Highly available, fully redundant
The PowerEdge M905 is an AMD processor-based, 4-socket full-height blade server providing high memory capacity and maximum I/O for performance-intensive applications.
Exceptional I/O Capability
The Dell PowerEdge M905’s exceptional I/O capacity is enhanced by its ability to deliver highly available, fully redundant I/O to the system motherboard on all three fabrics. This is critically important in data centers where high availability and redundancy are a must.
Increased RAM Capacity
Memory is one of the critical components for heavy virtualization and high-end database needs. Dell’s new full-height four-socket M905 Blade Server delivers 24 DIMM slots to provide truly impressive memory capacity, up to 192 GB.
High-Performance Data Management
The Dell PowerEdge M905 Blade Server is designed to increase the overall efficiency and performance of your data management infrastructure by delivering tremendous system resources in a blade form factor.The Dell PowerEdge M905 features robust network and virtualization capabilities including highly available I/O bandwidth that is fully redundant to the mother board level. With enhanced memory capacity, the four-socket PowerEdge M905 Blade Server is built to address critical business and IT needs such as:
- Management of server resources
- Control of server sprawl
- Reduction of energy consumption and cooling costs inside your datacenter
Add the compact dimensions of the Dell M1000e enclosure and you have a potent server solution that’s compact, easy to deploy and easy to manage.
Optimized for Virtual Environments
The Dell PowerEdge M905 Blade Server is a performance powerhouse in virtual environments featuring:- The newest generation of six-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors
- AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V) technology that serves as the foundation for driving near-native application performance in virtualized environments
- An internal Secure Digital (SD) card for embedded hypervisors, designed to maximize virtualization performance
- High memory capacity and truly redundant throughput capacities
Processor
- Quad-core Intel® Xeon®
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)*
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*
- 24 DIMM slots
1GB/2GB/4GB ECC DDR2 667/800MHz Options
Support for up to 192GB* using 24x8GB DIMMs
Embedded Hypervisor (Optional)
- VMware Infrastructure 3, standard or enterprise; with VMware® vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX® 4.1 or VMware ESXi™ 4.1)
Citrix XenServer Dell Express & Enterprise Editions*
Storage
- Up to two Hot-Swappable Internal Drives:
2.5" SAS (10K rpm): 73GB* , 146GB*, 300GB*, 600GB*
2.5" SAS (15K rpm): 36GB*, 73GB* or 146GB*
25GBGB* or 50GBGB* Solid State Drive (SSD)
Maximum Internal Storage
Up to 600GB* per blade via two 2.5" 300GB* hot-swappable SAS (10k rpm) hard drives
External Storage:
Disk Storage Options
Dell/EMC products:
Dell/EMC fibre channel and/or iSCSI external storage, including Dell/EMC CX300, CX3-10c , CX3-20, CX3-40, and CX3-80; CX4-120, CX4-240, CX4-480 and CX4-960
Drive Bays
- Two 2.5” Hot-Swappable SAS/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.
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
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
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
- ATI RN50 (32MB Memory)
Chassis
- The PowerEdge M905 blade server only fits in the M1000e blade enclosure. A total of 8 x M805/M905’s or 16 x M600/M605’s can fit into every M1000e enclosure. Full height and half height blades can be mixed in M1000e enclosures with no limitations.
M905 physical dimensions:
Height: 38.5cm (15.2 in)
Width: 5cm (2 in)
Depth: 48.6cm (19.2 in)
Weight (Maximum Configuration): 11.1kg (24.5lb)
Full height blade fits inside the M-1000e Blade Chassis
Maximum of 8 per blade chassis
Management
- Dell OpenManage™ software tools
IT Assistant-manage multiple Dell servers from a single console
OpenManage Server Administrator - 1:1 monitoring agents
Integration with 3rd party management solutions via Dell’s Certified Partner Program
Altiris Deployment Solution for Dell Blade Servers
Designed to help reduce deployment time from hours to minutes
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 (virtual media) Map media from remote workstation/network to the blade
vKVM (virtual KVM) out of band remote console, supports Java or ActiveX plug-ins
IPMI 2.0 support
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)
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Virtualization Solutions
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter
What if you could manage your physical infrastructure from your virtual console?
What if you could rapidly and consistently provision hardware and deploy virtual machines from within VMware vCenter?
What if you could reduce the number of steps needed to deploy virtual infrastructure?
With the Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter installed in your VMware environment, you can:
• Get deep-level detail from Dell servers for inventory, monitoring and alerting— all from within vCenter
• Deploy BIOS and firmware updates to Dell servers from within vCenter
• Build hardware and hypervisor profiles and deploy any combination of the two on bare-metal Dell PowerEdge servers without a preboot execution environment (PXE)
• Automatically perform Dell-recommended vCenter actions based on Dell hardware alerts
• Access Dell hardware warranty information online
And, to give you even more power, we deliver our plug-in as a virtual appliance. That makes it easier to deploy and configure and offers integration directly into the vCenter console, providing more information inside of vCenter itself — unlike many other vendors who provide only "link-and-launch" capabilities to point to their own proprietary consoles.
The combination of the Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter and the revolutionary embedded management features offered by Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller in Dell PowerEdge servers gives you an unmatched level of integration between vCenter and your server hardware.