Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft® Windows Server® 2016 Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server Red Hat® Enterprise Linux VMware® ESX®
Up to 3TB (48 DIMM slots): 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB/64GB DDR4 up to 2400 MT/s
Storage
Hot-plug hard drive options: PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD, SATA HDD/SSD or SAS HDD/SSD
Management
Systems management: IPMI 2.0 compliant Dell OpenManage Essentials Dell OpenManage Mobile Dell OpenManage Power Center Remote management iDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller, iDRAC8 Express (default), iDRAC8 Enterprise (upgrade) 8GB vFlash media (upgrade), 16GB vFlash media (upgrade)
Dell OpenManage Integrations: Dell OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft® System Center Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware® vCenter™
Dell OpenManage Connections: HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli® Netcool® and CA Network and Systems Management Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Oracle® Database Manager
Chassis
Form factor: Full-height blade with up to 8 nodes in a M1000e chassis; up to 2 nodes in VRTX converged infrastructure
Blade Server Dimensions: Height: 15.2 inch (197.92 mm) Width: 2 inch (50.35 mm) Depth: 19.2 inch (564.9 mm)