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Dell PowerEdge M640

A half-width, two-socket blade server for the PowerEdge M1000e (and VRTX) enclosure, built for scale-out HPC, anything-as-a-service and private-cloud deployments; up to 16 compute nodes per M1000e chassis.

Memory

Slots
16 x 288-pin DDR4 DIMM (8 per processor, 6 channels each)
Max
1 TB (16 x 64 GB LRDIMM) or 512 GB (16 x 32 GB RDIMM)
Speed
Up to 2933 MT/s

Storage

Drive bays
Up to 2 x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA hard drive/SSD or PCIe NVMe SSD, max 12.8 TB
RAID controllers
PERC S140 (software RAID), PERC H330, PERC H730P
Boot storage
Internal Dual SD Module (IDSDM); BOSS (Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem) M.2, up to two 80 mm M.2 SATA devices

Expansion

Internal slots
1 x PCIe 3.0 x8 for the bNDC, 2 x PCIe 3.0 x8 for Mezz cards (fabric B/C), 1 x PCIe 3.0 x8 for a miniPERC card, 1 x PCIe 3.0 x2 for the BOSS hardware RAID card

Networking

bNDC
One blade Network Daughter Card: 1 GbE quad-port or 10 GbE dual-/quad-port options

Power

PSU
Shared from the PowerEdge M1000e or VRTX enclosure; two hot-swappable AC PSUs at the enclosure with 1+1 redundancy

Ports

Front
1 x USB 3.0 port, 1 x micro-USB 2.0 iDRAC Direct port, power button, system ID/status LED

Physical

Dimensions (D x W x H), handle closed
544.32 x 50.35 x 197.9 mm
Dimensions (D x W x H), handle open
564.87 x 50.35 x 197.9 mm

Management

Remote management
iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller; Chassis Management Controller (CMC) embedded in the M1000e/VRTX enclosure
Consoles
OpenManage Enterprise, OpenManage Mobile, OpenManage Power Center, Repository Manager
Video
Integrated VGA controller in iDRAC, 4 Gb DDR4 shared with iDRAC application memory

Operating systems

Supported
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9/7.4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2/2016, Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0 U3/6.5 U1, Citrix XenServer 7.1

Processors

  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8276M
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8276
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8260
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8176
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8160M
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8160
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6252
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6248R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6248
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6246R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6246
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6244
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6242R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6242
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6240
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6240R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6240M
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6238
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6238R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6238M
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6234
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6230
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6230R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6230N
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6226
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6226R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6222V
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6212U
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6210U
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6208U
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6152
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6150
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6148
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6142
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6140M
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6140
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6138
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6136
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6134M
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6134
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6132
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6130
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6128
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6126
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5222
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5220
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5220R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5220S
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5218
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5218R
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5218N
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5217
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5215
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5215M
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5122
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5120
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5118
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4216
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4215
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4215R
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4214
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4214R
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4210
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4210R
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4208
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4116
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4114
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4112
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4110
  • Intel Xeon Silver 4108
  • Intel Xeon Bronze 3206R
  • Intel Xeon Bronze 3204
  • Intel Xeon Bronze 3106
  • Intel Xeon Bronze 3104
  • Intel Xeon Gold 5117