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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