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Dell PowerEdge M610

The PowerEdge™ M610 is an Intel® processor-based 2-socket, half-height blade server built for virtualisation, mainstream business applications and front-end database workloads.

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Designed for Power Efficiency

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e blade enclosure with the M610 delivers exceptional performance per watt. The M1000e enclosure takes advantage of thermal design efficiencies, such as ultraefficient 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.

This dynamic power management technology allows you to set high/low power thresholds to enable efficient energy management.

Increased Memory Capacity for I/O Intensive Applications

The M610 is designed with 50% more memory capacity than the previous generation M600, 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 increased memory slots allows you to use smaller, less expensive DIMMs that meet your computing needs and increase your savings.

Virtualisation Performance

The Dell PowerEdge M610 allows for quick virtualisation deployment with embedded hypervisors from world-class vendors via a Secure Digital (SD) card or internal USB. Intel® VT FlexMigration integrates multiple generations of Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers, improving flexibility and investment protection. The M610's enhanced memory capacity is crucial for virtualisation performance while lower-cost memory configurations can help balance cost.

Simplified Systems Management

The next generation Dell OpenManage™ 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® 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V™)
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V™ v2)²
Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008
Novell® SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
Oracle® Solaris™

Virtualisation Options:
Citrix® XenServer™
Microsoft® Hyper-V™ through 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

Intel® 5520

Memory*

Up to 192GB (12 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), SATA (7.2K)

Drive Bays

Hot-Swap options available:

Up to two 2.5" SAS or SSD drives

I/O Mezzanine Card Options

Fully populated mezzanine card slots and switch modules will yield 3 highly available, redundant I/O fabrics for each blade.
1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet:
Broadcom® Dual-Port 1Gb Ethernet with TOE (BCM-5709S)
Intel Quad-Port 1Gb Ethernet
Broadcom Quad-Port 1Gb Ethernet (BCM-5709S)
Broadcom Dual-Port 10Gb Ethernet (BCM-57711)
10Gb Enhanced Ethernet and Converged Network Adapters (CEE/DCB):
Intel Dual-Port 10GB Enhanced Ethernet Server Adapter X520-DA2 (FcoE ready for future enablement)
QLogic® Dual-Port CNA (QME8142) (supports CEE/DCB 10GbE + FCoE)
QLogic Dual-Port CNA (QME8242-k) (supports 10GbE + NPAR)
Brocade® BR1741M-k Dual-Port Mezzanine CNA
Fibre Channel:
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 Module
InfiniBand:
Mellanox® ConnectX® Dual-Port Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand
Mellanox ConnectX Dual-Port 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

Two 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
Brocade® BR1741M-k Dual-Port Mezzanine CNA
Emulex® 8 or 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Pass-Through Module

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

Chassis

The PowerEdge M610 blade server fits in the M1000e blade enclosure. A total of 8 full-height or 16 half-height blades can fit into every M1000e enclosure. Full height and half height blades can be mixed in M1000e enclosures with no limitations.

M610 Dimensions and Weight (blade only):

Height: 18.9 cm (7.4 in)

Width: 5 cm (2 in)

Depth: 48.6 cm (19.2 in)

Weight (Maximum Configuration): 5.2-6.4 kg (11.5-14.0 lb)

Full height blade fits inside the M1000e Blade Enclosure

Maximum of 8 per blade chassis

Management

Dell™ OpenManage™ featuring Dell Management Console
Unified Server Configurator Lifecycle Controller
BMC, IPMI2.0 compliant
iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash
Remote Management: iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash

Regulatory

Regulatory Model: HHB

Regulatory Type: HHB001

Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page
Dell and the Environment

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.

		Ethernet The 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 Channel Brocade 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

InfiniBand For 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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