PowerEdge FC640 Server Sled

Scale business performance and drive increased agility for demanding workloads to boost IT transformation with the customizable PowerEdge FC640 server.

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Front angle Dell FC640

Tech Specs & Customization

Processor

Up to two 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 28 cores per processor

Operating System

Canonical® Ubuntu® LTS
Citrix® Hypervisor
Microsoft® Windows Server® LTSC with Hyper-V
Oracle® Linux
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server[SK1] 
VMware® vSphere®

Chassis

FX2

Memory*

DIMM Speed
Up to 2933MT/s

Memory Type
DIMM
RDIMM
LRDIMM

Memory Module Slots
16 DDR4 DIMM slots

Maximum RAM
DIMM 1TB
RDIMM 1TB
LRDIMM 2TB

Ports

Network Options
2 x 10GbE + 4 x 10GbE
4 x 1GbE

Slots

PCIe
See PowerEdge FX2 chassis specification

Video Card
1 x VGA controller integrated with iDRAC

Recommended Support

Choose Dell ProSupport Plus for critical systems or Dell ProSupport for premium hardware and software support for your PowerEdge solution. Consulting and deployment offerings are also available. Contact your Dell representative today for more information. Availability and terms of Dell Services vary by region.

Storage

Front Bays
Up to 2 x 2.5” SAS/SATA/NVMe (HDD/SSD), max 12.8TB

Dimensions & Weight

Height
211.0mm (8.3″)
 
Width
40.3mm (1.6″)
 
Depth
535.8mm (21.1″)

Weight
5.8kg (12.79lbs.)

Management

Embedded / At-the-Server
Chassis Management Controller 
iDRAC9 
iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
iDRAC Direct 

Consoles
OpenManage Enterprise
OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

Mobility
OpenManage Mobile

Tools
Dell Technologies RACADM CLI
Dell Technologies Repository Manager
Dell Technologies System Update
Dell Technologies Server Update Utility
Dell Technologies Update Catalogs
iDRAC Service Module[SK1] 
IPMI Tool
OpenManage Server Administrator
OpenManage Storage Services

OpenManage Integrations
BMC Truesight
Microsoft® System Center
RedHat® Ansible® Modules
VMware® vCenter

OpenManage Connections
IBM Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus 
IBM Tivoli® Network Manager IP Edition
Micro Focus® Operations Manager I
Nagios® Core
Nagios® XI

Storage Controllers

Internal Controllers
PERC H330, H730p, HBA330

Software RAID
S140 

Internal Boot
Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS):
HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 240GB, 480GB
Internal Dual SD Module
*ESXi (only OS supported)

Security

Cryptographically signed firmware
Secure Boot
Secure Erase
Silicon Root of Trust
System Lockdown (requires OpenManage Enterprise)
TPM 1.2/2.0, TCM 2.0 optional

Form Factor

1U half-width Modular Compute Sled, up to 4 FC640 per FX2 chassis

Power Supplies

(FX2 chassis)
1600W Platinum
2000W Platinum
2400W Platinum
1+1 redundant, redundancy alerting only (RAO), & 2+0 non-redundant configurations
Up to 8 hot plugs fans with full redundancy

Product details

FC640 Front Image

Scale incrementally with powerful blocks of computing resourcesale-out computing

React quickly and boost your services delivery with Dell Technologies PowerEdge FC640 server for the PowerEdge FX2.

The FC640 is a flexible 1U 2S server with powerful processors, large memory capacity and highly scalable I/O. The FC640 accelerates workloads and secures operations to help you drive your IT transformation with a cost-efficient and dense core design. From private cloud to software-defined storage, the FC640 transforms your legacy operations with a nimble and agile approach, ideal for better business results.

Boost performance with highly flexible, scale-out storage blocks

Rapidly scale dense Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and Software-Defined Storage (SDS) applications in your FX infrastructures with the 1U FD332 storage module. Create a storage environment that supports balanced data growth on an as-needed basis. Avoid overprovisioning by scaling your storage needs to the workloads you are running. With support for SAS and SATA HDD/SSDs you can readily adapt to the performance needs of your applications.

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Embedded Management

Sustain your business and grow with intelligent automation

Make IT operations more efficient and your FX infrastructure more productive and reliable with Dell Technologies systems management. Take advantage of OpenManage systems management portfolio used across other PowerEdge servers with the FX2, or leverage the embedded chassis management.

  • Perform automated deployments, updates and configurations with agent-free iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller.
  • Simplify with the new OpenManage Enterprise console, with custom reports and automatic discovery.
  • Enable easy collective or individual server management with the embedded Chassis Management Controller (CMC).

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