Feature PowerEdge R720 technical specification Form factor 2U rack Processors Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family Processor sockets 2 Internal interconnect 2 x Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links; 6.4 GT/s; 7.2 GT/s; 8.0 GT/s Cache 2.5MB per core; core options: 2, 4, 6, 8 Chipset Intel C600 Memory1 Up to 768GB (24 DIMM Slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600MT/s I/O slots 7 PCIe slots: • One x16 full-length, full-height • Three x8 full-length, full-height • Three x8 half-length, half-height RAID controller Internal controllers: PERC S110 (SW RAID) PERC H310 PERC H710 PERC H710P External HBAs (RAID): PERC H810 External HBAs (non-RAID): 6Gbps SAS HBA Drive bays Up to eight 3.5” drives or up to sixteen 2.5” drives Maximum internal storage1 32TB Hard drives Hot-plug hard drive options: 2.5” PCIe SSD, SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K) 3.5” SAS (15K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K) Self-encrypting drives available Embedded NIC Broadcom® 5720 Quad Port 1GbE BASE-T (no TOE or iSCSI offload) Intel I350 Quad Port 1GbE BASE-T (no TOE or iSCSI offload) Intel X540 Dual Port 10GbE BASE-T with 2 x 1GbE (FCoE capability enabled on the 10GbE ports) Broadcom 57800S Dual Port 10GbE Base-T with 2 x 1GbE (TOE and iSCSI offload available on 10GbE ports Broadcom 57800S Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ with 2 x 1GbE (TOE and iSCSI offload available on 10GbE ports Power supply Auto-ranging Titanium efficiency, hot-plug redundant 750W AC power supply; Auto-ranging Platinum efficiency, hot-plug redundant 495W, 750W or 1100W AC power supply; 1100W DC power supply Availability High-efficiency, hot-plug, redundant power supplies; hot-plug drive bays; TPM; dual internal SD support; hot-plug, redundant fan; optional bezel; information tag; ECC memory, interactive LCD screen; extended thermal support; ENERGY STAR® compliant; switch independent partitioning Remote management iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller iDRAC7 Express (default), iDRAC7 Enterprise (upgrade option) 8GB vFlash media (upgrade option), 16GB vFlash media (upgrade optional) Systems management IPMI 2.0 compliant Dell OpenManage™ Essentials and Dell Management Console Dell OpenManage Power Center Dell OpenManage Connections: • Dell OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft® System Center • Dell plug-in for VMware® vCenter™ • HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli® Netcool®, and CA Network and Systems Management Rack support • ReadyRails™ II sliding rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled mounting in 4-post threaded hole racks, with support for optional tool-less cable management arm • ReadyRails static rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled mounting in 4-post threaded and 2-post (Telco) racks Operating systems Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V® v2) Microsoft Windows® Small Business Server 2011 Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Virtualization options: Citrix® XenServer® VMware vSphere® including ESX™ and ESXi™ Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization® For more information on the specific versions and additions,