Dell PowerEdge M710
The PowerEdge M710 is an Intel processor-based 2-socket, full-height blade server providing the bandwidth necessary for virtualization and performance-intensive business-critical applications.
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Designed for Power Efficiency
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e blade enclosure with the M710 delivers outstanding performance per watt. The M1000e enclosure takes advantage of thermal design efficiencies, such as ultra-efficient power supplies, dynamic power efficient fans and optimised airflow design that can efficiently cool the chassis to enable exceptional performance in a lower power envelope.The Intel® Xeon® processor series is designed to adapt in real time to your software enabling multiple tasks to be done simultaneously, while boosting performance with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology as business usage demands it most. It proactively puts your server into lower power states using Intel® Intelligent Power Technology during periods of low demand, helping reduce operating costs.
The dynamic power management technology allows you to set high/low power thresholds to enable efficient energy management.
Increased Memory Capacity and I/O for High Performance Applications
Expanding to a full-height form factor enabled Dell to significantly increase the memory capacity of the M710 with 18 DIMM slots and up to 144GB of total RAM a critical component to virtualisation and database performance.New DDR3 memory offers higher bandwidth and lower power consumption than previous FBD or DDR2 RAM technologies. The numerous memory slots allow you to use smaller, less expensive DIMMs to meet computing needs.
Virtualisation Performance
The Dell PowerEdge M710 allows for quick virtualisation deployment with embedded hypervisors from world-class vendors via a SD card or internal USB. Intel® VT FlexMigration integrates multiple generations of Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers, improving flexibility and investment protection. The M710’s enhanced memory capacity is crucial for virtualisation performance and value memory configurations help balance cost.
Simplified Systems Management
The next generation Dell OpenManage™ suite offers advanced operations and standards-based commands designed to integrate with existing systems for effective control.Lifecycle Controller is the engine for advanced systems management integrated on the server. Lifecycle Controller simplifies administrator tasks to perform a complete set of provisioning functions such as system deployment, system updates, hardware configuration and diagnostics from a single intuitive interface called Unified Server Configurator (USC) in a pre-OS environment. This eliminates the need to use and maintain multiple pieces of disparate CD/DVD media
The new Dell Management Console, powered by Altiris from Symantec, delivers a single view and a common data source into the entire infrastructure. Dell Management Console is built on the Symantec™ Management Platform (formerly Altiris® Notification Server), an easily extensible, modular foundation that can provide basic hardware management or more advanced functions such as asset and security management. Dell Management Console helps reduce or eliminate manual processes so less time and money is spent keeping the lights on and more time can be spent on strategic uses of technology.
Processor
- Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 and 5600 series
Six-core Intel® Xeon®
Quad-core Intel® Xeon®
Operating System
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012
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™ ESX and ESXi
Chipset
- Intel® 5520
Memory*
- Up to 288GB (18 DIMM slots): 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB ECC DDR3
Up to 1333MHz
Embedded Hypervisor (Optional)
- Citrix® XenServer®
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008, with Hyper-V™
VMware® vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX® 4.1 or VMware ESXi™ 4.1)
Storage
- Hot-plug Hard Drive Options:
2.5" SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K), nearline SAS (7.2K)
Drive Bays
- Hot-Swap options available:
Up to four 2.5" SAS or SSD drives
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.
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 + FCoE
Dual-Port Qlogic® Converged Network Adapter(QME8242-k) - Supports 10GbE + NPAR
Brocade® BR1741M-k Dual-Port Mezzanine CNA
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 Controllers
- Internal:
PERC H200 Modular (6Gb/s)
PERC H700 Modular (6Gb/s) with 512MB battery-backed cache
SAS 6/iR Modular
CERC 6/i Modular
PERC 6/i Modular with 256MB battery-backed cache
Communications
- Four embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II™ 5709 Gigabit Ethernet NICs with failover and load balancing TOE (TCPIP Offload Engine) supported on Microsoft® Windows Server 2003, SP1 or higher with Scalable Networking Pack. iSCSI Offload supported on Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 or higher, Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise 5, and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10. Scalable Networking Pack for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is not required.
Boot from SAN (iSCSI and FC) supported
Optional add-in NICs:
Dual Port 10GB Enhanced Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-DA2 (FcoE Ready for Future Enablement)
See I/O Mezzanine Card Options
Intel® Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter
Intel® Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter
Optional add in HBAs:
See 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.
Power
- Supplied by Dell’s M1000e Blade Chassis
Video Card
- Matrox G200 with 8MB of cache
Chassis
- The PowerEdge M710 blade server only fits in the M1000e blade enclosure. A total of 8 x M710/M805/M905’s or 16 x M600/M610/M605’s can fit into every M1000e enclosure. Full height and half height blades can be mixed in M1000e enclosures with no limitations.
M710 Dimensions and Weight (blade only):
Height: 38.5cm (15.2in)
Width: 5cm (2in)
Depth: 48.6cm (19.2in)
Weight (Maximum Configuration): 11.1kg (24.5lb)
Full height blade fits inside the M1000e Blade Enclosure
Maximum of 8 per blade chassis
Management
- Dell™ OpenManage™
Lifecycle Controller
iDRAC6 Enterprise
vFlash
Microsoft® System Center Essential (SCE) 2010 v2
Regulatory
- Regulatory Model: FHB
Regulatory Type: FHB001
Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page
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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 | |  |
FlexIO for M-Series: Delivering the speed you need, when you need it
Learn More about M-Series Blade I/O Options
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By integrating our hardware, software and services, we can minimise your transition time and costs, help you improve your business productivity and more quickly realize the return on your investment. Our new 11G servers have embedded diagnostics and a Lifecycle Controller that helps speed up problem isolation and recovery in the event of a failure — sometimes before you’re even aware an issue exists. And during the transition to a new platform or operating system, the embedded OS Lifecycle Controller is designed to direct the transition of your OS/server images in the most customised and cost-effective method possible.
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Dell ProManage™ services don't follow the traditional one-size-fits-all approach. They're modular so you get to choose what you need for your business. Through features like ImageDirect, hardware customisation and asset recovery, we've got what you need, when you need it.
Our factory, remote and onsite installation services for servers make efficient use of your employees' time by helping to speed up activities like configuration and deployment, allowing them to focus more on improving your business.
Hardware customisation services can eliminate installation hassles by delivering systems that are ready to work right out of the box.
Dell Asset Recovery and Recycling Services help you recover and dispose of owned or leased computer equipment, in a manner that follows EPA guidelines.
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