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PowerEdge M610x

Technical Guide

PCIe expansion
capabilities in the
PowerEdge M610x
bring a new
dimension of
flexibility and
performance to the
Dell M-Series.

Summary of Contents for PowerEdge M610x

Page 1: ...PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide PCIe expansion capabilities in the PowerEdge M610x bring a new dimension of flexibility and performance to the Dell M Series ...

Page 2: ... and or other countries Mellanox and ConnectX are registered trademarks of Mellanox Technologies Inc Novell and SUSE are registered trademarks of Novell Inc in the United States and other countries PCI Express is a registered trademark of PCI SIG Red Hat is a registered trademark of Red Hat Inc in the United States and other countries Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds NVIDIA is a r...

Page 3: ... 14 4 10 Field Replaceable Units 15 4 11 User Accessible Jumpers Sockets and Connectors 15 5 Power Thermal Acoustic 16 5 1 Power Supplies 16 5 2 Power Efficiency 16 5 3 Thermal Operating and Storage Specifications 16 5 4 Acoustics 17 6 Processors 19 6 1 Overview 19 6 2 Features 19 6 3 Supported Processors 20 6 4 Processor Installation 21 7 Memory 22 7 1 Overview 22 7 2 DIMMs Supported 22 7 3 Memor...

Page 4: ...6 16 2 Advanced Infrastructure Manager by Scalent 36 17 Systems Management 37 17 1 Overview 37 17 2 Server Management 37 17 3 Embedded Server Management 38 17 4 Lifecycle Controller and Unified Server Configurator 38 17 5 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 39 17 6 iDRAC6 Enterprise 39 17 7 iDRAC6 Enterprise with Virtual Flash vFlash Media 39 17 8 Chassis Management Controller CMC 41 18 Perip...

Page 5: ...agement Documentation and Information 37 Table 10 Unified Server Configurator Features and Description 38 Table 11 Features List for Base Management Functionality iDRAC and vFlash Media 39 Table 12 PowerEdge M610x Statement of Volatility 43 Table 13 Product Safety Certifications 49 Table 14 Electromagnetic Compatibility Certifications 50 Table 15 Ergonomics Acoustics and Hygienics 50 Table 16 Indu...

Page 6: ...by providing x16 PCIe Gen2 bandwidth while the efficient Dell M1000e chassis powers and cools the solution to its maximum 247 W TDP Thermal Design Power 1 1 2 Uncompromised Performance The PowerEdge M610x is an energy efficient optimized full height two socket server for virtualization and database applications Additional manageability features make it easy to use manage and deploy As an ideal PCI...

Page 7: ... GB DIMMS Form Factor Full Height Blade Dual Socket Expansion module Half Height Blade Dual Socket Half Height Blade Dual socket Full Height Blade Dual Socket HDD Bays 2 5 only SAS Two hot pluggable 2 5 SATA One 2 5 SAS Two hot pluggable 2 5 SSD SATA Two 2 5 SAS Four hot pluggable 2 5 SSD SATA Two 2 5 HDD Types SAS SSD HDD Controller PERC Η200 PERC Η700 PERC Η800 SAS6 Ε PERC H200 PERC Η700 PERC 6 ...

Page 8: ...ith TOE plus optional iSCSI accelerator Four 1 GbE dual Broadcom BCM5709S Four TOE with optional iSCSI offload USB Two external USB 2 0 ports at front bezel One internal USB port Three external USB 2 0 ports at front bezel One internal USB port SD Card Two One for Persistent Storage One for Management Two One for Persistent Storage One for Management Two internal SD slots One for Persistent Storag...

Page 9: ...d and six core Intel Xeon processor 5500 and 5600 series Intel IOH 24D I O Hub Intel QuickPath Architecture DDR3 memory DIMM thermal sensors PCI Express Generation 2 Internal SD Module iDRAC6 Express The M610x incorporates the system board of the M610 plus a PCI module two x16 PCIe slots The module s 2nd Generation expansion slots can accommodate any standard full length or full height PCIe card S...

Page 10: ...e card Fusion io 640 GB ioDrive Duo PCIe solid state storage card Fusion io 320GB ioDrive Mono PCIe solid state storage card Fusion io 640GB ioDrive Mono PCIe solid state storage card Fusion io 1 28TB ioDrive Duo PCIe solid state storage card Maximum Internal Disk Storage Up to 1 8 TB using two 2 5 900 GB hot plug SAS hard drives RAID Controller Options PERC H200 Modular RAID Controller 6 Gb s PER...

Page 11: ...tional add in HBAs See I O Mezzanine Card Options PCIe Expansion Bay Two 2nd generation full length x16 slots with supplemental power for either two cards at 250 W draws or one card at a 300 W draw Supported GPU Options NVIDIA Tesla M2050 204 448 core double width PCIe card with 3GB of memory NVIDIA Tesla M2070 M2070Q 448 core double width PCIe card with 6GB of memory AMD FirePro V7800P 1 440 core...

Page 12: ...nutes Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller iDRAC Out of Band alerting status inventory and troubleshooting via Secure Web GUI CLI telnet SSH Console Redirection vMedia virtual media Map optical or hard drives to the blade from remote workstations over a network vKVM virtual KVM out of band remote console redirection supports Java or ActiveX plug ins IPMI 2 0 support Power Supply Supplied by De...

Page 13: ... to mix with possible future half and full height double wide blades Some highlights are Two full size standard PCIe x16 Front cable access provided for add in cards Support for RAID Support for persistent storage internal USB connector and two external SD card slots Refer to the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide for information on fans power and power supply racks security and other chassis inform...

Page 14: ... to generate store keys protect authenticate passwords and create store digital certificates TPM can also be used to enable the BitLocker hard drive encryption feature in Windows Server 2008 TPM is enabled through a BIOS option and uses HMAC SHA1 160 for binding TCM is available in China 4 7 Power Off Security Through the BIOS the front blade server USB ports and power button can be disabled so as...

Page 15: ...o contain Field Replaceable Units FRU information including Dell part number part revision level and serial number 4 11 User Accessible Jumpers Sockets and Connectors For information see the System Board Information chapter in the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner s Manual on Support Dell com Manuals ...

Page 16: ...Ability to turn off embedded NICs or PCIe lanes when not being used Energy Smart components at the M1000e chassis level to selectively enable more computing performance with less power consumption 5 3 Thermal Operating and Storage Specifications The M610x thermal solution includes Optimized airflow impedance for individual blade and chassis level airflow balancing Custom air baffling directs airfl...

Page 17: ... in all operational orientations of 31 G 5 with a pulse duration of 2 6 ms 10 Storage Half sine shock on all six sides of 71 G 5 with a pulse duration of 2 ms 10 Altitude Operating 15 2m to 3048 m 50 to 10 000 ft Note For altitudes above 2950 ft the maximum temperature is derated 1o F 550 ft Storage 16 to 10 600 m 50 to 35 000 ft Airborne contaminant level Class G1 or lower as defined by ISA S71 0...

Page 18: ...installed Acoustical performance varies with hardware configurations Table 4 Acoustical Performance of M1000e Chassis with Four M610x Blades Installed Typical Configuration per blade 23 2 C Ambient in M1000e Chassis Operating Mode LwA UL bels Processors Hard Drives DIMMs Mezzanine Cards Two Intel Xeon E5620 80W Two SAS 2 5 146 GB 15 K 12 4GB DDR3 Two dual port GbE FC Idle 8 2 ...

Page 19: ... QuickPath DDR3 memory controller 64 byte cache line size RISC CISC hybrid architecture Compatible with existing x86 code base MMX support Execute Disable Bit Intel Wide Dynamic Execution Executes up to four instructions per clock cycle Simultaneous Multi Threading SMT capability Support for CPU Turbo Mode on certain SKUs Increases CPU frequency if operating below thermal power and current limits ...

Page 20: ...ed Encryption Security New Instructions No No Yes Intel Virtualization Technology Yes Yes Yes Intel 64 Yes Yes Yes Intel Hyper Threading Technology No Yes Yes Socket LGA771 LGA1366 LGA1366 6 3 Supported Processors Table 6 Supported Processors Model Speed TDP Power Cache Cores Max Memory Speed QPI Link Speed Turbo Mode Enabled Hyper threading X5690 3 46 GHz 130 W 12 M 6 1333 MT s 6 4 GT s Yes Yes X...

Page 21: ... Yes Yes E5630 2 53 GHz 80 W 12 M 4 1066 MT s 5 86 GT s Yes Yes E5620 2 4 GHz 80 W 12 M 4 1066 MT s 5 86 GT s Yes Yes L5630 2 13 Ghz 40 W 12 M 4 1066 MT s 5 86 GT s Yes Yes L5609 1 86 GHz 40 W 12 M 4 1066 MT s 4 8 GT s No No X5560 2 8 GHz 95 W 8 M 4 1333 MT s 6 4 GT s Yes Yes E5530 2 4 GHz 80 W 8 M 4 1066 MT s 5 86 GT s Yes Yes L5520 2 26 GHz 60 W 8 M 4 1066 MT s 5 86 GT s Yes Yes E5507 2 13 GHz 8...

Page 22: ... with each other by having the cache line split across both channels This mode provides improved RAS features SDDC support for x8 based memory o For Memory Mirroring two channels operate as mirrors of each other write functions go to both channels and read functions alternate between the two channels One channel per CPU populated This is a simple Memory Optimized mode No mirroring or sparing is su...

Page 23: ...on x4 or x8 devices Support for Closed Loop Thermal Management on RDIMMs and UDIMMs Multi Bit Error Detection Support for Memory Optimized Mode Support for Advanced ECC mode Support for Memory Mirroring Memory sparing is not supported on 5500 series processors It is supported on systems using 5600 series processors While 800 MT s DIMMs are not supported the installation of two quad rank 1066 MT s ...

Page 24: ...10x Technical Guide 24 Table 7 Maximum Supported Memory Frequencies DIMM Type DIMM 0 DIMM 1 of DIMMs 800 1066 1333 UDIMM SR 1 DR 1 SR SR 2 SR DR 2 DR DR 2 RDIMM SR 1 DR 1 QR 1 SR SR 2 SR DR 2 DR DR 2 QR SR 2 QR DR 2 QR QR 2 ...

Page 25: ...orts Polarity Inversion and Lane Reversal for optimizing component placement and routing The Link layer is responsible for flow control and the reliable transmission of data The Routing layer is responsible for the routing of QPI data packets Finally the Protocol layer is responsible for high level protocol communications including the implementation of a MESIF Modify Exclusive Shared Invalid Forw...

Page 26: ...orts for internal and external use Power management interface ACPI 3 0b compliant Platform Environmental Control Interface PECI I O interrupt controller SMBus 2 0 controller Low Pin Count LPC interface to Trusted Platform Module TPM and SPI VU Serial Peripheral Interface SPI support for up to two devices The M610x BIOS is connected to the ICH9 using SPI 8 2 5 PCI Express Mezzanine Connectors The P...

Page 27: ...al drive iSCSI drive USB key and SD card ACPI support Direct Media Interface DMI support PXE ISCSI and WOL support for on board NIC Memory mirroring SETUP access through F2 key at end of POST USB 2 0 USB boot code is 1 1 compliant F1 F2 error logging in CMOS Virtual KVM CD and floppy support Unified Server Configurator UEFI 2 1 support Power management support including DBS Power Inventory and mul...

Page 28: ...perates this controller at Gen1 speed Integrated MAC and PHY 3072x18 Byte context memory 64 KB receive buffer TOE TCP Offload Engine NC SI Network Controller Sideband Interface connection for manageability Wake On LAN WOL PXE 2 0 remote boot iSCSI boot IPv4 and IPv6 support Bare metal deployment support ISCSI offload accelerator used for offloading ISCSI traffic as an ISCSI accelerator HBA Optiona...

Page 29: ...ards H800 controller 6GB SAS controller Fusion io cards drop in the box Fusion io 160GB ioDrive PCIe solid state storage card Fusion io 320GB ioDrive PCIe solid state storage card Fusion io 640GB ioDrive PCIe solid state storage card Fusion io 640GB ioDrive Duo PCIe solid state storage card Fusion io 1 28TB ioDrive Duo PCIe solid state storage card NVIDIA cards cards installed drivers available on...

Page 30: ...ication performance reduces latency and simplifies IT infrastructure Fusion io products Integrate with servers at the system bus and kernel level creating a new Flash memory tier Accelerate applications improves response times and boosts efficiency Reduce storage latencies and eliminates I O bottlenecks Deliver the performance of thousands of disk drives in a single server ...

Page 31: ...tem supports diskless configuration with no storage controller H200 PERC 7i installed in the system A 2 5 hard drive backplane is installed in this configuration 12 5 Hard Drive LED Indicators Each disk drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the system One is a green LED for disk activity and the other is a bicolor Green Amber LED for status information The activity LED is ...

Page 32: ...ts the latest SAS solution called H200 12 7 4 H700 and H800 The M610x supports the latest PERC solutions the H700 and H800 Details of the PERC H700M can be found in the PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guidebook Both offer a battery backed cache 12 8 LED Indicators Each disk drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the system One is a green LED for disk activity and the other is ...

Page 33: ... of the ICH9 This logic is based on the Matrox G200 with 8 MB of cache The device only supports 2D graphics The M610 system supports the 2D graphics video modes listed in Table 8 Table 8 Supported Video Modes Resolution Refresh Rate Hz Color Depth bit 640 x 480 60 72 75 85 8 16 32 800 x 600 56 60 72 75 85 8 16 32 1024 x 768 60 72 75 85 8 16 32 1152 x 864 75 8 16 32 1280 x 1024 60 75 85 8 16 1280 x...

Page 34: ...owerEdge M610x Technical Guide 34 14 Rack Information For information on rack and cable accessories for the Dell PowerEdge M610x see the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide and the M1000e Rack and Cable Advisor Tool ...

Page 35: ...al Guide 35 15 Operating Systems The Dell PowerEdge M610x is designed to meet the MSFT WinLogo 3 0 design specifications For the most up to date information see the Operating System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Systems on Dell com ...

Page 36: ...that can be dynamically reconfigured and deployed to meet the changing needs of today s data center environment Specifically AIM provides IT professionals the ability to Combine new and existing networking storage devices and servers into a holistic computing solution that enables dynamic allocation of resources to meet application workload requirements Manage physical and virtual resources with a...

Page 37: ...tility SBUU Assists in OS install and pre OS hardware configuration and updates Server Update Utility SUU Provides an inventory tool for managing updates to firmware BIOS and drivers for either Linux or Windows varieties OpenManage Server Administrator OMSA Provides a comprehensive one to one one console to one server systems management solution designed for system administrators to manage systems...

Page 38: ...management is comprised of interdependent pieces Dell Lifecycle Controller Unified Server Configurator iDRAC6 Dell Lifecycle Controller powers the embedded management features It includes integrated and tamper proof storage for system management tools and enablement utilities firmware drivers etc Lifecycle Controller enables pre OS server deployment OS installation platform updates platform config...

Page 39: ...planar with stand offs Key features for the iDRAC6 Enterprise include Scripting capability with Dell s Racadm command line Remote video keyboard and mouse control with Virtual Console Remote media access with Virtual Media Dedicated network interface 17 7 iDRAC6 Enterprise with Virtual Flash vFlash Media The iDRAC6 Enterprise can be upgraded by adding the vFlash media card This is an 8 GB Dell bra...

Page 40: ...thentication Role based Authority Local Users Active Directory SSL Encryption Remote Management and Remediation Remote Firmware Update Server power control Serial over LAN with proxy Serial over LAN no proxy Power capping Last crash screen capture Boot capture Serial over LAN Virtual media Virtual console Virtual console sharing Virtual flash Monitoring Sensor Monitoring and Alerting Real time Pow...

Page 41: ...10x Technical Guide 41 Feature Base Management Functionality iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media Logging Features System Event Log RAC Log Trace Log 17 8 Chassis Management Controller CMC See the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide ...

Page 42: ...SB mouse is supported 18 2 External Storage By use of the appropriate IOMs in the M1000e chassis and mezzanine card s in the M610x blade the following external storage options are available Disk Storage Options o Dell EqualLogic PS5000 Series o PowerVault NX1950 Unified Storage Solution o PowerVault MD3000i Dell EMC fibre channel and or iSCSI external storage including o CX300 o CX3 10c o CX3 20 o...

Page 43: ...code Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation No How is data input to this memory Flashed in the factory or using Dell flash utility How is this memory write protected Software write protected System FRU Details Size 256 Kb Type Serial I2C EEPROM nonvolatile Purpose This chip stores some system configuration information system type board PPID information etc C...

Page 44: ...l Flash Purpose TOE iSCSI Offload Licensing Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation No Does it retain data when powered off Yes How is data input to this memory Serial write through external interface during factory process How is this memory write protected None Server Video Memory Details Size 64 M x16 Type DDR2 SDRAM Purpose Graphics Buffer Can user progra...

Page 45: ...ot code that is used by the iDRAC6 Enterprise management controller Also contains the Life Cycle Log which contains server management data unique to the run time events of the server itself Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation No How is data input to this memory Flashed in the factory or using Dell flash utility Also written to by the iDRAC6 Enterprise con...

Page 46: ...el and other data for system management Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation Yes under software control How is data input to this memory I2C bus from the iDRAC How is this memory write protected Only the iDRAC can write to the chip EDID FRU Details Size 2 Kb 256 bytes Type Serial I2C EEPROM nonvolatile Purpose Stores active video disply information Can use...

Page 47: ...ailable to customers is needed to flash the application code How is data input to this memory Dedicated interface to the PCIe switch How is this memory write protected Only the PCIe can write to the chip Midplane Interface Card FRU Details Size 2 Kb 256 bytes Type Serial I2C EEPROM nonvolatile Purpose Stores system configuration information system type board PPID information etc Can user programs ...

Page 48: ...Dell Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 48 How is this memory write protected Software control ...

Page 49: ...n certified and bears the Mark as applicable of the Product Safety authorities as indicated in Table 13 Table 13 Product Safety Certifications Country Region Authority or Mark Argentina IRAM Belarus BELLIS Canada SCC China CNCA or CCC Croatia KONCAR European Union CE Germany TUV IECEE IECEE CB Israel SII Kazakhstan OTAN CKT Kenya KEBS Kuwait KUCAS Mexico NYCE or NOM Moldova INSM Nigeria SONCAP Nor...

Page 50: ...roatia KONCAR Class A European Union CE Class A Israel SII Class A Japan VCCI Class A Kazakhstan OTAN CKT Class A Moldova INSM Class A Norway NEMKO Class A Russia GOST Class A South Africa SABS Class A South Korea KCC Class A Taiwan BSMI Class A Ukraine UKRTEST or UKRSERTCOMPUTER Class A United States FCC Class A Uzbekistan STZ Class A Vietnam ICT Class A Ergonomics Acoustics and Hygienics B 4 The...

Page 51: ...tel com design servers ipmi DDR3 Memory DDR3 SDRAM Specification Rev 3A http www jedec org download search JESD79 3A pdf LPC Low Pin Count Interface Specification Rev 1 1 http developer intel com design chipsets industry lpc ht m PCI Express PCI Express Base Specification Rev 2 0 http www pcisig com specifications pciexpress PMBus Power System Management Protocol Specification v1 1 http pmbus info...

Page 52: ... Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification v2 1 http www uefi org specs USB Universal Serial Bus Specification Rev 2 0 http www usb org developers docs Microsoft Windows Logo Windows Logo Program System and Device Requirements v3 10 http www microsoft com whdc winlogo hwrequirements mspx ...

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