Dell PowerEdge M620 Technical Manual

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26 PowerEdge M620 Technical Guide7 Networking and mezzanine cardsThe Dell PowerEdge M620 offers balanced, scalable I/O capabilities, including integrated PCIe 3.0capable mezzanine card slots. Dell Select Network Adapters, Dell’s network daughtercards, let youchoose the right network fabric without using up a valuable mezzanine card slot. Pick the speed,technology, vendor, and other options such as switch independent partitioning, which let you shareand manage bandwidth on 10GbE connections.Installation of mezzanine cards requires an M1000e I/O module (IOM) of the same fabric technologyto be installed in the corresponding fabric slot of the mezzanine to support data flow through thatfabric or slot.Select Network AdaptersThe Select Network Adapter family is purpose-built and includes flexible LAN on motherboard (LOM)card options for Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers. The Select Network Adapter form factordelivers the value of LOM integration with the system, including BIOS integration and shared port formanageability while providing the flexibility of a modular card.The PowerEdge M620 supports one custom network daughtercard (NDC), as part of Select NetworkAdapters family, to house the complete LOM subsystem. There are two form factors of SelectNetwork Adapters — one for blade servers and one for rack servers. The blade networkdaughtercard options supported on the M620 provide dual-port 10GbE interfaces.Figure 5. Blade network daughtercard (NDC)