PowerEdge R730 and R730xd

Technical Guide

Exceptionally flexible and scalable 2-socket, 2U rack servers delivering highperformance processing and a broad range of workload-optimized local storage options

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June 2015 | Version 1.7

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1 System overview

Introduction

The Dell PowerEdge R730 is a general-purpose platform with highly expandable memory (up to 768GB) and impressive I/O capabilities to match. The R730 can readily handle very demanding workloads, such as data warehouses, e-commerce, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), databases and high-performance computing (HPC). In addition to the R730's capabilities, the R730xd offers extraordinary storage capacity, making it well suited for data-intensive applications that require storage and I/O performance, like medical imaging and email servers.

Deliver peak performance

Drive peak compute performance across a variety of workloads with