Specifications

35 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
 Automation of firmware and driver version deployment upon component replacement
 Automatic monitoring of NIC status and notification on SNMP traps
 Local or remote reconfiguration of any NIC, physical or virtual
 PXE boot enabled on all LOM and NDCs for ease of use
 Boot from SAN (iSCSI, FCoE) configuration for networking devices through the Lifecycle
Controller GUI
PCIe expansion
For information on card installation, requirements, and slot priorities, see the PowerEdge R720 and
R720xd Owner’s Manual on Dell.com/Support/Manuals.
PCIe slots
The R720 and R720xd provide greatly expanded PCIe slot capability over their predecessor servers.
This is made possible by the 40 PCIe lanes available from each processor in the system. Two
processors are required in the system to enable all PCIe slots. The R720 and R720xd have been
designed to be PCIe 3.0 compliant in order to take full advantage of the processor capabilities. Table
16 details the R720 and R720xd PCIe slots.
Table 16. PCIe expansion slots
System
R720
R720xd
Slots
1
7
6
Slot types
One x16 full-length, full-height
Three x8 full-length, full-height
Three x8 half-length, half-height
Two x16 full-length, full-height
One x8 full-length, full-height
Three x8 half-length, half-height
1
In a single-processor configuration, slots 1–4 are not usable.
PCIe expansion cards
The R720 and R720xd support a variety of PCIe expansion cards. Table 17 lists the supported add-in
NICs and HBAs for the R720 and R720xd.
Table 17. Supported NICs and HBAs
Type
Adapter
1Gb/10Gb NICs
Broadcom 5720 2x1Gb Base-T
Broadcom 5719 4x1Gb Base-T
Intel I350 2x1Gb Base-T
Intel I350 4x1Gb Base-T
Broadcom 57810S 2x10Gb SFP+
Broadcom 57810S 2x10Gb Base-T
Intel X520 2x10Gb SFP+