Dell M910 manual

PowerEdge M910 Name 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.[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 1 Dell, PowerEdge , EqualLogic, Pow erVault, OpenMa nage, and ReadyRails are trademarks of Dell, Inc. Citrix ® and XenS erver™ are trademarks of Citrix Syst ems, Inc. and/or one or more of its su bsidiaries, and may be regist ered in the United Stat es Patent and Trad emark Office and in other countries [...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 2 Table of Contents 1 Product Compa rison ........................................................................................... 5 1.1 Overview .................................................................................................. 5 1.2 Product Compa rison ..................................[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 3 8 Chipset ................................................................................................ ........ 25 8.1 Intel 7500 I/O Hu b (IOH) .............................................................................. 25 8.2 IOH QuickPat h Interconnect (QP I) ....................................[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 4 Table 5. Processo r Cache Sizes (P ackage LGA15 67) ...................................................... 18 Table 6. Supp orted Processors ................................................................ ............... 19 Table 7. Pow erEdge M910 Spa ring and Mirroring .................................[...]

1 Product Compari son 1.1 Overview The Dell™ Po werEdge™ M -Series bla de servers a re designed t o help cut ope rating expense s through energy efficien cy, scalabilit y, product flexibility, and efficient use of da ta center spa ce. The PowerEd ge M910 pro vides signifi cant performance and reliabi lity in a scala ble, full-height, four- sock[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 6 Product document ation is ava ilable at suppo rt.dell.com . Informatio n for the chassis can be fo und in the PowerE dge M1000e Techn ical Guide . 1.2 Product Comparison Table 1. Product Compari sons Feature /Spec M910 M710 R810 R910 Processor 4 Socket Intel ® Xeon ® processor 6500 and 7500 series 2 Soc[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 7 Feature /Spec M910 M710 R810 R910 Server Management iDRAC6 Enterpris e CMC (on M1000e) iDRAC6 Enterprise (Both) standard CMC (on M1000e) iDRAC6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise Optional iDRAC6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise Optional Mezz Slots 4 x8 PCIe Mezzanine Cards 1 x 4 and 3 x 8 PCIe Mezzanine Cards 6 x PCIe 5 [...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 8 2 New T e chnologies 2.1 Overview The PowerEdge M910 server includes the follo wing new features :  Intel Xeon Processo r 7500 Series (4s) and Intel Xe on Processor 6500 Series (2s) 4- , 6 -, and 8 - core processors  Intel 7500 Chips et  FlexMem Bridge  IO Hub (IOH) with Int el ® QuickPa th A[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 9 2.2.6 PCI Express Gener ation 2 PCI Express is a se rial point ‐ to ‐ point interconn ect for I/O devices. PCIe Gen2 do ubles the sign aling bit rate of each lane f rom 2.5 Gb/s to 5 Gb/s. Ea ch of the PCIe Gen2 po rts is backwards ‐ compat ible wit h Gen1 transfer rates. 2.2.7 Internal Redundan t S[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 10 3 System Informat ion 3.1 Overview The PowerEdge M910 is an innova tive blade design tha t allows scali ng from 2 to 4 socket s (no single or 3 socket support) bas ed on a new ge neration of Intel four-socket enha nced processors, RAM, and managemen t while stil l taking advantage of th e M1000e chassis [...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 11 Intel ® Dual-Port 10 Gb Ethernet Broadcom ® Dual -Port 10Gb Ether net (BCM- 57711) 10Gb Enhanced Ethernet & Converged Network Adap ters (CEE/DCB ): Intel ® Dual-Port 10 Gb Enhanced Ethe rnet (FcoE Ready f or Future Enablement) Emulex ® Dual-Port C onverged Netwo rk Adapter (OC M10102 -F- M) — S[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 12 4 Mechanical 4.1 Overview The M910 is a full hei ght blade server that requires an M1000e chassis (shown in Figure 1 ) to ope rate. Figure 1. M1000e It occupies 2 slot s in the M10 00e rack chassis for a maxim um of 8 blades in one M1000e chassis. I t can be mixed with o ther exist ing Dell blade s and i[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 13 Figure 2. Internal Mod ule View 4.4 Security Configurable clien t IP address rang e for clients c onnecting to iDRAC6. 4.5 Cover Latch The blade mo dule includes a latch for the cover. See Openi ng and Closing the Blade in the Dell PowerEdg e Modular System s Hardware Ow ner’s Manual for more inform at[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 14 4.7 Power Off Security Through the CMC, the front USB’s and po wer but ton can be disabl ed so as to not allow any cont rol of the system from the front o f the blade. 4.8 USB Key The M910 suppo rts the follow ing USB devices: • DVD (bootabl e; requires tw o USB ports) • USB Key (boot able) • Key[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 15 5 Oper at ing, Thermal, and Acoustic 5.1 Overview of Operating and Storage Conditions Table 3. Operating and Storage Con ditions Temperature Operating 10 o to 35 o C (50 o to 95 o F) with a maxi mum temperat ure gradation of 10o C per hour NOTE: For altitudes a bove 2950 feet, the maximum operating tempe[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 16 5.2 Acoustics Adherence to Dell’ s hig h sound qualit y standard s. Sound quality is different from sound pow er level and sound pressu re level in t hat it describes how humans respond to ann oyances in soun d, like whistles, hu ms, etc. One of the so und quality metrics in the Dell sp ecificat ion is[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 17 5.3 Thermal The M910 the rmal solution include s:  Optimized airflo w impedance fo r individual blade and chass is level airflo w balancing  Custom a ir baffling direct s airflow thro ugh the compone nts to mainta in proper cooling  Custom-de signed heat sinks maintain CP U, IOH, and Intel 7500 [...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 18 6 Processors 6.1 Ove rview The Intel Xeon processo r 6500 and 7500 series 4S (Expand able Processor) is the micropro cessor designed specifi cally for servers and w orkstat ion applicatio ns. The process or features qua d-c ore processing to m aximize perform ance and perfor mance/wa tt for data center i[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 19 • Intel ® 64 Techno logy • Intel ® VT ‐ x and VT ‐ d Techn ology for virtu alization suppo rt • Enhanced Intel ® Sp eedStep Techno logy • Demand ‐ ba sed switching for active CP U power m anagem ent as well as su pport for ACPI P ‐ St at es, C ‐ States, and T-States 6.3 Supported Pro[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 20 memory buffers asso ciated wit h the two po pulated sockets woul d be connected, and therefore o nly 16 DIMMs would be accessib le. To overcome this li mitation wit h 2 CPUs, the M910 us es the FlexMem Bri dge which allo ws CPU1 and CPU2 to conne ct to the memory of the ir respective ad jacent sockets (C[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 21 7 Memory 7.1 Overview The PowerEdge M910 uses DDR3 memory provid ing a hi gh-performance, hi gh-speed memory in terface capable of low la tency respo nse and high t hroughput. The PowerEd ge M910 supports Registered E CC DDR3 DIMMs (RDIMM) only. Each DDR3 DIMM is driven by the Intel ® 7500 Scalable Mem [...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 22 7.2 DIMMs Supported If DIMMs of different speeds are mi xed, all chann els operat e at the fast est common frequency. UDIMMs are not supported. The first D IMM slot in each channel is colo r ‐ coded with white ejectio n tabs for ease of ide ntificat ion. The M910’s DIMM so ckets are pla ced 0.40‖ a[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 23 7.5.2 Mirroring For mirroring, t he M910 w ill support 2P/4 P configuratio ns with 32 DIMMs only. When m irroring is enabled, only ha lf of the physical me mory will be visible to the system softw are. A full copy of the memory is main tained, and in the event of an un correctabl e error, the sy stem wil[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 24 7.5.3 Supported Me mory Configurations Table 8. Supported Memor y Confi gurations config # Technology DIMM Capacity Qty of DIMMs System Capacity # of CPUs Rank Sparing? Mirror Support? Memory Ranks 1 RDIMM 1 GB 4 4 GB 2 N N 1 2 RDIMM 1 GB 8 8 GB 4 N N 1 3 RDIMM 2 GB 8 16 GB 2 & 4 N N 2 4 RDIMM 4 GB 8[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 25 8 Chipset The PowerEdge M910 system bo ard incorporates the Intel ® 7500 chips et for I/O and processo r interfacing. The 7500 chipset is de signed to su pport Intel ® Xeon ® processor 6500 and 7500 series 4S family, Intel ® QPI Inter connect, DDR3 mem ory techno logy, and PCI Exp ress Generatio n 2 [...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 26 • M910 has three external USB ports and one interna l ports dedicated for UIPS/RIPS and embedded st orage • Power mana gement int erface (ACPI 3.0b compl iant) • Platform En vironmental Control Interface (PECI) • Intel ® Dynam ic Power Mode Mana ger • I/O interrupt cont roller • SMBus 2.0 co[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 27 9 BIOS 9.1 Overview The PowerEdge M910 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and suppo rts the follow ing features: • IA ‐ 32 Intel Xeon 7500 chipset 4S • Simultane ous Multi ‐ Threading (SMT ) • CPU Turbo Mode • PCI 2.3 • Plug n’ Play 1.0a • MP (Multiprocesso r) 1.4 • Boot from hard d[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 28 10 Embedded Gigabit Ethernet Controllers on Mot herboard (LOM) Two embedd ed Broadcom ® 5709 S dual-port LAN control lers are on the Pow erEdge M910 system bo ard as independen t Gigabit Ethernet interface devices . The followin g informatio n details the features of the LAN devices: • X2 PCI Express [...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 29 11 I/O Mezzanine Card Options 11.1 Overview The M910 contain s four PCIe Gen2 me zzanine sl ots. Install ation of mezzanine cards requires an M1000e I/O Module ( IOM) of the sam e fabric techn ology to be installed in the correspo nding fabr ic slot of the me zzanine to support dat a flow throug h that f[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 30 12 Stor age 12.1 Drives The PowerEd ge M910 supports up to two 2.5‖ SAS ha rd disk drives. • 2.5" SAS (10K rpm ): 146GB, or 300GB • 2.5" SAS (15K rpm ): 73GB or 146GB • 2.5‖ SAS (7.2k rpm ): 500GB • 2.5‖ SSD: 50GB o r 100GB 12.2 Hard Disk Drive Carriers The PowerEdge M910 supports[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 31 12.5 RAID Configurations Table 9. RAID Configurat ions Hot Plug Min HDs Max HDs Configs Description Factory 0 N 0 0 ZERO Diskless Configuratio n, No daughtercard  1 N 1 2 ASSN SAS drives using SAS6/ IR or H200 daughtercard with no RAID  2 N 2 2 ASSR0 SAS drives using th e SAS6/IR or H200 daughterca[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 32 12.6.2 PERC6/i For customers who want a hardw are RAID solut ion, the PERC6i is availabl e as an optiona l customer kit. The PERC6i uses the LSI 1078 ROC (RAID on C hip) processor with a PC I Express host int erface and DDR2 memory. A bat tery is a vailable wit h this card. 12.6.3 PERC H2 00 The M910 sup[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 33 13 Video (PCI Video) The PowerEdge M910 Integrated Dell Remot e Access Cont roller 6 (iDRAC6) incorpo rates an integra ted video subsy stem connected to the 32-bit PCI interface of the ICH10. Thi s logic is ba sed on the Matrox ® G200. The device only su pports 2D graphics. The integrat ed video core sh[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 34 14 Rack Information For informatio n on rack and cable ac cessories fo r the M910, see the Pow erEdge M1000e Techn ical Guide and the M1000e Rack and Cable Adv isor Too l .[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 35 15 Oper atin g Systems The PowerEdge M910 is designed to meet the MSFT WinLogo 3.0 desig n specificatio ns. For the most up - to -date informat ion, see the Operating Sy stem Supp ort Matrix for Del l PowerEdge Systems on Dell.com.[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 36 16 Virtualization 16.1 Overview Table 12. Virtuali zation Software Hypervis or Factory Install Certification VMware ® ESX/ESXi™ 3.5U5 DIB/ FI /NFI Yes VMware ® ESX/ESXi™ 4.0U1 DIB/ FI /NFI Yes Windows Server ® 2008 R2 with Hyper-V ™ FI Yes, included in Win dows Server 2008 R2 WHQL proc ess Citri[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 37 The follow ing platforms have been certified by S calent:  Nov 2009: 2970, R610, R710, M100 0E, 1955, M605, M610, M710 , and M905.  April 2010: R810 , R815, R910, and M9 10. More informat ion can be foun d at www.dell.com/a im . 16.3 Vizioncore Vizioncore's easy- to -use vi rtualizatio n softw[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 38 17 Systems Management 17.1 Overview Dell aims on deli vering open, flexible, and integr ated solut ions that help you reduce the complexit y of managing disparate IT asset s by building comprehensive IT managem ent solut ions. Combini ng Dell PowerEdge Se rvers with a w ide selection o f Dell-developed m[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 39 17.3 Embedded Server Management The PowerEd ge M 910 implements circuitry fo r the next generation of Em bedded Server Mana gement . It is Intelligent Platform Mana gement Interface ( IPMI) v2.0 compl iant. Th e optiona l iDRAC (Integrated Dell Remote Access Co ntroller) is resp onsible fo r acting as an[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 40 17.5 The iDRAC6 Enterprise In addition to upgrading the sy stem wit h a Lifecycle Controller, t he iDRAC6 offers the following key features: • Graphical web int erface • Standard-ba sed interfaces • Server Sensor monit oring and fault alerting • Secure operation o f remote access fun ctions in cl[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 41 Feature BMC iDRAC6 Enter prise vFlash Media Server power contro l    Serial-over-LAN (with proxy)    Serial-over-LAN (no proxy)   Power capping   Last crash scree n capture   Boot capture   Serial-over- LAN   Virtual media   Virtual console   Vi[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 42 18 P eripher als 18.1 USB peripherals The PowerEdge M910 provi des an internal USB connector for a USB flash mem ory key. The USB memory key can be us ed as a boo t device, securi ty key, or mass storage device. 18.2 External Storage By use of the app ropriate IOMs in the M1 000e ch assis and m ezzanine [...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 43 Regulatory Certi fications and St andards Compli ance Appendix A. Please see the ext ernal Product Safet y, EMC, and En vironmenta l Datasheets on dell .com at: http://ww w.dell.com/regula tory_complia nce_datashee ts The M910 syst ems conform to the in dustry standards sh own in Table 15. Table 15. Indu[...]

Dell Dell PowerEd ge M910 Technical Guide 44 Standard URL for information and specifications USB Universal Serial Bus Specification, Rev. 2.0 http://www.usb.org/d evelopers/docs/ Windows Logo Windows Logo Program System and Device Requirements, v3.10 http://www.microso ft.com/whdc/wi nlogo/hwrequireme nts. mspx[...]

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