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Silver 2U rack server chassis with twelve 3.5 inch drive bays and dual power supplies

DELL

DELL PowerEdge R540 12 Bay 3.5" 2U rack server 2x Xeon Gold 5118 2.3GHz 32GB DDR4 H730P 2x 750W

SKU CH-VZSM-PMFZN

Two-processor 2U rack server with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays, dual Xeon Gold 5118 CPUs, 32 GB DDR4 ECC memory, PERC H730P RAID controller and redundant 750 W power supplies

  • Dual Xeon Gold 5118 processors deliver 24 cores at 2.3 GHz base
  • Turbo frequency reaches 3.2 GHz for demanding workload bursts
  • 32 GB DDR4-2400 ECC memory protects data integrity
  • PERC H730P controller supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
  • Dual 750 W platinum power supplies provide redundant power

PowerEdge R540 12-bay 2U server

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 is a 2U rackmount server system built for expanding business and data-centre environments. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 5118 processors running at 2.3 GHz with a 3.2 GHz turbo frequency, delivering 24 cores total. The system includes 32 GB of DDR4-2400 ECC registered memory across four modules and a PERC H730P storage controller with 2 GB cache.

Suits virtualisation and database workloads

This configuration targets organisations running virtualisation, software-defined storage, database management or other business-critical applications that benefit from high core counts and large internal storage capacity. The twelve 3.5-inch drive bays and RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 support suit storage-heavy deployments. Buyers needing GPU compute density, a tower chassis or a smaller 1U footprint should evaluate different platforms.

Twelve 3.5-inch drive bays define capacity

The chassis provides twelve 3.5-inch drive bays populated with fillers, setting the maximum number of spinning disks or SATA SSDs the server can hold without external enclosures. This bay count is the primary constraint for storage-centric sizing. The H730P controller manages these bays over 12 Gb/s SAS and SATA links with battery-backed cache for data protection.

Highlights

  • Dual Xeon Gold 5118 processors deliver 24 cores at 2.3 GHz base
  • Turbo frequency reaches 3.2 GHz for demanding workload bursts
  • 32 GB DDR4-2400 ECC memory protects data integrity
  • PERC H730P controller supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
  • Dual 750 W platinum power supplies provide redundant power

Specifications

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Questions about this item

Does the server ship with drives or only the 12 3.5" fillers?

The listing includes 12 Dell EMC 14G 3.5" drive bay fillers; no SAS or SATA drives are included and must be purchased separately.

Is the installed 32 GB DDR4-2400 the maximum or can I add more memory?

The system arrives with 32 GB in four 8 GB DDR4-2400 ECC registered modules; additional DDR4 ECC capacity can be added to the remaining slots.

What RAID levels does the PERC H730P controller support for my storage array?

The H730P supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode with its 2 GB cache and battery backup.

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