User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Owner's Manual
- About Your System
- Using The System Setup and Boot Manager
- Installing System Components
- Recommended Tools
- Front Bezel (Optional)
- Opening And Closing The System
- Inside The System
- Cooling Shroud
- System memory
- Hard Drives
- Removing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
- Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
- Removing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank (Back)
- Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank (Back)
- Removing A 3.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
- Installing A 3.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
- Removing A Hot-Swap Hard Drive
- Installing A Hot-Swap Hard Drive
- Removing A Hard Drive From A Hard-Drive Carrier
- Installing A Hard Drive Into A Hard-Drive Carrier
- Optical Drive (Optional)
- Cooling Fans
- Internal USB Memory Key (Optional)
- PCIe Card Holder
- Top Cover Lock Latch
- Cable Retention Bracket
- Expansion Cards And Expansion-Card Risers
- Expansion Card Installation Guidelines
- Removing An Expansion Card From The Expansion-Card Riser 2 Or 3
- Installing An Expansion Card Into The Expansion-Card Riser 2 Or 3
- Removing An Expansion Card From The Expansion-Card Riser 1
- Installing An Expansion Card Into The Expansion-Card Riser 1
- Removing Expansion-Card Risers
- Installing Expansion-Card Risers
- GPU Card Installation Guidelines
- Installing A GPU Card
- Removing A GPU Card
- SD vFlash Card
- Internal Dual SD Module
- Internal SD Card
- Integrated Storage Controller Card
- Network Daughter Card
- Processors
- Power Supplies
- System Battery
- Hard-Drive Backplane
- Control Panel Board
- System Board
- Troubleshooting Your System
- Safety First—For You And Your System
- Troubleshooting System Startup Failure
- Troubleshooting External Connections
- Troubleshooting The Video Subsystem
- Troubleshooting A USB Device
- Troubleshooting A Serial I/O Device
- Troubleshooting A NIC
- Troubleshooting A Wet System
- Troubleshooting A Damaged System
- Troubleshooting The System Battery
- Troubleshooting Power Supplies
- Troubleshooting Cooling Problems
- Troubleshooting Cooling Fans
- Troubleshooting System Memory
- Troubleshooting An Internal USB Key
- Troubleshooting An SD Card
- Troubleshooting An Optical Drive
- Troubleshooting A Tape Backup Unit
- Troubleshooting A Hard Drive
- Troubleshooting A Storage Controller
- Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
- Troubleshooting Processors
- Using System Diagnostics
- Jumpers And Connectors
- Technical Specifications
- System Messages
- Getting Help
Drives
0 through 23 and two optional 2.5 inch back-accessible SAS,
Nearline SAS, or SSD hard drives in hard-drive slots 24 and
25.
Optical drive
(PowerEdge R720)
One optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW drive.
NOTE
: DVD devices are data only.
Connectors
Back
NIC Four 10/100/1000 Mbps or two 10/100/1000 Mbps and two
100 Mbps/1 Gbps/10 Gbps
Serial 9-pin, DTE, 16550-compatible
USB Two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant
Video 15-pin VGA
External vFlash card
(PowerEdge R720xd)
One flash memory card slot with iDRAC7 Enterprise card
NOTE
: The card slot is available for use only if the
iDRAC7 Enterprise license is installed on your
system.
Front
USB Two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant (PowerEdge R720)
One 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant (PowerEdge R720xd)
Video 15-pin VGA
External vFlash card
(PowerEdge R720)
One flash memory card slot with iDRAC7 Enterprise card
NOTE
: The card slot is available for use only if the
iDRAC7 Enterprise license is installed on your
system.
Internal
USB One 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant
Internal Dual SD Module Two optional flash memory card slots with the internal SD
module
NOTE
: One card slot is dedicated for redundancy.
Video
Video type Integrated Matrox G200
Video memory 16 MB shared
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