New Technologies - Dell PowerEdge M610 Technical Manual

A number of new technologies are featured on the PowerEdge M520 system, as shown in Table 1.

New technologies

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Intel Xeon processor
E5-2400 product family
Intel C600 series chipset
Next-generation PERC
options
PERC S110 software
RAID solution
iDRAC7 with Lifecycle
Controller
Advanced power
management
Failsafe hypervisors
Fresh Air cooling
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Detailed descriptions
This new family of Intel processors works with the Intel C600 chipset and has
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embedded PCI Express
Processors section for details.
The Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip is implemented on the M520.
The M520 supports new Dell PERC controller cards with improved functionality
and faster performance. See the Storage section for details.
This new software RAID solution supports RAID 0 and 1. See the Storage section
for details.
The new embedded system management solution for Dell servers features
hardware and firmware inventory and alerting, in-depth memory alerting, faster
performance, a dedicated gigabit port and many more features. See the Systems
management section for details.
The M520 supports advanced power monitoring and power capping tools that can
help manage power consumption in the data center.
The internal dual SD module enables Dell's unique Failsafe Virtualization
architecture, ensuring uptime by providing failover capability for embedded
hypervisors, such as VMware
Dell has tested and validated an integrated data center solution that enables you to
operate at higher temperatures or even chiller-less. See the Power, thermal, and
acoustics section for details.
(PCIe) lanes for improved I/O performance. See the
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vSphere ESXi™.