In 2017, Dell EMC launched the 14th generation of its PowerEdge servers, with advanced server technology that has been specifically designed to help accelerate business.
According to the manufacturer, the 14G models aim to provide ‘transformation without compromise’ to companies, and ensure they are the bedrock of the modern data center.
But what are the main benefits and new features of the hardware? We have created an interactive visual guide to the 14G PowerEdge series, to tell you everything you need to know:
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What are the Benefits of 14G PowerEdge Servers
The new 14th generation of Dell EMC best-in-class PowerEdge servers offer a host of benefits:
A no compromise approach to deliver a real difference
The bedrock of the modern data centre
Business-boosting features for you and your customers
Advanced servers for an accelerated business
Why PowerEdge and Dell EMC?
Industry-leading expertise and unparalleled technology leadership
A single supplier for best-in-class solutions across the entire infrastructure
Support across the entire lifecycle
A pioneering approach and product excellence enhances your business reputation
Dell EMC innovation, quality, efficiency and reliability
Dell EMC Financial Services - allows users to make investments without capital outlay
Offer deployment and consultancy services to customers to increase the stickiness of sales
What’s new?
Scalable business architecture
On-demand capacity and performance to meet a diverse range of workload requirements
Intelligent automation through expanded APIs and management consoles
Integrated workload boost button
Unlimited scalability to adapt to all workload demands
Essential support across the entire system lifecycle with Dell EMC parts
Intelligent automation
Enhanced server room efficiency allows IT to spend more time on higher priority tasks.
Remote deployment in minutes
Embedded Support Assist for proactive response
Reduced IT administrator involvement by up to 90%
No more amber light patrols
Enhanced security
Robust and reliable built-in security throughout the IT lifecycle.
Security embedded into hardware and firmware
Built-in protection from delivery to deployment and updates
Transform your business while gaining the competitive edge.
How to build a modern IT infrastructure
Adapt and scale to dynamic business needs
Scalable Business Architecture - Dynamic server portfolio optimised for all your workloads
Optimised performance for a multitude of workloads
Real time analytics - Improved throughput, decreased latency with 6x more NVMe drives
S/W Defined Storage - Optimise performance and capacity with mixing drive types
Virtual desktop Infra - Run up to 33% more VDI instances and up to 192 VDI users
Automate
Intelligent Automation - Automate routine management and free up skilled resources
OpenManage: An intuitive approach to systems management
Resolve issues up to 90% faster with ProSupport Plus and SupportAssist
Next-generation APIs for consistent and extensible management
Reduce server configuration time up to 99% with Zero touch
Protect your customers and your business
Integrated security - fortify business operations and profitability
Security is built in, not bolt on
Every PowerEdge server is designed on a Cyber Resilient Architecture
New embedded security features for enhanced privacy and protection
Secure manageability protocols, save costs in downtime and remediation
PowerEdge R640
Stand out specs
Superior density for cloud applications, virtualisation environments and Web tech
Optimised platforms for OLTP and Decision Support Systems
Dense software defined storage mixing NVME and 2.5” or 3.5” drives to tier storage
Excellent high-performance computing platform
Key offerings
Oracle RAC and SQL database users
Transactional processing (OLTP)
Mid-range collaboration applications (Exchange, Lync, Sharepoint)
Dense virtualisation and software-defined storage
Service providers: Application tier
Helps customers who:
Want faster, denser database solutions
Want a dense software-defined storage node
Want to expand concurrent users without increasing datacentre footprint
Want an SQL server with NVME and NVDIMM capability
Product advantages
Up to 12 2.5” drives, or up 4 x 3.5”
Up to 8 NVMe PCIe drives - two times more than the R630
27% more processing cores and 50% more bandwidth with Xeon SP vs Xeon E5 v4
Embedded SupportAssist for faster automated issue diagnosis and remediation
Cryptographically signed firmware packages and Secure Boot ensures data safety
Security lockdown that protects your server, configuration and firmware (BIOS, iDRAC, & RAID) from malicious changes
PowerEdge R740
Who can benefit?
Best-in-class virtualisation, cloud apps, web tech, HPC, XaaS providers
Excellent desktop virtualisation server with I/O optimised for VDI scalability
HPC compute engine - balanced performance, extensive storage and support of three double wide or six single wide GPU accelerators
Key offerings
Consolidates applications from multiple servers through virtualisation
Consolidating desktops to centralise control with a VDI solution
AI (artificial intelligence)
Running mid-sized to large applications with large storage back ends
Midrange medical imaging (remote clinic)
Helps customers who are:
Running up against processing limits of older generation servers - need more memory and CPU performance
Looking for more expandability and consolidation from their current solution
Looking for an ideal VDI solution or AI solution
Product advantages
Supports up to three double-width accelerators/GPUs (or six single width) for imaging applications or HPC environments
27% more processing cores and 50% more bandwidth with Xeon SP vs Xeon 25 v4
Embedded SupportAssist for faster, automated issue diagnosis and remediation
Cryptographically signed firmware packages and Secure Boot ensures data safety
Security lockdown that protects your server configuration and firmware (BIOS, iDRAC and RAID) from malicious changes
PowerEdge R740xd
Stand out specs
Ideal for software-defined storage with ability to mix NVMe, SSD and HDD
XaaS providers, Hadoop/Big Data users and co-location hosting. Optimised platforms for OLTP and Decision Support Systems
Great database server delivering high IOPS with up to 24 NVMe drives
Excellent platform for Exchange SharePoint
Key offerings
Hybrid configuration is deal for large server environments with a need for both large capacity and high performance storage
Transactional processing (OLTP) that needs to keep pace
Mid-range collaboration applications (Exchange, Lync, Sharepoint)
Helps customers who are:
Looking for ideal software-defined storage platforms
Have datasets that are accessed at different levels of frequency and require different performance levels
Want a solution with both storage performance and capacity
Product advantages
Up to 24 NVMe drives and a up to a total of 32 2.5” drives or 16 3.5” drives
High-performance PERC9 and dual PERC capability on 24-drive configuration
27% more processing cores and 50% more bandwidth with Xeon SP and Xeon E5 v4
Embedded Supportassist for faster, automated issue diagnosis and remediation
Cryptographically signed firmware packages and Secure Boot ensures data safety
Security lockdown that protects your server configuration and firmware (BIOS, iDRAC and RAID) from malicious changes
PowerEdge R940
Stand out specs
Designed specifically for large enterprises, the PowerEdge R940 server delivers tremendous flexibility across performance-hungry workloads
Innovative technologies accelerate business outcomes today and modernising IT infrastructure for tomorrow
Key offerings
In-memory databases - SAP Hana, Oracle 12C, SQL 2014
Unix to Linux migration
Standalone Oracle and SQL databases
Large SANs or large-scale virtualisation
ERP, CRM
OLTP, OLAP
Helps customers who are:
Keeping up with the transaction and analytical demands of ever-growing data and proliferation of disparate databases
Legacy infrastructure unable to meet demands of the business and unable to run latest innovative applications like in-memory databases
Product advantages
Maximise application performance and scalabilty - #1 World Record Performance SAP Hana (BW-EML benchmark) R930 & R920
Significant cost savings and lower TCO via simplified, streamlined lifecycle management and one to many capabilities
99% reductions in deployment time
Harness industry leading internal storage scalability and memory capacity to accelerate workloads
10 times more I/O than traditional HDDs
PowerEdge C6420
Stand out specs
Technical computing customers looking to maximise computer power with a dense, flexible server architecture
High performance computing
Web tech-SaaS
Hyper converged infrastructure
Financial modelling
Data analytics
Key offerings
Increasing density and flexibility for HPC customers seeking better efficiency in their datacentres
Existing customers transitioning from PowerEdge C6300 Chassis/C6320
Customers using competitive 2U 4 Node systems
Helps customers having difficulties with:
Insufficient performance and/or power cooling capacity to support growing computational complexity
Limited flexibility in scaling up and out for HPC/Web Tech/SaaS applications
Custom solutions limit the speed of scaling infrastructure and makes management complex
Product advantages
Maximise performance density with up to four dual socket compute nodes in a 2 U FF
Optimise data centre energy use Direct Liquid Cooling technology and support high performance and dense server configurations
Multiple chassis offerings for up to 24 x 2.5” drives/12 x 3.5” drives or diskless chassis along with a two node expander chassis along with a two node expander chassis.
Advanced management and scripting support with integrated iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller and Redfish API.