Empower your organization to make the best decisions fast using real-time data and analytics. The PowerEdge R940 supports 50% more NVMe drives than the R930, up to 48 DIMMs (24 of which can be Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory DCPMMs) and up to 15.36TB of memory*. Make I/O bottlenecks a thing of the past and keep processor utilization at its peak.
Ideal Workloads:
- In-memory and large, complex databases
- Unix to Linux Migration
- ERP, CRM
- Dense virtualization
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Dell PowerEdge R940
Technical Specifications
Form Factor: |
3U Rackmount Server |
Chassis Depth: |
784.2mm / 30.8" |
Processors: |
Up to four 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 28 cores each |
Memory: |
48 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, up to 2933MT/s, 6TB max Up to 12 NVDIMM, 384GB Max Up to 24 Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory DCPMM, max 12.28TB, (15.36TB max with DCPMM and LDRIMM) Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only |
Storage Controllers: |
Internal controllers: PERC S140, H330, H740P Boot optimized Storage Subsystem External HBAs (RAID): H840 External HBAs (non-RAID): 12 Gbps SAS HBA |
Drive Bays: |
Front drive bays: Up to 24 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) with up to 12 NVMe PCIe SSD, max 184.32TB |
Power Supplies: |
Platinum 1100W, 1100W 380VDC, 1600W, 2000W, 2400W Gold 1100W-48VDC Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy option 8 hot plugs fans with full redundancy |
Embedded Management: |
IPMI 2.0 compliant iDRAC9, iDRAC Direct, iDRAC RESTful with Redfish Quick Sync 2 wireless module optional |
Bezel: |
Optional LCD bezel or security bezel |
OpenManage™ Software: |
OpenManage Enterprise OpenManage Essentials OpenManage Mobile OpenManage Power Center |
Integrations & Connections: |
Integrations: Microsoft® System Center, VMware®, vCenter™, BMC Truesight, Red® Hat Ansible Modules Connections: Nagios Core & Nagios XI, Micro Focus Operations Manager I, IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus |
Security: |
TPM 1.2/2.0 optional Cryptographically signed firmware Silicon Root of Trust Secure Boot System Lockdown (requires OpenManage Enterprise) System Erase |
I/O & Ports: |
Network daughter card options 4x 1GbE, 4x 10GbE, 2x 10GbE+2x 1GbE, or 2x 25GbE Front ports: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC Direct USB, 2 x USB 3.0, 1 x VGA Rear ports: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC network port, 1 x Serial, 2 x USB 3.0, 1 x VGA Video card: 2 x VGA Up to 13 x Gen3 slots, (3 x8 + 10 x16) |
Supported Operating Systems: |
Canonical® Ubuntu® Server LTS Citrix® Hypervisor Microsoft Windows Server® LTSC with Hyper-V Oracle® Linux Red Hat® Enterprise Linux SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server VMware® ESXi |
More information can be found on the official Dell PowerEdge R940 Specs PDF.
PowerEdge R940
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