Description

PowerEdge T640 Tower Server Nigeria

The PowerEdge T640 Nigeria is a versatile and high-performance server designed to meet the demands of data-heavy workloads, making it an ideal choice for medium-sized businesses, remote locations, and data centers. Available in both rack and tower configurations, it combines exceptional performance, scalability, and security to help businesses adapt to dynamic needs and achieve operational excellence. With support for dual-socket performance, the T640 excels in handling demanding workloads such as virtualization, databases, analytics, imaging applications, and Software-Defined Storage (SDS). It offers rapid insights with up to 8 NVMe drives, delivering twice the speed of previous-generation servers, and provides flexible networking through dual-port 10GbE interfaces. The server also boasts massive storage capacity, supporting up to 18 x 3.5” or 32 x 2.5” drives, and advanced processing power with support for up to 4 x 300W GPU accelerators, making it perfect for intensive imaging and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Its adaptable architecture allows for customized storage solutions by mixing NVMe, HDD, and SSD drives, while Dell EMC’s iDRAC technology simplifies management through intelligent automation, enabling IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives. Security is a top priority, with features like cryptographically signed firmware, Secure Boot, and iDRAC9 Server Lockdown mode ensuring data integrity and protection against malicious attacks. With its scalable design, centralized management capabilities, and robust security features, the PowerEdge T640 Nigeria is the ultimate solution for businesses looking to consolidate, scale, and future-proof their IT infrastructure in today’s data-driven world.

Features and Design

Accelerate modern workloads with a scalable platform

The PowerEdge T640 Nigeria is a versatile, powerhouse server ideal for mid-sized offices, remote sites and data centers. The T640 combines powerful performance and massive internal storage capacity in a rack or tower platform. Address a wide range of workloads and future-proof your data center with flexible storage, performance and I/O options.

Great for:

• Server virtualization, desktop virtualization
• Consolidation
• Database, business analytics (BI) and intelligence
• Applications and imaging for medical, finance, education and science
• ERP, CRM, HPC
• Software-defined technologies

Adapt and scale with greater versatility

Meet evolving business needs with the scalable business architecture of the PowerEdge T640 Nigeria. Accelerate demanding workloads and plan for future growth with cost-effective, in-server expansion.

• Deliver fast insights with up to 8 NVMe drives and 2 x 10GbE connections.
• Scale compute resources with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors that deliver a 27% increase in cores and 50% increase in bandwidth over the previous generation.
• Address massive data growth with up to 18 x 3.5″ or 32 x 2.5″ drives and 8 PCIe slots.
• Provide advanced imaging and VDI with up to 4 x 300W GPU accelerators.

Enhance productivity with intelligent automation

Dell OpenManage intelligent automation enables you to spend less time on routine maintenance so you can focus on business-critical priorities.

• Help maximize uptime and reduce the IT effort to resolve issues by up to 72% with ProSupport Plus and SupportAssist.
• Leverage existing management consoles with easy integrations for VMware® vSphere®, Microsoft® System Center and Nagios®.
• Improve productivity with agent-free Dell iDRAC9 for automated management.
• Simplify deployment with OpenManage next-generation console and server profiles to configure and prep servers rapidly and scalably.

Protect your business with integrated security

A comprehensive, cyber-resilient architecture with security embedded into every server helps to protect your data.

• Protect server configuration and firmware from malicious changes with new Configuration Lock-down.
• Use system erase of local storage to help ensure data privacy when you repurpose or retire servers.
• Automate updates that check file dependencies and proper update sequence, before deploying them independently from the OS/hypervisor.
• Take control of your firmware consoles with embedded authentication that is designed to allow only properly signed updates to run.

Technical Specifications

Processor

• Up to two 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
• Up to 28 cores per processor

Operating System

• Canonical® Ubuntu® Server LTS
• Citrix® Hypervisor®
• Microsoft® Windows Server® with Hyper-V
• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
• SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
• VMware® ESXi®

Accelerators

• Up to four 300W GPUs and eight 150W GPUs
• Supported GPUs:
  • NVIDIA Tesla P100, P40, K80M, M60, M10
  • AMD S7150, S7150X2

Memory

• DIMM Speed: Up to 2993 MT/s
• Memory Type:
  • RDIMM
  • LRDIMM
  • NVDIMM
• Memory Module Slots: 24 DDR4 DIMM slots (12 NVDIMM only), supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only
• Maximum RAM:
  • RDIMM: 3TB
  • LRDIMM: 3TB
  • NVDIMM: 192GB

Storage

• Front Bays:
  • Up to 8 or 18 x 3.5″ SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD), max 216TB
  • Up to 16 x 2.5″ SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD), max 61TB
  • Up to 32 x 2.5″ SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD), max 122TB
  • Up to 16 x 2.5″ with up to 8 NVMe, max 112TB
• Storage Controllers:
  • Internal Controllers: PERC H330, H730P, H740P, HBA330
  • External Controller (RAID): H840, 12Gbps SAS HBA
  • Software RAID: S140
• Internal Boot:
  • Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS): HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs (240GB or 480GB)
  • Internal Dual SD Module

Management

• Embedded / At-the-Server:
  • iDRAC9
  • iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
  • iDRAC Direct
  • Quick Sync 2 BLE/wireless module
• Consoles:
  • OpenManage Enterprise
  • OpenManage Power Center
• Mobility: OpenManage Mobile
• Tools:
  • Dell Repository Manager
  • Dell System Update
  • Dell Server Update Utility
  • Dell Update Catalogs
  • iDRAC Service Module
  • IPMI Tool
  • OpenManage Server Administrator
  • OpenManage Storage Services
• OpenManage Integrations:
  • BMC® Truesight
  • Microsoft® System Center
  • Red Hat® Ansible® Modules
  • VMware® vCenter
• OpenManage Connections:
  • IBM Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus
  • IBM Tivoli® Network Manager IP Edition
  • Micro Focus® Operations Manager I
  • Nagios® Core
  • Nagios® XI

Power Supplies

• Options:
  • 1100W 48VDC, 1100W 380HVDC, 750W 240HVDC, 495W, 750W, 1100W, 1600W, 2000W, 2400W (Platinum)
  • 750W (Titanium)
• Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy option
• Up to 8 hot plug fans with full redundancy

Ports

• Network Options: 2 x 10GbE
• Front Ports:
  • 1 x Dedicated iDRAC micro-USB
  • 1 x USB 2.0
  • 1 x USB 3.0
  • 6 x USB 2.0/3.0
• Slots (PCIe):
  • 8 x Gen 3 slots (4 x 8)
  • 8 x Gen 3 slots (4 x 16)
• Video Card: 1 x VGA

Bezel

• Optional LCD bezel or security bezel

Form Factor

• 5U Tower or Rack Server

Dimensions & Weight

• Height:
  • 434.5mm (17.1″) (base height)
  • 443.5mm (17.5″) (with foot)
• Width:
  • 217.9mm (8.6″) (base width)
  • 304.5mm (12.0″) (with foot)
• Depth: 692.8mm (27.3″)
• Weight:
  • 42.36kg (93.4lbs) with all 32 x 2.5” drives
  • 49.7kg (109.5lbs) with all 18 x 3.5” drives

Rack Support

• ReadyRails™ sliding rails with optional cable management arm for 4-post racks (adapter brackets required for threaded hole racks)