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PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide

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Maximum Shock

Operating

Half sine shock in all operational orientations of 31G +/- 5% with a
pulse duration of 2.6ms +/- 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 3048m (-50 to 10,000ft)
Note: For altitudes above 2950ft, the maximum temperature is
derated 1°F/550ft

Storage

-16m to 10,600m (-50ft to 35,000ft)

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Summary of Contents for PowerEdge M910

Page 1: ...PowerEdge M910 Name Technical Guide The M910 is ideal for the demanding applications at the core of most data centers such as large databases virtualization and messaging infrastructure ...

Page 2: ... SQL Server and BitLocker and Hyper V are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Mellanox is a registered trademark of Mellanox Technologies Inc Novell and SUSE are registered trademarks of Novell Inc in the United States and other countries Oracle and Solaris are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and or its affilia...

Page 3: ...ct Features Summary 12 4 Mechanical 14 4 1 Overview 14 4 2 Module Dimensions and Weight 14 4 3 Front View and Features 15 4 4 Back View and Features 16 4 5 Power Supply Indicators 16 4 6 LED Indicators 16 4 7 Internal Chassis View 17 4 8 Rails and Cable Management 17 4 9 Fans 17 4 10 Cabling 17 4 11 Control Panel LCD 17 4 12 Security 17 4 13 Cover Latch 18 4 14 TPM Trusted Platform Module 18 4 15 ...

Page 4: ... 11 I O Mezzanine Card Options 32 11 1 Overview 32 11 2 Options 32 12 Storage 33 12 1 Hard Drives 33 12 2 Hard Disk Drive Carriers 33 12 3 Empty Drive Bays 33 12 4 Diskless Configuration Support 33 12 5 RAID Configurations 33 12 6 Storage Controllers 34 12 6 1 SATA Repeater 34 12 6 2 PERC 6 i 34 12 6 3 PERC H200 35 12 6 4 PERC H700 35 12 7 LED Indicators 35 12 8 Optical Drives 35 13 Video 36 14 Ra...

Page 5: ...uct Family 23 Table 7 Supported Intel Xeon Processor E7 2800 Product Family 23 Table 8 Supported Intel Xeon Processor 6500 and 7500 Series 23 Table 9 Sparing and Mirroring Support 27 Table 10 Supported Hard Drives 33 Table 11 Factory RAID Configurations 34 Table 12 Supported Storage Controllers 34 Table 13 Supported Video Modes 36 Table 14 Virtualization Software 39 Table 15 Unified Server Configu...

Page 6: ...architectures provide but only Dell offers FlexMem Bridge technology which allows the M910 to seamlessly scale from 16 GB to 512 GB of DDR3 RAM in either two socket or four socket configurations This patent pending technology allows Dell to deliver a unique platform that can seamlessly scale as customer and application needs dictate without having to rip and replace existing server infrastructure ...

Page 7: ... Intel 7510 Intel 7510 DIMMs 32 x DDR3 18 x DDR3 32 x DDR3 64 x DDR3 Form Factor Full height blade dual slot Full height blade dual slot 2U rack 4U rack Hard Drive Bays 2 x 2 5 hot plug 4 x 2 5 hot plug 6 x 2 5 hot plug 16 x 2 5 hot plug Hard Drive Types 2 5 SAS SSD SATA SSD SAS 15K 10K nearline SAS 7 2K 2 5 SAS SSD SATA SSD SAS 15K 10K nearline SAS 7 2K 2 5 SATA SSD SAS 10K 15K nearline SAS 7 2K ...

Page 8: ...roller CMC on M1000e Optional vFlash media iDRAC6 Express BMC IPMI 2 0 Dell OpenManage Unified Server Configurator Lifecycle Controller Optional iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash media iDRAC6 Express BMC IPMI 2 0 Dell OpenManage Unified Server Configurator Lifecycle Controller Optional iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash media Slots Four x8 PCIe mezzanine cards Four x8 PCIe mezzanine cards 6 PCIe Gen2 slots 1 storage...

Page 9: ...e M910 Technical Guide 9 Feature M910 M710 R810 R910 Power Supplies See the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide See the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide Hot plug redundant 4 x 750W Energy Smart or 4 x 1100W high output ...

Page 10: ...ocessor E7 Family Key features of the Intel Xeon processor E7 2800 E7 4800 and E7 8800 product families include Up to ten cores per processor Up to 30 MB shared L3 cache 32 nm process technology Intel Trusted Execution Technology TXT and AESNI AES New Instructions RAS DDDC Double Device Data Correct Intel HyperThreading 2 threads core Key features of the Intel Xeon processor 6500 and 7500 series i...

Page 11: ...two links connection processors 1 and 2 with the IOH 2 2 5 DDR3 Memory The M910 uses DDR3 memory which provides a high performance high speed memory interface capable of low latency response and high throughput The M910 supports Registered ECC DDR3 DIMMs RDIMMs The DDR3 memory interface consists of eight Intel Scalable Memory Buffers SMBs each or which has two DDR3 memory channels Each channel sup...

Page 12: ...z Drive Bays Two 2 5 SAS or SSD hot swappable drives Storage1 Hot plug hard drive options 2 5 SAS SSD SATA SSD SAS 15K 10K nearline SAS 7 2K Maximum internal storage Up to 2TB per blade External storage For information about Dell external storage options visit Dell com Storage RAID Controller Options PERC H200 Modular 6Gb s PERC H700 Modular 6Gb s with 512MB battery backed cache 512MB 1GB Non Vola...

Page 13: ...er V through Microsoft Windows Server 2008 VMware vSphere 4 1 including VMware ESX 4 1 or VMware ESXi 4 1 For more information on the specific versions and additions visit Dell com OSsupport Featured Database Applications Microsoft SQL Server solutions see Dell com SQL Oracle database solutions see Dell com Oracle Power Supply Supplied by Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Chassis Video Matrox G200eW wit...

Page 14: ...sting Dell blades and is designed to mix with possible future half height double wide and full height double wide blades Some highlights include 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 information 4 2 Module Dime...

Page 15: ...ew and Features Figure 1 shows the front view of the M910 Figure 1 Front View See the Blade Features section in the About Your System chapter of the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner s Manual on Support Dell com Manuals for more information ...

Page 16: ...pplies require a 200V 240V power source See the Power Supply Indicators section in the About Your System chapter of the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner s Manual on Support Dell com Manuals for more information 4 6 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 amb...

Page 17: ...ing For detailed information see the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner s Manual or the Rack Installation Guide on Support Dell com Manuals 4 11 Control Panel LCD For detailed information see the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner s Manual on Support Dell com Manuals 4 12 Security The M910 offers a configurable client IP address range for clients connecting to iDRAC6 For addi...

Page 18: ...r Off Security Through the CMC the front USB s and power button can be disabled so as to not allow any control of the system from the front of the blade 4 16 USB Key The M910 supports the following USB devices DVD bootable requires two USB ports USB Key bootable Keyboard only one USB keyboard is supported Mouse only one USB mouse is supported 4 17 Battery A replaceable coin cell CR2032 3V battery ...

Page 19: ...ntly manages the server component temperatures The M910 thermal management algorithms use as many as 46 thermal sensors to meet the required cooling level while minimizing fan speeds The thermal management algorithms also take inventory of the system hardware configuration while simultaneously monitoring the component temperature sensors throughout the system to intelligently control system fans a...

Page 20: ...ic activity LwA UL The upper limit sound power level LwA calculated per section 4 4 2 of ISO 9296 1988 and measured in accordance to ISO 7779 2010 5 4 Environmental Specifications Table 4 lists the environmental specifications for the PowerEdge M910 Environmental Specifications Table 4 Temperature Operating 10 C to 35 C 50 F to 95 F with a maximum temperature gradation of 10 C per hour NOTE For al...

Page 21: ...entations of 31G 5 with a pulse duration of 2 6ms 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 3048m 50 to 10 000ft Note For altitudes above 2950ft the maximum temperature is derated 1 F 550ft Storage 16m to 10 600m 50ft to 35 000ft ...

Page 22: ...ckage LGA1567 Table 5 Cache Size L1 cache size 32 KB instruction 32 KB data L2 cache size 1 5 MB or 2 MB L3 cache size 12 MB 18 MB or 24 MB shared 6 2 Features Key features of the Intel Xeon processor E7 2800 E7 4800 and E7 8800 product families include Up to ten cores per processor Four point to point QuickPath Interconnect links at 6 4 GT s 32 nm process technology Intel HyperThreading 2 threads...

Page 23: ...el Xeon Processor E7 8800 Product Family Table 6 Model Speed TDP Power Cache Cores QPI Speed E7 8867L 2 13GHz 105W 30M 10 6 4GT s E7 8837 2 66GHz 130W 24M 8 6 4GT s Supported Intel Xeon Processor E7 4800 Product Family Table 7 Model Speed TDP Power Cache Cores QPI Speed E7 4830 2 13GHz 105W 24M 8 6 4GT s E7 4820 2 00GHz 105W 18M 8 5 86GT s E7 4807 1 86GHz 95W 18M 8 4 80GT s Supported Intel Xeon Pr...

Page 24: ...a Intel SMI links Each memory buffer in turn connects to four DDR3 DIMMs In a typical Intel Xeon processor 6500 or 7500 series configuration only the memory buffers associated with the two populated sockets would be connected and therefore only 16 DIMMs would be accessible To overcome this limitation with two processors the M910 uses the FlexMem Bridge which allows CPU1 and CPU2 to connect to the ...

Page 25: ...t are memory intensive To scale for future workloads in which additional processing power is needed simply replace the FlexMem Bridge with additional processors to meet those needs Due to power limitations the PowerEdge M910 only supports two 130W processors In an upgrade for a server with two 130W processors the processors and the heat sink must be changed to the 95W or 105W processors If the ser...

Page 26: ...dual rank DR quad rank QR Actual system memory speed depends on specific processor capabilities 6 4 GT s SMI link speed capable of running memory speeds up to 1066 MHz 5 86 GT s SMI link speed capable of running memory speeds up to 978 MHz 4 8 GT s SMI link speed capable of running memory speeds up to 800 MHz 7 2 DIMMs Supported If DIMMs of different speeds are mixed all channels operate at the fa...

Page 27: ...tion see the System Memory section in the Installing Blade Components chapter of the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner s Manual on Support Dell com Manuals 7 5 2 Mirroring For mirroring the M910 will support two processor four processor configurations with 32 DIMMs only When mirroring is enabled only half of the physical memory will be visible to the system software A full copy of the ...

Page 28: ...kets The QPI architecture features the following four layers The Physical layer consists of the actual connection between components It supports 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 Proto...

Page 29: ... 0 controller Low Pin Count LPC interface to Super I O Trusted Platform Module TPM and SuperVU Serial Peripheral Interface SPI support for up to two devices M910 BIOS flash device is connected to the ICH10 using SPI 8 6 PCI Express Mezzanine Connectors The M910 supports four PCI Express Gen2 x8 mezzanine connectors There are no restrictions on mezzanine cards in the M910 such as size or location ...

Page 30: ...t Media Interface DMI PXE and WOL support for on board NICs Memory mirroring and sparing 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 UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface 2 1 support The PowerEdge M910 BIOS does not support the following Embedded Diagnostics BIOS language localization BIOS recovery after bad flas...

Page 31: ...devices The following information details the features of the LAN devices X2 PCI Express Gen2 capable interface M910 operates this controller at Gen2 speed Integrated MAC and PHY 3072x18 Byte context memory 64 KB receive buffer TOE TCP Offload Engine iSCSI controller NC SI Network Controller Sideband Interface connection for Flex Addressing Wake On LAN WOL PXE 2 0 remote boot iSCSI boot IPv4 and I...

Page 32: ...ric slot For more information refer to the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 11 2 Options Available options for all four slots include Mellanox QDR ConnectX Dual Port Quad Data Rate QDR InfiniBand Broadcom BCM57711 Dual Port KX4 MC 10G Broadcom BCM5709S Dual Port SERDES Broadcom BCM5709S Quad Port SERDES Intel Dual Port 10G KX4 MC Intel Quad Port 1G SERDES MC Dual Port FC8 QLogic QME2572 Dual Port ...

Page 33: ... nearline SAS 12 2 Hard Disk Drive Carriers The PowerEdge M910 supports the 11G 2 5 hard drive carrier Legacy carriers are not supported on M910 Figure 5 2 5 HDD Carrier 12 3 Empty Drive Bays For the slots that are not occupied by drives a carrier blank is provided to maintain proper cooling maintain a uniform appearance to the unit and provide EMI shielding 12 4 Diskless Configuration Support The...

Page 34: ...S or Solid State drives using the PERC6 or H700 daughtercard with battery with drives in a RAID 1 mirror 12 6 Storage Controllers Supported Storage Controllers Table 13 Product Usage M910 Slot PCIe Con PCI Bracket I O Con RAID Battery Backup SAS HBA SAS SATA PERC H200 Integrated Internal Backplane Storage Yes Max 1 Storage slot X4 No x4 integrated mini SAS wide 0 1 10 No 12 6 1 SATA Repeater The M...

Page 35: ...12 7 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 Both LEDs are used to indicate certain conditions under direction of a storage controller 12 8 Optical Drives Optical drives are optional in all M910 systems and connect to the blade via the front USB inte...

Page 36: ...ly supports 2D graphics The integrated video core shares its video memory with the iDRAC6 s 128 MB DDR2 application space memory This memory is also used for the KVM buffer The M910 system supports the following 2D graphics video modes Supported Video Modes Table 14 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...

Page 37: ...werEdge M910 Technical Guide 37 14 Rack Information For information on rack and cable accessories for the Dell PowerEdge M910 see the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide and the M1000e Rack and Cable Advisor Tool ...

Page 38: ...Guide 38 15 Operating Systems The Dell PowerEdge M910 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 39: ...vanced Infrastructure Manager by Scalent Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager AIM allows IT organizations to manage networking storage and servers as well as server workloads 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...

Page 40: ...ms vReplicator is a host level software based replication solution for VMware infrastructure which enables companies to leverage virtualization to support High Availability HA and Disaster Recovery DR strategies Vizioncore vOptimizer Pro helps administrators understand storage utilization so they can make real time adjustments in allocations It presents the financial impact of reclaimed storage pe...

Page 41: ... on a network OMSA allows system administrators to focus on managing their entire network by providing comprehensive one to one systems management Management Console Our legacy IT Assistant console is also included as well as tools to allow access to our remote management products These tools are Remote Access Service for iDRAC and the BMC Management Utility Active Directory Snap in Utility The Ac...

Page 42: ...d on Lifecycle Controller that aids in local server provisioning in a pre OS environment For servers with iDRAC Express the Lifecycle Controller offers OS install platform updates platform configuration and diagnostics capabilities For servers without iDRAC Express this utility has limited functionality and offers OS install and diagnostics capabilities only To access the Unified Server Configurat...

Page 43: ... s Racadm command line Remote video keyboard and mouse KVM control with Virtual Console Remote media access with Virtual Media Dedicated network interface Additionally iDRAC6 can be upgraded by adding the vFlash media card This is a 1 GB Dell branded SD card that enables a persistent 256 MB virtual flash partition A more detailed feature list for iDRAC6 and vFlash media is included in the table be...

Page 44: ...rial over LAN no proxy Power capping Last crash screen capture Boot capture Serial over LAN Virtual media Virtual console Virtual console sharing Virtual flash Sensor Monitoring and Alerting Real time Power Monitoring Real time Power Graphing Historical Power Counters System Event Log RAC Log Trace Log 17 6 Chassis Management Controller CMC See the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide ...

Page 45: ...urity key or mass storage device 18 2 External Storage By use of the appropriate IOMs in the M1000e chassis and mezzanine card s in the M910 blade the following external storage options are available Disk Storage Options Dell EqualLogic PSSeries Dell PowerVault NX Series PowerVault MD3000i Dell EMC products Dell EMC fibre channel and or iSCSI external storage including Dell EMC CX Series AX Series...

Page 46: ... The product has been certified and bears the Mark as applicable of the Product Safety authorities as indicated in Table 18 Product Safety Certifications Table 18 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 INS...

Page 47: ...tia 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 1 The pr...

Page 48: ...DR3 SDRAM Specification Rev 3A http www jedec org download search JESD79 3A pdf LPC Low Pin Count Interface Specification Rev 1 1 http developer AMD 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 specs html SAS Serial Attached SCSI v1 1 h...

Page 49: ... for Information and Specifications USB Universal Serial Bus Specification Rev 2 0 http www usb org developers docs Windows Logo Microsoft Windows Logo Program System and Device Requirements v3 10 http www microsoft com whdc winlogo hwrequirements mspx ...

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