Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 Technical Guidebook
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The PowerEdge M610 BIOS does not support the following:
 •EmbeddedDiagnostics(embeddedinMASER)
 •BIOSlanguagelocalization
 •BIOSrecoveryafterbadash(butcanberecoveredfromiDRAC6Express)
b. i2c (inter-integrated circuit)
What is I2C? A simple bi-directional 2-wire bus for ecient inter-integrated circuit control. All I2C-bus
compatible devices incorporate an on-chip interface which allows them to communicate directly with
each other via the I2C-bus. This design concept solves the many interfacing problems encountered when
designing digital control circuits. These I2C devices perform communication functions between
intelligent control devices (e.g., microcontrollers), general-purpose circuits (e.g., LCD drivers, remote I/O
ports, memories) and application-oriented circuits.
sectiOn 9. eMbeDDeD nics/lOMs
a. Overview/Description
Embedded Gigabit Ethernet Controllers with TCP Ooad Engine (TOE) support
One embedded dual-port Broadcom 5709C LAN controller is on the PowerEdge M610 planar as an independent
Gigabit Ethernet interface device. The following information details the features of the LAN devices.
 •x4PCIExpressGen2capableinterface
  •TheM610operatesthiscontrolleratGen1speed
 •IntegratedMACandPHY3072x18bytecontextmemory
 •64KBreceivebuer
 •TOE(TCPOoadEngine)
 •iSCSIcontroller(enabledthroughanoptionalhardwarekey)
 •RDMAcontroller(RNIC)(enabledpost-RTSthroughanoptionalhardwarekey)
 •NC-SI(NetworkController-SidebandInterface)connectionformanageability
 •Wake-On-LAN(WOL)
 •PXE2.0remoteboot
 •iSCSIboot
 •IPv4andIPv6support
 •Baremetaldeploymentsupport
 •ISCSIooad-UsedforooadingiSCItracasaniSCSIaccelerator/HBA
sectiOn 10. MeZZanine caRD slOts
a. Overview/Description
The PowerEdge M610 contains 2 PCIe x8 Gen 2 mezzanine card slots. Each card is a dual port.
Every M610 blade can support up to 4 I/O ports (2 from each of the 2 mezzanine cards) plus the
two integrated NIC/LOM ports. PLEASE NOTE: For space, the size of new mezzanine cards has been
reduced and in the M610 only ONE of some older size cards can fit. Fabric C can fit any card. Fabric B
can NOT fit: FC4 HBAs, Infiniband HCAs or Broadcom 5708 1Gb NICs. Mezzanine card options include:
 •EmulexandQLogicdual-port8GbFCHBA
 •Broadcom5709dual-portGbEthernetw/TOEandiSCSIooad
  •SupportsIPv6ooads,improvedvirtualizationperformance,enables
M610 to support 2 Ethernet mezzanine cards, and lowers power consumption
 •MellanoxConnectXdual-portDoubleDataRate(DDR–20Gbps)InnibandHCAor
QuadDataRate(QDR–40Gbps)HCA
 •Broadcomdual-port10GbEthernetw/TOEandiSCSIooad