Specs
The Dell PowerEdge M905, with its large memory capacity, multiple redundant fabrics and massive total throughput, is an excellent choice for the high-end applications driving modern data centers.
Built for virtualization and engineered to address the key challenges faced by IT personnel, Dell PowerEdge M905 fullheight blade servers deliver leading enterprise-class functionality. With features including three highly available, fully redundant I/O fabrics, massive total throughput, and large RAM capacity, these PowerEdge servers are excellent for applications requiring large memory footprints.
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Base Standard Capabilities
| Features | Technical Specifications | |
|---|---|---|
| Chipset | NVIDIA MCP55 | |
| Memory | 24 DIMM slots 1GB/2GB/4GB ECC DDR2 667/800MHz Options Support for up to 192GB1 using 24x8GB DIMMs | |
| Drive Bays | Two 2.5 Hot-Swappable SAS/Solid State Drives | |
| Storage | Up to two Hot-Swappable Internal Drives: 2.5 SAS (10K rpm): 73GB, 146GB, 300GB, 600GB 2.5 SAS (15K rpm): 36GB, 73GB or 146GB 25GB2, 50GB2 Solid State Drive (SSD) Up to two Hot-Swappable Internal Drives: Up to 600GB2 per blade via two 2.5 300GB hot-swappable SAS (10k rpm) hard drives | External Storage Options: Dell EqualLogic PS5000 Series PowerVault NX1950 Unified Storage Solution PowerVault MD3000i Dell/EMC products: Dell/EMC fibre channel and/or iSCSI external storage, including Dell/EMC AX150i, CX300, CX3-10c, CX3-20, CX3-40, and CX3-80 |
| RAID Controller Options | SAS6/IR (Raid 0/1) hardware based CERC6/IR (Raid 0/1 w/ Cache) PERC 6i Modular (RAID 0/1 w/ battery-backed cache) PERC 6.2 Firmware | |
| I/O Mezzanine Card Options | 1Gb & 10Gb Ethernet: Dual-Port Broadcom Gb Ethernet w/ TOE (BCM-5709S) Quad-Port Intel Gb Ethernet (BCM-82576) Quad-Port Broadcom Gb Ethernet (BCM-5709S) Dual-Port Broadcom 10Gb Ethernet (BCM-57711) Brocade BR1741M-k Dual-Port Mezzanine CNA 10Gb Enhanced Ethernet & Converged Network Adapters (CEE/DCB): Dual-Port Qlogic Converged Network Adapter (QME8142) - Supports CEE/DCB 10GbE + FCoE Fibre Channel: Dual-Port QLogic FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (QME2572) Dual-Port Emulex FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (LPe1205-M) Emulex 8 or 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Pass-Through Module InfiniBand: Dual-Port Mellanox ConnectX Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand Dual-Port Mellanox ConnectX Dual Data Rate (DDR) InfiniBand | |
| Operating Systems | Microsoft Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V ) Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, x64 (includes Hyper-V v2) Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux Sun Solaris Virtualization Options: Citrix XenServer Microsoft Hyper-V via Microsoft Windows Server 2008 VMware vSphere 4.1 (including VMware ESX 4.1 or VMware ESXi 4.1) For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit www.dell.com/OSsupport. | |
| Featured Database Applications | Microsoft SQL Server solutions (see Dell.com/SQL) Oracle database solutions (see Dell.com/Oracle) | |
| Power Supply | Supplied by Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Chassis | |
| Video | ATI RN50 (32MB Memory) | |
| Systems Management | Dell OpenManage Software Tools Altiris Deployment Solution for Dell Blade Servers Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with: | |
| Embedded Hypervisor | Optional Embedded SD Media | |