Dell PowerEdge M910 Blade Server

PowerEdge M910

The PowerEdge™ M910 is an Intel® processor-based high-performance 4-socket full-height blade server ideal for organisations that require maximum performance and scalability for core applications while minimizing their power and physical space

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Powerful, Scalable and Compact

The PowerEdge™ M910 was designed to meet the needs of nearly any IT environment. Built with powerful Intel® Xeon® 7500 series processors and advanced systems management capabilities, the M910 is ideal for the demanding applications at the core of most data centers.
Dell™ FlexMem Bridge technology allows the M910 to seamlessly scale from 4GB to 512GB of DDR3 RAM in either two-socket or four-socket configurations. This patent pending technology allows Dell to deliver a unique platform that can grow as your needs dictate.
By delivering these capabilities in a blade server, Dell allows your organisation to add significant performance in an exceptionally energy efficient and easily managed form factor. With eight four-socket servers per 10U of rack space, the M910 offers more than 3 times the density of traditional 4U rack-optimised four-socket servers.

Focused on Quality and Reliability

The PowerEdge™ M910 utilises the redundant power, cooling and networking infrastructure provided by the Dell M1000e blade enclosure. The PowerEdge M910 itself incorporates additional features designed for maximum protection against potential downtime, such as the ability to support three fully redundant fabrics per blade and the inclusion of a dual-media redundant embedded hypervisor.

The PowerEdge M910 also utilises Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series which are designed to automatically monitor, report, and recover from hardware errors in order to maintain data integrity and keep mission-critical services online.

Like all Dell PowerEdge servers, the M910 is manufactured with our one-touch factory build process. This process is designed to ensure just one person is responsible for the entire server build, resulting in greater quality control. In addition, every fully configured Dell server is tested (and retested) before it leaves the factory to ensure maximum reliability.

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.

TheDell 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 manual processes so less time and money can be spent keeping the lights on and more time can be spent on strategic uses of technology.

Lifecycle Controller is the engine for advanced systems management integrated on the server. Lifecycle Controller is designed to simplify 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 can eliminate the need to use and maintain multiple pieces of disparate CD/DVD media.
The Dell Unified Server Configurator delivers a single access point for secure, efficient and user-friendly infrastructure management. Embedded and integrated into the system, it provides quick and consistent access, excellent flexibility and advanced capabilities. With built-in driver installations, firmware updates, hardware configuration and diagnostics, the USC tool is a one-stop shop for operating system deployment.

Processor

Up to two, eight-core Intel^® Xeon^® processors 6500 series
Up to four, eight-core Intel^® Xeon^® processors 7500 series
Up to four, ten-core Intel^® Xeon^® processors E7-2800, E7-4800 and E7-8800 product family

Processor Sockets

2 or 4

Operating System

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™ 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^® E 7510

Memory*

1GB*/2GB*/4GB*/8GB*/16GB* ECC DDR3
Support for up to 512GB* using 32 x 16GB DIMMs

Embedded Hypervisor (Optional)

VMware vSphere ESX and ESXi

Storage

Hot-plug Hard Drive Options:
2.5" SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K), nearline SAS (7.2K)

Drive Bays

Two 6 cm (2.5") Hot-Swappable SAS/Solid State Drives

I/O Mezzanine Card Options

Fully populated mezzanine card slots and switch modules will yield 3 highly available, redundant I/O fabrics per 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)
Intel Dual Port 10Gb Ethernet
Broadcom Dual Port 10Gb Ethernet (BCM-57711)

10Gb Enhanced Ethernet and Converged Network Adapters (CEE/DCB):
Intel Dual Port 10Gb Enhanced Ethernet (FCoE Ready for Future Enablement)
Emulex® Dual Port Converged Network Adapter (OCM10102-F-M)—Supports CEE/DCB 10GbE + FCoE
QLogic® Dual Port Converged Network Adapter (QME8142)—Supports CEE/DCB 10GbE + FCoE
QLogic Dual Port Converged Network Adapter (QME8242-k)—Supports 10GbE + NPAR
Brocade® BR1741M-k Dual-Port Mezzanine CNA

Fibre Channel:
QLogic Dual Port FC16 HBA (QME2662)
Emulex Dual Port FC16 HBA (LPm16002B-D)
QLogic Dual Port FC8 HBA (QME2572)
Emulex Dual Port FC8 HBA (LPe1205-M)
Emulex 8 or 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Pass-Through Module

InfiniBand:
Mellanox® ConnectX®- 3 Dual Port FDR10
Mellanox ConnectX-2 Dual-Port QDR

RAID Controllers

PERC H200 Modular RAID Controller (6Gb/s)
PERC H700 Modular RAID Controller (6Gb/s) with 512MB battery-backed cache; 512MB, 1G Non-Volatile battery-backed cache

Communications

Two embedded Broadcom NetExtreme II Dual Port 5709S Gigabit Ethernet NICs with failover and load balancing.
TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) supported on Microsoft Server 2003 SP1 or higher with Scalable Networking Pack. iSCSI Offload supported on Windows Server 2003 SP1 or higher, Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. Scalable Networking Pack for Windows 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

Video Card

Matrox G200eW w/ 8MB memory

Chassis

Rack Support
Supplied by Dell’s M1000e Blade Chassis

Availability
Hot-plug hard drives, ECC memory, redundant embedded hypervisor, Intel Xeon 7500 & 6500 series processors with enhanced RAS features

Management

Dell OpenManage^® software tools
Dell Management Console
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)
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
Microsoft^® System Center Essential (SCE) 2010 v2

Remote Management

iDRAC6 Enterprise (standard)

Systems Management

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

Environmental Operating Conditions

Temperature:

Operating: 10º C to 35º C (50º F to 96º F)
Storage: -40º C to 65º C (-40º F to 149º F)

Humidity:

Operating: 20% to 80% (non-condensing)
Storage: 5% to 95% (non-condensing)

Vibration:

Operating: 0.26 Grms at 5-350Hz in operational orientations
Storage: 1.54 Grms at 10-250Hz in all orientations

Shock:

Operating: Half sine shock in all operational orientations of 31 G +/- 5% with a pulse duration of 2.6ms +/- 10%
Storage: Half sine shock on all six sides of 71 G +/- 5% with a pulse duration of 2 ms +/- 10%

Altitude:

Operating: -15.2m to 3048 m (-50 to 10,000 ft)
Storage: -16 to 10,600m (-50 ft 35,000 ft)

Regulatory

Regulatory Model: FHB
Regulatory Type: FHB002
Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page
Dell and the Environment

With Dell Compellent™ , Dell EqualLogic™ , Dell PowerVault™ , and Dell/EMC, 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. Learn More
	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. Learn More
	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. Learn More
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Dell can offer, via Local Partners, a wide range of Services to suit you and your business. Extensions to the parts or exchange warranty, upgrades to any service level required, International warranty, Installation Services, and other competitive items are available. Dell can also offer Custom Factory Integration (CFI) to customise hardware settings and add Asset Services.

Please contact your Local Partner for further information.

A Smarter Path to Virtualization

Understanding how to effectively apply virtualization in such a rapidly changing market can be challenging. Dell helps you address your needs today without limiting your options tomorrow. With architecture and management strategies grounded in open standards, Dell enables a modular approach to infrastructure scaling.

Tap into our extensive pool of virtualization expertise, innovative tools and automated analysis to help you quickly assess your environment and plan a virtualized infrastructure that meets your specific needs.

Your complete solution for Oracle^® Database environments

We're your source for the entire Oracle Database solution-including servers, storage, systems management, operating systems, services, support, and the complete line of Oracle software. The entire solution stack is tested and supported by Dell - and we offer services to help you accelerate deployment.
Servers: The Dell PowerEdge Server family provides outstanding performance and value, proven by multiple TPC price/performance leadership proof-points. With multi-core processors, you could have dramatic system performance increases.
Storage: Your mission-critical data can be protected with Dell. With multiple storage offerings comprised of our Dell / EMC, PowerVault and EqualLogic brands, users can scale from the smallest departmental database to the largest global enterprise.
Dell storage arrays are ideally suited for Oracle environments because they deliver high data availability and replication, powerful storage management and exceptional performance and affordability with choices including SAS, SATA and Fibre Channel.
Software: Dell offers tested and validated solutions for the Oracle Database on both Microsoft^® Windows^® and Linux^® operating systems. These operating systems can ship from Dell factories pre-installed on the server. Additionally, Oracle Database, Technology Applications and Business Applications are available directly from Dell.
Systems Management: Dell OpenManage gives you a flexible way to manage and update your Oracle Database environment using a common tool set from a single console that supports both Linux and Windows. OpenManage offers integrated deployment, monitoring, and change-management capabilities that update server software, operating systems, databases, and applications.
Services: Dell offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to help you assess, design and implement an Oracle Database solution, efficiently and cost-effectively. All services are delivered through Dell, offer a single point of accountability, and offer the combined expertise of Dell, Microsoft, Red Hat and Oracle Consulting Services (OCS).

Microsoft Exchange 2010

Deploying Microsoft^® Exchange 2010 on the latest generation of Dell servers and storage can offer your organization advanced user productivity on a significantly more efficient infrastructure.
As mobile access and global workforces become the norm, enterprises must stay abreast of constantly changing challenges surrounding data access, operational efficiency, security, and data protection. Enterprises are implementing comprehensive, integrated, end-to-end messaging solutions that incorporate not only e-mail but also voicemail, instant messaging, and web and audio video conferencing. With a wide array of new features and capabilities specifically designed to help enterprises address these imperatives, Dell and Microsoft^® Exchange Server 2010 are evolving to address today’s messaging needs.
Dell’s experience migrating millions of Exchange mailboxes gives your business seamless, customized deployments backed by world-class training, service and support. Our worldwide services network encompasses 52,000 technologists in 180 countries who have helped with the migrations of over 4 million Exchange and Active Directory^® users.

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.