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PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide PCIe expansion capabilities in the PowerEdge M610x bring a new dimension of flexibility and performance to the Dell M-Series. ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide ii Dell, PowerEdge, EqualLogic, PowerVault, OpenManage, and ReadyRails are trademarks of Dell, Inc. Citrix and XenServer are registered trademarks of Citrix Systems...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide iii Table of Contents 1 Product Comparison ........................................................................................... 6 1.1 Overview ................................................

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide iv 11 I/O Mezzanine Card Options ................................................................................ 29 11.1.1 Overview ..................................................................

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide v Table 4. Acoustical Performance of M1000e Chassis with Four M610x Blades Installed ............. 18 Table 5. Comparison of Processor Technology .....................................................

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 6 1 Product Comparison 1.1 Overview With PCI Express ® (PCIe) expansion options and a feature rich Chassis Management Controller, the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x allows you to efficiently run ap...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 7 1.2 Product Comparison Table 1 compares the PowerEdge M610x blade server to the PowerEdge M610x, M710HD, and M710 servers. Table 1. Product Comparisons M610x M610 M710HD M710 Desc...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 8 M610x M610 M710HD M710 Management IPMI 2.0 +vMedia/vKVM, and CMC (on the PowerEdge M1000e chassis) Mezz Slots Two x8 PCIe Gen2; Fabric B limited to a small form factor (SFF) me...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 9 2 Key Technologies 2.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x offers you expandability. The M610x is a half-height blade (based on the M610 server technology) and PCIe card expansion module...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 10 3 System Information Table 2 summarizes the product features for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x. For the latest information on supported features, visit Dell.com. Table 2. Product Features ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 11 Feature Technical Specifications 10GbE + FcoE) Dual-Port Qlogic ® Converged Network Adapter (QME8142; supports CEE/DCB 10GbE + FcoE) Fibre Channel: Dual-Port QLogic FC8 Fibre Channel Ho...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 12 Feature Technical Specifications For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit Dell.com/OSsupport. Virtualization OS Support Citrix ® XenServer ® Microsoft Hyp...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 13 4 Mechanical 4.1 Chassis Description The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x is a full-height blade server that requires an M1000e chassis to operate. Figure 1. PowerEdge M1000e The M610x serve...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 14 4.3 Internal Module View A view of the internal module is shown in Figure 2. See the Opening and Closing the Blade in the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 15 4.10 Field Replaceable Units The planar contains a serial EEPROM to contain Field Replaceable Units (FRU) information including Dell part number, part revision level, and serial number. 4.11 Us...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 16 5 Power, Thermal, Acoustic 5.1 Power Supplies See the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide for information on power supplies and power supply specifications. 5.2 Power Efficiency One of the ma...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 17 Thermal specifications for the PowerEdge M610x are detailed in Table 3 along with other important operating and storage information. Table 3. Operating and Storage Specifications Temperature ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 18 Table 4 shows the acoustical performance for a typical configuration of the M1000e chassis with four PowerEdge M610x blade servers installed. Acoustical performance varies with hardware configur...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 19 6 Processors 6.1 Overview The Intel ® Xeon ® processor 5500 and 5600 series are designed specifically for servers and workstation applications. These processors feature quad-core processin...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 20 Table 5. Comparison of Processor Technology Intel Xeon Processor 5400 Series 5500 Series 5600 Series Cores Four Four Six Last Level Cache Two 6 MB shared 8 MB shared 12 ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 21 Model Speed TDP Power Cache Cores Max Memory Speed QPI Link Speed Turbo Mode Enabled Hyper- threading E5645 2.4 GHz 80 W 12 M 6 1333 MT/s 5.86 GT/s Yes Yes...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 22 7 Memory 7.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x uses DDR3 memory providing a high-performance, high-speed memory interface capable of low latency response and high throughput. The M610x ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 23 7.3 Memory Features Key features of the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x memory system include: • Registered (RDIMM) and Unbuffered (UDIMM) ECC DDR3 technology • Each channel carries 64 data a...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 24 Table 7. Maximum Supported Memory Frequencies DIMM Type DIMM 0 DIMM 1 # of DIMMs 800 1066 1333 UDIMM SR — 1    DR — 1    SR SR ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 25 8 Chipset 8.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x system board incorporates the Intel 5500 chipset for I/O and processor interfacing which was designed to support Intel Xeon Processor 5500...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 26  PCI Bus 32-bit Interface Rev 2.3 running at 33 MT/s  Serial ATA (SATA) ports with transfer rates up to 300 MB/s  Six UHCI and two EHCI (high-speed 2.0) USB host controllers, with up...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 27 9 BIOS 9.1 Overview The M610x BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and supports the following features:  Intel Xeon processor 5500 and 5600 series 2S support  Simultaneous Multi-Thr...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 28 10 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard Two embedded Broadcom ® 5709S dual-port LAN controllers are on the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x planar as independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. The...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 29 11 I/O Mezzanine Card Options 11.1.1 Overview The M610x contains two PCIe Gen2 mezzanine slots. Installation of mezzanine cards requires an M1000e I/O Module (IOM) of the same fabric technolo...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 30 11.1.5 Fusion-io Cards Fusion-io’s family of products is based on a new solid state technology that increases bandwidth and application performance, reduces latency, and simplifies IT infrast...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 31 12 Storage 12.1 Overview All enterprise-class 2.5‖ storage drives sold by Dell are qualified, including those that offer Self Encrypting Drive functionality as well as the 6 Gb SAS drives. Al...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 32 12.7 RAID Cards The M610x will support a variety of RAID cards. 12.7.1 SATA Repeater The PE M610x internal SATA Repeater HBA is an expansion card that plugs into the dedicated storage control...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 33 13 Video The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) incorporates an integrated video subsystem, connected to the 32-bit PCI interface of the ICH9. This l...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 34 14 Rack Information For information on rack and cable accessories for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x, see the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide and the M1000e Rack and Cable Advisor Tool. ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 35 15 Operating Systems The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x is designed to meet the MSFT WinLogo 3.0 design specifications. For the most up-to-date information, see the Operating System Support Matrix ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 36 16 Virtualization 16.1 Resources The Dell™ Support site has extensive information designed to help you configure virtualization software with PowerEdge servers. For more information, visit th...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 37 17 Systems Management 17.1 Overview Dell delivers open, comprehensive, and integrated solutions that help you reduce the complexity of managing disparate IT assets. Combining Dell™ PowerEdge�...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 38 Title Description Dell Management Console (DMC) Provides a systems management console that enables systems administrators to discover and inventory devices on your network. It provides fu...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 39 Feature Description choose virtual disk as boot device, eliminating the need to launch a separate utility. Also provides configuration for iDRAC, BIOS, and NIC/LOM. 17.5 Integrated Dell...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 40 Feature Base Management Functionality iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media SNMP   WSMAN   SMASH-CLP   Racadm command-line  ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 41 Feature Base Management Functionality iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media Logging Features System Event Log    RAC Log   Trace Log  ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 42 18 Peripherals 18.1 USB Peripherals The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x supports the following USB devices: • DVD (bootable; requires two USB ports) • USB Key (bootable) • Keyboard (only o...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 43 Appendix A. Statement of Volatility The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x blade and its configurable modules contain both volatile and non- volatile (NV) components. Volatile components lose their data...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 44 used to reset to factory default settings Server LOM Memory Details Size 4 Mb (1 MB) Type Flash Purpose Contains LOM boot code and config data Can user programs or operatin...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 45 How is data input to this memory? By way of specialized programming utilities used in the factory and possibly for field updates How is this memory write protected? Software control HD...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 46 interface How is this memory write protected? As defined by the TCG TPM Specification, protection of this NV memory area is configurable by the TPM owner iDRAC6 Enterprise Card FRU Det...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 47 How is data input to this memory? I2C bus from iDRAC6 How is this memory write protected? Only the iDRAC6 can write to the chip PCIe Riser Card FRU Details Size 2 Kb (265 bytes) ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 48 How is this memory write protected? Software control ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 49 Appendix B. Certifications Regulatory Certifications B 1. Regulatory compliance certificates can be located at the following sites:  http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/about_d...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 50 Electromagnetic Compatibility B 3. The product has been certified and bears the Mark, as applicable, of the EMC authorities as indicated in Table 14. Table 14. Electromagnetic Compatibility ...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 51 Appendix C. Industry Standards The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x conforms to the industry standards shown in Table 16. Table 16. Industry Standards Standard URL for Information and Specificat...

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Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 52 Standard URL for Information and Specifications UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification, v2.1 http://www.uefi.org/specs/ USB Universal Serial Bus Specification, Rev....