Intel^®  Xeon^®  5500 series Dual and Quad Core 60W, 80W, and 95W TDP options

Intel 5520

12 DIMM slots

1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB ECC DDR3

Support up to 96GB using 12 x 8GB DIMMs

Citrix^®  XenServer^® 

Microsoft^®  Windows Server^®  2008, with Hyper-V^TM 

VMware^®  ESXi v3.5

Microsoft^®  Windows^®  Small Business Server 2008, Standard Edition and Premium Edition

Microsoft^®  Windows^®  Essential Business Server 2008, Standard Edition and Premium Edition

Microsoft^®  Windows Server^®  2008, Standard Edition, (x64 includes Hyper-V^TM )

Microsoft^®  Windows Server^®  2008, Enterprise Edition, (x64 includes Hyper-V^TM )

Microsoft^®  Windows Server^®  2008, Datacenter Edition, (x64 with Hyper-V^TM )

Microsoft^®  Windows^®  Web Server 2008

Microsoft^®  Windows^®  HPC Server 2008

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

Novell^®  SUSE^®  Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2

Red Hat Linux Enterprise v5.3

Red Hat^®  Enterprise Linux 5.2

Microsoft^®  Windows^®  Server 2003

Novell^®  SUSE^®  Linux Enterprise Server 11

Red Hat^®  Enterprise Linux 4.7

Red Hat^®  Enterprise Linux 5.3

Sun^®  Solaris^TM  10

2.5" SAS (10K rpm): 36GB, 73GB, 146GB, or 300GB

2.5" SAS (15K rpm): 36GB or 73GB,146GB

2.5” SATA (7.2k rpm): 80GB, 120GB, 160GB or 250GB

Solid State Drives (SSD): 25GB, 50GB

Up to 600GB per blade via two x 2.5" 300GB hot-plug SAS hard drive

External Storage:

Disk Storage Options

Dell/EqualLogic PS5000 Series PowerVaultTM  NX1950 Unified Storage Solution PowerVault MD3000i

Dell/EMC products:

Dell/EMC fibre channel and/or iSCSI external storage, including Dell/EMC CX300, CX3-10c , CX3-20, CX3-40, and CX3-80; CX4-120, CX4-240, CX4-480 and CX4-960

Two 2.5” SAS/Solid State Hot-Swappable Drives

Up to two total PCIe x8 Mezzanine Card slots per M610 blade (optional)

Available Options for both slots :

Dual Port Gb Ethernet w/ TOE (New Broadcom 5709) Mellanox ConnectX Dual-Port Dual Data Rate (DDR) InfiniBand (Fabric C only) Mellanox ConnectX Dual-Port Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand (Fabric C only) 10Gb Ethernet Broadcom 57710 Dual Port FC8 Qlogic®  QME2572 Dual Port FC8 Emulex®  LPe1205

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

Two embedded Broadcom^®  NetXtreme II^TM  5709 Gigabit Ethernet NICs with failover and load balancing TOE (TCPIP Offload Engine) supported on Microsoft^®  Windows Server 2003, SP1 or higher with Scalable Networking Pack. iSCSI Offload supported on Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 or higher, Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise 5, and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10. Scalable Networking Pack for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is not required.

Boot from SAN (iSCSI and FC) supported

See I/O Mezzanine Card Options

See I/O Mezzanine Card Options

Fully populated mezz card slots and switch modules will yield 3 highly available, redundant I/O fabrics for each blade.

Supplied by Dell’s M1000e Blade Chassis

Matrox G200

Height: 38.5cm (15.2in)

Width: 5cm (2in)

Depth: 48.6cm (19.2in)

Weight: 11.1kg (24.5lb)- Maximum configuration

Half height blade fits inside the M1000e Blade Enclosure and maximum of 16 per blade chassis

Dell OpenManage featuring Dell Management Console

Lifecycle Controller

iDRAC6 Enterprise

VFlash