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Two-Socket, Half-Height, Memory-Dense, Enterprise-Class Server
The PowerEdge M710HD is an Intel processor-based 2-socket, half-height blade server with extensive I/O flexibility and robust memory scalability for virtualization and workload consolidation.
Improve Effectiveness, Operate Efficiently and Recover Valuable Time
The PowerEdge™ M710HD blade server helps you run business applications efficiently, reduce your data center footprint, ease data management and trim system maintenance time.
Flex Your Data Center Muscles
With massive I/O output, powerful core processing and ultrahigh-density memory, the PowerEdge M710HD blade server can take on your toughest data center workloads.- Flexible deployment achievable through multiple Internet SCSI (iSCSI), Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand® options (10 Gigabit Ethernet, Quad Data Rate InfiniBand, 8GB Fibre Channel and more)
- Modular Available with Dual port 10GbE Network Daughter Card (NDC) with NIC partitioning (NPAR)
- Robust processing power from up to 12 Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series
- Maximized RAM density with 18 DIMM slots for cost-efficient double data rate 3 (DDR3) memory scaling
The expanded addressable memory in a two-socket, half-height blade enables you to leverage more virtual machines from your existing hypervisor licensing, helping you save money and increase your virtualized deployments using existing resources.
The Closest Thing to a Worry-Free Data Center
The PowerEdge M710HD blade server is designed to ease your mind and reduce your operating costs.
Enterprise-Class High AvailabilityOptional fail-safe embedded hypervisors and HDD fault tolerance through hardware RAID controller offer protective redundancy that safeguards your organizations data from loss or corruption.
Efficiency
Optimized airflow design coupled with high-efficiency fans and power supplies enables the Dell™ PowerEdge M1000e modular blade enclosure to effectively power and cool PowerEdge M710HD servers, while helping to reduce overall power draw. This enables you to reclaim kilowatt hours for use elsewhere in your data center.
Simplified System Management
Spend more time on your business and less on maintaining your IT with embedded system-management features on the PowerEdge M710HD and the Chassis Management Controller (CMC).
CMC automates configuration of new hardware through a one-to-many relationship and enables pre-provisioning of local area network/storage area network (LAN/SAN) resources.
CMC and Virtual Media File Share enable customers to quickly and simply deploy OS images and update to one or many blades in a chassis without agents, additional software or using Pre-Boot eXecution Environment (PXE).
CMC provides immediate access to system status, issues and alerts through a single, easy-to-use interface plus one-click access to key functions to help quickly resolve issues.
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™ v 5.6 (embedded option available)
- Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008, with Hyper-V™
- VMware® vSphere™ Version 4.1 (including ESX v4.1/ESXi™ v4.1)
Storage
- Hot-plug Hard Drive Options:
2.5" SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K)
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 redundant I/O fabrics per blade.
1Gb & 10Gb Ethernet:
Dual-Port Broadcom® Gb Ethernet w/ TOE(BCM-5709S)
Quad-Port Intel® Gb Ethernet
Quad-Port Broadcom® Gb Ethernet(BCM-5709S)
Dual-Port Intel® 10Gb Ethernet
Dual-Port Broadcom® 10Gb Ethernet(BCM-57711)
Brocade® BR1741M-k Dual-Port Mezzanine CNA
10Gb Enhanced Ethernet & Converged Network Adapters(CEE/DCB/FCoE):
Dual-Port Intel® 10Gb Enhanced Ethernet(FCoE Ready for Future Enablement)
Dual-Port Emulex® Converged Network Adapter(OCM10102-F-M) - Supports CEE/DCB 10GbE + FCoE
Dual-Port Qlogic® Converged Network Adapter(QME8142) - Supports CEE/DCB 10GbE + FCoE
Dual-Port Qlogic® Converged Network Adapter(QME8242-k) - Supports 10GbE + NPAR
Dual-Port Broadcom® 57712-k Converged Network Daughter Card(NDC) - Supports CEE/DCB 10GbE + NPAR + FCoE + iSCSI-TLV
Brocade® BR1741M-k Dual-Port Mezzanine CAN
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-2™ Dual Data Rate(DDR) and Quad Data Rate(QDR) InfiniBand
RAID Controllers
- PERC H200 Integrated SAS Controller (6Gb/s)
Communications
- Four embedded Broadcom® 5709S Gigabit NIC with failover and load balancing.
TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) supported on Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 SP1 or higher with Scalable Networking Pack. iSCSI Offload supported on Windows Server® 2003 SP1 or higher, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5, and SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server 10. Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server® 2003 is not required.
Boot from SAN (iSCSI and FC) supported
Optional add-in NICs: See I/O Mezzanine Card Options
Optional add-in HBAs: See I/O Mezzanine Card Options
Power
- Supplied by Dell’s M1000e Blade Chassis
Chassis
- The PowerEdge M710HD blade server fits in the PowerEdge M1000e blade enclosure. A total 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.
M710HD Dimensions and Weight (blade only):
Height: 18.9 cm (7.4 in)
Width: 5 cm (2 in)
Depth: 48.6 cm (19.2 in)
Management
- Dell™ OpenManage™ software tools
- Integration with 3rd party management solutions via Dell’s Certified Partner Program
- BMC, IPMI 2.0 compliant
Designed to help reduce deployment time from hours to minutes
Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)
Out of Band alerting, status, inventory, and troubleshooting via Secure Web GUI / CLI (telnet/SSH)
Console Redirection
vMedia (virtual media) - Map optical or hard drives to the blade from remote workstations over a network
vKVM (virtual KVM) out-of-band remote console redirection-supports Java or ActiveX plug-ins
IPMI 2.0 support
Regulatory
- Regulatory Model: HHB
Regulatory Type: HHB001
Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page
Dell and the Environment
Flexibility refedined
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 that has the flexibility you need to design today’s solution and the scalability you require to add or change data center options to meet future demands.
 |  | EthernetThe M-Series enclosure supports a broad set of modular gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10GbE and Enhanced Ethernet blade switches. Dell's fully modular PowerConnect™ and Dell Force10™ switches provide great flexibility, with choices of 1Gb to 10Gb speeds, flexible modular uplinks of varying media types, and many other valuable features. The PowerConnect and Dell Force10 portfolio offers a selection of switches that can meet even the most extreme networking demands. For Cisco Catalyst customers, Dell provides models that span from simple, no frills GbE to more capable models with stacking or even 10GbE uplinks. The more advanced switches feature Cisco's Virtual Blade Switch functionality, enabling you to interconnect up to nine switches to create a single logical switch, thereby simplifying data center management. |
Fibre ChannelBrocade 8Gb Fibre Channel Switches provide powerful connectivity to Fibre Channel SANs, such as those offered by Dell/EMC. The M5424 includes 12-port and 24-port configurations as well as a performance pack for enhanced features and management. For heterogeneous integration into any Fibre Channel network, the Brocade M5424 Fibre Channel switch can even be enabled in Access Gateway mode. Based on N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) functionality, Access Gateway mode delivers the cable aggregation benefits and cost savings offered by Dell’s M-Series blade solutions without separate management or configuration requirements. | |
| InfiniBandFor high-performance computing (HPC) or other environments requiring the highest bandwidth and lowest latency available, the M-Series offers InfiniBand™ switches and adapter cards. Dell offers chassis-integrated quad data rate (QDR) and fourteen data rate (FDR) InfiniBand switches from Mellanox, with speeds of up to 56Gbps. Each switch features 16 internal ports and 8 external ports to ensure the availability and redundancy needed for the most demanding applications. |
FlexIO for M-Series: Delivering the speed you need, when you need it.
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 | The Dell OpenManage™ systems management portfolio, including Dell PowerEdge™ server embedded management feature integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller, helps IT Administrators efficiently manage Dell servers in physical, virtual, local and remote environments, operating in band or out of band, with or without a systems management software agent. Irrespective of the operating system or hypervisor you deploy, iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller automates the most essential and frequently performed server management tasks to help your IT resources become more productive and your IT environment more cost-effective and well maintained. Dell OpenManage also integrates and connects to leading third-party systems management solutions you may already own, so you can maintain your single point of control and capitalize on your existing investment. |
| OEM-Ready Version Available | |
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Solutions and Systems Management
Storage Options |
| With Dell Compellent™, Dell EqualLogic™ and Dell PowerVault™, we have created a comprehensive and innovative portfolio of storage products, all of which are easy to deploy, manage and grow. Whether you use network attached storage (NAS), direct attached storage (DAS), internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel (FC), Dell has a product that can meet your business needs and reduce the cost and complexity of storage. |
 | | The Value of Dell Storage: Dell’s open, standards-based solutions let customers of all sizes integrate new technologies without sacrificing performance or their existing IT investments.  |
| Direct-Attached Storage: The Dell PowerVault™ MD storage family offers easy and economical expansion for Dell PowerEdge™ servers enabling high availability and scalability for demanding business applications. |
| Disk-to-Disk Backup Due to expanding volumes of data that must be backed up and protected along with shrinking backup windows, many IT departments have moved to or added disk-based backups. |
| Network-Attached Storage Network attached storage (NAS) is a specialized storage server with its own IP address that is made available to multiple clients and servers on a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). |
| Object-Based Storage The Dell DX Object Storage Platform is designed to intelligently access, store, protect and distribute fixed digital content. |
 | | Storage Area Network A storage area network (SAN) is a network of shared storage devices, such as disk storage arrays and tape automation |
| Tape Backup Considered the first and last line of defense against data loss, tape and removable disks can be used for long-term data storage and backup. |
| Unified Storage Unified Storage is a term that describes the ability to manage both file- and block-level data. |