DELL Poweredge XE7745 Server Overview

May 20, 2025 OLEKSANDR SYZOV

DELL Poweredge XE7745 Server Overview

The Dell PowerEdge XE7745 is a high-performance 4U rack server designed for demanding Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and data-intensive workloads.

Here are its technical specifications:

Processors:

Dual AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors (5th Generation): Supports up to 192 Zen5 cores per processor, providing significant computational power.

Memory:

24 DDR5 DIMM slots: Supports RDIMM with a maximum capacity of 2.3 TB currently, with future releases to support 128GB DIMMs, increasing the maximum capacity to 3 TB.
Speeds: Up to 6000 MT/s, with future releases supporting up to 6400 MT/s.
Type: Supports only unregistered ECC DDR5 DIMMs.

Accelerators (GPUs):

Flexible GPU configurations:

Up to 8x PCIe Gen 5 x16 Double-Wide (DW) Full-Height Full-Length (FHFL) GPUs, each up to 600W (e.g., NVIDIA H200 NVL Tensor Core).
Up to 16x PCIe Gen 5 x16 Single-Wide (SW) FHFL GPUs, each up to 75W (e.g., NVIDIA L4).
Up to 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 SW-FHHL cards, each up to 150W (in rear PCIe slots).

Storage:

Front Bays: Up to 8 x EDSFF E3.S Gen5 NVMe (SSD) with a maximum capacity of 122.88 TB.
Internal Boot: Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS-N1 DC-MHS) with HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 NVMe SSDs, or USB.

Power Supplies:

Hot-swap redundant 3200W Titanium power supplies:

Supports 200-240 V AC or 240 V DC.
Multi-capacity for 3200W PSU: 3200W for 220.1-240 V AC or 2900W for 200-220 V AC.

Cooling:

Air cooling: Features multiple sets of high-performance (HPR) platinum-grade fans for efficient thermal management.

I/O (Input/Output):

Rear I/O:

1 x Dedicated iDRAC/BMC Direct Ethernet port.
2 x USB 3.1 Type A ports.
1 x VGA port.
1 PCIe Gen 5 OCP 3.0 Compatible I/O (supported by x8 PCIe lanes).

Front I/O:

1 x USB 2.0 Type-A (optional).
1 x Mini-Display port (optional).
1 x USB 2.0 Type-C dual mode (Host/iDRAC Direct port).

Form Factor:

4U rack server
Dimensions:

Height: 174.3 mm (6.86 inches)
Width: 482 mm (18.98 inches)
Depth: 899.56 mm (35.42 inches) with bezel, 886.73 mm (34.91 inches) without bezel.

Weight: Approximately 68.5 kg (151.02 lbs).

Management:

iDRAC10, iDRAC Direct, iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish.

Operating Systems & Hypervisors Supported:

Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS
RedHat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
VMware ESXi

Intended Tasks:

The Dell PowerEdge XE7745 is specifically designed and optimized for tasks that require immense computational power, high-speed data processing, and flexible GPU acceleration, primarily in the domain of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC). Its key use cases include:

AI Inferencing: Performing real-time or near-real-time predictions and decisions using trained AI models.
AI Model Fine-tuning: Adapting pre-trained AI models to specific datasets or tasks, which often requires significant GPU resources.
Deep Learning and Machine Learning: Training complex neural networks and other ML models that demand high parallelism and large datasets.
AI-powered HPC Applications: Running scientific simulations, data analytics, and other high-performance computing workloads that leverage AI techniques.
Processing Vast Datasets: Handling and analyzing massive amounts of data for various AI and big data applications.