Dell PowerEdge M710 Technical Manual

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Dell PowerEdge M710 Technical Guide 92 Key Technologies2.1 OverviewThe Dell™ PowerEdge™ M710 is a full-height blade server with the following features: Dual quad-core or six-core Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 and 5600 series DDR3 memory PCI Express Generation 2 (PCIe Gen2) Optional redundant, mirrored SD cards iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash media2.2 Dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core and Six-Core ProcessorsThe Intel Xeon processor 5500 and 5600 series features quad-core and six-core processing tomaximize performance and performance/watt for data center infrastructures and highly densedeployments. The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series 2S family of processor also features Intel Core™micro-architecture and Intel 64 architecture for flexibility in 64-bit and 32-bit applications andoperating systems.2.3 DDR3 MemoryThe M710 uses DDR3 memory which provides a high-performance, high-speed memory interfacecapable of low latency response and high throughput. The M710 supports registered ECC DDR3 DIMMs(RDIMMs).The DDR3 memory interface consists of three channels, with up to three RDIMMs per channel forsingle/dual rank and up to two RDIMMs per channel for quad rank. The interface uses 2 GB, 4 GB,8 GB, or 16GB RDIMMs. The memory mode is dependent on how the memory is populated in thesystem.2.4 PCI Express Generation 2PCIe is a serial point‐to‐point interconnect for I/O devices. PCIe Gen2 doubles the signaling bit rateof each lane from 2.5 Gb/s to 5 Gb/s. Each of the PCIe Gen2 ports is backwards‐compatible withGen1 transfer rates.2.5 Redundant Internal SD ModuleThe Internal SD Module is dedicated for an SD Flash Card with embedded Hypervisor forvirtualization. The SD Flash Card contains a bootable OS image for virtualized platforms.The persistent storage solution on the M710 allows for redundant SD cards.2.6 iDRAC6 EnterpriseThe iDRAC6 Enterprise feature set is a managed persistent storage space for server provisioning data.It consists of 1 GB flash and vFlash (an optional externally accessible SD card). vFlash offers thehot-plug portability and increased storage capacity benefits of SD while still being managed by thesystem.