Dell PowerEdge R760 Support

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Manuals, verified specifications and troubleshooting answers for the Dell PowerEdge R760 — the 2U, two-socket mainstream server of Dell's 16th generation — and for the R760xs, R760xa and R760xd2 variants. Everything on this page comes from Dell's own documentation, which we host and link below. Ready to configure one? Go to the PowerEdge R760 category.

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Overview & key specifications

Written from Dell's R760 Specification Sheet and Technical Guide — both linked further down

The R760 is Dell's general-purpose 2U rack server built on 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids): two sockets, up to 56 cores each, 32 DDR5 registered slots, PCIe Gen5 risers and a Smart Flow chassis designed to keep the highest-TDP parts air-cooled in a normal data-centre aisle. Dell positions it for mixed-workload standardization, databases and analytics, and VDI. Direct liquid cooling is optional, but it is a rack-level solution — it needs manifolds and a coolant distribution unit, not just a cold plate in the server.

Form factor

2U rack, dual socket

Processors

Up to 2 × 4th Gen Xeon Scalable, up to 56 cores each

Memory

32 × DDR5 RDIMM slots

Memory speed

4800 MT/s (1 DPC) · 4400 MT/s (2 DPC)

Front drives

Up to 12 × 3.5" or up to 24 × 2.5"

Rear drives

Up to 4 × 2.5"

PCIe

Up to 8 slots, Gen4 / Gen5

GPU

Up to 2 × 350 W double-wide or 6 × 75 W single-wide

Power supplies

700 W – 2800 W, hot-swap redundant

Cooling

Air, or optional direct liquid cooling · up to 6 hot-plug fans

Management

iDRAC9 · Redfish API · Quick Sync 2

Networking

Optional 2 × 1 GbE LOM and/or 1 × OCP 3.0

Dimensions (H×W×D)

86.8 × 482 × 772.13 mm with bezel
(3.41" × 18.97" × 30.39")

Weight

36.1 kg (79.58 lb) fully populated
25.1 kg (55.33 lb) bare

Security

Silicon Root of Trust · Secure Boot · TPM 2.0 · System Lockdown

Processors Dell qualified for the R760

SKU	Cores / threads	Base clock	Cache	UPI	Memory speed	TDP
Xeon Platinum 8480+	56 / 112	2.0 GHz	105 MB	16 GT/s	4800 MT/s	350 W
Xeon Platinum 8471N	52 / 104	1.8 GHz	98 MB	16 GT/s	4800 MT/s	300 W
Xeon Platinum 8470Q	52 / 104	2.1 GHz	98 MB	16 GT/s	4800 MT/s	350 W
Xeon Platinum 8470N	52 / 104	1.7 GHz	98 MB	16 GT/s	4800 MT/s	300 W
Xeon Platinum 8470	52 / 104	2.0 GHz	98 MB	16 GT/s	4800 MT/s	350 W
Xeon Platinum 8468	48 / 96	2.1 GHz	90 MB	16 GT/s	4800 MT/s	350 W
Xeon Platinum 8460Y+	40 / 80	2.0 GHz	75 MB	16 GT/s	4800 MT/s	300 W
Xeon Platinum 8452Y	36 / 72	2.0 GHz	68 MB	16 GT/s	4800 MT/s	300 W
Xeon Gold 6454S	32 / 64	2.2 GHz	60 MB	16 GT/s	4800 MT/s	270 W
Xeon Gold 6430	32 / 64	2.1 GHz	60 MB	16 GT/s	4800 MT/s	270 W
Xeon Gold 6414U	32 / 64	2.0 GHz	60 MB	16 GT/s	4800 MT/s	250 W

This is the SKU table printed in Dell's R760 Technical Guide. The 8470Q is a liquid-cooling-only part. Dell also ships the R760 with Silver and lower-bin Gold parts that are not in this table — the servers we sell most often use Xeon Gold 5416S and Silver 4416+. If you need a specific SKU confirmed, ask us.

Power supply options

The complete R760 PSU matrix from Dell's Technical Guide — all options are hot-swap and redundant

Wattage	Input	Efficiency class	Heat dissipation	Power cord
700 W mixed mode	200–240 VAC @ 4.1 A, or 240 VDC @ 3.4 A	Titanium	2,625 BTU/hr	C13
800 W mixed mode	100–240 VAC @ 9.2–4.7 A, or 240 VDC @ 3.8 A	Platinum	3,000 BTU/hr	C13
1100 W mixed mode	100–240 VAC @ 12–3.6 A, or 240 VDC @ 5.2 A	Titanium	4,100 BTU/hr	C13
1100 W LVDC	−48 to −60 VDC @ 27 A	—	4,625 BTU/hr	C13
1400 W mixed mode	100–240 VAC @ 12–8 A, or 240 VDC @ 6.6 A	Platinum	5,250 BTU/hr	C13
1800 W mixed mode	200–240 VAC @ 10 A, or 240 VDC @ 8.2 A	Titanium	6,750 BTU/hr	C15
2400 W mixed mode	100–240 VAC @ 16–13.5 A, or 240 VDC @ 11.2 A	Platinum	9,000 BTU/hr	C19
2800 W mixed mode	200–240 VAC @ 15.6 A, or 240 VDC @ 13.6 A	Titanium	10,500 BTU/hr	C21

Low-line derating matters. A 2400 W supply run on 100–120 VAC is derated to 1400 W. A 1400 W or 1100 W supply on 100–120 VAC is derated to 1050 W. Size your redundancy on the derated figure, not the label.
The 700 W, 1800 W and 2800 W options are 200–240 V only — they will not run on a US 120 V circuit at all.
Form factor differs: 700 W through 1800 W are the 60 mm redundant PSU; 2400 W and 2800 W are the wider 86 mm unit.
Cord adapters exist: a C19 cord plus a C20-to-C21 jumper serves the 2800 W supply, and a C13 cord plus a C14-to-C15 jumper serves the 1800 W.

Storage, controllers and PCIe

Backplane options, RAID controllers and slot map from Dell's documentation

Drive bays

Position	Configuration	Maximum raw capacity
Front	Up to 12 × 3.5" SAS/SATA HDD or SSD	240 TB
Front	Up to 8 × 2.5" SAS/SATA/NVMe	122.88 TB
Front	Up to 16 × 2.5" SAS/SATA/NVMe	245.76 TB
Front	Up to 24 × 2.5" SAS/SATA/NVMe	368.64 TB
Rear	Up to 2 × 2.5" SAS/SATA/NVMe	30.72 TB
Rear	Up to 4 × 2.5" SAS/SATA/NVMe	61.44 TB

Dell qualifies 24 Gb SAS4 and 12 Gb SAS SSDs, 6 Gb SATA SSDs, Gen4 NVMe up to 15.63 TB, 10K SAS HDDs to 2.4 TB, and 7.2K SAS or SATA nearline HDDs to 20 TB. Note that the front bay count is a factory backplane configuration: moving between 8, 16 and 24 bays means a different backplane and cabling, not just buying more drives.

Controllers

Internal RAID: PERC H965i, H755, H755N, H355 and the HBA355i pass-through controller.
Boot: BOSS-N1 — hardware RAID across two M.2 NVMe SSDs, keeping the front bays free for data. USB boot is also supported.
External: HBA355e (non-RAID). Software RAID is S160.

PCIe slot map (up to eight slots)

Slot	Electrical / generation	Physical
1	x8 Gen5, or x8/x16 Gen4	Full height, half length (or x16 Gen4 full length)
2	x8/x16 Gen5, or x8 Gen4	Full height, half length (or x16 Gen5 full length)
3	x16 Gen4	Low profile, half length
4	x8 Gen4	Full height, half length
5	x8/x16 Gen4	Full height, half length (or x16 Gen4 full length)
6	x16 Gen4	Low profile, half length
7	x8/x16 Gen5, or x8 Gen4	Full height, half length
7 (SNAPI)	x16 Gen5	Full height, half length
8	x8 Gen5 or x8 Gen4	Full height, half length

Which of these slots physically exist depends on the riser configuration you order — the R760 has several, and they are interchangeable but not all combinations are valid.

Documentation & manuals

Original Dell documents, hosted on our servers so the links do not rot. Unmodified vendor PDFs — Dell holds the copyright.

PDF

PowerEdge R760 Technical Guide

The complete reference: CPU SKUs, PSU matrix, risers, rails, thermal, acoustics · 15 MB

PDF

PowerEdge R760 Specification Sheet

Two-page summary of every configurable option · 0.6 MB

PDF

PowerEdge Rack Quick Reference Guide

First-boot and rack-installation reference · 3.1 MB

These are Dell's original publications, reproduced without modification and offered for owners of the hardware. Dell Technologies retains all rights to the documents; PCSP is not affiliated with Dell. The Installation and Service Manual, the iDRAC9 User's Guide and the rail sizing matrix are published by Dell on dell.com and are not hosted here. If you are Dell and want a file removed, contact us and we will take it down.

More PCSP resources: all hosted spec sheets · troubleshooting guides · RAID calculator · drive tray finder.

How-to & service videos

Dell's own step-by-step service videos for the R760 family. They play on Dell's site and open in a new tab — Dell does not permit embedding.

Procedures shown for the R760xs are close but not identical to the base R760 — the chassis layouts differ. Always check the service manual for your exact model before you start, and if a unit is under our warranty, talk to us first rather than opening it.

Common tasks & troubleshooting

The questions we are actually asked about this server

Is there a Dell PowerEdge R760XL?

No. Dell's 16th-generation 2U line is the R760 plus three variants — R760xs, R760xa (the GPU chassis; the units we build on it carry up to four NVIDIA L40S) and R760xd2 (the dense-storage chassis, 24 × 3.5" LFF). There is no "R760XL" in Dell's catalogue, and the name does not appear anywhere in Dell's own R760 Technical Guide. If you arrived here looking for an R760XL manual or its PSU list, the document you want is the R760 Technical Guide and the answer to the PSU question is in the power supply table above. Chassis you may be thinking of instead: the 1U R660, the 4-socket R860/R960, or the storage-dense R760xd2.

Which power supplies does the R760 take, and can I mix them?

Eight options, 700 W to 2800 W — the full table with efficiency class, input range, heat output and cord type is in the section above. Two things catch people out. First, derating on low line: a 2400 W supply on a US 120 V circuit delivers only 1400 W, and 1400 W/1100 W units deliver 1050 W. Second, the 700 W, 1800 W and 2800 W options are 200–240 V only. Dell's redundant configuration expects a matched pair, and the 60 mm (700–1800 W) and 86 mm (2400/2800 W) bodies are physically different — do not plan on mixing wattages. Need a replacement or a second unit for redundancy? Tell us the wattage and we will source it.

How do I reach iDRAC, and which licence tier do I need?

iDRAC9 is embedded in every R760 — no agent or software to install. It comes up on the dedicated iDRAC Ethernet port as soon as the server has power and a network cable, before any operating system exists, and it is manageable from that moment. For a laptop at the rack there is an iDRAC Direct micro-AB USB port on the front panel; a Quick Sync 2 wireless module is optional for phone access. Automation goes through the iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish. Four licence tiers ship: Basic (100–500 series only), Express (the default on 600-series and up), Enterprise (adds virtual console, AD/LDAP and remote presence) and Datacenter (adds telemetry streaming, thermal management and automated certificates). Virtual console — the feature most people actually want — needs Enterprise or higher, and System Lockdown needs Enterprise or Datacenter too. The boot-time key sequence for System Setup and the Lifecycle Controller is printed on screen at POST and documented in Dell's Installation and Service Manual on dell.com; the system board layout and jumper settings are on the System Information Label inside the chassis cover.

What rails does the R760 use, and will it fit my rack?

Three options. B21 ReadyRails sliding rails: drop-in, tool-less in square or unthreaded round-hole 4-post racks, tooled in threaded-hole racks, full extension for service, optional cable management arm or strain relief bar. B22 Stab-in/Drop-in sliding rails: same plus tool-less support for threaded round-hole racks and Dell Titan/Titan-D racks. B20 static rails: wider rack compatibility and a smaller footprint, but no in-rack serviceability and no CMA or SRB support. The chassis itself is 482 mm wide and 772.13 mm deep with the bezel fitted — check that against your rack depth including the CMA if you order one. Dell's rail sizing and rack compatibility matrix on dell.com is the authority for edge cases; if CMA support is not needed, the outer CMA brackets can be removed from the sliding rails to shorten them and clear rear-mounted PDUs.

How much memory can the R760 hold, and what type?

32 DDR5 RDIMM slots, registered ECC only — no UDIMMs. Dell qualifies 16 GB (1R), 32 and 64 GB (2R), 128 GB (4R) and 256 GB (8R) modules, all rated DDR5-4800 at 1.1 V. Speed depends on population: 4800 MT/s with one DIMM per channel, 4400 MT/s with two, and the processor can lower the rated speed further. Dell's specification sheet quotes a maximum of 8 TB with 256 GB modules; the Sapphire Rapids SKUs listed in the Technical Guide are individually rated for 6 TB per processor, so check the ceiling against your exact CPU before planning a maximum-memory build.

Can the R760 take GPUs, and how many?

Yes — up to two 350 W double-wide cards, or six 75 W single-wide cards. The Smart Flow chassis exists precisely so that high-TDP parts stay air-cooled, but GPU support depends on which riser configuration the chassis was built with, and Dell's thermal restriction matrix rules out GPUs in some drive and fan combinations. If you need a GPU server, the R760xa is the variant built for it — we stock that chassis for build-to-order too. See also our GPU servers range.

What is BOSS-N1 and do I need it?

BOSS-N1 is Dell's Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem: a small carrier holding two M.2 NVMe SSDs in hardware RAID 1, dedicated to the operating system or hypervisor. It matters because it keeps the OS off the front bays — all 12, 16 or 24 of them stay available for data, and a hypervisor boot mirror does not consume a PERC RAID group. On any R760 you plan to run ESXi or Hyper-V on, it is worth having. There is a Dell video showing the module swap.

Which operating systems are supported?

Dell qualifies VMware ESXi, Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS. Version-level interoperability is published on Dell's OS support matrix. We ship servers bare unless you ask otherwise — tell us your hypervisor when you request a quote and we will validate the controller and NIC firmware against it before it leaves.

R760 or R760xs — which do I want?

Both are 2U dual-socket 16th-generation servers, but they are different chassis with separate Dell service documentation and separate service videos — parts and procedures do not carry across. Everything on this page describes the base R760: up to 56 cores per socket, 32 DDR5 slots, up to eight PCIe slots, up to 24 × 2.5" bays, PSUs to 2800 W and up to two 350 W GPUs. For the R760xs we can quote the same generation in the smaller-option chassis. Rather than guess which fits, tell us the workload — core count, memory ceiling, drive count and whether GPUs are in play — and we will spec the right one. We stock build-to-order chassis for all four: R760, R760xs, R760xa and R760xd2.

What warranty and returns come with a PCSP R760?

Every server we build is assembled to your spec, burn-in tested under load, and ships with a free 1-year warranty, extendable to 5 years. Our 90-day return policy covers anything dead-on-arrival or non-conforming, at our expense. Orders placed before 1:00 pm EST ship the same business day, with free ground shipping on orders over $35 to the contiguous United States. Full terms are on our warranty and shipping pages.

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