PowerEdge R720 and R720xd

Technical Guide

Built to run complex workloads using highly scalable memory, I/O capacity and flexible network options.

This is final documentation for R720. This product is eol.

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December 2013 | Version 6.0

Table of contents

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1 System overview

Introduction

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720 and R720xd are Dell's latest two-socket, 2U rack servers that are designed to run complex workloads using highly scalable memory, I/O capacity, and flexible network options. Both systems feature the Intel ® Xeon ® processor E5-2600 and E5-2600 v2 product families which offer up to 24 DIMMS, PCI Express ® (PCIe) 3.0-enabled expansion slots and a choice of network interface card technologies.

The PowerEdge R720 is a general-purpose platform with highly expandable memory (up to 768GB) and impressive I/O