Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 Technical Guide

1 Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 Technical GuideRegulatory Model: E46S SeriesRegulatory Type: E46S001 December 2021 Rev. A06 Notes, cautions, and warningsNOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your : A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoidthe : A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. 2017 - 2021 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its trademarks may be trademarks of their respective 6 Chapter 1: System 7 New 7 Chapter 2: System 9 Product 9 Technical 10 Chapter 3: Chassis 12 Front view of the 12 Left control panel 13 Right control panel 16 Back panel 17 Inside the 19 Security 4: 23 Supported 5: System 26 General memory module installation 6: 29 IDSDM with vFlash 30 Optical 30 Tape 30 Boot Optimized Storage 30 Chapter 7: Networking and on Motherboard(LOM).

2 32 PCIe Expansion 32 Chapter 8: Trusted platform module ..34 Chapter 9: Video 35 Chapter 10: Power, Thermal, and consumption and energy 36 Power supply 37 ContentsContents3 Thermal and 37 Thermal 37 Acoustical 38 Chapter 11: Rack 39 Chapter 12: Dell EMC OpenManage systems 49iDRAC with Lifecycle and Chassis EMC 56 Automation 56 Integration with third-party 57 Connections for third-party EMC Update 57 Dell 57 Chapter 13: Appendix A. Additional 58 PSU 58 System 59 Chassis 59 Environmental 14: Appendix B. Standards 60 Chapter 15: Appendix C Additional 61 Chapter 16: Appendix D. Support and deployment EMC ProDeploy Enterprise Suite.

3 62 Dell EMC ProDeploy EMC EMC Basic EMC Residency 63 Dell EMC Remote Consulting 63 Dell EMC data Migration 63 ProSupport Enterprise 63 ProSupport One for data 64 Support 65 Additional professional Education 66 Dell EMC Global Infrastructure Consulting 66 Dell EMC Managed 664 Contents1 Dell EMC PowerEdge 72 Front view of 12 x inch drive 123 Front view of 8 x inch drive 124 Left control panel without optional iDRAC Quick Sync 135 Left control panel with optional iDRAC Quick Sync 146iDRAC Quick Sync 2 157 Right control 168 Back panel features of 12 x inch + 2 x inch (rear) drive 179 Back panel features of 12 x inch + 2 x inch (rear) drive 1710 Back panel features of 12 x inch drive system with butterfly 1811 Inside the system without rear drive 2012 Inside the system with rear drive 2113 Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS).

4 3114 Configuration A: LOM riser + 3 x low profile slot + riser 3215 Configuration B: LOM riser + Right riser + 2 x inch rear hard 3216 Configuration C: LOM riser + Left riser + Right riser + 2 x inch rear hard D: LOM riser + Butterfly riser + 3 x low profile 3318 Sliding rails with optional 3919 Static 4020 Static rails in 2-post center mount rails with 4222 Pull out inner 4423 Rail standoffs seated in 4424 Slide system into the 4525 Pull out the intermediate 4626 Attach the inner rails to the 4727 Install system into the extended system into the 4829 Dell EMC OpenManage 4930 Dimensions of the PowerEdge R540 Enterprise Suite Enterprise 6433 ProSupport One for data center 6534 SupportAssist 65 FiguresFigures51 New 72 Feature 93 Technical 104R540 chassis available on the front of the 136 Left

5 Control 147 Status LED indicators and 148iDRAC Quick Sync 2 indicators and 159 Right control 1610iDRAC Direct LED indicator 1711 Back panel features of 1812 Security 2113 Supported Processors for 2314 Supported 2615 DIMM Performance 2616 Supported RAS 2717 PERC series controller RAID controller 3119 Supported video resolution 3520 Power tools and reference points and output , Sliding, or Stab-in/Drop-in sliding 4123 Rail Adjustability Range and Rail 4224 Rail feature 5026 Dell 5727 PSU of the PowerEdge R540 5930 Industry standard 6031 Additional OverviewR540 OverviewPower your applications with a versatile 2-socket, 2U general-purpose rack server.

6 Support various applications such asvirtualization, video streaming, web tech, data analytics, and mail and messaging with the flexible Dell EMC PowerEdge balanced combination of resources, expandability, and affordability adapt to the changing demands of a modern data your application performance with one-button tuning. Scale for future requirements with up to 14 x " diagnostics and SupportAssist help to maximize uptime without added effort, in a worry-free 1. Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 Topics: Introduction New technologiesIntroductionThe PowerEdge R540 is a general-purpose platform with highly expandable memory - up to 512 GB with single processor and upto 1 TB with dual processors, and impressive I/O capabilities to : 768 GB max memory is recommended for performance optimized R540 features.

7 The 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors product family (with up to 20 cores and two threads per core) Up to six channels with two DIMMs per channel per CPU and 16 DIMMs (supports DDR4 RDIMM) PCI Express (PCIe) enabled expansion slots (with up to 48 lanes per CPU) based Boot Optimized Storage Solution module Modular storage and PCIe riser optionsNew technologiesThe following are the new technologies that are featured on the PowerEdge R540:Table 1. New technologies New technologyDetailed descriptionThe 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processorThe 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Processor product familyhas advanced features such as, embedded PCIe lanes1 System Overview7 Table 1.

8 New technologies (continued)New technologyDetailed descriptionfor improved I/O performance that delivers exceptionalperformance and details, see the Processor C620 series chipsetThe R540 system uses the Intel C620 chipset. It is a 2 chipplatform - CPU and MT/s DDR4 memoryThe Intel Xeon Scalable processor product family supports2666 MT/s memory and sixteen 288-pin R540 system supports: 6x DDR4 Channels per socket, 2 DIMMs per channel Up to 2666 MT/s (configuration-dependent) RDIMMs up to 32 GB, LRDIMMs 64 GBFor details, see the Memory with Lifecycle ControllerThe new embedded systems management solution for theDell EMC systems features hardware and firmware inventoryand alerting, data center level power monitoring, and details, see the Dell EMC OpenManage systemsmanagement sectionPERC S140 This new software RAID solution supports.

9 RAID 0, 1, 5, and Non-RAID SATA hard drive and SSD devices only Up to eight inch and inch hot-plug SATA HDDs orSSDs Software RAID is through the Intel Lewisburg chipset Software RAID solution is supported on Linux andWindowsFor details, see the Storage bezelThe PowerEdge R540 LCD control panel is embedded in anoptional front bezel for easy access and ManagementThe Quick Sync 2 BLE/WiFi module offers secure, wirelessaccess to the embedded iDRAC, SupportAssist Collections,remote RACADM, and VNC remote console OverviewSystem featuresCompared to previous generations, the PowerEdge R540 offers faster processing power and advanced system PowerEdge R540 also provides extraordinary storage capacity options, making it well-suited for data -intensive applicationsthat require greater storage, while not sacrificing the I/O : Product comparison Technical specificationsProduct comparisonTable 2.

10 Feature comparison FeaturePowerEdge R540 PowerEdge R530 ProcessorsThe 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor familyIntel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v3 orE5-2600 v4 product familyChipsetIntel C620 series chipsetIntel C610 Memory16x DDR4 RDIMM/LRDIMM12 x DDR4 RDIMM/LRDIMMD rive bays12 x inch SAS/SATARear: 2 x inch SAS/SATA12 x inch SAS/SATAPCIe SlotsUp to 5 x PCIe Gen3Up to 3 x PCIe Gen3, and 2 x PCIe Gen2 RAID ControllerPERC 9/10/11 Mini-PERC 9 Backplane 14 x inches or inch SATA/SAS 8 x inch SATA/SAS 2 x inches rear SATA/SAS 8 x inches or inches SAS/SATAE mbedded NIC2x 1 Gb LOM and optional LAN on risercard.