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Dell PowerEdge M610 Blade Server - System Overview

Description

Dell M610 server front of system with two drive bays

Blade servers like Dell's PowerEdge M610 blade server offer a modular building block approach to address scalability and quick updates to network infrastructure. Up to 16 half-height server blades can be hosted on Dell's PowerEdge M1000e enclosure, or eight full-height blades, or a mix of the two. The M1000e blade enclosure provides shared power, cooling, and networking to reduce operational costs. This platform also features flexibility, energy efficiency, and simplified management to deliver a faster ROI. The enclosure also supports several generations of blade servers, in addition to a future-ready passive midplane for compatibility with future technologies.

Performance

Intel's 5520 chipset supports a maximum of two Intel Xeon 5500 or 5600 processors with up to six cores each and feature Intel Turbo Boost technology to increase performance during peak usage. With 16 half-height Dell M610 servers installed in the M1000e enclosure adds up to impressive performance with 32 processors supporting 192 cores, and potentially 3072GB of memory in a 10U M1000e chassis.

Memory

There are 12 memory slots total, with each processor controlling three memory channels with two memory slots per channel. Both DDR3 unbuffered (UDIMM) and registered (RDIMM) memory modules are supported, but cannot be mixed. Single-rank, dual-rank, and quad-rank memory modules are supported. Memory speed is dependent on the speed of the supported processors, the speed of the supported DIMMs, and the memory configuration, with all conforming to the speed of the slowest performer. When populating the system board with memory modules, administrators should follow stated guidelines in the technical guide.

Storage

Two 2.5-inch SAS or SATA SSDs, or SAS and nearline HDDs for a maximum of 1.8TB of storage are supported on this blade server. Like the other Gen11 modular blade server line up, Administrators can choose between a few different HD/RAID controller options including the PERC H200 Modular (6Gb/s), and the PERC H700 Modular (6Gb/s) controllers. The H700 RAID controller offers either a 512MB battery-backed cache or a 512MB or 1GB NVMe battery-backed cache.

Expansion

Dell M610 back of system showing QPI link

The PowerEdge M610 server offers increased I/O capabilities supported by a 50% increase in memory capacity compared to the previous generation M600, essential for database performance and virtualization. The FlexIO technology enables Administrators to quickly add or change I/O components to support future growth with network interface cards (NICs) that support a range of modular GbE, 10GbE, and enhanced Ethernet switches for high performance computing (HPC). Two PCIe 2.0 ports support a variety of mezzanine cards supported by complimentary fabric I/O Modules (IOM) on the M1000e. External storage is also supported with the appropriate mezzanine cards on the blade server and IOM modules installed in the M1000e enclosure.

Management

Once again, Dell's OpenManage suite of tools coupled with iDRAC with LifeCycle controller gives Administrators options for managing, deploying, and upgrading the system. Dell's Chassis Management Controller (CMC) is also present on the M1000e enclosure to enable management of singe blade, groups of blades, or management at the chassis and enclosure level both local and remotely using a standard browser interface.

Summary

Dell's PowerEdge M610 blade server offers scalability and performance to support a number of common and high-performance computing applications. This is an excellent general use blade server, ideal for data centers and highly virtualized applications.

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Dell PowerEdge M610 Blade Server - Specifications

Processor - 2 Socket
    Quad-core or six-core Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 and 5600 series
Operating System
  • Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V®)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V v2)
  • Microsoft Windows® HPC Server 2008
  • Novell® SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
  • Oracle® Solaris™
  • Virtualization options:

  • Citrix® XenServer™
  • Microsoft Hyper-V through Microsoft Windows Server 2008
  • VMware® vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX® 4.1, VMware ESXi™ 4.1, or ESXi 5.0)
Chipset
    Intel 5520
Memory
  • Up to 192GB
  • Up to 1333 MHz ECC DDR3 memory
  • 12 DIMM slots: 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB
Embedded Hypervisor (Optional)
    Optional Embedded SD Media
Storage
    Hot-plug hard drive options:

  • 2.5" SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K)
  • Maximum internal storage:

  • Up to 1.8TB per blade
Drive bays
    Two 2.5" SAS/Solid State hot-swappable drives
Video
    Matrox® G200 with 8MB of cache
I/O options

    1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet:

  • Dual-Port Broadcom® Gb Ethernet with TOE (BCM-5709S)
  • Quad-Port Intel Gb Ethernet (82576)
  • Quad-Port Broadcom Gb Ethernet
  • Dual-Port Broadcom 10Gb Ethernet (BCM-57711)
  • Brocade® BR1741M-k Dual-Port Mezzanine CNA
  • 10Gb Enhanced Ethernet and Converged Network Adapters (CEE/DCB):

  • Dual Port Intel 10GB Enhanced Ethernet Server Adapter
  • X520-DA2 (FCoE Ready for Future Enablement)
  • Dual-Port QLogic® Converged Network Adapter (QME8142) —Supports CEE/DCB 10GbE + FCoE
  • Dual-Port QLogic Converged Network Adapter (QME8242-k) - Supports 10GbE + NPAR
  • Fibre Channel:

  • Dual-Port QLogic FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (QME2572)
  • Dual-Port Emulex® FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (LPe1205-M)
  • Emulex 8 or 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Pass-Through Module
  • InfiniBand:

  • Dual-Port Mellanox® ConnectX Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand
  • Dual-Port Mellanox ConnectX Dual Data Rate (DDR) InfiniBand
RAID Controller
    Internal controllers:

  • PERC H200 Modular (6Gb/s)
  • PERC H700 Modular (6Gb/s) with 512MB battery-backed cache; 512MB, 1GB Non-Volatile battery-backed cache
  • SAS 6/iR Modular
  • CERC 6/i Modular
  • PERC 6/i Modular with 256MB battery-backed cache
Power
    Supplied by Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure
Chassis
    Form factor

  • Half-height blade
Management

    Systems management:

  • Dell™ OpenManage™
  • BMC, IPMI 2.0 compliant
  • Unified Server Configurator
  • Lifecycle Controller
  • iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash media
  • Remote Management: iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash media

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