Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 overview
The PowerEdge R540 is a 2U, dual socket rack system with 8 x 3.5 inch drives or 12 x 3.5 inch drives system and supports up to:
• Two Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family processors
• 16 DIMM slots
• 14 drives or solid-state drives
• Two redundant power supply units (PSU) or single cabled PSU
NOTE: All instances of SAS, SATA hard drives and SSDs are referred to as drives in this document, unless specied
otherwise.
Topics:
• Supported congurations for the PowerEdge R540 system
• Front view of the system
• Back panel features
• Drive indicator codes
• NIC indicator codes
• Power supply unit indicator codes
• LCD panel
• Locating the Service Tag of your system
Supported congurations for the PowerEdge R540
system
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 system supports the following congurations:
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