Processors |
Dual and Quad -Core AMD OpteronTM Processors
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Chipset |
NVIDIA® MCP55
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Memory |
24 DIMM slots 512MB/1GB/2GB/4GB ECC DDR2 SDRAM
8GB ECC DDR2 SDRAM when available
Support up to 192GB using 24 x 8GB DIMMs
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Embedded Hypervisor via SD card (optional) |
VMware Infrastructure 3, standard or enterprise; with VMware ESXi 3.5
Citrix XenServer Dell Express & Enterprise Editions
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Operating Systems |
Factory Installed O/S:
Microsoft Windows® Server 2008, Standard and Enterprise Edition x32
Microsoft Windows® Server 2008 , Standard and Enterprise Edition x64, including Hyper-V
Microsoft Windows® Server 2008 x64 Datacenter, including Hyper-V
Microsoft Windows® Server 2008 x64, Web Edition x32 and x64
Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 R2, Standard and Enterprise Edition x32 & 64
Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 R2 x64, Standard and Enterprise Edition Red Hat®
Linux® Enterprise v5, x32 and 64 Red Hat®
Linux® Enterprise v4.5, AS, ES RHEL 5AP SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server 10, x86-64
Supported O/S:
Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Solaris
VMware Infrastructure 3, Standard or Enterprise
VMware 3.0
VMware 3.5
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Storage |
Internal Hot Swap SAS Hard Drives: 2.5" SAS (10K rpm): 36GB, 73GB, 146GB or 300GB 2.5" SAS (15K rpm): 36GB or 73GB
Maximum Internal Storage Up to 600GB per blade via two x 2.5" 300GB hot-plug SAS hard drives
External Storage: Disk Storage Options
- Dell/EqualLogic PS5000 Series
- PowerVault NX1950 Unified Storage Solution
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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
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Drive Bays |
Two 2.5" SAS hard drive hot swap
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I/O Mezzanine Card Options |
Four total PCIe x8 Mezzanine Card slots per M905 blade (optional) Available Options for all 4 slots:
- Dual port Gb Ethernet w/ TOE (New Broadcom 5709)
- Dual Port FC4 Qlogic QME2472 (FC8* when released in Q3’08)
- Dual Port FC4 Emulex M Lpe1105 (FC8* when released in Q3’08)
- Dual Port Mellanox ConnectX-MDI 4xDDR Infiniband mezzanine card
- 10Gb Ethernet
- Dual Port FC8
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RAID Controllers |
SAS6/IR (Raid 0/1) hardware based
CERC6/IR (Raid 0/1 w/ Cache)
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Communications |
Four embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme IITM 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
Optional add-in NICs:
See I/O Mezzanine Card Options
Optional add in HBAs:
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.
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Power |
Supplied by Dell’s M1000e Blade Chassis
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Video |
ATI RN50 (32MB Memory)
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Chassis |
The PowerEdge M905 blade server only fits in the M1000e blade enclosure. A total of 8 x M805/M905’s or 16 x M600/M605’s can fit into every M1000e enclosure. Full height and half height blades can be mixed in M1000e enclosures with no limitations.
M905 physical dimensions:
Height: 38.5cm (15.2 in)
Width: 5cm (2 in)
Depth: 48.6cm (19.2 in)
Weight (Maximum
Configuration): 11.1kg (24.5lb)
Full height blade fits inside the M-1000e Blade Chassis
Maximum of 8 per blade chassis
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Management |
Dell OpenManageTM software tools
IT Assistant-manage multiple Dell servers from a single console
OpenManage Server Administrator - 1:1 monitoring agents
Integration with 3rd party management solutions via Dell’s Certified Partner Program
Altiris Deployment Solution for Dell Blade Servers
Designed to help reduce deployment time from hours to minutes
Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with:
Out of Band alerting, status, inventory, and troubleshooting via Secure Web GUI / CLI (telnet/SSH)
Remote Virtual Media (vMedia) and Virtual KVM (vKVM)
vMedia (virtual media) Map media from remote workstation/network to the blade
vKVM (virtual KVM) out of band remote console, supports Java or ActiveX plug-ins
IPMI 2.0 support
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Environmental |
Operating Temperature: 10º C to 35º C (50º F to 95º F)
Storage Temperature: -40º C to 65º C (-40º F to 149º F)
Operating Relative Humidity (non-condensing twmax=29C): 8% to 80% non-condensing
Maximum humidity gradient: 10% per hour, operational and non-operational conditions
Storage Relative Humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing (twmax=38C)
Operating Vibration: 0.26Grms at 10Hz to 350Hz for 15 minutes
Storage Vibration: 1.54Grms Random Vibration at 10Hz to 250Hz for 15 minutes
Operating Shock: 1 shock pulse of 41G for up to 2ms Storage
Shock: 6 shock pulses of 71G for up to 2ms
Operating Altitude: -16 to 3,048m (-50 ft to 10,000 ft)
Storage Altitude: -16m to 10,600m (-50 ft to 35,000 ft)
Dell and the Environment
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Regulatory |
FCC (U.S. only) Class A ICES (Canada) Class A
CE Mark (EN55022 Class A, EN55024, EN61000-3-2, EN61000-3-3)
VCCI (Japan) Class A BSMI (Taiwan) Class A
C-Tick (Australia/New Zealand) Class A
SABS (South Africa) Class A
CCC (China) Class A MIC (Korea) Class A
UL 60950-1 CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 60950-1 EN 60950-1 IEC 60950-1
Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page
Dell Regulatory Datasheet Home Page |