DELL PowerEdge R540 2U rack server 2× Xeon Gold 5118 2.3GHz 12-core 64GB DDR4 H730P 8-bay 3.5

Dual-socket Xeon server for virtualization

The Dell PowerEdge R540 is a 2U rack server equipped with two Intel Xeon Gold 5118 processors running at 2.3 GHz with twelve cores each. It ships with 64 GB of DDR4 ECC memory across four modules and a PERC H730P RAID controller with 2 GB cache. Eight 3.5-inch drive bays accept SATA or SAS drives, while dual 1 GbE ports and iDRAC9 Enterprise handle connectivity and remote management.

Suits teams needing dense internal storage

This configuration fits organisations that want up to eight 3.5-inch drives behind a single controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. The sixteen memory slots allow expansion toward the 1 TB maximum. Buyers who need 2.5-inch drive density, GPU-ready slots, or fibre-channel connectivity will not find those features here.

Eight 3.5-inch bays with PERC H730P controller

The chassis provides eight hot-swap trays wired to the H730P 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA controller, which includes a battery-backed cache. No drives are included, so capacity and spindle speed are chosen at deployment. This bay count and controller combination is the primary factor when matching the server to a storage workload.