Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 Technical Guidebook
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610
The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space. When combined with Dell’s world-class storage, management, and support offerings, the result is a total enterprise solution that can help you simplify and save on IT expenses.
Strong IT Foundation
To build the most efficient data center solutions, Dell sought input from IT professionals. You asked for reliability, scalability, energy efficiency, and a lower total cost of ownership. Our next-generation M610 blade servers deliver, becoming the cornerstone of a high-performance data center capable of keeping pace with your changing business demands.
Purposeful Design
Designed with your needs in mind, these M-Series blades use the Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series Processor. This processor series adapts to your software in real time, processing more tasks simultaneously. Using Intel Turbo Boost Technology, the M-Series blades can increase performance during peak usage periods. When demand decreases, Intel Intelligent Power Technology helps reduce operating costs and energy usage by proactively putting your server into lower power states.
To enhance virtualization and database performance, the M610 is designed with 50% more memory capacity than its predecessor. This increased memory capacity saves money by enabling you to use smaller, less-expensive DIMMs to meet your computing needs.
Scalability for Growth
As your application needs increase, M-Series blades allow you to scale up to 128 cores and 1536GB of memory per 10U chassis, with opportunities for even greater capacities in the future. To keep pace with changing requirements, you can effectively scale I/O application bandwidth with end-to-end 10Gbe or FC8 solutions. Virtualize I/O within your M-Series chassis using Cisco’s Virtual Blade Switch technology, and manage up to nine Cisco Ethernet switches as a single switch.
Additionally, use NPIV and Port Aggregator modes on a variety of switches to virtualize Ethernet or Fibre Channel ports for integration into heterogeneous fabrics. By harnessing Dell’s FlexIO modular switches, you can scale your I/O needs cost effectively, adding ports and functionality through switch modules, including 10Gb uplinks and stacking ports instead of needing to buy complete new switches.
Simplified Systems Management
Gain more control with the next-generation Dell OpenManage™ suite of management tools. These tools provide enhanced operations and standards-based commands designed to integrate with existing systems for effective control. Dell Management Console (DMC) helps simplify operations and creates stability by shrinking infrastructure management to a single console. This delivers a single view and
a common data source for your entire infrastructure management. Built on Symantec® Management Platform, it has an easily extensible, modular foundation that can provide basic hardware management all the way up to more advanced functions, such as asset and security management. Dell Management Console reduces or eliminates manual processes, enabling you to save time and money for more strategic technology usage.
The Dell Management Console integrates with the Chassis Management Controller allowing a single view of the chassis. The DMC allows the customer to manage the chassis as one entity, further simplifying management.
