Product Comparison; Overview; Powerful Performance; Scaling Capability - Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Manual

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Product Comparison

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Overview

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M-Series blade servers are designed to help cut operating expenses through
energy efficiency, scalability, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space.
The PowerEdge M910 provides significant performance and reliability in a scalable, full-height, four-
socket blade server, allowing the deployment of large Enterprise-class applications as well as the
ability to support heavy virtualization or workload consolidation in maximum density.
When combined with Dell's world-class storage, management, and support offerings, the result is a
total enterprise solution that can help you optimize your IT environment and expenses.
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Powerful Performance

The PowerEdge M910 was designed to meet the needs of nearly any IT infrastructure or environment.
Built with the powerful Intel
and including advanced systems management capabilities, the M910 is ideal for the demanding
applications at the core of most data centers, such as large databases, virtualization and messaging
infrastructure.
Memory is a critical component for performance, especially for heavy virtualization and high-end
database needs. With this in mind, the PowerEdge M910 was designed with 32 DIMM slots allowing up
to 512 GB of ECC DDR3 RAM to be supported, allowing these memory-intensive applications to have
ample resources at their disposal.
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Scaling Capability

Many servers may be able to take advantage of the large memory support that modern 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.
In addition to allowing significant memory and processor scaling capabilities, the compact
form-factor of Dell blades allows the ability to scale down the amount of space that your core
application servers require. By utilizing the PowerEdge M910, you can deploy up to eight next
generation 4-socket servers in only 10U of rack space, which is less than one-third of the space
required using traditional 4U four-socket rack servers.
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High Reliability

With the PowerEdge M910, Dell continues its unrelenting focus on reliability. The PowerEdge M910
utilizes the redundant power, cooling, and networking infrastructure provided by the Dell M1000e
Blade enclosure. The PowerEdge M910 itself incorporates improvements and features for maximum
protection against potential downtime, such as the ability to support three fully redundant fabrics
per blade and the inclusion of a dual-media redundant embedded hypervisor.
The PowerEdge M910 also utilizes the Intel Xeon processor E7 family or Intel Xeon processor 7500 and
6500 series, which are designed to automatically monitor, report, and recover from hardware errors
in order to maintain data integrity and keep mission-critical services online.
As with all Dell PowerEdge servers, the M910 is manufactured with our ―one-touch‖ factory build
process. This process is designed to ensure just one person is responsible for the entire server build,
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Xeon processor E7 family or Intel Xeon processor 7500 and 6500 series,
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