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Technical Guide

The M910 is ideal

for the demanding

applications at the

core of most data

centers, such as

large databases,

virtualization and

messaging

infrastructure.

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PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide Name The M910 is ideal for the demanding applications at the core of most data centers, such as large databases, virtualization and messaging infrastructure.
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Dell Table of Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 Product Comparison ........................................................................................... 6 1.1 Overview .................................................................................................. 6 1.2 Powerful Performance................................................................................... 6 1.3 Scaling Capability ........................................................................................ 6 1.
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Dell 6.5 FlexMem Bridge ........................................................................................ Memory ........................................................................................................ 7.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 7.2 DIMMs Supported ....................................................................................... 7.3 DIMM Slots ......................................................
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Dell 18.2 External Storage........................................................................................ Appendix A. Certifications ..................................................................................... A 1. Regulatory Certifications ............................................................................. A 2. Product Safety Certifications ......................................................................... A 3. Electromagnetic Compatibility ...............................
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Dell 1 1.1 Product Comparison Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M-Series blade servers are designed to help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, scalability, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space.
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Dell resulting in greater quality control. In addition, every fully configured Dell server is tested (and re-tested) before it leaves the factory to ensure maximum reliability. Product documentation is available at Support.Dell.com/Manuals. Information for the chassis can be found in the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide. 1.5 Product Comparison Table 1.
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Dell Feature M910 M710 R810 R910 Integrated Standard Hard Drive Controller PERC H200/H700 (factory installed) and PERC6 as custom kit PERC H200/H700 PERC H200/H700 PERC6/i PERC H200/H700 Optional Hard Drive Controller H200/H700 Integrated controller (battery backup for the H700 and PERC6/i options only) SAS6/iR PERC6/i with RAID battery PERC H800 or 6Gbps SAS PERC H800 or 6Gbps SAS Server Management iDRAC6 Enterprise, BMC, IPMI 2.
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Dell Feature M910 M710 R810 R910 Power Supplies See the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide See the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide Hot-plug, redundant 4 x 750W (Energy Smart) or 4 x 1100W (high-output) PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide 9
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Dell 2 Key Technologies 2.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 implements a number of new technologies:   Intel® Xeon® E7-2800, E7-4800, and E7-8800 product family Intel 7510 Chipset The PowerEdge M910 also implements the following key technologies:       2.2 2.2.
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Dell 3 System Information 3.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 is an innovative blade design that allows scaling from two to four sockets (no single- or 3-socket support) based on a new generation of Intel four-socket enhanced processors, RAM, and management while still taking advantage of the M1000e chassis architecture. Along with the M1000e chassis, the PowerEdge M910 server leads the industry in high speed, redundant IO throughput and power efficiency with more RAM slots in the 2-socket space.
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Dell Feature Dell PowerEdge M910 Brocade® BR1741M-k Dual-Port Mezzanine CNA Fibre Channel: QLogic Dual-Port FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (QME2572) Emulex Dual-Port FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (LPe1205-M) Emulex 8 or 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Pass-Through Module InfiniBand™: Mellanox® Dual-Port ConnectX™ Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand Operating Systems Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V™) Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V v2) M
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Dell 4 Mechanical 4.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 is a full-height blade server that requires an M1000e chassis to operate. The M910 occupies two slots in the M1000e rack chassis for a maximum of eight blade servers in one M1000e chassis. The M910 can be mixed with other existing Dell blades and is designed to mix with possible future half-height-double-wide and full-height-double-wide blades.
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Dell 4.3 Front View and Features Figure 1 shows the front view of the M910. Figure 1. Front View See the Blade Features section in the About Your System chapter of the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals for more information.
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Dell 4.4 Back View and Features Figure 2 shows the back view of the M910. Figure 2. Back View See the Blade Features section in the About Your System chapter of the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals for more information. 4.5 Power Supply Indicators The power supplies must be connected to a power distribution unit (PDU), and not directly to an electrical outlet. The power supplies require a 200V–240V power source.
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Dell 4.7 Internal-Chassis View Figure 3 shows the internal-chassis view of the M910. Figure 3. Internal Chassis View 4.8 Rails and Cable Management See the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide. 4.9 Fans For detailed information, see the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. 4.10 Cabling For detailed information, see the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual or the Rack Installation Guide on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. 4.
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Dell 4.13 Cover Latch The blade module includes a latch for the cover. See the Opening and Closing the Blade section of the Installing Blade Components chapter in the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals for more information. 4.14 TPM (Trusted Platform Module) The TPM is used to generate/store keys, protect/authenticate passwords, and create/store digital certificates.
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Dell 5 Power, Thermal, and Acoustic 5.1 Power Efficiency One of the main features of blade servers is enhanced power efficiency. The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 achieves higher power efficiency by implementing the following features: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 5.
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Dell 5.3 Acoustics Table 3 shows the acoustical performance for a typical configuration of the M1000e chassis with four PowerEdge M910 blade servers installed. Acoustical performance varies with hardware configurations. Table 3. Acoustical Performance of M1000e Chassis with Four M910 Blades Installed Typical Configuration (per blade) @ 23±2°C Ambient in M1000e Chassis Processors 2 x Intel E7540 (105W) Hard Drives 2 x 2.
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Dell Maximum Shock Operating Half sine shock in all operational orientations of 31G +/- 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.
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Dell 6 Processors 6.1 Overview The Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family and the Intel Xeon processor 6500 and 7500 series are designed specifically for servers and workstation applications. The processors feature quad-core processing to maximize performance and performance/watt for data center infrastructures and highly dense deployments. These processors also feature Intel Core™ micro-architecture and Intel 64 architecture for flexibility in 64-bit and 32-bit applications and operating systems.
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Dell 6.4 Model Speed TDP Power Cache Cores QPI Speed E7540 2.00GHz 105W 18M 6 6.4GT/s E6540 2.00GHz 105W 18M 6 6.4GT/s E7530 1.86GHz 105W 12M 6 5.86GT/s E6510 1.73GHz 105W 12M 4 4.8GT/s L7555 1.86GHz 95W 24M 8 5.86GT/s L7545 1.86GHz 95W 18M 6 5.86GT/s E7520 1.86GHz 95W 18M 4 4.8GT/s Processor Configurations The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 is designed to support either a dual processor configuration with FlexMem Bridge or a four-processor configuration.
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Dell Buffer Buffer FlexMem Bridge Buffer Buffer PROC1 IOH FlexMem Bridge Buffer Buffer Figure 4. PROC2 Buffer Buffer FlexMem Bridge Routing Modern processors are capable of tremendous workloads, and many types of utilization patterns such as virtualization often run into memory capacity issues well before the processors reach a saturation point. FlexMem Bridge technology was designed to assist in environments that have workloads that are memory intensive.
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Dell 7 Memory 7.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 uses DDR3 memory providing a high-performance, high-speed memory interface capable of low-latency response and high throughput. The M910 supports Registered ECC DDR3 DIMMs (RDIMM) only. Each DDR3 DIMM is driven by the Intel® 7500 Scalable Memory Buffer (SMB). A memory buffer has two DDR3 channels. Each of these channels can support up to 2 DIMMs running at 1067 MHz (or slower) speeds. The Intel 7500 SMB supports single-, dual-, and quad-rank DIMMs.
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Dell 5.86 GT/s, and 6.4 GT/s with 11 Southbound lanes (9 data + 1 CRC + 1 spare) and 14 Northbound lanes (12 data + 1 CRC + 1 spare). The DDR3 interface supports x4 and x8 single-rank, dual-rank, and quad-rank RDIMMs, and up to 2 RDIMMS per channel. Each DDR3 channel supports a maximum of 8 ranks. DDR3 speeds are 800 MHz, 978 MHz, and 1066 MHz. DRAM technology comes in 1 and 2Gb sizes. DIMM capacity is 2, 4, 8, or 16 GB (16 GB with QR DIMMS only). 7.
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Dell 8 Chipset The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 system board incorporates the Intel® 7510 chipset for I/O and processor interfacing. The 7510 chipset is designed to support the Intel Xeon® E7-8800, E7-4800, and E7-2800 product family, Intel Xeon processor 6500 and 7500 series, Intel QPI Interconnect, DDR3 memory technology, and PCI Express Generation 2 (PCIe Gen2). The 7510 chipset consists of the IOH QuickPath Interconnect (QPI), Intel 7500 Scalable Memory Buffer, and the ICH10 South Bridge. 8.
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Dell • • • • • • • 8.6 Power management interface (ACPI 3.0b compliant) Platform Environmental Control Interface (PECI) Intel Dynamic Power Mode Manager I/O interrupt controller SMBus 2.
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Dell 9 9.1 BIOS Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and supports the following features: • IA‐32 Intel Xeon 7510 chipset 4S • Simultaneous Multi‐Threading (SMT) • CPU Turbo Mode • PCI 2.3 • Plug-and-play 1.0a • MP (Multiprocessor) 1.4 • Boot from hard drive, optical drive, iSCSI drive, USB key, and SD card • ACPI • Direct Media Interface (DMI) • PXE and WOL support for on‐board NICs • Memory mirroring and sparing • SETUP access through key at end of POST • USB 2.
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Dell 10 Embedded Gigabit Ethernet Controllers on Motherboard (LOM) Two embedded Broadcom® 5709S dual-port LAN controllers are on the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 system board as independent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices.
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Dell 11 I/O Mezzanine Card Options 11.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 contains four PCIe Gen2 mezzanine slots. Installation of mezzanine cards requires an M1000e I/O Module (IOM) of the same fabric technology to be installed in the corresponding fabric slot of the mezzanine to support data flow through that fabric/slot. For more information, refer to the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide. 11.
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Dell 12 Storage 12.1 Hard Drives The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 supports up to two 2.5‖ SAS SSD, SATA SSD, or nearline SAS hard disk drives. See Table 11 for information on supported hard drives. For the most up-to-date information on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com. Table 11. Supported Hard Drives Form Factor Capacity Speed Type 2.5‖ 50GB, 100GB N/A SATA SSD 2.5‖ 73GB, 146GB 15K SAS 2.5‖ 146GB, 300GB, 600GB, 900GB 10K SAS 2.5‖ 500GB, 1TB 7.2K nearline SAS 12.
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Dell Table 12. # HotPlug Factory RAID Configurations Min. Max.
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Dell 12.6.3 PERC H200 The M910 supports the PERC H200, which offers a battery-backed cache. Details of the PERC H200 can be found on Support.Dell.com. 12.6.4 PERC H700 The M910 also supports the PERC H700. Details of the PERC H700 can be found on Support.Dell.com. It offers a battery-backed cache. 12.7 LED Indicators Each disk drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the system. One is a green LED for disk activity and the other is a bicolor (green/amber) LED for status.
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Dell 13 Video The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) incorporates an integrated video subsystem connected to the 32-bit PCI interface of the ICH10. This logic is based on the Matrox® G200. The device only supports 2D graphics. The integrated video core shares its video memory with the iDRAC6’s 128 MB DDR2 application space memory. This memory is also used for the KVM buffer. The M910 system supports the following 2D graphics video modes: Table 14.
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Dell 14 Rack Information For information on rack and cable accessories for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910, see the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide and the M1000e Rack and Cable Advisor Tool.
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Dell 15 Operating Systems The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 is designed to meet the MSFT WinLogo 3.0 design specifications. For the most up-to-date information, see the Operating System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Systems on Dell.com.
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Dell 16 Virtualization 16.1 Overview Table 15 lists the virtualization software supported by the M910. For the most current information, see Support.Dell.com, which also has extensive information designed to help configure virtualization software with Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers. Table 15. Virtualization Software Hypervisor Factory Install Certification VMware® ESX/ESXi™ 3.5U5 DIB/FI/NFI Yes VMware® ESX/ESXi™ 4.
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Dell 16.3 Vizioncore Vizioncore's easy-to-use virtualization software products support business continuity and disaster recovery, high availability, monitoring, automation, P2V and optimization. The software is agent-less and can co-exist with other leading backup software vendors, or be used as a standalone solution.  vRanger™ Pro is a backup and restore solution for virtualized environments.
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Dell 17 Systems Management 17.1 Overview Dell aims on delivering open, flexible, and integrated solutions that help you reduce the complexity of managing disparate IT assets by building comprehensive IT management solutions. Combining Dell PowerEdge Servers with a wide selection of Dell-developed management solutions gives you choice and flexibility, so you can simplify and save in environments of any size.
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Dell 17.3 Embedded Server Management The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 implements circuitry for the next generation of Embedded Server Management. It is Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) v2.0 compliant. The optional iDRAC (Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller) is responsible for acting as an interface between the host system and its management software and the periphery devices.
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Dell 17.
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Dell Feature Base Management Functionality iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media Remote Firmware Update    Server power control    Serial-over-LAN (with proxy)    Serial-over-LAN (no proxy)   Power capping   Last crash screen capture   Boot capture   Serial-over-LAN   Virtual media   Virtual console   Virtual console sharing    Virtual flash   Real-time Power Monitoring   Real-time Power Graphing   Historical Power Counters   
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Dell 18 Peripherals 18.1 USB peripherals The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 provides an internal USB connector for a USB flash memory key. The USB memory key can be used as a boot device, security key, or mass storage device. 18.
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Dell Appendix A. Certifications A 1. Regulatory Certifications Regulatory compliance certificates can be located at the following sites:   http://ausreactorprd01/reactor/xCertSearch.asp http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/about_dell/values/regulatory_compliance /dec_conform?c=us&l=en&s=corp A 2. Product Safety Certifications The product has been certified and bears the Mark, as applicable, of the Product Safety authorities as indicated in Table 18. Table 18.
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Dell A 3. Electromagnetic Compatibility The product has been certified and bears the Mark, as applicable, of the EMC authorities as indicated in Table 19. Table 19. B 1.
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Dell Appendix B. Industry Standards The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 system conforms to the industry standards detailed in Table 21. Table 21. Industry Standards Standard URL for Information and Specifications ACPI Advance Configuration and Power Interface Specification, v2.0c http://www.acpi.info/ ENERGY STAR® EPA Version 1.0 of the Computer Server specification http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=archives.enterprise _servers Ethernet IEEE 802.3-2005 http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.3.
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Dell Standard URL for Information and Specifications USB Universal Serial Bus Specification, Rev. 2.0 http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ Windows Logo Microsoft® Windows® Logo Program System and Device Requirements, v3.10 http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winlogo/hwrequirements.