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PowerEdge M910 Name Technical Guide The M910 is ideal for the demanding applications at the core of most data centers, such as large databases, virtualization and messaging infrastructure. ...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide ii Dell, PowerEdge, EqualLogic, PowerVault, OpenManage, and ReadyRails are trademarks of Dell, Inc. Citrix and XenServer are registered trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide iii Table of Contents 1 Product Comparison ........................................................................................... 6 1.1 Overview ...........................................................

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide iv 7.6 Supported Memory Configurations ................................................................... 25 8 Chipset ..........................................................................................

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide v Tables Comparison of PowerEdge M910 to M710, R810, and R910 ...................................... 7 Table 1. Product Features ...............................................................................

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 6 1 Product Comparison 1.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M-Series blade servers are designed to help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, scalability, product flexibility, and efficient us...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 7 As with all Dell PowerEdge servers, the M910 is manufactured with our ―one-touch‖ factory build process. This process is designed to ensure just one person is responsible for the entire server build, re...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 8 Feature M910 M710 R810 R910 Integrated Standard Hard Drive Controller PERC H200/H700 (factory installed) and PERC 6/i as custom kit PERC H200/H700 PERC H200/H700 PERC 6/i PERC H200...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 9 Feature M910 M710 R810 R910 Power Supplies See the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide See the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide Hot-plug, redundant 4 x 750W (Energy Smart) or 4 x 1100...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 10 2 Key Technologies 2.1 Overview The PowerEdge M910 implements a number of new technologies:  Intel ® Xeon ® E7-2800, E7-4800, and E7-8800 product family  Intel 7510 Chipset The PowerEd...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 11  Streaming SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) Extension 4  Intel ® 64 Technology  Intel ® VT-x and VT-d Technology for virtualization support  Enhanced Intel ® SpeedStep ® Te...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 12 3 System Information 3.1 Overview The PowerEdge M910 is an innovative blade design that allows scaling from two to four sockets (no single- or 3-socket support) based on a new generation of Intel four-...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 13 Feature Dell PowerEdge M910 QLogic Dual-Port FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (QME2572) Emulex Dual-Port FC8 Fibre Channel HBA (LPe1205-M) Emulex 8 or 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Pass-Through Modul...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 14 4 Mechanical 4.1 Overview The M910 is a full height blade server that requires an M1000e chassis (shown in Figure 1) to operate. Figure 1. M1000e Chassis Front View It occupies 2 slots in the M1...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 15 Figure 2. Internal Module View 4.4 Security Configurable client IP address range for clients connecting to iDRAC6. 4.5 Cover Latch The blade module includes a latch for the cover. See the Opening an...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 16 4.7 Power Off Security Through the CMC, the front USB’s and power button can be disabled so as to not allow any control of the system from the front of the blade. 4.8 USB Key The M910 supports the fo...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 17 5 Power, Thermal, and Acoustic 5.1 Overview Table 3 lists the environmental specifications for the PowerEdge M910 Environmental Specifications Table 3. Temperature Operating 10 o to 35 o C (50...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 18 5.2 Acoustics Adherence to Dell’s high sound quality standards. Sound quality is different from sound power level and sound pressure level in that it describes how humans respond to annoyances in sound,...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 19 5.3 Thermal The M910 thermal solution includes:  Optimized airflow impedance for individual blade and chassis level airflow balancing  Custom air baffling directs airflow through the components ...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 20 6 Processors 6.1 Overview The Intel ® Xeon ® E7-2800, E7-4800, and E7-8800 product family and the Intel Xeon processor 6500 and 7500 series are designed specifically for servers and workstation appl...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 21  Optimized for 32‐bit code  MMX support  Execute Disable Bit  Intel Wide Dynamic Execution  Executes up to four instructions per clock cycle  Simultaneous Multi‐Threadin...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 22 Model Speed TDP Power Cache Cores QPI Speed X6550 2.00GHz 130W 18M 8 6.4GT/s E7540 2.00GHz 105W 18M 6 6.4GT/s E6540 2.00GHz 105W 18M 6 6.4GT/s E7530 1.86GHz...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 23 Figure 3. Diagram of FlexMem Bridge Routing Modern processors are capable of tremendous workloads, and many types of utilization patterns such as virtualization often run into memory capacity issues wel...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 24 7 Memory 7.1 Overview The PowerEdge M910 uses DDR3 memory providing a high-performance, high-speed memory interface capable of low-latency response and high throughput. The M910 supports Registered ECC...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 25 GT/s, and 6.4 GT/s with 11 Southbound lanes (9 data + 1 CRC + 1 spare) and 14 Northbound lanes (12 data + 1 CRC + 1 spare). The DDR3 interface supports x4 and x8 single-rank, dual-rank, and quad-rank RDIM...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 26 8 Chipset The PowerEdge M910 system board incorporates the Intel ® 7510 chipset for I/O and processor interfacing. The 7510 chipset is designed to support the Intel Xeon ® E7-8800, E7-4800, and E7-280...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 27 • Power management interface (ACPI 3.0b compliant) • Platform Environmental Control Interface (PECI) • Intel Dynamic Power Mode Manager • I/O interrupt controller • SMBus 2.0 controlle...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 28 9 BIOS 9.1 Overview The PowerEdge M910 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and supports the following features: • IA‐32 Intel Xeon 7510 chipset 4S • Simultaneous Multi‐Threading (SMT) �...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 29 10 Embedded Gigabit Ethernet Controllers on Motherboard (LOM) Two embedded Broadcom ® 5709S dual-port LAN controllers are on the PowerEdge M910 system board as independent Gigabit Ethernet interface dev...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 30 11 I/O Mezzanine Card Options 11.1 Overview The M910 contains four PCIe Gen2 mezzanine slots. Installation of mezzanine cards requires an M1000e I/O Module (IOM) of the same fabric technology to be insta...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 31 12 Storage 12.1 Hard Drives The PowerEdge M910 supports up to two 2.5‖ SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS, or nearline SAS hard disk drives. See Table 11 for information on supported hard drives. For the most up-...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 32 Factory RAID Configurations Table 12. # Hot- Plug? Min. hard drives Max. hard drives Config. Description 0 No 0 0 ZERO Diskless Configuration, No daughtercard 1 No 1 2 ...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 33 12.6.2 PERC H700 The M915 also supports the PERC H700 Modular storage controller card with battery-backed cache. The PERC H700 card has its own processor with a PCI Express Gen2 host interface and DDR2 me...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 34 13 Video The PowerEdge M910 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) incorporates an integrated video subsystem connected to the 32-bit PCI interface of the ICH10. This logic is based on the ...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 35 14 Rack Information For information on rack and cable accessories for the M910, see the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide and the M1000e Rack and Cable Advisor Tool. ...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 36 15 Operating Systems The PowerEdge M910 is designed to meet the MSFT WinLogo 3.0 design specifications. For the most up-to-date information, see the Operating System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Syst...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 37 16 Virtualization 16.1 Overview Virtualization Software Table 15. Hypervisor Factory Install Certification VMware ® ESX/ESXi™ 3.5U5 DIB/FI/NFI Yes VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0U1 DIB/FI/NFI...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 38 17 Systems Management 17.1 Overview Dell aims on delivering open, flexible, and integrated solutions that help you reduce the complexity of managing disparate IT assets by building comprehensive IT manag...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 39 Dell Remote Access Controller) is responsible for acting as an interface between the host system and its management software and the periphery devices. The optional upgrade to iDRAC6 provides features for...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 40 • Server Sensor monitoring and fault alerting • Secure operation of remote access functions including authentication, authorization, and encryption • Power control and management with the abili...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 41 Feature Base Management Functionality iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media Last crash screen capture   Boot capture   Serial-over-LAN   Virtual m...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 42 18 Peripherals 18.1 USB peripherals The PowerEdge M910 provides an internal USB connector for a USB flash memory key. The USB memory key can be used as a boot device, security key, or mass storage device...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 43 Certifications Appendix A. Regulatory Certifications A 1. Regulatory compliance certificates can be located at the following sites:  http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/about_dell/values/...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 44 Electromagnetic Compatibility A 3. The product has been certified and bears the Mark, as applicable, of the EMC authorities as indicated in Table 19. Electromagnetic Compatibility Certifications Table...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 45 Industry Standards Appendix B. The PowerEdge M915 system conforms to the industry standards detailed in Table 21. Industry Standards Table 21. Standard URL for Information and Specifications ACPI ...

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Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 46 Standard URL for Information and Specifications USB Universal Serial Bus Specification, Rev. 2.0 http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ Windows Logo Windows Logo Program System and Device Require...