The R740xd server is an ideal platform to use as a dedicated video management system for Milestone VMS and provides the following benefits as a platform:
- The 2U platform is expandable up to 180 TB of local storage (18 x 3.5" SATA or SAS disks)
- Option to place the operating system on the Boot Optimized Server Storage (BOSS) PCIe adapter, in RAID 1
- OEM Ready
Additional features:
- Drive bays—Capable of hosting up to 18 x 3.5" high density disks, in either SATA or SAS 7.2K formats
- Storage controllers—Supports the Dell Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS) PCIe adapter.
- The Dell H740P PERC RAID controller has the performance benefit of 8 GB of non-volatile cache memory
- Processor—Dual Xeon scalable processors CPU support
- GPU options—Scalable GPU offerings
- Power supplies— Redundant power supplies
- Embedded management—Remote management leveraging the iDRAC, and Dell EMC OpenManage
- Security—Improved security, from a secure component supply chain, cryptographically signed firmware packages, and secure boot, Server Lockdown, and Secure Erase
- OpenManage systems management
- The Dell EMC OpenManage systems management portfolio includes powerful hardware and software management tools and consoles. OpenManage simplifies the lifecycle of deploying, updating, monitoring, and maintaining Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
- iDRAC Lifecycle Controller
- The PowerEdge server provides storage expandability that allows you to adapt to your workload and operational demands. With comprehensive storage options, the server offers various drive types, internal and external storage controllers, and different backplanes for varied number of drives. The microcontroller is responsible for acting as an interface or gateway between the host system, such as server management software, and the peripheral devices. These peripheral devices, which may or may not be Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) compliant, consist of the power supplies, the storage backplane, integrated storage controllers, the control panel with semi-intelligent display, and Lifecycle Controller.
Our testing used the NVIDIA P4 Tesla adapters, which have a long product lifecycle and are:
- Designed for enterprise-grade reliability, including 24x7 operation
- Fully tested and qualified on the Dell R740xd server platform
- Includes H.264 and H.265 decoding, supported by Milestone
- Scalable to allow multi-GPU, multi-monitor, and additional GPU decoding acceleration
System configuration | R740xd low SATA disks | R740xd high SAS disks | R740xd GPU/SSD and SAS disks |
CPU model | Intel Silver 4114 2.2 GHz (dual) | Intel Silver 4114 2.2 GHz (dual) | Intel Silver 4114 2.2 GHz (dual) |
RAM | 32 GB (2x16) | ||
Disks | BOSS + 18x4 TB 7.2K SATA | BOSS + 18x10 TB 7.2K NLSAS | BOSS + 12x10 TB 7.2K NLSAS and 6x800 GB SSD 12G SAS 10DWPD |
PowerEdge RAID controllers (PERC) | H740P | H740P | H740P |
NIC | Intel X500 10G+1350 1G/ +X710 10G SPF + | ||
PSU | 750W x 2 | 750W x 2 | 1100W x 2 |
Graphic card | No | No | NVIDIA Tesla P4 |
OS | Windows Server 2016 St. | ||
OS disks | BOSS 2xM2 240G R1 | ||
Live DB Partition and formatting | 18x4 TB SATA - R6 (58 TB usable) | 18x10 TB SATA - R6 (140 TB usable) | 6x800 GB SSD (10DWPD) - R5 |
Live DB config | RAID 6 / 1 MB Stripe / 64K Allocation Unit | RAID 5 / 1M Stripe / 64 Allocation Unit | |
Archive DB partitioning | — | — | 12x10 TB SAS - RAID 10 (50 TB usable) |
Archive DB config | — | — | RAID 6 / 1 MB Stripe / 64K Allocation Unit |
Milestone XProtect Corporate release | 2018 R1 build 7115 | 2018 R1 build 7115 | 2018 R2 12.2a build 8439 |
BIOS/Drivers | OS update + system updates with BIOS |