Dell PowerEdge XR8720t
A 2U half-width compute sled for the PowerEdge XR8000r rugged edge chassis, built around a single Intel Xeon 6 SoC processor with vRAN Boost for Cloud RAN, Open RAN DU and edge-AI workloads.
Memory
- Slots
- 8 × DDR5 DIMM (only 4 usable with HCC-tier processors)
- Max
- 768 GB RDIMM with XCC processor (384 GB with HCC processor)
- Speed
- Up to 6400 MT/s
- Type
- Registered ECC DDR5 only
Storage
- M.2
- 1 × M.2 NVMe drive on the HPM + 2 × M.2 NVMe drives on a dual M.2 riser module (non-RAID)
- Max capacity
- 5.76 TB total (M.2 NVMe)
Expansion
- PCIe
- Flexible configuration: up to 3 slots (2 × x8 Gen5 + 1 × x16 Gen5)
Networking
- Embedded NIC — flexible config
- 2 × QSFP 100 GbE ports
- Embedded NIC — network-optimized config
- 8 × SFP28 25 GbE ports
- OCP
- Network-optimized config: up to 2 × DSFF OCP slots; Intel DSFF OCP card, 8 × 25 GbE SFP
- Timing
- 2 × SMA ePPS input/output + 1 × SMA GNSS antenna input, for hardware-enhanced telecom timing sync
Power
- Supply options (XR8000r chassis)
- 1800 W Titanium 200–240 VAC/240 HVDC; 1400 W Platinum 100–240 VAC/240 HVDC; 1400 W / 1100 W / 800 W DC -48 to -60 V — redundant, hot-swap
- Cooling
- Air cooling; two cabled 4-fan modules (not hot-swappable); optional Heater Manager for low-temperature environments
Ports
- Front
- 1 × iDRAC Direct (USB-C), 1 × USB 3.0, 1 × Mini-DisplayPort, 1 × RJ45 iDRAC10 ethernet, 1 × RJ45 Alert/Dry-contact input, 2 × SMA ePPS, 1 × SMA GNSS antenna
Physical
- Height
- 82.95 mm (3.26 in)
- Width
- 184.8 mm (7.27 in)
- Depth
- 431.13 mm (16.97 in)
- Weight
- 7.78 kg (17.15 lb)
- Form factor
- 2U half-width sled, installs in the PowerEdge XR8000r chassis
Management
- Embedded
- iDRAC10, iDRAC Direct, iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish, iDRAC Service Module
- Security
- Cryptographically signed firmware, Secure Boot, Secure Erase, Secured Component Verification (hardware integrity check), Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown (requires iDRAC10 Enterprise or Datacenter), TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified
Operating systems
- Supported
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server/RT, Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux/RT, Wind River (OSV only)
Processors
- Intel Xeon 6756P-B
- Intel Xeon 6766P-B
- Intel Xeon 6768P-B
- Intel Xeon 6776P-B