Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide - Page 6

Dell 1 Product Comparison 1.1 Overview With PCI Express® (PCIe) expansion options and a feature rich Chassis Management Controller, the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610x allows you to efficiently run applications, consolidate your data center, and simplify data management. The PowerEdge M610x enables you to incorporate a vast array of PCIe-based products into the blade chassis framework with enough power and cooling to efficiently deploy even the most feature-rich, expansion-card-based solutions. With the addition of the PCIe expansion module, the PowerEdge M610x blade server is an ideal solution for organizations that need maximum flexibility and performance with high reliability. Maximized PCIe Generation 2 (Gen2) expansion is finally realized within a blade. 1.1.1 Unparalleled PowerEdge Flexibility The PowerEdge M610x PCIe expansion module includes two full-length x16 PCIe Gen2 slots with supplemental power connectors that enable maximum wattage for one 300W dual-slot card or two 250W single-slot cards. These PCIe slots are capable of supporting everything from H-series external RAID controllers to general-purpose computing-on-graphics processing units (GPGPU). Now, a single M610x, equipped with a NVIDIA® Tesla™ or AMD ATI FirePro™ GPU card, can perform over 400 Gigaflops of double-precision computations for demanding, floating-point-intensive workloads. Communication between the host system and the GPU processors is maximized by providing x16 PCIe Gen2 bandwidth, while the efficient Dell M1000e chassis powers and cools the solution to its maximum 247 W TDP (Thermal Design Power). 1.1.2 Uncompromised Performance The PowerEdge M610x is an energy-efficient, optimized full-height two-socket server for virtualization and database applications. Additional manageability features make it easy to use, manage and deploy. As an ideal PCIe Host server, the M610x features the reliability of two 2.5‖ SAS or SSD hot-swappable hard drives and the I/O throughput of a dual-port embedded gigabit NIC and two additional network daughtercards. Intel® Xeon® processors 5600 series, plus up to 192 GB of DDR3 memory, offer high performance with low-power consumption for a variety of dense-environment workloads. The Platinum level (+94%) powered and modularly cooled PCIe expansion module delivers up to 8 GB per second of application throughput. 1.1.3 Simplified Systems Management Spend more time on your business and less on maintaining your IT with embedded system management features on the PowerEdge M610x and the Chassis Management Controller (CMC). Simplified server and chassis management is achieved through automated discovery that automates configuration of new hardware through a one-to-many relationship and enables pre-provisioning of LAN/SAN resources. In addition, one-to-many updating through the CMC and Virtual File Share simplifies the update process for BIOS, firmware and drivers without additional software. Proactive management provides immediate access to system status, issues and alerts through a single, easy-to-use interface that includes one-click key functions to help quickly resolve issues. Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 6