Dell PowerEdge R720 Rackmount Server

Dell PowerEdge R720 Rackmount Server Introduction

Dell PowerEdge R720 Rackmount Server. In good working condition. No major damage cosmetic or mechanical. It has the following specs: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2695 V2 CPUs 256 GB DDR3 ECC RAM 8 x 3 TB SAS HDs iDRAC 7 controllerPERC H710 RAID controller 4 1 GB Ethernet ports Dual 750W PSUs The server was purchased from another home lab user I think around 2 years ago. It runs fine and has no physical damage. I'm currently running Proxmox on it. I've tried XCP-ng and it runs that fine too. I've also used VMWare ESXi 6.5 on it. I haven't tried 7.0. I did recently try to install 8.0 and according to Dell this server is not supported by ESXi 8.0. It will install with a warning about no longer supporting the CPU architecture, but once installed it's been buggy in my experience. If you get this server I think the maximum ESXi version you can put on it is 6.7 If you request I can send a video of the machine running or the bootup process (it's a long long boot process). There is a trick you can use to get NVME SSDs installed in this system. You can also attach 2 SSDs (2.5") with the help of additional hardware.

Summary

Condition: Used - Good
Servers
$800
Contact Owner
alan