4 TB SAS drives. The 12 Gb/s SAS backplane and 8 GB controller cache absorb write bursts without throttling. Memory bandwidth from sixteen DDR4 slots (four populated) supports long-running virtualization and database jobs without the performance drop-off seen in burst-only benchmarks.