Dell EMC PowerEdge R940xa
Extreme acceleration for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Overview:

Rapidly transform data insights into business outcomes with the PowerEdge R940xa. The R940xa accelerates applications with powerful four-socket performance in a scalable 4U design. Drive GPU database acceleration for business-critical applications with a powerful, four-socket server. Scale capacity with large internal storage.

Accelerate application performance

The PowerEdge R940xa drives GPU database acceleration to deliver real-time decisions for compute-intensive applications. By combining four CPUs with four GPUs, the R940xa delivers consistent high performance for demanding applications. The R940xa allows you to dynamically scale capacity and performance as your business-critical workloads evolve including:

• Maximizing performance with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, up to 112 cores.
• Choosing up to 4 double-width GPUs or up to 4 double-width or 8 single-width FPGAs for application acceleration.
• Supporting large data sets with up to 48 DIMMs (24 of which can be PMems) and up to 15.36TB of memory.
• Scaling on-premise capacity with up to 32 x. 2.5” HDDs/SSDs and up to 4 direct-attached NVMe drives.
• Expanding quickly with up to 12 PCIe slots for external device connections.

Streamline operations with Dell EMC OpenManage

The Dell EMC OpenManage portfolio helps simplify IT operations across your data center, delivering intelligent, automated management of routine tasks. Combined with unique agent-free management capabilities, the R940xa is simply managed, freeing up time for high profile projects.

• Utilize a variety of OpenManage integrations and connections to take advantage of your existing IT management platform.
• Take advantage of QuickSync 2 capabilities and gain access to your servers easily through your phone or tablet.

Deliver comprehensive data center protection with built-in security

Every PowerEdge server is made with a cyber-resilient architecture, delivering security into all parts of a server’s life cycle. The R940xa uses these new security features so you can reliably and securely deliver the right data to where your customers are, no matter where they are. Dell EMC considers each part of system security, from design to end of life, to ensure trust and deliver worry-free systems. Rely on a secure component supply chain to ensure protection from factory to the data center.

• Maintain data safety with cryptographically signed firmware packages and Secure Boot.
• Protect your server from malicious malware with iDRAC9 Server Lockdown mode (requires Enterprise or Datacenter license)
• Wipe all data from storage media including hard drives, SSDs and system memory quickly and securely with System Erase.

Features:

Rapidly transform data insights into business outcomes

The PowerEdge R940xa accelerates applications to deliver real-time decisions. The R940xa combines four CPUs with four GPUs in a powerful 1:1 ratio to drive database acceleration. With up to 6TB of memory and four-socket performance, the R940xa delivers consistent and fast response times. Scale on-premises capacity to offset rising cloud fees and security risks.

Ideal workloads:

• Compute intensive applications
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence
• GPU database acceleration

Dynamically scale resources as your workloads evolve

The 4U R940xa allows you to flexibly adapt to changing business demands. Large internal storage gives you the space to grow as your databases increase in complexity and size.

• Increase performance with up to four 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and up to 112 processing cores
• Choose up to four double-width GPUs or up to four double-width or eight single-width FPGAs to accelerate workloads
• Address large data sets with up to 48 DIMMs (24 of which can be DCPMMs) and up to 15.36TB of memory
• Scale capacity with up to 32 2.5” HDDs/SSDs, including up to four NVME drives
• Expand quickly with up to 12 PCIe slots for external connections

Systems Management and Security Solutions

Technical Specifications:

Dell EMC PowerEdge R940xa Specifications
Processors	Up to four 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, up to 28 cores each
Memory	48 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, up to 2933MT/s, 6TB max Up to 12 NVDIMM, 384GB Max Up to 24 Intel Optane DC persistent memory PMem, max 12.28TB, (15.36TB max with PMem and LRDIMM) Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only
Storage controllers	Internal Controllers: PERC H330, H730P, H740P, HBA330 External Controllers: H840, 12 Gbps SAS HBA, HBA355e Software RAID:S140 Internal Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS):HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 240GB, 480GB Internal Dual SD Module1
Drive bays	Front drive bays: Up to 8x 2.5” SAS SATA (HDD/SSD) max 61.44TB, or up 24 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) max 184.32TB, or up to 32 SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) with up to 4 NVME PCIe SSD max 245.76TB
Power supplies	Gold: 1100W - 48VDC Platinum: 1100W, 1100W 240VDC2, 1600W, 2000W, 2400W Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy option 6 hot plugs fans with N +1 redundancy
Dimension	Height: 174.3 mm (6.87”) Width: 441.16 mm (17.37”) Depth: 835.9mm (32.9”) Weight: 56.0kg (123.5lbs.)
Form Factor	2U rack server
Embedded management	iDRAC9 iDRAC Direct Quick Sync 2 BLE/wireless
Bezel	Optional bezel or security bezel
OpenManage Software	OpenManage Enterprise OpenManage Power Center OpenManage Mobile
Integrations and Connections	Integrations: Microsoft System Center VMware vCenter BMC Truesight Red Hat Ansible Modules Connections: IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Micro Focus Operations Manager I Nagios Core Nagios XI
Tools	Dell EMC Repository Manager Dell EMC Update Package Dell EMC System Update Dell EMC Server Update Utility iDRAC Service Module iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish OpenManage Server Administrator OpenManage Storage Services
Security	TPM 1.2/2.0 optional Cryptographically signed firmware Silicon Root of Trust Secure Boot System Lockdown (requires iDRAC Enterprise or Datacenter) System Erase
I/O & Ports	Network Daughter Card Options: 4 x 1GbE, 4 x 10GbE, 2 x 10GbE+2 x 1GbE, or 2 x 25GbE Front ports: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC Direct Micro-USB, 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x VGA. (Optional 1 x USB 3.0 only offered on the 8-drive configuration) Rear ports: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC port, 1 x Serial, 2 x USB 3.0, 1 x VGA Internal port: 1 x USB 3.0 Video card: 2 x VGA PCIe: Up to 12 x Gen3 slots, (6x16 slots or 2x16 + 10x8 slots)
Accelerator options	Up to 4 doublewidth GPUs or up to 4 double-width or 8 single-width full-height FPGAs
Supported operating systems	Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS Citrix Hypervisor Microsoft Windows Server LTSC with Hyper-V Red Hat Enterprise Linux Oracle Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server VMware ESXi
OEM-ready version availabe	From bezel to BIOS to packaging, your servers can look and feel as if they were designed and built by you.

¹ ESXi (only OS supported)
² Available in China only.

Support & Services:

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Documentation:

Dell EMC PowerEdge R940xa Datasheet (.PDF)