Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Manual

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1 Product Comparison1.1 OverviewWith PCIe expansion options and a feature rich Chassis Management Controller, the Dell™PowerEdge™ M610x allows you to efficiently run applications, consolidate your data center, andsimplify data management.The PowerEdge M610x enables you to incorporate a vast array of PCIe-based products into the BladeChassis 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 PowerEdgeM610x blade server is an ideal solution for organizations that need maximum flexibility andperformance with high reliability. Maximized Gen2 PCIe expansion is finally realized within a blade.1.1.1 Unparalleled PowerEdge FlexibilityThe PowerEdge M610x PCIe expansion module includes two full-length x16 PCIe Gen2 slots withsupplemental power connectors that enable maximum wattage for one 300W dual-slot card or two250W single-slot cards. These PCIe slots are capable of supporting everything from H-series externalRAID controllers to general-purpose computing-on-graphics processing units (GPGPU).Now, a single M610x, equipped with a NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPGPU card, can perform over 400 Gigaflops ofdouble-precision computations for demanding, floating-point-intensive workloads. Communicationbetween the host system and the Tesla processors is maximized by providing x16 Gen2 PCIebandwidth while the efficient Dell M1000e chassis powers and cools the solution to its maximum247W TDP (Thermal Design Power).1.1.2 Uncompromised PerformanceThe PowerEdge M610x is an energy-efficient, optimized full-height two-socket server forvirtualization 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‖ SASor SSD hot-swappable hard drives and the IO throughput of a dual-port embedded gigabit NIC and twoadditional network daughtercards. Intel® Xeon® processors 5600 series, plus up to 192GBs of DDR3memory, offer high performance with low power consumption for a variety of dense-environmentworkloads. The Platinum level (+94%) powered and modularly cooled PCIe expansion module deliversup to 8 Gigabytes per second of application throughput.1.1.3 Simplified Systems ManagementSpend more time on your business and less on maintaining your IT with embedded systemmanagement features on the PowerEdge M610x and the Chassis Management Controller (CMC).Simplified server and chassis management is achieved through automated discovery which automatesconfiguration of new hardware through a one-to-many relationship and enables pre-provisioning ofLAN/SAN resources.In addition, one-to-many updating through the CMC and Virtual File Share simplifies the updateprocess for BIOS, firmware and drivers without additional software. Proactive management providesimmediate access to system status, issues and alerts through a single, easy-to-use interface thatincludes one-click key functions to help quickly resolve issues.