Dell PowerEdge XE8640 Rack Server
Drive AI, HPC and analytics workloads with superior performance.
Processor
- Two 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor with up to 56 cores per processor
Cooling options
- Air cooling for Processors
- Liquid Assisted Air Cooling for GPU
- Note: No facility water to rack required.
Operating System
- Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux
Chipset
- Intel C741 Chipset
Accelerators
- 4 NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology
Memory
- DIMM Speed
- Up to 4800 MT/s
- Memory Type
- RDIMM
- Memory Module Slots
- 32 DDR5 DIMM slots
- Maximum RAM
- RDIMM 4 TB max
Storage
- Front Bays
- Up to 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe SSD drives max 122.88 TB
Storage Controllers
- Internal Boot
- Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (NVMe BOSS-N1): HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSDs or USB
- Software RAID
- S160
Security
- Cryptographically signed firmware
- Secure Boot
- Secure Erase
- Silicon Root of Trust
- System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter)
- TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ
- Secured Component Verification (Hardware integrity check)
- Data at Rest Encryption (SEDs with local or external key mgmt)
Management
- Embedded / At-the-Server
- iDRAC9
- iDRAC Direct
- iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
- iDRAC Service Module
Consoles
- OpenManage Enterprise
- OpenManage Power Manager plugin
- OpenManage Service plugin
- OpenManage Update Manager plugin
- CloudIQ for PowerEdge plug in
- OpenManage Enterprise Integration for VMware vCenter
- OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center
- OpenManage Integration with Windows Admin Center
Tools
- iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
- IPMI
- RACADM CLI
- Dell System Update
- Enterprise Catalogs
- Dell Repository Manager
OpenManage Integrations
- BMC Truesight
- Microsoft System Center
- OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow
- RedHat Ansible Modules
- Terraform Providers
- VMware vCenter and vRealize Operations Manager
Power Supplies
- 2800W Titanium 200-240 VAC or 240 HVDC redundant, hot swap
Fans
- Up to 6 Standard (STD) fans installed in mid tray
- Up to 5 High performance (HPR) gold grade fans installed on the front of the system
- All are hot swap fans
Ports
- Network Options
- 1 x OCP 3.0 (optional)
- 2 x 1GbE LOM (optional)
- Front Ports
- 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB) port
- 1 x USB 2.0
- 1 x VGA
- Rear Ports
- 1 x USB 2.0
- 1 x USB 3.0
- 1 x VGA
- 1 x RJ45 iDRAC9 ethernet port
Slots
- PCIe
- 2 CPU configuration: Up to 4 PCIe slots (4 x16 Gen5)
Bezel
- Optional LCD bezel or security bezel
Form Factor
- 4U rack server
Dimensions & Weight
- Height
- 174.3 mm (6.86 inches)
- Width
- 481.91 mm (18.97 inches)
- Depth
- 901.4 mm (35.48 inches) with bezel
- 865.54 mm (34.07 inches) inch without bezel
- Weight
- 61.4 kg (135.36 pounds)