Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers

Foundations of the Efficient

Enterprise
Intelligent
Infrastructure

Simplified
Infrastructure
Management

Streamlined
Application
and Workload
Management

Intelligent
Data
Management

M-Series Blades provide Intelligent Infrastructure & Simplified

Management by coupling powerful computing capabilities
with optimized connectivity into virtually any network, storage
or management infrastructure.
Dell Blades are designed with the customer in mind, and
deliver all of the legendary reliability, efficiency, and
manageability that Dell is known for in 180 countries around
the world.
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The Dell M-Series Delivers

Extreme Reliability
No compromise Enterprise feature set on
ALL Blades

Unique Levels of Efficiency

Industry Leading Power & Cooling
Infrastructure

Elegantly Simple Manageability

Quick & Easy Bare Metal Deployment, Configuration, Updating and
Troubleshooting

Intelligent Network Integration

Open Standards Support a Broad Range of Network, Storage, &
Management Environments

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Extreme Reliability
Blade chassis architecture
generally employs redundant
power, cooling & management, but
only Dell ensures that all blade
servers have true Enterprise-class
features to maximize uptime and
reliability.

The Dell Difference

ALL Dell blades support Hot Plug
Hard Drives and Hardware RAID
ALL Dell blades have Fully
Redundant IO Fabrics
100% Passive Connective Chassis
Infrastructure
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M1000e Blade Chassis - Front

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1 Half-Height Blade
2 Full-Height Blade
3 KVM Output
4 LCD

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M1000e Blade Chassis - Rear

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2
3

Chassis Management

1 Controllers
2 iKVM
3 FlexI/O

4 Cooling
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Elegantly Simple Manageability

All blades provide consolidated management to
help deployment & troubleshooting, but only
Dell blades provides an elegant simplicity of
approach and seamless integration of
management hardware.

The Dell Difference:

The ONLY Embedded Bare Metal Management
Solution
Faster Deployment with Fewer Resources
Identify & Resolve Issues Faster
In today's M1000e, a brand-new set of chassis management tools offer many
features suited for day-to-day operations, and the chassis-wide deployment and
New
Dell CMC Interface Ranked #1 in Usability
modification tools are simply fantastic. InfoWorld Blades Shootout 2010

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Holistic management designed to fit any

datacenter
Hardware Management
Redundant Chassis Management Controllers (CMC)
Powerful management for the entire enclosure with real-time power
management and monitoring; flexible security; status/ inventory/ alerting for
blades, I/O and chassis
iDRAC
One per blade with full DRAC functionality like other Dell servers including
vMedia/KVM
Integrates with CMC or can be used independently
LifeCycle Controller
Operating system deployment, system updates, hardware configuration and
diagnostics from a single interface, tied to embedded systems management
infrastructure & persistent storage
Dell Management Console
Comprehensive 1:many management for heterogeneous environments
Enterprise Console Integration
Integrate Dell hardware management directly into Microsoft System Center,
BMC, Tivoli, NetIQ, Symantec, OpenView, CA NSM and others
Workload Management
Dell Virtual Integrated System
Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM)
Efficiently deploy, manage and maintain an entire infrastructure as a single
resource pool including servers, storage, networking and the associated
connections with a single interface.
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Intelligent Fabric Integration

Blade chassis integrate edge networking for reduced
cabling, but only Dell Blades ensure seamless
connectivity into all networked environments without
compromising on features or adding significant
complexity to the management tier.

The Dell M-Series Difference:

Seamlessly Integration into any LAN/SAN Environment
Quickly replace or retask hardware without rezoning
or reconfiguring the Network, regardless of
infrastructure type
Preserves Infrastructure Investment

the PowerConnect (M)8024 10G Switch is really a switch and can be configured as
such. No specialized management structure is necessary, unlike with the HP & IBM
solutions. InfoWorld Blade Shootout 2010
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FlexAddress Plus: How It Works

Blade Chassis Slots FlexAddress Enabled

(Addresses assigned by FlexAddress)

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Address
Group
1
Group A
BLADE
1 Address

Group B
Address
Group
2
BLADE
2 Address

Address
Group
3
Group C
BLADE
3 Address

Address
Group
4
BLADE
4

Address
Group D
Group E
Address
Group
5
BLADE
5 Address

Address
Group
6
Group F
BLADE
6 Address

CMC

Address
Group
7
Group G
BLADE
7 Address

Chassis
Management
Controller

Group H
Address
Group
8
BLADE
8 Address

Address
Group
9
Group I
BLADE
9 Address

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Address
10
Group J
BLADE Group
10 Address

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Address
11
Group K
BLADEGroup
11 Address

12

Address
12
Group L
BLADEGroup
12 Address

13

Address
13
Group M
BLADEGroup
13 Address

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Address
14
Group N
BLADE Group
14 Address

15

Address
15
Group O
BLADEGroup
15 Address

16

Address
16
Group P
BLADEGroup
16 Address

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SD card in CMC is
provisioned with a
UNIQUE pool of:
3136 MACs/WWNs 192 Ethernet/ iSCSI, 4
iDRAC per blade
CMC provisions MAC/WWN to blades
prior to boot
Each blade has addresses based on
the slot they occupy

FlexAddress
SD Card

FlexAddress Plus: How It Works

Blade Chassis Slots

FlexAddress Enabled

(Addresses assigned by FlexAddress)

BLADE 1

Address Group 1

BLADE 2

Address Group 2

BLADE 3

Address Group 3

BLADE 4

Address Group 4

BLADE 5

Address Group 5

BLADE 6

Address Group 6

CMC

BLADE 7

Address Group 7

Chassis
Management
Controller

BLADE 8

Address Group 8

BLADE 9

Address Group 9

FlexAddress
SD Card

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BLADE 10 Address Group 10

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BLADE 11 Address Group 11

12

Address Group
Group 12
L
BLADE 12 Address

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BLADE 13 Address Group 13

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BLADE 14 Address Group 14

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BLADE 15 Address Group 15

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BLADE 16 Address Group 16

SD card in CMC is
provisioned with a
UNIQUE pool of:
3136 MACs/WWNs 192 Ethernet/ iSCSI, 4
iDRAC per blade
CMC provisions MAC/WWN to blades
prior to boot
Each blade has addresses based on
the slot they occupy

BLADE 12 Address Group Q

PowerEdge Modular Servers

Two Socket Half Height Blades

PowerEdge M1000e
Up to 16 blade servers

Two Socket Special

Purpose

PowerEdge M610X
Intel XEON 5600
192GB RAM (12)
2 x16 Gen2 PCIe Slots

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PowerEdge M610 PowerEdge M710HD

Intel XEON 5600 Intel XEON 5600
192GB RAM (12) 192GB RAM (18)

Two Socket Full Height

PowerEdge M710
Intel XEON 5600
192GB RAM (18)

Four Socket Blades

PowerEdge M915
AMD Opteron
192GB RAM (24)

PowerEdge M910
Intel XEON 7500
512GB RAM (32)

Half Height Blade Servers

Blade Rails
eliminate the
need for slotted
guides, allowing
for greater
flexibility

iDRAC & vFlash

Remote Management
& Embedded Hypervisor

Up to 2 Hot Swappable
Hard Drives

Easy Access Handle

Up to 2 Processors

Fabric Connector

Up to 10 GbE Ports
Up to 4 10GbE Ports
Up to 4 FC8 Fibre Channel
1 QDR InfiniBand

(populating both Mezz slots)

Up to 18 Memory
DIMM Slots (M710HD)
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Full Height Blade Servers

Blade Rails eliminate the need for
slotted guides, allowing for greater
flexibility
iDRAC & vFlash
Remote Management &
Embedded Hypervisor
Up to 4 Hot Swappable
Hard Drives (M710)

2 Fabric
Fabric Connector
Connectors
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Up GbE
to 18Ports
GbE Ports
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8 10GbE
FC8 Fibre
Ports
Channel
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2 FC8
QDRFibre
InfiniBand
Channel
2 QDR InfiniBand
(populating
(populating all
all 4
4 Mezz
Mezz slots)
slots)
Easy Access Handle

Up to 32 Memory
DIMM Slots

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Up to 4 Processors

Failsafe Hypervisor
M710HD, M915, M910

Internal Redundant SD modules

Redundancy available at the hypervisor level
for embedded VMWare vSphere
Fail-safe virtualization comes built-in
Dell was the first to offer dual-media
hypervisor functionality

Why its important

Redundancy and fault tolerance are
pervasive features that shouldnt just stop at
the hard-drive level. With redundant SD
cards, customers embedded hypervisors are
protected against data corruption or
dislodgement.

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FlexMem Bridge: Unique memory capabilities for maximum
scalability
What is it?
Processor replacements that fit into
two unpopulated processor slots
Redirects memory channels that would
normally only be accessible if all 4
processors were populated
Reroutes and terminates Quick Path
Interconnect (QPI) inter-processor
links for optimal performance

What does it do?

Allows access to 32 DIMMs in twosocket blade or 2U rack server
Provides tremendous
processor/memory flexibility in dense
form factors
Reduces power consumption for
customers who want to deploy lots of
memory but dont need all the cores

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SM
B
B

FlexMem
Bridge

FlexMem
FlexMem
Bridge

SM
SM
B
B

SM
SM
B
B

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SM
B
B

SM
SM
B
B

SM
SM
B
B

Intel Xeon
Processor
7500 series

Intel Xeon
Processor
7500 series

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B
B

SM
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B

Intel
Intel 7500
7500
Chipset
Chipset

M-Series Real Benefits

Efficient

Intelligent

Power, Cost, Performance

Most power efficient Enterprise-class
servers
Lowest cost LAN/SAN connectivity
Best-in-class Price/Performance,
Performance/Watt, & Performance/$/Watt
Arrives Ready to deploy, tested & shipped
as an integrated solution

KEY DELL INNOVATIONS: Dynamic Power

Supply Engagement (DPSE), power capping,
low-flow HE fans, ultra-efficient PSUs, FlexIO

KEY DELL INNOVATIONS: LifeCycle Controller,

CMC Virtual File Share, SimpleConnect

Choice, Integration, Scalability

Robust & Easy to Service

Flexible

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Easy to Use and Manage

Quick/easy to configure, deploy, & update
Best in class usability
Simplified switch deployment
Multi-chassis management w/ Dell
Management Console + easy integration
into 3rd party tools

Reliable

Broad range of server options addressing a

range of workloads
Optimized for virtualization/ consolidation
Range of IO solutions for easy, flexible
integration into any fabric
PCIe expansion for cutting edge technologies
(PCIe flash, GPGPU, etc)

Full Enterprise-class RAS features on every

blade model
Redundant, hot-pluggable components for all
major subsystems
Blade handles for easy transportation,
deployment & serviceability

KEY DELL INNOVATIONS: FlexMem Bridge,

SimpleConnect, M610x, FlexAddress Plus,
FlexIO

KEY DELL INNOVATIONS: translating blade

handle, hot plug drives in high density
designs, Failsafe hypervisor

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PowerEdge M610x
Full-Height Blade Coupling the Dell M610 with Unique PCIe Expansion
Capabilities
Processors
Chipset

Intel: 5520

Memory

12 DIMM sockets for support up to 192GB

of RAM (12 x 16GB DIMMs)

Hard Drives

2 x 2.5 Hot Plug Hard Drives (SAS/SATA/SSD)

RAID

H200 RAID 0/1 hardware based

H700 RAID 0/1 w/ 512MB Battery Backed
Cache
H800 PCIe Card (in PCIe slots) for External
RAID

PCIe Slots

2 x PCIe Gen2 x16 (full height / full length)

Supplemental power connectors

I/O Mezzanine

2 Optional PCIe x8 Mezzanine Card Slots for:

Dual & Quad Port 1Gb Ethernet
Dual Port 10Gb Ethernet
Dual Port 10Gb CEE/FCoE CNAs
Dual Port QLogic & Emulex 8Gb FibreChannel
HBAs
Dual Port Mellanox QDR InfiniBand

Embedded
Networking

One Dual Port Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit

Ethernet 5709 w/ TOE & optional upgrade to
iSCSI HBA

Management

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Up to Two Quad-Core or Six-Core

Intel Xeon 5600 Series Processors

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Dell OpenManage
iDRAC6 Enterprise Remote Management
Dell LifeCycle Controller

PowerEdge M610x
The M610x enables customers to incorporate more
feature-rich acceleration & connectivity solutions
than ever before available in Enterprise-class Blade
servers.

Dell Differentiation
Unparalleled Flexibility: Two fully powered x16
PCIe Gen2 expansion slots deliver unmatched
connectivity options & throughput within the M-series
Uncompromised Performance: Up to 8 GigaBYTES
per second of throughput from two 250W cards or one
300W card.
Over 120,000 IOPS with Fusion IO ioDrive Duo
Up to 1030 GIGAFLOPS with GPU cards such as NVIDIAs
Tesla or AMDs ATI Firestorm

the most innovative and cutting-edge designs on the GPU Tech

Conference show floor were sitting in the Dell booth
Dell gets busy with GPUs, The Register, September 28th, 2010

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Two x16 Gen2 PCIe Slots
PCIe Expansion
Maximized Gen2 PCIe expansion is finally
realized within a blade
PCIe expansion capabilities bring a new
dimension of flexibility and performance
to the Dell M-Series

What it is
An expansion module containing x16
PCIe Gen2 expansion slots that can
support up to two standard fulllength/full-height PCIe cards.
Supplemental power and modular cooling
cradle up to two 250 max wattage cards
or one 300 max wattage card.

Why its important

The PowerEdge M610x with PCIe
expansion module allows you to
creatively incorporate a vast array of
PCIe-based products into blade
deployments

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Standard
Mezzanine
card(s)
Mezzanine
Interface
card

PCIe
Riser

PCIE
card(s)

Standard
Mezzanin
e card

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Sample Use Case Flexibility
PowerVault
TL4000
with 4xLTO5
Drives

SAS6e HBAs

M610x with two

x16 Gen2 PCIe
Slots

SAS6e HBA

PowerVault
TL2000

PER
C

PowerVault
MD1120

1 OR
2
FusionIO
Drive(s)
OR

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Disk to Disk
to Tape Backup
Solution

HPCC Nodes with

10x Computation Horse
Power and 1/20th the pow
consumption of x86

GPU(s
)

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1.73TB/hr Backup
Solution

Massive Read/Write
Database acceleration
for memory resident
applications

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The memory scalability of the M710 in a half-height form factor
Processors

Up to Two 4-core or 6-Core Intel Xeon

5600 Series Processors

Chipset

Intel: 5520

Memory

18 DIMM sockets for support up to

192GB of DDR3 RAM (12 x 16GB
DIMMs)

Hard Drives
RAID
I/O
Mezzanine

Embedded
Networking

2x2.5 Hot Plug Hard Drives

(SAS/SSD)
H200 RAID 0/1 hardware based
2 Optional PCIe x8 Mezzanine Card
Slots for:
Dual & Quad Port 1Gb Ethernet
Dual Port 10GbE w/ iSCSI Offolad
Dual Port 10GbE CEE/FCoE CNAs
Dual Port QLogic & Emulex 8Gb FC
Dual Port Mellanox QDR InfiniBand
Two Dual Port Broadcom NetXtreme
II Gigabit Ethernet 5709*
*Other options post launch

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Dell OpenManage
iDRAC6 Enterprise Remote
Management
Dell LifeCycle Controller

PowerEdge M710HD
The M710HD provides extreme consolidation in a
high-capacity, high-density form factor without
compromising high-availability features required for
Enterprise-class applications

Dell Differentiation

Virtualization Optimized: Huge memory footprint

in an ultra-dense form factor to lower cost & maximize
consolidation
Pervasive Reliability: Full Enterprise-class
reliability, every time because customers
consolidating workloads afford downtime
Hot-swappable, fault-tolerant HDDs with hardware
RAID
The industrys only dual-media Failsafe embedded
hypervisor
Flexible, Robust Throughput: The industrys first
blade to offer choice for all networking fabrics
Lower cost of connectivity
Maximize bandwidth or ports
Optimize storage connectivity

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Full-Height Scalable 2S/4S Intel
Processors

Chipset

Intel: 7500

Memory

32 DIMM sockets support up to 512GB

of DDR3 RAM (32 x 16GB DIMMs)

Hard Drives

2 x 2.5 Hot Plug Hard Drives (SAS/SSD)

RAID

H200 RAID 0/1 hardware based

H700 RAID 0/1 w/ 512MB Battery Backed
Cache
SAS6/iR (Customer Kit Only)

I/O Mezzanine

Embedded
Networking
Management
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Up to Four 4-,6- or 8-Core Intel Xeon

7500 (2S/4S) or 6500 (2S ONLY) Series
Processors

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4 PCIe Gen2 x8 Mezzanine Card Slots

for:
Dual & Quad Port 1Gb Ethernet
Dual Port 10Gb Ethernet w/ iSCSI
Offload
Dual Port 10Gb CEE/FCoE CNAs
Dual Port QLogic & Emulex 8Gb
FibreChannel
Dual Port Mellanox QDR InfiniBand
Two Dual Port Broadcom NetXtreme II
Gigabit Ethernet 5709S w/ TOE & iSCSI
Offload
Dell OpenManage
iDRAC6 Enterprise Remote Management
Dell LifeCycle Controller

PowerEdge M910
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.

Dell Differentiation

Unparalleled Flexibility: Only Dell offers FlexMem Bridge

technology, which allows the M910 to seamlessly scale from
4GB to 512GB of DDR3 RAM in either two-socket or foursocket configurations

Pervasive Reliability: No compromise Enterprise-class

reliability
The industrys only dual-media Failsafe embedded
hypervisor
Hot-swappable, fault-tolerant HDDs with hardware RAID

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Full Enterprise Class Manageability: Unique robust

embedded manageability features customers expect from
Dell M-Series.
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Half-Height Two Socket Intel
Processors
Chipset

Intel: 5520

Memory

12 DIMM sockets for support up to

192GB
of RAM (12 x 16GB DIMMs)

Hard Drives
RAID

I/O
Mezzanine

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Up to Two Dual Core or Quad Core

Intel Xeon 5500 Series Processors

Embedded
Networking
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2 x 2.5 Hot Plug Hard Drives

(SAS/SATA/SSD)
SAS6/iR & H200 RAID 0/1 hardware
based
CERC6/I (RAID 0/1 w/cache)
PERC 6/i & H700
2 PCIe Gen2 x8 Mezzanine Card Slots
for:
Dual & Quad Port Gb Enet
Dual Port 10Gb Enet w/ iSCSI
Offload
Dual Port FCoE CNAs
Dual Port QLogic 8Gb Fibre
Channel
Dual Port Emulex 8Gb Fibre
Channel
Dual Port Mellanox DDR/QDR
InfiniBand
One Dual Port Broadcom
NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet 5709 w/
TOE & Optional iSCSI Offload

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Full-Height Two Socket Intel
Processors
Chipset

Intel: 5520

Memory

18 DIMM sockets for support up to

192GB of RAM (12 x 16GB DIMMs)

Hard Drives
RAID

I/O
Mezzanine

Embedded
Networking
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Up to Two Dual Core or Quad Core

Intel Xeon 5500 Series Processors

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4 x 2.5 Hot Plug Hard Drives

(SAS/SATA/SSD)
SAS6/iR & H200 RAID 0/1 hardware
based
CERC6/i (RAID 0/1 w/cache)
PERC 6/I & H700 (R0/1/5 w/ BBWC)
4 PCIe Gen2 x8 Mezzanine Card Slots
for:
Dual & Quad Port Gb Enet
Dual Port 10Gb Enet w/ iSCSI
Offload
Dual Port Qlogic FCoE CNA
Dual Port QLogic 8Gb Fibre
Channel
Dual Port Emulex 8Gb Fibre
Channel
Dual Port Mellanox DDR/QDR
InfiniBand
Two Dual Port Broadcom NetXtreme
II Gigabit Ethernet 5709 w/ TOE &
Optional iSCSI Offload
Dell OpenManage
iDRAC6 Enterprise Remote

FLEXI/O Options
Dell M-series provides complete, snap-in FlexI/O scalability down to the switch
interconnects. FlexI/O technology is the foundation of the M1000e I/O
subsystem.
Up to 6 I/O modules for maximum throughput and redundancy.

Ethernet (1GbE & 10GbE)

nhanced Ethernet (CEE/DCB)

Fibre Channel
InfiniBand

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M1000e I/O Highlights

3 Redundant I/O
Fabrics within the
M1000e chassis
Fabric A: dual-port LOMs
on blade motherboard
Fabrics B & C: optional
mezzanine cards
Full-height blades offer 2x
the I/O bandwidth capacity
M1000e designed for

over a decade of I/O

technology

Experience modular
Ethernet switches with
FlexI/O
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48Gb stacking
module

2 x 10GBASE-T
Copper Uplinks

2 x 10Gb
Optical
XFP (SR/LR)
Uplinks

2 x 10Gb
CopperCX-4
Uplinks

Mezzanine IO Card Options

Ethernet

10Gb Ethernet

Broadcom
NetXtreme II 5709
Quad Port Ethernet

Broadcom
NetXtreme II 5709
Dual Port Ethernet
with TOE & iSCSI
Offload
Intel Gigabit ET
Quad Port with
Virtualization
technology & iSCSI
Initiator

Infiniband
Mellanox QDR & DDR ConnectX
Dual-Port Dual Data Rate (QDR &
DDR) InfiniBand Host Channel
Adapters (HCA)

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Broadcom
NetXtreme II 57711
Dual Port 10Gb
Ethernet with TOE &
iSCSI Offload

Intel X520 (82599)

10GbE KX4 w/CEE &
DCB
iSCSI Initiator
SR-IOV

Converged Ethernet
QLogic QME8142
Dual Port 10Gbps
Converged Network
Adapter w/ FCoE & iSCSI
Initiator
Intel X520 (82599)
10GbE KX4 w/CEE & DCB
iSCSI Initiator, SR-IOV
Converged Network
Adapter
FCoE
Emulex OCm10102-F-M
Dual Port 10Gbps
Converged Network
Adapter
w/ FCoE & iSCSI Initiator
Brocade BR1741M-k
Dual Port 10Gbps
Converged Network
Adapter
w/ FCoE & iSCSI Initiator

Fibre Channel
QLogic QME2572
8Gb Fibre Channel I/O Card
Emulex LPe1205-M
8Gb Fibre Channel I/O Card

Network Daughtercard (NDC)

Modular LAN On Motherboard (LOM)
The Network Daughter Card is a flexible implementation of
n of a conventional LAN on Motherboard (LOM) or Embedded NICs.
Its modular design enables it to be changed or
upgraded, the
1 st of its kind in the industry!

What it is
Broadcom 1GbE
Broadcom 2x10GbE CNA
SR-IOV, NIC Partitioning, FCoE and iSCSI offload.

Why its important

Modular LOM allows enhanced integrated connectivity flexibility,
providing even more options for customers whose networking or
bandwidth needs change over time. This unique deployment capability
also allows Dell to provide up to 6 x 10GbE ports in a single half-height
blade or 12 x 10GbE ports in a single full-height blade for the greatest I/O
density available.
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M-Series I/O Architecture

Fabric
A

LOM 1

Fabric A
1GB or 10Gb
(M710HD
Only)

Current &
Maximum
Throughput Per
Port with
Shipping
Technologies

Incoming
Throughput

10Gb/S

LOM 2

Outgoing
Throughput

10Gb/S

Total

20Gb/S per port

Mezz 1
Fabric
B

Port 1
Port 2
Mezz 2

Fabric
C

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Incoming
Throughput

Maximum
Throughput per
Chassis: 5.76Tb/S

Current
Maximum
Throughput Per
Port
40Gb/S (Max
speed requires
QDR IB)

Outgoing
Throughput

40Gb/S (Max
speed requires
QDR IB)

Total

80Gb/S per port

Port 1
Port 2

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Fabric B & C

Maximum
Throughput per HalfHeight Blade:
360Gb/S

Supported
Technologies

GbE, 10GbE,
CEE/DCB, FC4, FC8,
DDR, QDR InfiniBand
(IB)

Half-Height Multi-Fabric I/O Mapping

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Full Height Fabric I/O Mapping

Exclusive to Dell Redundant Paths

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FlexAddress Plus
Cost Effective & Intelligent Network Addressing
CMC offers simple interface for enabling FlexAddress by chassis, by slot,
or by fabric, assigning WWN/MAC values in place of factory-assigned
WWN/MAC
User-configurable enablement of iSCSI MAC, Ethernet MAC, and/or WWN
Persistence which allows blades to be swapped without affecting SAN
Zoning, iSCSI zoning, or any MAC-dependent functions
FlexAddress Plus SD card provisioned with unique pool of 3136
MACs/WWNs

Original
hardwareassigned MACs
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FlexAddressassigned
MACs

Advantages of Dells FlexAddress Plus

Solution
Independent of switch or pass-through module
Unique pool of MAC/WWNs per chassis
(no risk of duplicates on your network or SAN)
Simple and quick to deploy
Low cost vs switch-based solution
Boot from SAN capable
No new management tools!

FlexAddress advantages over Competition

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M-Series I/O Module OptionsFIBRE

ETHERNET

10GbE

GbE

GbE
Pass
Through

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3032
3130G
3130X

M6348

M8024

10GbE
Pass
Through

10Gb
DCB/FCoE

M8428-k

CHANNEL

FC8/4
Pass
Through

FC8/4 SAN
Module

FC8/4
M5424

INFINIBAND

M2401G
DDR
InfiniBand

M3601Q
QDR
InfiniBand