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The Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 server configuration we tested costs approximately US$98,556.00. We obtained this pricing information through a third-party reseller on November 12, 2020. The quote included the server hardware, VMware vSphere 7.0, Dell ProSupport, and Next Business Day Onsite Service (the VMware software and Dell support services were for three years). Note that the RAM in the quotes we received was for 3,200 MT/s, but we tested with 2,666 MT/s of RAM. Below is a table comparing the platform configuration capabilities of the Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 and R940. By upgrading from the Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 platform to the R940 platform, organizations could get up to 16 percent more cores per processor, up to 28 percent more DDR4 memory, and 30 percent more PCIe capacity.
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5 Dell EMC, “PowerEdge R940,” accessed October 28, 2020, https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Shared-Content_da- ta-Sheets_Documents/en/aa/poweredge-r940-spec-sheet.pdf.