Dell PowerEdge T440 User Manual

Dell EMC PowerEdge T440

Technical Specications

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Contents

1 Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system overview................................................................................................. 4

2 Technical specications................................................................................................................................. 5

System dimensions............................................................................................................................................................ 6

Chassis weight....................................................................................................................................................................6

Processor specications....................................................................................................................................................7

Supported operating systems...........................................................................................................................................7

Cooling fan specications..................................................................................................................................................7

PSU specications............................................................................................................................................................. 7

System battery specications...........................................................................................................................................7

Expansion bus specications............................................................................................................................................ 7

Memory specications...................................................................................................................................................... 8

Storage controller specications......................................................................................................................................8

Drive specications............................................................................................................................................................8

Drives.............................................................................................................................................................................8

Optical drive and tape drive........................................................................................................................................8

Ports and connectors specications................................................................................................................................9

USB ports......................................................................................................................................................................9

NIC ports.......................................................................................................................................................................9

VGA ports..................................................................................................................................................................... 9

Serial connector........................................................................................................................................................... 9

Internal Dual microSD Module or vFlash card...........................................................................................................9

Video specications..........................................................................................................................................................10

Environmental specications...........................................................................................................................................10

Standard operating temperature............................................................................................................................... 11

Expanded operating temperature..............................................................................................................................11

Particulate and gaseous contamination specications...........................................................................................13

3 Documentation resources.............................................................................................................................14

4 Getting help................................................................................................................................................. 16

Contacting Dell EMC........................................................................................................................................................16

Documentation feedback.................................................................................................................................................16

Accessing system information by using QRL................................................................................................................ 16

Quick Resource Locator for Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system.........................................................................17

Receiving automated support with SupportAssist ......................................................................................................17

Recycling or End-of-Life service information................................................................................................................18

Contents

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Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system overview

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system is a dual-socket, 5U rackable tower server that supports up to:

• Two Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

• 16 DIMM slots

• 4 or 8 x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drive or SSDs, or 16 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA drive bays (up to 12 Gbps SAS and 6 Gbps SATA)

• Redundant power supply units (PSUs)

• Cabled power supply units (PSUs)

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4 Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system overview

Technical specications

The technical and environmental specications of your system are outlined in this section.

Topics:

• System dimensions

• Chassis weight

• Processor specications

• Supported operating systems

• Cooling fan specications

• PSU specications

• System battery specications

• Expansion bus specications

• Memory specications

• Storage controller specications

• Drive specications

• Ports and connectors specications

• Video specications

• Environmental specications

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Technical specications 5

System dimensions

Figure 1. Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system dimensions

Table 1. Dimensions of

Xa Xb Ya Yb Yc Za Zb Zc

304.5 mm
(11.98 in)

Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system

218 mm (8.58
in)

430.3 mm
(16.94 in)

443.3 mm
(17.45 in)

471.333 mm
(17.37 in)

(with bezel)

37.065 mm
(1.45 in)

(without bezel)

21.165 mm
(0.83 in)

538.4 mm
(21.19 in)

Chassis weight

Table 2.

Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 Chassis weight

System conguration Maximum weight

4 x 3.5-inch drive system 23 Kg (50.71 lb)

8 x 3.5-inch drive system 29.3 Kg (64.60 lb)

16 x 2.5-inch drive system 27.7 Kg (61.06 lb)

573.636 mm
(22.58 in)

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Processor specications

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports up to two Intel Xeon Scalable Processor, up to 14 cores per processor.

Supported operating systems

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports the following operating systems:

• Canonical Ubuntu LTS

• Citrix XenServer

• Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

• VMware ESXi

NOTE: For more information about the specic versions and additions, go to https://www.dell.com/support/home/Drivers/

SupportedOS/poweredge-t440.

Cooling fan specications

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports the following:

• An internal cooling fan

• An optional external cooling fan at the back of the chassis

NOTE

: When selecting or upgrading your system conguration, verify the system power consumption with the Dell Energy

Smart Solution Advisor at Dell.com/ESSA to ensure optimum power utilization.

PSU specications

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports the following AC redundant power supply units (PSU):

Table 3.

This system is also designed to connect to the IT power systems with a phase to phase voltage not exceeding 230 V.

Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system PSU specications

PSU Class Heat dissipation

(maximum)

1100 W AC Platinum 4100 BTU/hr 50/60 Hz 100–240 V AC, autoranging

750 W AC Platinum 2891 BTU/hr 50/60 Hz 100–240 V AC, autoranging

495 W AC Platinum 1908 BTU/hr 50/60 Hz 100–240 V AC, autoranging

450 W Bronze 1871 BTU/hr 50/60 Hz 100–240 V AC, cabled PSU

Frequency Voltage

System battery specications

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports CR 2032 3.0-V lithium coin cell system battery.

Expansion bus specications

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports ve PCI express (PCIe) generation 3 expansion cards.

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Memory specications

Table 4. Memory specications

DIMM type DIMM rank

RDIMM Single rank 8 GB 8 GB 80 GB 16 GB 128 GB

RDIMM Dual rank 16 GB 16 GB 160 GB 32 GB 256 GB

RDIMM Dual rank 32 GB 32 GB 320 GB 64 GB 512 GB

LRDIMM Quad rank 64 GB 64 GB 640 GB 128 GB 1024 GB

DIMM
capacity

Minimum RAM Maximum RAM Minimum RAM Maximum RAM

Single processor Dual processors

Storage controller specications

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports:

• Internal controllers: PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) H730P, HBA330, H740P, H330, Software RAID (SWRAID)S140

• External PERC (RAID): H840

• External HBAs (non-RAID): 12Gbps SAS HBA

• Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS): HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 120GB or 240GB with 6Gbps
– x8 connector using PCIe gen 2.0 x2 lanes, available only in the low-prole and half-height form factor

Drive specications

Drives

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports:

• Up to 4 x 3.5-inch cabled drives with drive adapter, internal, SATA, or Nearline SAS drives
or

• Up to 8 x 3.5-inch hot swappable drives with drive adapter, internal, hot swappable SAS/SATA drives
or

• Up to 16 x 2.5-inch hot swappable drives with drive adapter, internal, hot swappable SAS/SATA drives

Optical drive and tape drive

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports:

• one optional slim SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD +/-RW drive

• internal tape drives LTO5, LTO6, LTO7 and external SAS drives.

Your system supports one of the following congurations:

• Systems with cabled drives support one optical drive and one tape drive.

• Systems with hot-swappable drives support up to one optical drive and two tape drives.

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Ports and connectors specications

USB ports

Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system

Table 5. USB specications

Front panel Back panel

• One USB 2.0-compliant port

• One USB 3.0-compliant port

• 4 USB 2.0-compliant rear ports

• 2 USB 3.0-compliant rear ports

NIC ports

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports two Network Interface Controller (NIC) ports on the back panel each with 1 Gbps

conguration.

NOTE: You can install up to ve PCIe add-on cards.

VGA ports

The Video Graphic Array (VGA) port enables you to connect the system to a VGA display. The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports
one 15-pin VGA ports on the back of the system.

Serial connector

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports one serial connector on the back panel, which is a 9-pin connector, Data Terminal
Equipment (DTE), 16550-compliant.

Internal Dual microSD Module or vFlash card

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports Internal Dual microSD module (IDSDM) and vFlash card. In 14th generation of PowerEdge
servers, IDSDM and vFlash card are combined into a single card module, and are available in these congurations:

• vFlash or

• IDSDM or

• vFlash and IDSDM

The IDSDM/vFlash card sits in the back of the system, in a Dell-proprietary slot. IDSDM/vFlash card supports three micro SD cards (two
cards for IDSDM and one card for vFlash). MicroSD cards capacity for IDSDM are 16/32/64 GB while for vFlash the microSD card capacity
is 16 GB.

Micro SD cards are supported only on IDSDM SD card slots.

The IDSDM or vFlash module combines the IDSDM or vFlash features into a single module.

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specications 9

NOTE: The write-protect switch is on the IDSDM or vFlash module.

Video specications

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system supports Matrox G200eR2 graphics card with 16 MB capacity.

Table 6. Supported video resolution options

Resolution Refresh rate Color depth (bits)

640x480 60, 70 8, 16, 32

800x600 60, 75, 85 8, 16, 32

1024x768 60, 75, 85 8, 16, 32

1152x864 60, 75, 85 8, 16, 32

1280x1024 60, 75 8, 16, 32

1440x900 60 8, 16, 32

Environmental specications

NOTE: For additional information about environmental certications, please refer to the Product Environmental Datasheet

located with the Manuals & Documents on Dell.com/poweredgemanuals

Table 7. Temperature specications

Temperature Specications

Storage –40°C–65°C (–40°F–149°F)

Continuous operation (for altitude less than 950 m or 3117
ft)

Maximum temperature gradient (operating and storage) 20°C/h (68°F/h)

Table 8. Relative humidity specications

Relative humidity Specications

Storage 5% to 95% RH with 33°C (91°F) maximum dew point. Atmosphere must be

Operating 10% to 80% relative humidity with 29°C (84.2°F) maximum dew point.

Table 9. Maximum vibration specications

Maximum vibration Specications

Operating 0.26 G

Storage 1.88 G

10°C–35°C (50°F–95°F) with no direct sunlight on the equipment.

noncondensing always.

at 5 Hz to 350 Hz (all 3 axes).

rms

at 10 Hz to 500 Hz for 15 min (all six sides tested).

rms

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Table 10. Maximum shock specications

Maximum shock Specications

Operating Six consecutively executed shock pulses in the positive and negative x, y,

and z axes of 6 G for up to 11 ms.

Storage 6 consecutively executed shock pulses in the positive and negative x, y, and

z axes (one pulse on each side of the system) of 71 G for up to 2 ms.

Table 11. Maximum altitude specications

Maximum altitude Specications

Operating

Storage 12,000 m (39,370 ft)

Table 12. Operating temperature derating specications

Operating temperature derating Specications

Up to 35°C (95°F) Maximum temperature reduces by 1°C/300 m (1°F/547 ft) above 950 m

35 °C–40°C (95 °F–104°F) Maximum temperature reduces by 1°C/175 m (1°F/319 ft) above 950 m

3048 m (10,000 ft)

(3,117 ft).

(3,117 ft).

40 °C–45°C (104 °F–113°F) Maximum temperature reduces by 1°C/125 m (1°F/228 ft) above 950 m

(3,117 ft).

Standard operating temperature

Table 13. Standard operating temperature

Standard operating temperature Specications

Continuous operation (for altitude less than 950 m or 3117
ft)

specications

10°C–35°C (50°F–95°F) with no direct sunlight on the equipment.

Expanded operating temperature

Table 14. Expanded operating temperature

Expanded operating
temperature

Continuous operation 5°C–40°C at 5% to 85% RH with 29°C dew point.

specications

Specications

NOTE: Outside the standard operating temperature (10°C–35°C), the system can operate

continuously in temperatures as low as 5°C and as high as 40°C.

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Expanded operating
temperature

≤ 1% of annual operating hours –5°C–45°C at 5% to 90% RH with 29°C dew point.

NOTE: When operating in the expanded temperature range, system performance may be impacted.

NOTE: When operating in the expanded temperature range, ambient temperature warnings may be reported in the System Event

Log.

Specications

For temperatures between 35°C-40°C, derate maximum allowable temperature by 1°C per 175 m
above 950 m (1°F per 319 ft).

NOTE: Outside the standard operating temperature (10–35°C), the system can operate

down to –5°C or up to 45°C for a maximum of 1% of its annual operating hours.

For temperatures 40°C–45°C, derate maximum allowable temperature by 1°C per 125 m above 950
m (1°F per 228 ft).

Expanded operating temperature restrictions

• Do not perform a cold startup below 5°C.

• The operating temperature specied is for a maximum altitude of 3048 m (10,000 ft).

• Two nonredundant power supply units are required.

• Two nonredundant system fans are required.

• Non-Dell qualied peripheral cards and/or peripheral cards greater than 25 W are not supported.

• GPU is not supported.

• Tape backup unit is not supported.

Thermal restriction matrix

Table 15. Thermal restriction matrix for

Storage conguration 4x 3.5-inch cable

Processor number TDP (W) Core count Ambient support = 35°C

Intel Xeon Gold 5122 105 4 Yes Yes Yes

Intel Xeon Platinum
8156

Intel Xeon Gold 5120 105 14 Yes Yes Yes

Intel Xeon Gold 5118 105 12 Yes Yes Yes

Intel Xeon Gold 5115 85 10 Yes Yes Yes

Intel Xeon Silver 4116 85 12 Yes Yes Yes

Intel Xeon Silver 4114 85 10 Yes Yes Yes

Intel Xeon Silver 4110 85 8 Yes Yes Yes

Intel Xeon Silver
4108

105 4 Yes Yes Yes

85 8 Yes Yes Yes

Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system

8x 3.5-inch drive 16x 2.5-inch drive

drive

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Storage conguration 4x 3.5-inch cable

drive

Processor number TDP (W) Core count Ambient support = 35°C

8x 3.5-inch drive 16x 2.5-inch drive

Intel Xeon Bronze
3106

Intel Xeon Bronze
3104

Intel Xeon Silver 4112 85 4 Yes Yes Yes

85 8 Yes Yes Yes

85 6 Yes Yes Yes

Particulate and gaseous contamination specications

The following table denes the limitations that help avoid any equipment damage or failure from particulate and gaseous contamination. If
the levels of particulate or gaseous pollution exceed the specied limitations and result in equipment damage or failure, you may need to
rectify the environmental conditions. Remediation of environmental conditions is the responsibility of the customer.

Table 16. Particulate contamination specications

Particulate
contamination

Air ltration Data center air ltration denes, ISO Class 8 per ISO 14644-1 with a 95% upper condence limit.

Specications

NOTE: The ISO Class 8 condition applies to data center environments only. This air ltration

requirement does not apply to IT equipment designed to be used outside a data center, in
environments such as an oce or factory oor.

NOTE: Air entering the data center must have MERV11 or MERV13 ltration.

Conductive dust Air must be free of conductive dust, zinc whiskers, or other conductive particles.

NOTE: This condition applies to data center and nondata center environments.

Corrosive dust

Table 17. Gaseous contamination specications

Gaseous contamination Specications

Copper coupon corrosion rate <300 Å/month per Class G1 denes, ANSI/ISA71.04-2013.

Silver coupon corrosion rate <200 Å/month denes, ANSI/ISA71.04-2013.

NOTE: Maximum corrosive contaminant levels measured at ≤50% relative humidity.

• Air must be free of corrosive dust.

• Residual dust present in the air must have a deliquescent point less than 60% relative humidity.

NOTE: This condition applies to data center and nondata center environments.

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Documentation resources

This section provides information about the documentation resources for your system.

To view the document that is listed in the documentation resources table:

• From the Dell EMC support site:
a Click the documentation link that is provided in the Location column in the table.
b Click the required product or product version.

NOTE: To locate the product name and model, see the front of your system.

c On the Product Support page, click Manuals & documents.

• Using search engines:
– Type the name and version of the document in the search box.

Table 18. Additional documentation resources for your system

Task Document Location

Setting up your system

For more information about installing and securing
the system into a rack, see the Rail Installation
Guide included with your rack solution.

Dell.com/poweredgemanuals

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For information about setting up your system, see
the Getting Started Guide document that is
shipped with your system.

Conguring your system For information about the iDRAC features,

conguring and logging in to iDRAC, and managing

your system remotely, see the Integrated Dell
Remote Access Controller User's Guide.

For information about understanding Remote
Access Controller Admin (RACADM)
subcommands and supported RACADM interfaces,
see the RACADM CLI Guide for iDRAC.

For information about Redsh and its protocol,
supported schema, and Redsh Eventing
implemented in iDRAC, see the Redsh API Guide.

For information about iDRAC property database
group and object descriptions, see the Attribute
Registry Guide.

For information about earlier versions of the iDRAC
documents.

To identify the version of iDRAC available on your
system, on the iDRAC web interface, click ? >
About.

Dell.com/poweredgemanuals

Dell.com/idracmanuals

14 Documentation resources

For information about installing the operating
system, see the operating system documentation.

Dell.com/operatingsystemmanuals

Task Document Location

For information about updating drivers and
rmware, see the Methods to download rmware
and drivers section in this document.

Managing your system For information about systems management

software oered by Dell, see the Dell OpenManage
Systems Management Overview Guide.

For information about setting up, using, and
troubleshooting OpenManage, see the Dell
OpenManage Server Administrator User’s Guide.

For information about installing, using, and
troubleshooting Dell OpenManage Essentials, see
the Dell OpenManage Essentials User’s Guide.

For information about installing and using Dell
SupportAssist, see the Dell EMC SupportAssist
Enterprise User’s Guide.

For information about partner programs enterprise
systems management, see the OpenManage
Connections Enterprise Systems Management
documents.

Working with the Dell
PowerEdge RAID controllers

For information about understanding the features
of the Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers (PERC),
Software RAID controllers, or BOSS card and
deploying the cards, see the Storage controller
documentation.

Dell.com/support/drivers

Dell.com/poweredgemanuals

Dell.com/openmanagemanuals > OpenManage

Server Administrator

Dell.com/openmanagemanuals > OpenManage

Essentials

Dell.com/serviceabilitytools

Dell.com/openmanagemanuals

Dell.com/storagecontrollermanuals

Understanding event and error
messages

Troubleshooting your system For information about identifying and

For information about the event and error
messages generated by the system rmware and
agents that monitor system components, see the
Error Code Lookup.

troubleshooting the PowerEdge server issues, see
the Server Troubleshooting Guide.

Dell.com/qrl

Dell.com/poweredgemanuals

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Getting help

Topics:

• Contacting Dell EMC

• Documentation feedback

• Accessing system information by using QRL

• Receiving automated support with SupportAssist

• Recycling or End-of-Life service information

Contacting Dell EMC

Dell EMC provides several online and telephone based support and service options. If you do not have an active internet connection, you
can nd contact information about your purchase invoice, packing slip, bill, or
product, and some services may not be available in your area. To contact
issues:

1 Go to Dell.com/support/home.
2 Select your country from the drop-down menu on the lower right corner of the page.
3 For customized support:

a Enter your system Service Tag in the Enter your Service Tag eld.
b Click Submit.

The support page that lists the various support categories is displayed.

4 For general support:

a Select your product category.
b Select your product segment.
c Select your product.

The support page that lists the various support categories is displayed.

5 For contact details of Dell EMC Global Technical Support:

a Click Global Technical Support.
b The Contact Technical Support page is displayed with details to call, chat, or e-mail the Dell EMC Global Technical Support

team.

Dell EMC product catalog. Availability varies by country and

Dell EMC for sales, technical assistance, or customer service

4

Documentation feedback

You can rate the documentation or write your feedback on any of our Dell EMC documentation pages and click Send Feedback to send
your feedback.

Accessing system information by using QRL

You can use the Quick Resource Locator (QRL) located on the information tag in the front of the T440, to access the information about
the Dell EMC PowerEdge T440.

Prerequisites

Ensure that your smartphone or tablet has the QR code scanner installed.

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The QRL includes the following information about your system:

• How-to videos

• Reference materials, including the Installtion and Service Manual, and mechanical overview

• Your system service tag to quickly access your specic hardware conguration and warranty information

• A direct link to Dell to contact technical assistance and sales teams

Steps

1 Go to Dell.com/qrl and navigate to your specic product or
2 Use your smartphone or tablet to scan the model-specic Quick Resource (QR) code on your system or in the Quick Resource

Locator section.

Quick Resource Locator for Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system

Quick Resource Locator for Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system

Receiving automated support with SupportAssist

Dell EMC SupportAssist is an optional Dell EMC Services oering that automates technical support for your Dell EMC server, storage, and
networking devices. By installing and setting up a SupportAssist application in your IT environment, you can receive the following benets:

• Automated issue detection — SupportAssist monitors your Dell EMC devices and automatically detects hardware issues, both
proactively and predictively.

• Automated case creation — When an issue is detected, SupportAssist automatically opens a support case with Dell EMC Technical
Support.

• Automated diagnostic collection — SupportAssist automatically collects system state information from your devices and uploads it
securely to Dell EMC. This information is used by Dell EMC Technical Support to troubleshoot the issue.

• Proactive contact — A Dell EMC Technical Support agent contacts you about the support case and helps you resolve the issue.

The available benets vary depending on the Dell EMC Service entitlement purchased for your device. For more information about
SupportAssist, go to Dell.com/supportassist.

Getting help

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Recycling or End-of-Life service information

Take back and recycling services are oered for this product in certain countries. If you want to dispose of system components, visit

Dell.com/recyclingworldwide and select the relevant country.

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