Table Of Contents - Dell PowerEdge M620 Technical Manual

Table of contents

1 System overview ................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Accomplish more ......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Designed for your hyper-dense environments ....................................................................................................... 6
The PowerEdge M-series blade server line .............................................................................................................. 6
New technologies .............................................................................................................................................................. 7
2 System features .................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Comparison of PowerEdge systems .............................................................................................................................. 8
Specifications ..................................................................................................................................................................... 9
3 Module views and features .............................................................................................................................................. 11
Module views ..................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Module features ................................................................................................................................................................ 13
LCD control panel ....................................................................................................................................................... 13
Quick Resource Locator ............................................................................................................................................ 13
M1000e chassis enclosure features .........................................................................................................................14
4 Processors .......................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Processor features ............................................................................................................................................................ 15
Supported processors ...................................................................................................................................................... 16
Chipset ................................................................................................................................................................................ 17
5 Memory ...............................................................................................................................................................................18
Supported memory ..........................................................................................................................................................18
Memory configurations ................................................................................................................................................... 19
Memory capacity options .......................................................................................................................................... 19
Flexible memory configuration ................................................................................................................................ 20
Memory speed ................................................................................................................................................................. 20
Memory RAS features....................................................................................................................................................... 21
6 Storage ............................................................................................................................................................................... 23
Internal storage ................................................................................................................................................................ 23
Supported hard drives ................................................................................................................................................ 23
Express Flash drives .................................................................................................................................................... 23
Storage controllers .......................................................................................................................................................... 24
Supported RAID controllers ...................................................................................................................................... 24
RAID controller feature support ............................................................................................................................... 24
7 Networking and mezzanine cards ................................................................................................................................ 26
Select Network Adapters ................................................................................................................................................ 26
System management integration ............................................................................................................................ 27
Mezzanine cards .............................................................................................................................................................. 28
8 Power, thermal and acoustics ....................................................................................................................................... 29
Power consumption and energy efficiency ................................................................................................................ 29
Thermal design ........................................................................................................................................................... 30
Acoustical performance ............................................................................................................................................. 31
9 Operating systems and virtualization ........................................................................................................................... 32
Supported operating systems ........................................................................................................................................ 32
10 Dell OpenManage systems management .................................................................................................................... 34
OpenManage systems management ........................................................................................................................... 35
iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller ............................................................................................................................ 35
Agent-based systems management ....................................................................................................................... 37
Dell consoles ............................................................................................................................................................... 38
OpenManage systems management tools and utilities....................................................................................... 38
Integration with third-party consoles ...................................................................................................................... 39
iii PowerEdge M620 Technical Guide