Dell PowerEdge M820 Technical Manual

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5 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide1 System overviewIntroductionThe Dell™ PowerEdge™ M820’s scalability makes it a perfect fit for core business applications orconsolidated workloads. Virtual environments supporting large numbers of sizeable virtual machineswill find the M820 a perfect choice. With up to four Intel® Xeon® E5-4600 processors and up to1.5TB of RAM per node — 12TB of memory in just a single M1000e chassis — the M820’s remarkablecomputational capability and memory scalability can address even the toughest demands. WithDell’s Select Network Adapter, you can fully customize the I/O capabilities of the M820 to match thenetworking technology that’s right for your applications.Ensure business continuityEnsure maximum uptime with the fully redundant M-series power, cooling and networkinginfrastructure designed to provide the stability and resiliency our customers demand forenterprise-class deployments. The M820’s design matches Dell’s commitment to reliability withfeatures such as multiple hardware RAID choices and our unique failsafe virtualization technology,which utilizes redundant SD media to provide failover capabilities for embedded hypervisors.Simplified systems management, without compromiseThe Dell OpenManage™ portfolio includes Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7)with Lifecycle Controller. This embedded feature helps IT administrators manage Dell servers inphysical, virtual, local and remote environments, operating in-band or out-of-band, with or withouta systems management software agent installed. OpenManage iDRAC with Lifecycle Controllerintegrates and connects to leading third-party systems management solutions (such as those fromMicrosoft, VMware and BMC Software), so users can maintain a single point of control and capitalizeon an existing systems management investment. OpenManage simplifies the lifecycle of deploying,updating, monitoring and maintaining Dell PowerEdge servers.The PowerEdge M-series blade server lineImplement the right combination of features and performance scalability with the PowerEdgeM-series blade servers that can handle tough workloads in a data center of any size. In addition tothe world-class management features provided in all PowerEdge servers, the M820 also takesadvantage of the capabilities of the M1000e’s Chassis Management Controller (CMC). The CMCallows M-series blades to be managed individually or as groups, in single or multiple chassis, andwithin a data center or in multiple geographically dispersed locations around the globe withoutrequiring an agent or additional hardware. PowerEdge M-series blade servers use the redundantpower, cooling and networking infrastructure provided by the Dell M1000e blade enclosure, whichis exceptionally easy to deploy and manage and maximizes power and cooling efficiency.