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Product Comparison
1.1
Overview
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 is a half-height blade server that offers a robust and scalable enterprise
platform that can help you simplify and save on IT expenses.
1.1.1
Strong IT Foundation
To build the most efficient data center solutions, Dell sought input from IT professionals. You asked
for reliability, scalability, energy efficiency, and a lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Our M610
blade servers deliver, becoming the cornerstone of a high-performance data center capable of
keeping pace with your changing business demands.
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Purposeful Design
Designed with your needs in mind, the M610 uses the Intel
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Xeon
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processor 5500 and 5600 series.
These processors adapt to your software in real time, processing more tasks simultaneously. Using
Intel
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Turbo Boost Technology, the M-Series blades can increase performance during peak usage
periods. When demand decreases, Intel
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Intelligent Power Technology helps reduce operating costs
and energy usage by proactively putting your server into lower power states.
The M610 delivers quick virtualization with software from leading industry vendors by offering
optional integrated SD storage or internal USB for embedded hypervisors, and includes the features
necessary to meet the demands for performance, high availability and redundancy in modern data
centers, such as a large memory capacity of up to 192 GB of total RAM.
1.1.3
Scalability for Growth
As your application needs increase, M610 blades allow you to scale up to 192 cores and 3072 GB of
memory per 10U chassis, with opportunities for even greater capacities in the future.
To keep pace with changing requirements, you can effectively scale I/O application bandwidth with
end-to-end 10 Gbe or Fibre Channel solutions. Use NPIV and Port Aggregator modes on a variety of
switches to virtualize Ethernet or Fibre Channel ports for integration into heterogeneous fabrics. By
harnessing Dell’s FlexIO modular switches, you can cost-effectively scale your I/O needs, adding
ports and functionality through expansion modules—including 10 Gb uplinks and stacking ports—
instead of needing to buy complete new switches. Dell provides a range of solutions for building on
your investment to avoid costly ―rip and replace‖ scenarios.
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Smart Investment
The M610 is a foundational component of smart M-Series blade solutions that can help protect your
infrastructure investments, simplify your IT environment, and drive real and sustainable savings in
power efficiency and productivity. Features include:
A future-ready, passive midplane capable of supporting multiple generations of blade servers
and a full array of upcoming I/O technologies
FlexIO eliminates ―rip and replace‖ blade switch upgrades; modularity is built into the
switches
FlexAddress™ technology simplifies efforts and interactions between server and networking
teams by providing slot-assigned, persistent WWN/iSCSI/MAC addresses for maintenance,
without additional management tools or proprietary hardware
