Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (2024)

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This article is to serve to better help identify the underlining PowerEdge hardware of VxRail whether to identify which drivers to pull down from Dell support or flashing the Personality Module if there is system board replacements.

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16G

VxR (Intel)VE660/ (AMD)VE-6625
PowerEdge R660
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (1)
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (2)
Notable features
  • Both Intel and AMD-based systems share the same PowerEdgemodel numberR660
  • Suffix VE denotes a combination of V(VDI) and E(everything) as the VE-660 can be outfield with GPUs
  • This canbe shipped with all flash or hybrid storage configurations
  • Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device
  • BOSS M.2 drives are hot-swappable from the rear of the system located on the rear left of the system
  • BOSS M.2 drives are installed on a "card carrier" in which is inserted from the rear into aBOSS module slot
  • iDRAC and rear USB and VGA are built into a Rear IO(RIO) module and are removable or replaceable
  • Outside of NICs provided by the OCP module a removable 2x1gb Light Out Management(LOM) is included driven by a BCM5720 chipset
  • Utilizes HBA 355e as the Storage Controller
  • Utilizes iDRAC9
  • Utilizes OCP 3.0
VxR (Intel)VP-760/ (AMD)VP-7625
(Intel) PowerEdge R760 / (AMD) PowerEdge R7625
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (3)
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (4)
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (5)
Notable features
  • In non-GPU configurations(pictured bottom)a rear 4x2.5" flex bay is added allowing an additionalof 4 more drives to be installed allowingup to 28 drives
  • In the rear flex bay configuration there are an additional 3x hot-swappable fans installed in the rear flex bay
  • Only shipped in all flash-based storage
  • Suffix VE denotes the combination of V(VDI) and P(Performance)
  • Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device
  • BOSS M.2 drives are hot-swappable from the rear of the system located in the middle above Half Height PCI slot 6(with rear flex bay) above Half Height PCI slot 3(W/O rear flex bay)
  • BOSS M.2 drives are installed on a "card carrier" in which is inserted from the rear into aBOSS module slot
  • iDRAC and rear USB and VGA are built into a Rear IO(RIO) module and are removable or replaceable
  • Outside of NICs provided by the OCP module a removable 2x1gb Light Out Management(LOM) is included driven by a BCM5720 chipset
  • Cache Drives are located at the rear of the system installed in the 2.5in rear flex bay
  • Utilizes HBA 355e as its Storage Controller
  • No IDSDM remote RASR only or pre-prepared RASR USB needed for RASR
  • Utilizes iDRAC9
  • Utilizes OCP 3.0

15G

VxR (Intel)E660(F)(N) / (AMD)E665(F)(N)
(Intel)PowerEdge R650 / (AMD)PowerEdge R6525
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (6)
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (7)
Notable features
  • Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device
  • BOSS M.2 drives are hot-swappable from the rear of the system located on the rear left of the system
  • BOSS M.2 drives are installed on a "card carrier" in which is inserted from the rear into aBOSS module slot
  • iDRAC and rear USB and VGA are built into a Rear IO(RIO) module and are removable or replaceable
  • Outside of NICs provided by the OCP module a removable 2x1gb Light Out Management(LOM) is included driven by a BCM5720 chipset
  • Utilizes HBA 355e as its Storage Controller
  • Utilizes iDRAC9
  • Utilizes OCP 3.0
VxR (Intel)(P)(V)670(F)(N) / (AMD)(P)675(F/N)
(Intel) PowerEdge R750 / (AMD) PowerEdge R7525
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (8)
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (9)
Notable features
  • AMD chassis are only available for the all-flash NVMe (F/N) P series
  • Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device
  • BOSS M.2 drives are hot-swappable from the rear of the system located in the middle above Half Height PCI slot 3
  • BOSS M.2 drives are installed on a "card carrier" in which is inserted from the rear into aBOSS module slot
  • iDRAC and rear USB and VGA are built into a Rear IO(RIO) module and are removable or replaceable
  • Outside of NICs provided by the OCP module a removable 2x1gb Light Out Management(LOM) is included driven by a BCM5720 chipset
  • Utilizes HBA 355e as its Storage Controller
  • No IDSDM remote RASR only or pre-prepared RASR USB needed for RASR
  • Utilizes iDRAC9
  • Utilizes OCP 3.0
VxR S670
PowerEdge R750(LFF)
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (10)
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (11)
Notable features
  • Extra 3x hot-swappable fans installed in the rear flex bay
  • Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device
  • BOSS M.2 drives are hot-swappable from the rear of the system
  • iDRAC and rear USB and VGA are built into a Rear IO(RIO) module and are removable or replaceable
  • Outside of NICs provided by the OCP module a removable 2x1gb Light Out Management(LOM) is included driven by a BCM5720 chipset
  • Cache Drives are located at the rear of the system installed in the 2.5in rear flex bay
  • Utilizes HBA 355e as its Storage Controller
  • No IDSDM remote RASR only or pre-prepared RASR USB needed for RASR
  • Utilizes iDRAC9
  • Utilizes OCP 3.0
Chassis: VxRVD-4000Z(W)/Poweredge XR4000Z(W)
Compute sled: VxR VD-4510c/Poweredge XR4510c
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (12)
Notable features
  • Chassis format VD-4000Z (Stackable)
  • The VD-4000Z Chassis can be outfitted with 2x VD-4510cwith 1x VD-4000w embedded witness serverlocated right side of the system next to redundant PSU
  • Storage is internal to node as an internal m.2 risermodule suppling up to 4 m.2 slots no front loading drives replacing drives nesstates power off and removal of affected compute sled
  • Compute sled network uses an embedded to system board intelE823-C LOM coming in either 4-port25GB or 10GB networking
  • System fans are part of the compute sled, fan replacement would require power down and removing affected compute sled
  • Utilizes dual M.2 Boss riseras ESXI boot device
  • BOSS M.2 drivesare not hot-swappable requiring to power downand remove affected compute node from chassis
  • The suffix C denotes compute sled and W denotes witness
  • Utilizes iDRAC9
Chassis: VxRVD-4000(R)(W)/Poweredge XR4000Z(W)
Compute sled: VxR VD-4520c/Poweredge XR4520c
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (13)
Notable features
  • Chassis format VD-4000R (Rackable)
  • The VD-4000R Chassis can be outfitted with 2x VD-4520cwith 1x VD-4000w embedded witness serverlocated right side of the system next to redundant PSU
  • VD-4520c compute sleds offer PCI riser to provide 2x FH PCI gen3 x16 slots
  • Storage is internal to node as an internal m.2 risermodule and up to 2x PCI to m.2 adapters eachsuppling 4m.2 slots (up to total of 12 availableslots in system)no front loading drives replacing drives nesstates power off and removal of affected compute sled
  • Compute sled network uses an embedded to system board intelE823-C LOM coming in either 4-port25GB or 10GB networking
  • System fans are part of the compute sled, fan replacement would require power down and removing affected compute sled
  • Utilizes dual M.2 Boss riseras ESXI boot device
  • BOSS M.2 drivesare not hot-swappable requiring to power downand remove affected compute node from chassis
  • The suffix C denotes compute sled and W denotes witness
  • Utilizes iDRAC9
VxR VD-4000W/Poweredge XR4000W
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (14)
Notable features
  • Self-contained system designed to be used as hardware vSAN witness appliance for VD-4000 solutions
  • Intel Atom 3508 quad core cpu
  • 2 port gigabit Ethernet supplied by an intel i210 chipset
  • 1 USB A 3.0 port and 1 micro USB system console port RS232
  • If a bootable USB device is found inserted to the USB port witness boots into it first
  • Specialized RASR iso required to re-image and using RASRISO-to-RASRUSB to image RASR ISO to USB drive
  • 16gb soldered DDR4 RAM
  • Single 960GB m.2 SSD for ESXi boot device

14G

VxR E560(F)(N)
PowerEdge R640
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (15)Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (16)
Notable features
  • Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device
  • Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller
  • Utilizes iDRAC9
  • Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment
  • Can have a NVMe Cache disk using expansion card
  • N series usesall NVMe drives
VxR D560(F)
PowerEdge XR2

Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (17)
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (18)
Notable features
  • Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device
  • Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller
  • Utilizes iDRAC9
  • Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment
  • Can have a NVMe Cache disk using expansion card
  • N series usesall NVMe drives
VxR (P-V) 570(F)
PowerEdge R740XD(SFF)
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (19)Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (20)

Notable features

  • Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device
  • Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller
  • Utilizes iDRAC9
  • Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment
  • Only the P series can have a NVMe based cache drive using expansion card
VxR S570(F)
PowerEdge R740XD(LFF)
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (21)Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (22)

Notable features

  • Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device
  • Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller
  • Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment
  • Utilizes iDRAC9
VxR G560(F)
PowerEdge C6420
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (23)
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (24)

Notable features

  • Utilizes a single SATA based M.2 card on a PCI x16 riser as the ESXI boot deviceunlike the RAID 1 dual m.2 drives in other 14G models
  • HBA 330
  • Has only a single SD card RASR environment
  • Can have a NVMe based cache disk
  • Utilizes an Open Compute Project (OCP) card for NIC
  • Utilizes iDRAC9
VxR P580N
PowerEdge R840
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (25)
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (26)

Notable features

  • Utilizes dual M.2 Boss card in RAID 1 as ESXI boot device
  • N series usesall NVMe drives
  • Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment
  • Utilizes iDRAC9

13G

VxR E460(F)
PowerEdge R630
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (27)Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (28)
Notable features
  • Utilizes satadom as the ESXI boot device
  • Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller
  • Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR
  • Utilizes iDRAC8
VxR (P-V) 470
PowerEdge R730
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (29)Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (30)
Notable features
  • Utilizes satadom as the ESXI boot device
  • Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller
  • Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment
  • Utilizes iDRAC8
VxR S470
PowerEdge R730XD LFF
Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (31)Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (32)
Notable features
  • Utilizes satadom as the ESXI boot device
  • Utilizes HBA 330 as it's Storage Controller
  • Utilizes dual SD card(IDSM) RASR environment
  • Utilizes iDRAC8

Additional Information

Prefixes:
D: 1U VxRail models designed for industrial durability in mind ideal for offsite Remote Office Branches(ROBO).
E: 1U VxRail models are ideal for small and remote deployments designed for entry-level VDI or graphics workloads.
G: 2U VxRail models that offer a compute dense platform designed for general-purpose workloads.
P: 2U VxRail models that are performance intensive in memory or I/O intensive workloads offering high core counts per processor, and processor clock speed.
V: 2U VxRail models that offer GPU hardware for graphics-intensive desktops and workloads optimized for VDI
S: 2U VxRail models that offer a storage-dense solution to capacity-demanding applications such as Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, big data, analytics, and video surveillance.

Suffixes:
F: Denotes the model is all Flash.
N: Used with the F suffix denotes that the Flash storage is all NVMe based.
VE: Denotes a combination of V(VDI) and E(everything)
VP: Denotes a combination of V(VDI) and P(Performance)

Dell VxRail: VxRail Models to Dell PowerEdge Models (2024)

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