The world’s first fully modular, most power-efficient blade solution
The M605 is an AMD processor-based 2-socket half-height blade server ideal for edge-of-network applications, HPCC nodes, and entry-level virtualization.
The Dell Blade Advantage
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M605 blade server, featuring the latest Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, removes complexity to help your servers run better, use space smarter, and cost less over time. Dell PowerEdge blades address datacenter server sprawl and complexity by delivering one of the most energy efficient, flexible, and manageable blade servers on the market.
Streamlined Virtualization
Dell’s most energy efficient Blade solution, the PowerEdge M605 offers outstanding virtualization performance in a 2-socket blade server combined with optional, factory integrated virtualization capabilities. Dell continues to simplify virtualization by streamlining virtualization deployment and providing ease of use in virtual infrastructures. By factory integrating VMware® ESXi 3.5, customers receive VMware capabilities and migration of virtual machines within a few clicks of a mouse.Our virtualization-ready server configurations provide an easy path to virtualization through factory-integrated hypervisors and recommended hardware configurations that support an ideal virtual infrastructure.
Energy Efficiency That Can’t Be Beaten
Designed for energy efficiency and density, blade servers address the growing power and space constraints of your data center. The M605 blade server is one of the most energy efficient blade products on the market, and has a 60% greater density than traditional 1U servers. Energy efficiency and density that can’t be beat.Power-saving innovations are built into all AMD Opteron™ processors, from the ultra low-power AMD Opteron™ EE processors to the highest performing processors in the product family, the AMD Opteron™ SE processors.
Easy Expandability and Manageability
With blade servers expanding your data center has never been easier. Once you have installed a blade enclosure, adding another server is as simple as sliding in a new blade and powering it up. Coupled with the Altiris® Deployment Solution for Dell servers and Dell Management Console, Dell blades are one of the easiest to deploy and manage in the industry.
Optimised Solution
The M605 blade server is paired with the M1000e modular blade enclosure for an optimized blade solution. The M1000e is designed from the ground up to combat IT complexity to deliver unbeatable levels of energy efficiency and flexibility. Designed to support future generations of Dell blade servers and technologies, your M1000e investment is protected for the future.Learn more about the PowerEdge M1000e modular blade enclosure
Processor
- Up to Six-core AMD Opteron™ Processors
Operating System
- Microsoft® Windows® Essential Business Server 2008
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V™ )
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2, x64 (includes Hyper-V™ v2)1
Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008
Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
Sun® Solaris™
Virtualization Options:
Citrix® XenServer™ Microsoft® Hyper-V™ via
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008
VMware® vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX® 4.1 or VMware ESXi™ 4.1)
For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit www.dell.com/OSsupport.
Chipset
- NVIDIA® MCP55
Memory*
- Up to 8x DIMMs (DDR2) at 800MHz
Up to 64GB of memory with 8GB DIMMs
Embedded Hypervisor (Optional)
- VMware ESXi 3.5
Hard drive implementation
Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition
Citrix XenServer Dell Enterprise Edition
Microsoft HyperV via Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Storage
- Up to two Hot-Swappable Internal Drives:
6 cm (2.5") SAS (10K rpm): 73GB*, 146GB*, 300GB* or 600GB*
6 cm (2.5") SAS (15K rpm): 36GB* or 73GB* or 146GB*
6 cm (2.5") SATA (7.2k rpm): 160 GB* or 250GB*
50GB* Solid State Drive (SSD)
Maximum Internal Storage
Up to 600GB per blade via two 6 cm (2.5") 300GB hot-swappable SAS (10k rpm) hard drives
External Storage Options:
Dell/EMC fibre channel and/or iSCSI external storage, including Dell/EMC AX150, CX300, CX3-10c , CX3-20, CX3-40, and CX3-80, PowerVault MD3000i
Drive Bays
- Two 2.5” Hot-Swappable SAS/SATA/Solid State Drives
2.5" 500GB SATA
I/O Mezzanine Card Options
- Fully populated mezz card slots and switch modules will yield 3 highly available, redundant I/O fabrics for each blade.
Two Optional PCIe x8 Mezzanine Card slots
Available Options:
1Gb & 10Gb Ethernet:
Dual-Port Broadcom Gb Ethernet w/ TOE (BCM-5709S)
Quad-Port Intel Gb Ethernet (82576)
Quad-Port Broadcom Gb Ethernet (BCM-5709S)
Dual-Port Broadcom 10Gb Ethernet (BCM-57711)
Brocade® BR1741M-k Dual-Port Mezzanine CNA
10Gb Enhanced Ethernet & Converged Network Adapters (CEE/DCB):
Dual-Port Qlogic® Converged Network Adapter (QME8142) - Supports CEE/DCB 10GbE + FCoEDual-Port Broadcom Gb Ethernet w/ TOE (BCM-5709S)
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
RAID Controllers
- CERC6i RAID 1, 2 HDD (SAS only)
SAS6ir (H/W based) with RAID 0/1 support
Communications
- Dual Port 10GB Enhanced Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-DA2 (FcoE Ready for Future Enablement)
Dual-port embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II™ 5708 Gb Ethernet NIC with TCP/IP Offload and optional iSCSI Offload.
Intel® Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter
Intel® Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter
Video Card
- Embedded ATI RN50 video controller with 32MB memory
Chassis
- Two bootable USB 2.0 ports on front panel for floppy, CD/DVD, memory key, keyboard/mouse
Management
- Dell OpenManage™ software tools
OpenManage Server Administrator- monitoring agents and 1:1 management utilities
OpenManage Storage Services – RAID management
OpenManage Deployment Toolkit- utilities for remote, unattended configuration
Dell Server Assistant- local, simplified OS installation utility
Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with:
Out of Band alerting, status, inventory, and troubleshooting via Secure Web GUI/CLI (telnet/SSH)
Remote Virtual Media (vMedia) and Virtual KVM (vKVM)
VMedia- Map media from remote workstation/network to the blade
vKVM- out of band remote console, supports Java or ActiveX plug-ins
IPMI 2.0 support
Microsoft® System Center Essential (SCE) 2010 v2
Environmental Operating Conditions
- Operating Temperature: 10º C to 35º C (50º F to 95º F)
Storage Temperature: -40º C to 65º C (-40º F to 149º F)
Operating Relative Humidity (non-condensing twmax=29C): 8% to 80% non-condensing
Maximum humidity gradient: 10% per hour, operational and non-operational conditions
Storage Relative Humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing (twmax=38C)
Operating Vibration: 0.26Grms at 10Hz to 350Hz for 15 minutes
Storage Vibration: 1.54Grms Random Vibration at 10Hz to 250Hz for 15 minutes
Operating Shock: 1 shock pulse of 41G for up to 2ms
Storage Shock: 6 shock pulses of 71G for up to 2ms
Operating Altitude: -16 to 3,048m (-50 ft to 10,000 ft)
Storage Altitude: -16m to 10,600m (-50 ft to 35,000 ft)
Regulatory
Flexibility Redefined
Only Dell M-Series provides complete, snap-in FlexIO scalability down to the switch interconnects. FlexIO technology is the foundation of the M1000e I/O subsystem and delivers the flexibility to design the solution to meet your requirements today, and the scalability to add or change options as warranted by your data center or future technologies in the future. | EthernetThe M-Series enclosure supports a broad set of modular Ethernet blade switches including PowerConnect and Cisco Catalyst.Dell's fully-modular PowerConnect switches provide great flexibility with choices in models from 1Gb to 10GbE speeds, flexible modular uplinks of varying media types, and many other valuable features. The PowerConnect portfolio, including the M6220 and M8024, offers a selection of switches for a variety of needs. Spanning entry-level GbE to GbE with stacking and 10GbE uplinks – Cisco models include the Catalyst 3032, 3130G, and 3130X. The 3130 switches feature Cisco's Virtual Blade Switch functionality, enabling customers to interconnect up to 9 switches to create a single logical switch, thereby simplifying the manageability of their data center. Learn More about Ethernet Blade Switches Learn More about Ethernet Blade Mezzanine Cards |
Fibre ChannelBrocade 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel Switches provide powerful connectivity to fibre channel SANs, such as those offered by Dell/EMC. Models currently available include the M4424 and M5424. For heterogeneous integration into any Fibre Channel network, these Brocade FC Switches can be configured as in Access Gateway mode. Based on NPIV functionality, Access Gateway mode delivers the cable aggregation benefits and cost savings offered by Dell’s M-Series blade solution. Learn More about Fibre Channel Blade Switches Learn More about Ethernet Blade Mezzanine Cards |  |
InfiniBandFor High-Performance Computing (HPC) or other environments requiring the highest bandwidth and lowest latency available, the M-Series offers two levels of InfiniBand switches. The industry’s first chassis-integrated Quad Data Rate IB switch is available in the Mellanox M3601Q, with speeds of up to 40Gbps. For Dual Data Rate (DDR) InfiniBand infrastructures, the M-Series can be equipped with Cisco M7000E or Mellanox M2401G switches. Each switch features 16 ports in and 8 ports out to ensure the availability and redundancy needed for the most demanding applications. Learn More about InfiniBand Blade Switches Learn More about InfiniBand Blade Mezzanine Cards |  |
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Please contact your Local Partner for further information.
Please contact your Local Partner for further information.
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