Dell PowerEdge VRTX Modular Infrastructure
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Overview
Dell EMC PowerEdge VRTX integrates servers, storage, networking and management into a single office-optimized chassis. Increase efficiency by eliminating disparate hardware and multiple management tools with the scalable and easy-tomanage VRTX platform.
Benefits
The PowerEdge VRTX was designed for remote-office and small-office environments with “under your desk” dimensions and quiet acoustics. The PowerEdge VRTX is built on a scalable business architecture so you can continually optimize your capacity and performance with future-proof compute, storage and networking options within a single chassis.
Configurability
- 4 half width or 2 Full Height Blade configurations
- Mix and match the two-socket, and four-socket
- Tower or 5U rack enclosure
- Expandable I/O with eight PCIe slots.
Availability
- Single shared PERC8 with optional second redundant shared PERC8 available
- Front control panel with interactive graphical LCD that supports initial configuration wizard.
- Comes standard with 6 hot-pluggable, redundant fan modules
- Comes standard with 4 blower modules
- Up to 2 single-wide actively cooled GPU accelerators
- Uses Chassis Management Controller to manage all resources
Expandability, I/O, Storage
- Up to 2 pass-thru modules. 1Gb and 10Gb capable
- Up to 8 PCIe Gen 3 I/O expansion slots 5x Half-Height and 3x Full-Height
- Easily add more storage by connecting to up to four MD1200
- Up to 12 x 3.5” NLSAS, SAS or SAS SSD hot-plug drives
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Up to 25 x 2.5” NLSAS, SAS or SAS SSD hot-plug drives - Optional FIPS 140-2 certified self-encrypting drives (SED)
M520
M620
M630
M640
M820
M830
M520
M620
M630
M640
M820
M830
Dell PowerEdge M520 Blade Server Half-Width
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M520 2-socket, half-height blade server delivers an extraordinary balance of value and performance for mainstream business applications, with no compromise on enterprise-class features.
Features
- Up to 12 DIMMs
- Mainstream performance
- Hot-pluggable hard drives and hardware RAID
- Impressive systems management capabilities
Benefits
- A tremendous option for dense vSAN environments
- Great for consolidation of performance hungry high performing computing machines (Hadoop) that require high performance, low cost scale-out storage.
- Excellent for database-driven centralized software, scale-up, and scale-out solutions
- Spans customer environments with flexibility and scalability from Traditional IT to Service Providers
- Databases
- Mid-tier virtual environments
- Two front-accessible, hot-plug, 2.5-inch hard drives
- E5-2400 v2 (up to 8 cores) product family is designed specifically for servers and workstation applications
- PERC S110 (software RAID), PERC H310, PERC H710, and PERC H710p
- iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller
- Two Broadcom® 5720 1Gb Dual Port LOMs (4 x 1Gb ports)
- Up to 4 Blades in 1 PowerEdge VRTX
- 2 Drives per blade = 8 drives /5u
- 12 DIMM's (384GB) per blade = 48 DIMM's (1.5TB) /5u
- 2 CPU's up to 8 Cores = 32 cores /5u
Dell PowerEdge M620 Blade Server Half-Width
An exceptionally feature-rich, two-socket blade server, the Dell PowerEdge M620 is designed for maximum performance combined with extreme density and power efficiency. Designed for your taxing workloads, such as email, database and virtual environments, the Dell PowerEdge M620 blade server is an ideal blend of density, performance, efficiency and scalability. The M620 delivers unprecedented memory density and superb performance with no compromise on enterprise-class features.
Targeted Workloads
- Databases
- Virtual environments
Benefits
- Scalable I/O capabilities
- Supports load reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs)
- Flexible LAN on motherboard (LOM) card options for Dell PowerEdge 12th generation
- Fully populated mezzanine card slots and switch modules yield 3 redundant I/O Fabrics per blade
- Hyper-dense design
- 2 Intel Xeon processor E5-2600v2 (up to 8 cores)
- 24 DDR3 DIMM's up to 768GB Memory E5-2600v1
24 DDR3 DIMM's up to 1.5TB Memory E5-2600v2 - Two internal SD cards dedicated for hypervisor
- Hot-plug hard drive options: Up to 2 x 2.5” Express Flash PCIe SSD, SATA HDD/SSD, or SAS HDD/SSD
- Earning ENERGY STAR Enterprise Server designation
- 2 x PCIe 3.0 x8 mezzanine card slots
- Two front-accessible USB connectors
- Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0
- iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller
- Supports up to 32 lanes of PCIe 3.0
- Up to 64 cores (8 Cores CPU's) per 5U
- Up to 96 DIMMs per 5U
- Up to 8 2.5” Drives per 5U
Dell PowerEdge M630 Blade Server Half-Width
An ultra-efficient blade server with up to 44 cores of Intel processing power and 24 DIMMs of DDR4 memory in a dense, easy-to-manage platform ideal for data center workloads. eliver more, larger and higher-performing virtual machines up to 28 percent greater memory bandwidth than previous generations.
Targeted Workloads
- IT as a service (XaaS) providers
- Private clouds
- Branch offices
Benefits
- Up to 44 cores with the latest Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family
- 24 DIMMs of DDR4 memory
- iDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller bringing System Management automation to mainstream IT
- 4 nodes in a 5U VRTX Chassis
- Up to 2 Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 Processors (up to 44 cores)
- 2 x PCIe 3.0 (x8) mezzanine cards
- Hot-plug Hard Drive Option, PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD, SATA HDD/SSD or SAS HDD/SSD
- Supports 24 DDR4 registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) and load-reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs).
- supports PERC H330, PERC H730P, and PERC H730
- Dual port 10 Gb Ethernet, quad port 1 Gb, FC8 Fibre Channel, FC16 Fibre Channel, or Infiniband mezzanine cards
- Supports internal optional SD card and optional vFlash card (with integrated iDRAC8 Enterprise)
- 2 E5-2600 v4 (up to 44 cores) per Blade = 8 E5-2600 v4 (up to 176 cores) /5u
- 4 1.8 Drive per Blade = 16 /5u
- 2 2.5" Drive per Blade = 8 /5u
- 16 Lanes of PCIe 3.0 per Blade = 64 PCIe 3.0 Lanes /5u
- Up to 768 GB with a single processor = 3TB /5u
- Up to 1536 GB with a dual processor = 6.1TB /5u
Dell PowerEdge M640 Blade Server Half-Width
The PowerEdge M640 is a density optimized, half-height blade server designed for performance and efficiency. It is ideal for XaaS, private cloud, and HPC applications. Take the next step to modernize your data center with this modular compute platform. The PowerEdge M640 is a modular blade server built on a scalable business architecture that offers you choice and flexibility to meet performance demands easily.
Targeted Workloads
- High-performance computing (HPC)
- Anything as a service (Xaas)
- Virtualization
- Private cloud / On-premises
Benefits
- M.2 available for Boot Optimized Storage System (BOSS)
- iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller
- The hard drives or SSDs are supplied in a hot-swappable drive carriers
- Supports two internal micro SD cards dedicated for the hypervisor
- Up to two Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 28 cores per processor
- 16 DDR4 DIMMs RDIMM /LRDIMM speeds up to 2666MT/s
- Two 2.5-inch HDDs/SSDs
- TPM 1.2/2.0 optional
- Network daughter card options, 2 x 10GE + 4 X 1GE, 4 x 10GE
- Software RAID S140, PERC9 H330, H730P
- 2 PCIe x8 Gen 3 slots mezzanine card supporting dual port 10 Gb Ethernet, quad port 1 Gb, FC8 Fibre Channel, FC16 Fibre Channel, or Infiniband mezzanine cards.
- Internal Dual SD Module optional, supports one dedicated micro SD card for vFlash support.
- 2 Intel Xeon (up to 28 cores) per Blade = 8 CPU's (up to 112 Cores) /5u
- 2 PCIe x8 Gen 3 per Blade = 8 PCIe x64 3.0 Lanes /5u
- 16 DDR4 DIMM's per Blade = 64 DDR4 DIMM's /5u
- 2x2.5" drives per Blade = 8x2.5" drives /5u
Dell PowerEdge M820 Blade Server Full-Width
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M820 blade server delivers exceptional performance and scalability for core business applications or consolidated environments with no compromise on enterprise-class features. The PowerEdge M820’s scalability makes it a perfect fit for core business applications or consolidated workloads. Virtual environments supporting large numbers of sizeable virtual machines will find the M820 a perfect choice.
Features
- Combines highly dense compute and memory resources with extremely flexible storage and IO options.
- Dedicated hosting
- Light analytics
Targeted Workloads
- Virtual environments supporting large numbers of sizeable virtual machines
- With Dell’s Select Network Adapter, you can fully customize the I/O capabilities of the M820 to match the networking technology that’s right for your applications.
- M820 takes advantage of the capabilities of the PowerEdge VRTX Chassis Management Controller (CMC).
- 4x Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 product family
- Up to 1.5TB (48 DIMM slots) DDR3 up to 1600MT/s
- Up to 4x2.5” SAS, SSD, or Up to (2) PCIe SSD.
- PERC H310, PERC H710, PERC H710P
- 2 USB Ports in front
- Three redundant I/O fabrics per blade
- Dual SD cards for redundant hypervisor
- iDRAC7 Express for Blades with Lifecycle Controller
- 2 Blades per VRTX
- 48 DIMM's up to 1.5TB Per Blade = 96 DIMM's 3TB /5u
- 4x 2.5" up to 4.8TB = 8 Drives up to 9.6TB /5u
- 4 CPU's up to 8 Cores = 8 CPU's up to 16 Cores /5u
Dell PowerEdge M830 Compute Sled Full-Width
The PowerEdge M830 is a 4-socket converged platform designed to boost application performance, consolidation, and time-to-value in data center or remote office applications by delivering vast amounts of compute, memory and storage resources that are easy to deploy and manage. Up to 88 Intel processor cores and 48 DIMMS of DDR4 memory offer tremendous computational horsepower for heavy-use workloads in exceptionally demanding database, technical computing and virtualized environments.
Features
- Supports DDR4 R-DIMMs & LR-DIMMs at 2400 MT/s, 2133 MT/s, and 1866 MT/s.
- 2 x PCIe 3.0 (x8) Dell Select Network Adapters
- 4 x PCIe 3.0 (x8) mezzanine cards
Targeted Workloads
- Technical computing
- Virtualized environments
- Exceptionally demanding database
- Memory-intensive workloads with DDR4 DIMMs offering 28 percent higher MT/s than DDR3
- 4 Processors Up to 88 cores with the latest Intel Xeon E5-4600 v4
- Up to 3TB (48 DIMM slots) DDR4 up to 2400MT/s
- 12 x 1.8" SSD, 4 x 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD or SAS HDD/SSD
OR
2 x 2.5" PCIe SSD and 2 x 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD or SAS HDD/SSD
- PERC S130 (SW RAID), PERC H330, PERC H730, PERC H730P
- Hot-plug, redundant power/cooling (chassis)
- Dual SD cards for redundant hypervisor
- iDRAC8 Enterprise w/ Lifecycle Controller
- 2 M830 Full-Height Blades per VRTX
- 12 or 4 drives per blade = 24x1.8" or 8x2.5" drives /5u
- 48 DIMM's (3TB) Per blade = 96 DIMM's (6TB) /5u
- 4 CPU's up to 88 cores = 8 CPU's up to 176 cores /5u
