Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Manual
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- Page 1 PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide Maximized performance and bandwidth for mission-critical workloads and applications...
- Page 2 ESXi and ESX are trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products. Dell disclaims proprietary interest in the marks and names of others.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
AMD Opteron 6200 Series Processors ..............24 AMD Opteron 6300 Series Processors ..............24 Supported Processors .................. 24 Processor Configurations ................26 Processor Installation .................. 26 Memory ......................27 Overview ....................27 DIMMs Supported ..................27 PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... - Page 4 Overview ....................42 17.2 Server Management ..................42 17.3 Embedded Server Management ..............43 17.4 Dell Lifecycle Controller and Unified Server Configurator ........43 17.5 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller ............43 17.6 iDRAC6 Enterprise ..................44 17.7 iDRAC6 Enterprise with Virtual Flash (vFlash) Media ..........44 17.8...
- Page 5 Ergonomics, Acoustics and Hygienics ............... 53 Appendix C. Industry Standards ................54 Tables Table 1. PowerEdge M915 Comparison to M910, R815, and R910 ......... 7 Table 2. Product Features Summary ................ 11 Table 3. Environmental Specifications ..............20 Table 4.
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Page 6: Product Comparison
Input, process, analyze, and report data on the same platform; consolidate servers; and scale during peak workloads. With up to 48 processor cores, the Dell PowerEdge™ M915 offers you the performance you need to run your important business applications and workloads. Get the ability to run robust virtual machines (VMs), maximize the number of virtual machines being run per server, and reap all the benefits of consolidation. -
Page 7: Comparison
Enterprise-Class High-Availability: Dual optional failsafe embedded hypervisors and hard drive fault tolerance through the hardware RAID controller (PERC) offer data-protective redundancy that safeguards your organization from IT loss or corruption. 1.6 Comparison Table 1. PowerEdge M915 Comparison to M910, R815, and R910 Feature M910 M915 R815 R910 ®... - Page 8 4-port (2 x 10Gb SFP+ and 2 x 1GbE) Embedded NIC Broadcom 57711 + Broadcom 5709c Optional: various NICs available 2 front, 2 front, 2 front, 2 front, 1 internal 1 internal 4 back, 2 back, 1 internal 1 internal PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide...
- Page 9 See M1000e See M1000e 2 x 1100W 4 x 750W (Energy Technical Guide Technical Guide Smart) Power Supplies 4 x 1100W (high-output) See M1000e See M1000e 2U rack 4U rack Form Factor Technical Guide Technical Guide PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide...
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Page 10: Key Technologies
Dell Key Technologies The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 features AMD Opteron™ 6100, 6200, and 6300 series processors, designed specifically for high-end server applications, DDR3 memory, DIMM thermal sensors, PCI Express Generation 2, an internal redundant SD module, and iDRAC6 Enterprise. The Opteron 6100, 6200, and 6300 series features up to twelve-core processing to maximize performance and performance/watt for data-center infrastructures and highly dense deployments. -
Page 11: System Information
Dell System Information For the latest information on supported features for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915, visit Dell.com. Table 2. Product Features Summary Feature Technical Specification Processors AMD Opteron™ 6100, 6200, and 6300 series processors Chipset AMD (SR5670 and SP5100) Up to 1TB (32 DIMM slots): 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to... - Page 12 GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating environment and will be less. For more information about the Dell blade solution, see the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide or the M1000e Blade Chassis Specification Sheet.
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Page 13: Mechanical
4.1 Chassis Description The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 is a full-height blade server that requires an M1000e chassis to operate. It occupies 2 slots in the M1000e rack chassis for a maximum of 8 blades in one M1000e chassis. It can be mixed with other existing Dell blades and is designed to mix with possible future half-height- double-wide and full-height-double-wide blades. -
Page 14: Front View And Features
4.3 Front View and Features Figure 1 shows the front view of the M915. 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 for more information. -
Page 15: Back View And Features
4.4 Back View and Features Figure 2 shows the back view of the M915. Figure 2. Back 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 for more information. -
Page 16: Side View
Dell 4.7 Side View Figure 3 shows the side view of the M915. Figure 3. Side View PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 17: Internal-Chassis View
Dell 4.8 Internal-Chassis View Figure 4 shows the internal-chassis view of the M915. Figure 4. Internal Chassis View 4.9 Rails and Cable Management See the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide. PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 18: Chassis View
4.11 Fans For detailed information, see the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com. 4.12 Cabling For detailed information, see the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual or the Rack Installation Guide on Support.Dell.com. 4.13 Control Panel/LCD For detailed information, see the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual on... -
Page 19: Cover Latch
A replaceable coin cell CR2032 3V battery is mounted on the planar to provide backup power for the Real-Time Clock and CMOS RAM. 4.20 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) The planar contains a serial EEPROM to contain FRU information including Dell part number, part revision level, and serial number. 4.21 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... -
Page 20: Power, Thermal, Acoustic
Operating 0.26Grms at 5-350Hz in operational orientations Storage 1.54Grms at 10-250Hz in all orientations Maximum Shock Half sine shock in all operational orientations of 31G +/- 5% with a Operating pulse duration of 2.6ms +/- 10% PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 21: Energy Star Compliance
Dell.com. 5.5 Thermal The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 is the first blade to support ≥130W processors in a 4-socket configuration. Larger heat sinks provide increased cooling capability, which enables 4-socket 140W configurations without restrictions on external ambient temperature. -
Page 22: Acoustics
Dell 5.6 Acoustics Table 4 shows the acoustical performance for a typical configuration of the M1000e chassis with four PowerEdge M915 blade servers installed. Acoustical performance varies with hardware configurations. Table 4. Acoustical Performance of M1000e Chassis with Four M915 Blades Installed Typical Configuration (per blade) @ 23±2°C... -
Page 23: Processors
Demand-based switching for active CPU power management as well as support for ACPI P- States and C-States o C1E support o Cool Speed BIOS allows the user to disable or enable processor cores. The cores will remain as defined after a reboot. PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 24: Amd Opteron 6200 Series Processors
1/2/4 socket support 4, 8, 12, 16 cores 4 memory channels 6.5 Supported Processors For the latest information on supported processors for the PowerEdge M915, visit Dell.com. Table 6. Supported AMD Opteron 6100 Series Processors Model Speed Power... -
Page 25: Supported Amd Opteron 6200 Series Processors
16MB 6380 2.5GHz 115W 16MB 6378 2.4GHz 115W 16MB 6376 2.3GHz 115W 16MB 6348 2.8GHz 115W 16MB 6344 2.6GHz 115W 16MB 6328 3.2GHz 115W 16MB 6320 2.8GHz 115W 16MB 6308 3.5GHz 115W 16MB 6366HE 1.8GHz 16MB PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 26: Processor Configurations
Dell 6.6 Processor Configurations The PowerEdge M915 supports four G34 sockets with two- and four-processor configurations (85W, 115W, and 140W). A single processor can be used to boot for diagnostic purposes. 6.7 Processor Installation For instructions on installing processors, see the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com. -
Page 27: Memory
The memory frequency is determined by a variety of inputs: Each processor has 4 DDR3 channels capable of supporting speeds up to 1600MT/s. Single-rank, dual-rank, and mixed single- and dual-rank DIMM types can support speeds up to 1600MT/s. PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 28: Sparing
The memory sparing feature must be enabled in the Memory Information screen in the System Setup programs. To use memory sparing, node interleaving must be disabled. For more information on memory sparing, see the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual Support.Dell.com. -
Page 29: Chipset
HyperTransport 3 Interface (2.6 GHz), DDR3 memory technology, and PCI Express Generation 2. 8.2 AMD I/O Bridges The PowerEdge M915 I/O Board uses two AMD SR5670 IOBs to provide links between the G34 processor(s) and I/O components. The main components of the I/O controllers are configured to use two x16 HyperTransport 3 link (to CPU1 and CPU2), up to 52 lanes of PCI Express Gen 2, a x4 PCIe Gen 1 Southbridge Interface (SB Link) and an integrated IOAPIC. -
Page 30: Pci Express Mezzanine Connectors
8.6 PCI Express Mezzanine Connectors The M915 supports four PCI Express Gen 2 x8 mezzanine connectors. The M915 does not support quad-port Gb Ethernet mezzanine cards because the M915 mezzanine cannot be bifurcated into two x4 PCIe lanes. PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 31: Bios
Dell BIOS 9.1 Overview The M915 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and supports the following features: G34 support Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support PCI 2.3 compliant Plug-and-play 1.0a compliant MP (Multiprocessor) 1.4 compliant ... -
Page 32: Embedded Lan On Motherboard (Lom)
Dell 10 Embedded LAN on Motherboard (LOM) 10.1 PCI Express Network Daughtercards The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 is designed to support two network daughtercards: ® 2 x 1GbE dual Broadcom BCM5709S 2 x 10GbE Broadcom BCM57712 10.2 Broadcom BCM5709S The embedded Broadcom BCM5709S dual-port LAN controllers are located on the M915 network daughtercard. -
Page 33: O Mezzanine Card Options
Dual Port FC8 Emulex LPe1205-M QLogic CNA QME8142 (10Gb Enhanced Ethernet + FCoE) Emulex CNA OCM20102FM (10Gb Enhanced Ethernet) Intel 52599 (10Gb Enhanced Ethernet) The M915 does not support 4x1 (quad-port) Ethernet mezzanine cards. PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 34: Storage
73GB, 146GB 2.5‖ 146GB, 300GB, 600GB, 900GB 12.2 Hard Disk Drive Carriers The M915 supports the Dell eleventh-generation 2.5‖ hard drive carrier (see Figure 6). Legacy carriers are not supported on the M915. Figure 6. 2.5” Hard Drive 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. -
Page 35: Raid Configurations
12.6.2 PERC H700 Modular The M915 also supports the PERC H700 Modular storage controller card with battery-backed cache. The PERC H700 card has its own processor with a PCI Express Gen2 host interface and DDR2 memory. PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 36: Sata Repeater
PATA (IDE) optical drives are not supported. 12.8 External Storage A number of external storage options are available using the appropriate IOMs in the M1000e chassis and mezzanine card(s) in the M915 blade. See Dell.com/Storage for more information. PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 37: Video
Dell 13 Video The M915 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) incorporates an integrated video subsystem, connected to the 32-bit PCI interface of the AMD SP5100. This logic is based on the ® Matrox G200. The device only supports 2D graphics. -
Page 38: Rack Information
Dell 14 Rack Information For information on rack and cable accessories for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915, see the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide and the M1000e Rack and Cable Advisor Tool. PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 39: Operating Systems
Dell 15 Operating Systems ® The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 is designed to meet the Microsoft 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. PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 40: Virtualization
PowerEdge servers. The Dell Support site also has many blade-related virtualization documents, as well as a detailed list of the virtualization platforms that are supported by Dell OpenManage™. It is possible to order the M915 with an SD card that does not contain ESXi. - Page 41 Significantly decrease the amount of time and people required to deploy hardware and get applications up and running by providing a repeatable, scalable framework for hardware implementation using AIM. More information can be found at Dell.com/AIM. PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide...
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Page 42: Systems Management
IT assets. Combining Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with a wide selection of Dell developed systems management solutions gives you choice and flexibility, so you can simplify and save in IT environments of any size. To help you meet your server management demands, Dell offers Dell OpenManage™ systems management solutions for: •... -
Page 43: Embedded Server Management
Lifecycle Controller enables pre-OS server deployment, OS installation, platform updates, platform configuration, and diagnostics capabilities. Dell Unified Server Configurator (USC) is a graphical user interface (GUI) that aids in local server provisioning in a pre-OS environment. To access the Unified Server Configurator, press the <F10> key within 10 seconds of the Dell logo appearance during the system boot process. -
Page 44: Idrac6 Enterprise
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- branded SD card that enables a persistent 256 MB virtual flash partition. The vFlash media delivers the following key features: ... - Page 45 Virtual media Virtual console Virtual console sharing Virtual flash Monitoring Sensor Monitoring and Alerting Real-time Power Monitoring Real-time Power Graphing Historical Power Counters PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide...
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Page 46: Chassis Management Controller (Cmc)
Dell Base Management Feature 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. PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 47: Usb Peripherals
Dell 18 USB Peripherals The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 provides an internal USB connector for a USB flash memory key. The USB memory key can be used as a boot device, security key, or mass storage device. The M915 also supports an external USB DVD-ROM or DVD+RW. -
Page 48: Appendix A. Statement Of Volatility
Appendix A. Statement of Volatility The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 contains both volatile and non-volatile (NV) components. Volatile components lose their data immediately upon removal of power from the component. Non-volatile components continue to retain their data even after the power has been removed from the component. - Page 49 Host controller through SDRAM bus How is this memory write protected? Software write protected H200 Flash Size: 64Mb Type: [Flash PROM, EEPROM]: Flash Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation? PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide...
- Page 50 Normal Operation How is this memory write protected? CPLD Size: Master CPLD: 2280 logic elements; 7.5Kbits RAM; 27.6Kbits EBR SRAM Slave CPLD: 1200 logic elements: 6.25Kbits RAM; 9.2Kbits EBR SRAM Type: [Flash PROM, EEPROM]: Programmable Logic Device PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide...
- Page 51 Life Cycle Log (LCL) entries. How is this memory write protected? Software write protected To obtain optional component information, please refer to the Dell Statement of Volatility for the individual components. Please direct any questions to your Dell Marketing contact. PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide...
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Page 52: Appendix B. Certifications
OTAN – CKT Kenya KEBS Kuwait KUCAS Mexico NYCE or NOM Moldova INSM Nigeria SONCAP Norway NEMKO Russia GOST Saudi Arabia KSA ICCP South Africa NRCS Taiwan BSMI UKRTEST or Ukraine UKRSERTCOMPUTER United States NRTL Uzbekistan PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 53: Electromagnetic Compatibility
The product has been certified and bears the Mark, as applicable, of the Ergonomics, Acoustics and Hygienics authorities as indicated in Table 19. Table 19. Ergonomics, Acoustics and Hygienics Country/Region Authority or Mark Belarus BELLIS Germany Russia GOST PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... -
Page 54: Appendix C. Industry Standards
Protocol Specification, v1.1 http://www.t10.org/cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=f&f=sas1r10.pdf Serial Attached SCSI, v1.1 SATA http://sata-io.org/ Serial ATA Rev. 2.6; SATA II, Extensions to SATA 1.0a, Rev. 1.2 SMBIOS http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios/ System Management BIOS Reference Specification, v2.6 http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/resources/tpm_mai n_specification Trusted Platform Module Specification, v1.2 PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide... - Page 55 Standard URL for Information and Specifications UEFI http://www.uefi.org/specs/ Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification, v2.1 http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ Universal Serial Bus Specification, Rev. 2.0 ® ® Microsoft Windows Logo http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winlogo/hwrequirements. Windows Logo Program System mspx and Device Requirements, v3.10 PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide...