
7 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
simplify the lifecycle of deploying, updating, monitoring, and maintaining your Dell PowerEdge
servers.
New technologies featured on the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd systems are detailed in Table 1.
Intel Xeon
processor
E5-2600 product
family
This new family of Intel processors has embedded PCIe lanes for improved I/O
performance. See the Processors section for details.
Intel C600 series
chipset
The Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip is used on the R720 and R720xd.
Certain models of E5-2600 series processors support 1600 MT/s memory. The R720 and
R720xd support two DIMMs per channel at 1600 MT/s with these processors. See the
Memory section for details.
This new memory option, load reduced DIMM (LRDIMM), is designed with a buffer chip
(or chips) to replace the register to help minimize loading. LRDIMMs can increase overall
server system memory capacity and speed. See the Memory section for more
information.
Dell’s Select Network Adapter options allow you to customize your LAN port
combinations from your choice of controller vendors. See the Networking and PCIe
section for details.
Next generation
PERC options
The R720 and R720xd support new PERC controller cards with improved functionality
and faster performance. See the Storage section for details.
PERC S110
software RAID
solution
This new software RAID solution supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 and supports a maximum
of four hot-plug SATA HDDs or SSDs. See the Storage section for details.
Dell Express Flash PCIe solid-state drives provide fast performance without requiring
processor resources or capturing DRAM. The R720 supports up to four Express Flash
drives. The R720xd does not support Express Flash drives.
iDRAC7 with
Lifecycle
Controller
The new embedded system management solution for Dell servers features hardware and
firmware inventory and alerting, in-depth memory alerting, faster performance, a
dedicated gigabit port and many more features. See the Dell OpenManage systems
management section for details.
The R720 supports internal graphics processing units (GPUs) for extreme computing
power to solve high performance computing (HPC) needs. The R720xd does not support
internal GPUs. See the Processors section for details.
Advanced power
management
The R720 and R720xd support advanced power monitoring and power capping tools
that can help manage power consumption.
A new 1100W DC power supply option is available for the R720 and R720xd.
The internal dual SD module enables Dell's unique Failsafe Virtualization architecture,
ensuring uptime by providing failover capability for embedded hypervisors, such as
VMware
®
vSphere
®
ESXi™.
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