Base Standard Capabilities
Features | PowerEdge M710HD technical specifications | ||
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Processors | Quad-core or six-core Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 and 5600 series | ||
Chipset | Intel 5520 | ||
Memory | Up to 288GB (18 DIMM slots): 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB ECC DDR3 up to 1333MT/s | ||
Drive Bays | Two 2.5” SAS/Solid State hot-pluggable drives | ||
Storage | Hot-plug hard drive options: 2.5” SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K) | ||
RAID controller options | PERC H200 Integrated SAS Controller (6Gb/s) | ||
I/O mezzanine card options |
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Communications | Two embedded Broadcom NetXtreme® II 5709 Gigabit Ethernet NICs with failover and load balancing. TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) supported on Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 SP1 or higher with Scalable Networking Pack. iSCSI Offload supported on Windows Server 2003 SP1 or higher, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5, and Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10. Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003 is not required. Boot from SAN (iSCSI and FC) supported Optional add-in NICs: See I/O Mezzanine Card Options Optional add-in HBAs: See I/O Mezzanine Card Options | ||
Communications options | Four embedded Broadcom 5709S Gigabit NIC with failover and load balancing. TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) supported on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 or higher with Scalable Networking Pack. iSCSI Offload supported on Windows Server 2003 SP1 or higher, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003 is not required. Boot from SAN (iSCSI and FC) supported Optional add-in NICs: See I/O Mezzanine Card Options Optional add-in HBAs: See I/O Mezzanine Card Options | ||
Operating systems | Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V®) Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V v2) Microsoft Windows® HPC Server 2008 Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux Oracle® Solaris™ Virtualization options: Citrix® XenServer® Microsoft Hyper-V through Microsoft Windows Server 2008 VMware® vSphere® ESX™ and ESXi™ Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization® | ||
Featured database applications | Microsoft SQL Server solutions (see Dell.com/SQL) Oracle database solutions (see Dell.com/Oracle) | ||
Management options |
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Power supply | Supplied by Dell PowerEdge™ M1000e Blade Chassis | ||
Video | Integrated Matrox® G200 with 8MB memory | ||
Systems management | Dell OpenManage BMC, IPMI 2.0 compliant Unified Server Configurator Lifecycle Controller iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash media |
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Feature | PowerEdge M710 | PowerEdge M710HD | PowerEdge M610x | PowerEdge M610 |
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Description | General purpose Fullheight 2S | General purpose Full-height 2S | Special purpose Full-height 2S | General purpose Half-height 2S |
Processor | Intel Xeon Processor 5500 or 5600 Series | |||
Front Side Bus | Two Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) | |||
Sockets | Two | |||
Cores | Up to six | |||
L2/L3 Cache | 8MB (5500 Series) or 12MB (5600 Series) | |||
Chipset | Intel 5520 | Intel 5520 | Intel 5500 | Intel 5500 |
DIMMs | 18 x DDR3 DIMMs | 18 x DDR3 DIMMs | 12 x DDR3 DIMMs | 12 x DDR3 DIMMs |
Min/Max RAM | 4GB/288GB | 4GB/288GB | 4GB/192GB | 4GB/192GB |
Hard Drive Bays | SAS: 4 x 2.5" (hotplug) SSD SATA: 4 x 2.5" | SAS: 2 x 2.5" (hotplug) SSD SATA: 2 x 2.5" | SAS: 2 x 2.5" (hotplug) SATA: 1 x 2.5" | SAS: 2 x 2.5" (hotplug) SATA: 1 x 2.5" |
Hard Drive Types | SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS, nearline SAS | SAS/SSD | SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS, nearline SAS | SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS, nearline SAS |
Hard Drive Controller | PERC H200 PERC H700 CERC 6/i | Embedded H200 | PERC Η200 PERC Η700 PERC Η800 SAS6/Ε | H200
Non-RAID SATA (one hard drive only) |
Optional Hard Drive Controller | SAS6/iR PERC6i with RAID battery | SAS6/iR PERC6i with RAID battery | SAS6/iR PERC6i with RAID battery | |
Availability | Hot-plug hard drives ECC memory Single Device Data Correction (SDDC) Supports memory demand and patrol scrubbing High-availability failover cluster support | |||
Systems Management | Dell™ OpenManage™ BMC, IPMI2.0 compliant Unified Server Configurator Lifecycle Controller iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash Remote Management: iDRAC6 Enterprise with option vFlash media Microsoft System Center Essential (SCE) 2010 v2 | Dell™ OpenManage™ featuring Dell Management Console BMC, IPMI2.0 compliant Unified Server Configurator Lifecycle Controller iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash | Dell™ OpenManage™ featuring Dell Management Console BMC, IPMI2.0 compliant Unified Server Configurator Lifecycle Controller iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash | Dell™ OpenManage™ featuring Dell Management Console BMC, IPMI2.0 compliant Unified Server Configurator Lifecycle Controller iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash Remote Management: iDRAC6 Enterprise with option vFlash media |
Mezz Slots | Four x8 PCIe Gen2 | Two x8 PCIe Gen2 | Two x8 PCIe Gen2 | Two x8 PCIe Gen2 |
I/O slots | NA | NA | Two x16 PCIe Gen2 H800/6GB SAS nVidia M1060 and M2050-204 | NA |
RAID | 0,1,5 | 0,1 | 0,1 | 0,1 |
NIC/LOM | Four TOE with optional iSCSI offload | Four 1GbE dual Broadcom® BCM5709S Two 10GbE QLogic cLOM8214 (Future) Two 10GbE Broadcom BCM57712 (Future) | 2-port Broadcom® 5709S 1Gb w/ TOE plus optional iSCSI Accelerator | 2-port Broadcom® 5709S 1Gb w/ TOE plus optional iSCSI Accelerator |
USB | Three external USB 2.0 ports at front bezel One internal USB port | Two external USB 2.0 ports at front bezel One internal USB port | ||
SD Card | Two internal SD slots 1 x Persistent Storage 1 x Management | Two internal SD slots 1 x Persistent Storage 1 x Management / Redundant Persistent Storage | Two internal SD slots 1 x Persistent Storage 1 x Management | Two internal SD slots 1 x Persistent Storage 1 x Management |
TPM | Yes, except in China where Trusted Computing Module (TCM) is the standard. | |||
Video | Matrox G200eW integrated into iDRAC chip |