Dell PowerEdge XE7420
A half-width, balanced compute-to-storage 1U sled for the ultra-dense 5U PowerEdge XE7100 chassis; two XE7420 sleds share one enclosure and its 100 front hot-swap drive bays, aimed at object storage, big-data/HDFS and similar storage-heavy workloads.
Memory
- Slots
- 16 DIMM
- Max
- 1 TB (16 × 64 GB DDR4 LRDIMM)
- Speed
- 2933 MT/s (16/32/64 GB DIMMs) or 3200 MT/s (8/16/32/64 GB RDIMM)
Storage
- Front bays (sled)
- 4 × 2.5" hot-swap (HDD, NVMe)
- Chassis bays (shared)
- Up to 100 × 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA drives, plus up to 8 × 7 mm SATA SSD (4 can be NVMe) per expander module
- Boot controller
- PERC H730P Mini Mono (mezzanine mini-PERC)
- Storage controller
- PERC H745 adapter; Mini PERC connects to the expander module for chassis drives
Expansion
- Low profile
- 1 × PCIe Gen3 x16 riser slot, low profile
- M.2/PCIe
- 1 × PCIe Gen3 x16 / M.2 slot
- Mini PERC
- 1 × PCIe Gen3 x8 Mini PERC slot
- OCP mezzanine
- 1 × PCIe Gen3 x8 OCP mezzanine card slot
Networking
- LOM
- 1 × 1 GbE LOM
- Mezzanine
- 2 × OCP 2.0 mezzanine ports
- NIC options (PCIe)
- Broadcom 57414 dual-port 25GbE SFP28; Intel X550 dual-port 10GbE BASE-T; Intel XXV710 dual-port 25GbE; Intel X710 dual-port 10GbE BASE-T; Mellanox ConnectX-5 dual-port 100GbE QSFP; Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx dual-port 25GbE DA/SFP
- NIC options (OCP 2.0 mezz)
- Broadcom 57414 dual-port 25GbE SFP28; Broadcom 57416 dual-port 10GbE BASE-T (Foxconn); Intel X710 dual-port 10GbE BASE-T
Power
- Supplies
- 2 × 2400 W, 80 PLUS Platinum, hot-plug redundant (shared at the chassis level between both sleds)
- Cooling
- 6 rear-accessible chassis fans (shared)
Ports
- Rear
- 2 × USB 3.0, 1 × Mini DisplayPort, 1 × iDRAC Direct micro-USB port, 1 × dedicated iDRAC/NIC port
Physical
- Chassis dimensions (XE7100, H×W×D)
- 219.25 mm × 482 mm × 871.5 mm (8.63" × 18.97" × 34.31")
- Chassis weight, empty
- 132.26 kg (291.58 lb)
- Chassis weight, 2 × XE7420 sleds installed
- 137.12 kg (302.29 lb)
- Rack fit
- 1070 mm Dell standard rack depth
Management
- Embedded
- iDRAC9 Express with Lifecycle Controller (Enterprise enabled)
- Consoles
- Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise, OpenManage Power Manager, Repository Manager
Operating systems
- Supported (not factory-installed)
- CentOS 7.6, RHEL 8.1, SLES 15 SP1, Ubuntu 18.04.3, Windows Server 2019, VMware ESXi 6.7 U3
Processors
- Intel Xeon Silver 4208
- Intel Xeon Silver 4210
- Intel Xeon Silver 4214
- Intel Xeon Silver 4216
- Intel Xeon Gold 5220