Reference Guide

10 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
Feature
PowerEdge R710
PowerEdge R720
PowerEdge R720xd
Dell OpenManage
systems management
Dell OpenManage
Lifecycle Controller 1.x
iDRAC6 (Express or
Enterprise) with
Lifecycle Controller 1.x
OpenManage Essentials
OMSA Agent
OpenManage Power
Center (requires iDRAC7
Enterprise with Lifecycle
Controller)
OpenManage
Integrations and
Connections
iDRAC7 Express with
Lifecycle Controller
(standard option)
OpenManage Essentials
OMSA Agent
OpenManage Power
Center (requires iDRAC7
Enterprise with Lifecycle
Controller)
OpenManage
Integrations and
Connections
iDRAC7 Express with
Lifecycle Controller
(standard option)
Internal GPU
Not supported
2 x 300W (double wide)
or
4 x 150W (single wide)
Not supported
Availability
Hot-plug drives
Hot-plug redundant
cooling
Hot-plug redundant
PSUs
Hot-plug drives
Hot-plug redundant
cooling
Hot-plug redundant
PSUs
Internal dual SD module
Hot-plug drives
Hot-plug redundant
cooling
Hot-plug redundant
PSUs
Internal dual SD module
1
GB means 1 billion bytes and TB means 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating
environment and will be less.
Specifications
Table 3 lists the technical specifications for the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd systems. For the latest
information on supported features, visit Dell.com/PowerEdge.
Table 3. Technical specifications
Feature
Specification
Form factor
2U rack
Processors
Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 or E5-2600 v2 product families
Processor sockets
2 sockets
Internal interconnect
2 Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links; 6.4GT/s; 7.2GT/s; 8.0GT/s
Cache
2.5MB per core; core options: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
Chipset
Intel C602
Memory
1
Up to 768GB (24 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1866MT/s
PCIe slots
R720:
6 PCIe slots:
One x16 full-length, full-height
Three x8 full-length, full-height
R720xd:
6 PCIe slots:
Two x16 full-length, full-height
One x8 full-length, full-height