Key Technologies; Overview; Dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core And Six-Core Processors; Ddr3 Memory - Dell PowerEdge M710 Technical Manual

2 Key Technologies

2.1 Overview

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M710 is a full-height blade server with the following features:
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Dual quad-core or six-core Intel
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DDR3 memory

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PCI Express Generation 2 (PCIe Gen2)
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Optional redundant, mirrored SD cards
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iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash media

2.2 Dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core and Six-Core Processors

The Intel Xeon processor 5500 and 5600 series features quad-core and six-core processing to
maximize performance and performance/watt for data center infrastructures and highly dense
deployments. 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 and
operating systems.
2.3 DDR3 Memory
The M710 uses DDR3 memory which provides a high-performance, high-speed memory interface
capable 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 for
single/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 the
system.

2.4 PCI Express Generation 2

PCIe is a serial point‐to‐point interconnect for I/O devices. PCIe Gen2 doubles the signaling bit rate
of each lane from 2.5 Gb/s to 5 Gb/s. Each of the PCIe Gen2 ports is backwards‐compatible with
Gen1 transfer rates.

2.5 Redundant Internal SD Module

The Internal SD Module is dedicated for an SD Flash Card with embedded Hypervisor for
virtualization. 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 Enterprise

The 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 the
hot-plug portability and increased storage capacity benefits of SD while still being managed by the
system.
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