Dell M910 User Manual

PowerEdge M910

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Technical Guide

The M910 is ideal for the demanding applications at the core of most data centers, such as large databases, virtualization and messaging infrastructure.

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Table of Contents

1 Product Comparison ........................................................................................... 5

1.1 Overview .................................................................................................. 5

1.2 Product Comparison ..................................................................................... 6

2 New Technologies .............................................................................................. 8

2.1 Overview .................................................................................................. 8

2.2 Detailed Information .................................................................................... 8

2.2.1 Intel Xeon Processors .............................................................................. 8

2.2.2 Intel 7500 Chipset .................................................................................. 8

2.2.3 FlexMem Bridge .................................................................................... 8

2.2.4 IO Hub (IOH) with Intel QuickPath Architecture ............................................... 8

2.2.5 DDR3 Memory ....................................................................................... 8

2.2.6 PCI Express Generation 2 ......................................................................... 9

2.2.7 Internal Redundant SD Module ................................................................... 9

2.2.8 iDRAC6 Express ..................................................................................... 9

3 System Information .......................................................................................... 10

3.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 10

3.2 Product Features Summary ........................................................................... 10

4 Mechanical .................................................................................................... 12

4.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 12

4.2 Module Dimensions and Weight ...................................................................... 12

4.3 Internal Module ......................................................................................... 12

4.4 Security .................................................................................................. 13

4.5 Cover Latch ............................................................................................. 13

4.6 TPM (Trusted Platform Module) ...................................................................... 13

4.7 Power Off Security ..................................................................................... 14

4.8 USB Key .................................................................................................. 14

4.9 Battery ................................................................................................... 14

4.10 Field Replaceable Units (FRU)........................................................................ 14

5 Operating, Thermal, and Acoustic ......................................................................... 15

5.1 Overview of Operating and Storage Conditions .................................................... 15

5.2 Acoustics ................................................................................................ 16

5.3 Thermal.................................................................................................. 17

5.4 Power Efficiency ....................................................................................... 17

6 Processors ..................................................................................................... 18

6.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 18

6.2 Features ................................................................................................. 18

6.3 Supported Processors .................................................................................. 19

6.4 Processor Configurations .............................................................................. 19

6.5 FlexMem Bridge ........................................................................................ 19

7 Memory ........................................................................................................ 21

7.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 21

7.2 DIMMs Supported ....................................................................................... 22

7.3 Slots /Risers ............................................................................................. 22

7.4 Intel 7500 Scalable Memory Buffer (SMB) ........................................................... 22

7.5 Memory RAS Support ................................................................................... 22

7.5.1 Sparing ............................................................................................. 22

7.5.2 Mirroring ........................................................................................... 23

7.5.3 Supported Memory Configurations ............................................................. 24

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8 Chipset ........................................................................................................ 25

8.1 Intel 7500 I/O Hub (IOH) .............................................................................. 25

8.2 IOH QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) ................................................................... 25

8.3 PCI EXPRESS GENERATION 2 .......................................................................... 25

8.4 Direct Media Interface (DMI) ......................................................................... 25

8.5 Intel I/O Controller Hub 10 (ICH10) ................................................................. 25

8.6 PCI Express Mezzanine Connectors .................................................................. 26

9 BIOS ............................................................................................................ 27

9.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 27

9.2 Supported ACPI States ................................................................................. 27

10 Embedded Gigabit Ethernet Controllers on Motherboard (LOM) ...................................... 28

11 I/O Mezzanine Card Options ................................................................................ 29

11.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 29

11.2 Options .................................................................................................. 29

12 Storage ........................................................................................................ 30

12.1 Drives .................................................................................................... 30

12.2 Hard Disk Drive Carriers ............................................................................... 30

12.3 Empty Drive Bays ....................................................................................... 30

12.4 Diskless Configuration Support ....................................................................... 30

12.5 RAID Configurations .................................................................................... 31

12.6 Storage Controllers .................................................................................... 31

12.6.1 SATA Repeater .................................................................................... 31

12.6.2 PERC6/i ............................................................................................ 32

12.6.3 PERC H200 ......................................................................................... 32

12.6.4 PERC H700 ......................................................................................... 32

12.7 LED Indicators .......................................................................................... 32

12.8 Optical Drives ........................................................................................... 32

13 Video (PCI Video) ............................................................................................ 33

14 Rack Information ............................................................................................. 34

15 Operating Systems ........................................................................................... 35

16 Virtualization ................................................................................................. 36

16.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 36

16.2 Advanced Infrastructure Manager by Scalent ...................................................... 36

16.3 Vizioncore ............................................................................................... 37

17 Systems Management ........................................................................................ 38

17.1 Overview ................................................................................................ 38

17.2 Server Management .................................................................................... 38

17.3 Embedded Server Management ...................................................................... 39

17.4 Lifecycle Controller and Unified Server Configurator ............................................ 39

17.5 The iDRAC6 Enterprise ................................................................................ 40

17.6 Chassis Management Controller (CMC) .............................................................. 41

18 Peripherals .................................................................................................... 42

18.1 USB peripherals ......................................................................................... 42

18.2 External Storage ........................................................................................ 42

Tables

Table 1. Product Comparisons ................................................................................. 6

Table 2. Product Features .................................................................................... 10

Table 3. Operating and Storage Conditions ................................................................ 15

Table 4. Typical Configuration Used in Testing ........................................................... 16

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Table 5. Processor Cache Sizes (Package LGA1567) ...................................................... 18

Table 6. Supported Processors ............................................................................... 19

Table 7. PowerEdge M910 Sparing and Mirroring .......................................................... 22

Table 8. Supported Memory Configurations ................................................................ 24

Table 9. RAID Configurations ................................................................................. 31

Table 10. Storage Controllers Supported on the M910 ..................................................... 31

Table 11. Supported Video Modes ............................................................................ 33

Table 12. Virtualization Software ............................................................................. 36

Table 13. Unified Server Configurator Features and Description......................................... 39

Table 14. Features List for BMC, iDrac, and vFlash ........................................................ 40

Table 15. Industry Standards and URLs ...................................................................... 43

Figures

Figure 1. M1000e ................................................................................................ 12

Figure 2. Internal Module View ............................................................................... 13

Figure 3. Diagram of FlexMem Bridge Routing.............................................................. 20

Figure 4. Memory Diagram .................................................................................... 21

Figure 5. PowerEdge M910 2P Mirroring ..................................................................... 23

Figure 6. M910 4P Mirroring ................................................................................... 23

Figure 7. 2.5‖ HDD Carrier .................................................................................... 30

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1 Product Comparison

1.1 Overview

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M-Series blade servers are designed to help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, scalability, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space.

The PowerEdge M910 provides significant performance and reliability in a scalable, full-height, foursocket 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.

When combined with Dell’s world-class storage, management, and support offerings, the result is a total enterprise solution that can help you optimize your IT environment and expenses.

Powerful

The PowerEdge M910 was designed to meet the needs of nearly any IT infrastructure or environment. Built with powerful Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series and advanced systems management capabilities, the M910 is ideal for the demanding applications at the core of most data centers, such as large databases, virtualization, and messaging infrastructure.

Memory is a critical component for performance, especially for heavy virtualization and high-end database needs. With this in mind, the PowerEdge M910 was designed with 32 DIMM slots allowing up to 512GB of ECC DDR3 RAM to be supported, allowing these memory-intensive applications to have ample resources at their disposal.

Scalable

Many servers may be able to take advantage of the large memory support that modern architectures provide, but 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 four-socket configurations. This patentpending technology allows Dell to deliver a unique platform that can seamlessly scale as customer and application needs dictate, without having to ―rip and replace‖ existing server infrastructure.

In addition to allowing significant memory and processor scaling capabilities, the compact formfactor of Dell blades allows the ability to scale down the amount of space that your core application servers require. By utilizing the PowerEdge M910, you can deploy up to eight next generation 4socket servers in only 10U of rack space, which is less than 1/3 of the space required using traditional 4U four-socket rack servers.

Reliable

With the PowerEdge M910, Dell continues its unrelenting focus on reliability. The PowerEdge M910 utilizes the redundant power, cooling, and networking infrastructure provided by the Dell M1000e Blade enclosure. The PowerEdge M910 itself incorporates improvements and features for maximum protection against potential downtime, such as the ability to support three fully redundant fabrics per blade and the inclusion of a dual-media redundant embedded hypervisor.

The PowerEdge M910 also utilizes Intel Xeon 7500 series processors which are designed to automatically monitor, report, and recover from hardware errors in order to maintain data integrity and keep mission-critical services online.

As with all Dell PowerEdge servers, the M910 is manufactured with our ―one-touch‖ factory build process. This process is designed to ensure just one person is responsible for the entire server build, resulting in greater quality control. In addition, every fully configured Dell server is tested (and retested) before it leaves the factory to ensure maximum reliability.

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Feature /Spec

M910

M710

R810

R910

Processor

4 Socket

Intel® Xeon® processor 6500 and 7500 series

2 Socket

Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

4 Socket

Intel® Xeon® processor 6500 and 7500 series

2 or4 Socket

Intel® Xeon® 7500 Series

Front Side Bus

Four Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links

Two Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links

Four Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links

Up to 6.4 GT/s Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links

# Proc Sockets

2/4 2 2/4

2/4/6

Max # Cores per Socket

2S w/ up to16 cores

4S w/ up to 32 cores

Up to 4

2S w/ up to16 cores

4S w/ up to 32 cores

2S w/ up to16 cores

4S w/ up to 32 cores

L2/L3 Cache

L2 cache:1.5MB or 2MB

L3 cache: 12MB, 18MB or 24MB (shared)

4MB and 8MB

L2 cache:1.5MB or 2MB

L3 cache: 12MB, 18MB or 24MB (shared)

L3 cache: 12MB, 18MB or 24MB

Chipset

Intel® 7500

Intel® 5520

Intel® 7500

DIMMs

32 x DDR3

18 DDR3

32 x DDR3

64 x DDR3

Min/Max RAM

4GB–512GB

1GB–192GB

4GB–512GB

4GB – 1TB

Form Factor

Full Height Blade, Dual Slot

2U Chassis, Rack

4U chassis, Rack

HD Bays (2.5”

only)

2 4 6

HD Types

SAS/SSD

Integrated Standard HD Controller

H200/H700 (factory installed) and PERC6 as custom kit

H200/H700

PERC6

H200/H700

Optional HD Controller

H200/H700 Integrated controller

(Battery backup for the H700 and PERC6 options only)

SAS6/iR PERC6i with RAID battery

PERC H800 or 6Gbps SAS

Availability

Hot-swap hard drives

Hot-swap redundant power and cooling

ECC memory

Single Device Data Correction (SDDC)

Supports memory demand and patrol scrubbing

High-availability failover cluster support

Hot-swap hard drives

Hot-swap redundant power and cooling

ECC memory

Single Device Data Correction (SDDC)

Supports memory demand and patrol scrubbing

High-availability failover cluster support

Hot-swap hard drives

Hot-swap redundant power and cooling

ECC memory

Single Device Data Correction (SDDC)

Supports memory demand and patrol scrubbing

High-availability failover cluster support

Hot-swap hard drives

Hot-swap redundant power and cooling

ECC memory

Single Device Data Correction (SDDC)

supports memory demand and patrol scrubbing

High availability

Product documentation is available at support.dell.com. Information for the chassis can be found in the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide.

1.2 Product Comparison

Table 1. Product Comparisons

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M910

M710

R810

R910

Server Management

iDRAC6 Enterprise

CMC (on M1000e)

iDRAC6 Enterprise (Both) standard

CMC (on M1000e)

iDRAC6 Express iDRAC6 Enterprise Optional

Mezz Slots

4 x8 PCIe Mezzanine Cards

1 x 4 and 3 x 8 PCIe Mezzanine Cards

6 x PCIe

5 x 8

1 x 4

7 PCIe Gen2 slots

(2x4, 4 x8 + 1x16)

Optional: 10 PCI e Gen2 (6x4, 4x8)

Slot 5 is Gen1

NIC/LOM

4 x TOE – iSCSI offload

4 x TOE with optional iSCSI offload

4 x LOM

(5709)

1GbE or 10Gp SFP+ embedded NIC options

4-port (4x1GbE) embedded NIC Broadcom 5709c

4-port (2x10gb SPF+ & 2x1GbE) Embedded NIC Broadcom 57711 + Broadcom 5709c

USB

3 x External USB 2.0 ports at front bezel

1 x Internal USB port

3 x External USB 2.0 ports at front bezel

1 x Internal USB port

2 ports in the front

4 ports in the rear

2 in the rear

2 in the front

SD Card

2 x Internal SD slot

1 for Persistent Storage 1 for Lifecycle controller on iDRAC

(can also be configured as redundant SD cards RIPS)

1 x Internal SD slot

1 for Persistent Storage 1 for Lifecycle controller on iDRAC

2 x Internal SD slot

1 for Persistent Storage 1 for Lifecycle controller on iDRAC

2 x Internal SD slot

1 for Persistent Storage 1 for Lifecycle controller on iDRAC

Power Supplies

See PowerEdge M1000e

Technical Guide

See PowerEdge

M1000e Technical Guide

2 x 1100W

4 x 750w (Energy Smart)

4 x 1100W (High output)

Fans

See PowerEdge M1000e

Technical Guide

See PowerEdge

M1000e Technical Guide

Redundant cooling

Chassis

See PowerEdge M1000e

Technical Guide

See PowerEdge

M1000e Technical Guide

Rack

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2 New Technologies

2.1 Overview

The PowerEdge M910 server includes the following new features:

 Intel Xeon Processor 7500 Series (4s) and Intel Xeon Processor 6500 Series (2s) 4-, 6-, and 8-

core processors

 Intel 7500 Chipset  FlexMem Bridge  IO Hub (IOH) with Intel  DDR3 memory  PCI Express  Optional Redundant SD media for embedded hypervisor  iDRAC6 Express

Generation 2

2.2 Detailed Information

2.2.1 Intel Xeon Processors

The processor features up to eight-core processing to with maximize performance (expected up to

3.8x performance improvements) and performance/watt and significant energy efficiency improvements for datacenter infrastructures and highly dense deployments. Additionally, the Intel Xeon processor 6500 and 7500 series features the Intel® 64 Architecture for flexibility in 64-bit and 32-bit applications and operating systems.

QuickPath Architecture

2.2.2 Intel 7500 Chipset

See Section 8 for detailed information in the Intel 7500 chipset.

2.2.3 FlexMem Bridge

The PowerEdge M910 also introduces a new, Dell patent-pending, technology which will allow flexibility in processor and memory scalability—FlexMem Bridge. The FlexMem Bridge allows the full amount of addressable DIMMs on 4-Socket systems with Intel Xeon processor 7500 and 6500 series to be accessed, even when only 2 of the processors are in place, in a completely passive solution (no active components).

2.2.4 IO Hub (IOH) with Intel QuickPath Architecture

The Intel QuickPath Architecture consists of serial point-to-point interconnects for the processors and the system IOH. The M910 has a total of eight QuickPath Interconnects (QPI) lines: six links connecting the processors and two links connection processors 1 and 2 with the IOH.

2.2.5 DDR3 Memory

The M910 uses DDR3 memory which provides a high-performance, high-speed memory interface capable of low latency response and high throughput. The M910 supports Registered ECC DDR3 DIMMs (RDIMMs).

The DDR3 memory interface consists of 8 Intel Scalable Memory Buffers (SMBs), each or which has two DDR3 memory channels. Each channel supports up to two RDIMMs for single/dual/quad rack. By limiting to two DIMMs per DDR channel, the system can support quad-rank DIMMs at 1067MHz.

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2.2.6 PCI Express Generation 2

PCI Express is a serial point‐to‐point interconnect for I/O devices. PCIe Gen2 doubles the signaling bit rate of each lane from 2.5 Gb/s to 5 Gb/s. Each of the PCIe Gen2 ports is backwards‐compatible with Gen1 transfer rates.

2.2.7 Internal Redundant SD Module

The Internal SD Module is dedicated for an SD Flash Card with embedded Hypervisor for virtualization. The SD Flash Card contains a bootable OS image for virtualized platforms. The persistent storage solution on the M910 allows for redundant SD cards.

2.2.8 iDRAC6 Express

The iDRAC6 Express feature set is a managed persistent storage space for server provisioning data. It consists of 1 GB flash and vFlash (an optional externally accessible SD card). vFlash offers the hotswap portability and increased storage capacity benefits of SD while still being managed by the system.

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Feature

Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910

Processors

Up to Four Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series Quad-, Six-, or Eight-Core; or, Up to Two Intel® Xeon® processor 6500 series Quad-, Six-, or Eight-Core

Chipset

Intel® 7500

Memory1

1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB ECC DDR3 Support for up to 512GBs using 32 x 16GB DIMMs

Drive Bays

Two 2.5‖ SAS/Solid State hot-swappable drives

Storage1

Internal:

2.5‖ 6Gbs SAS (15K): 73GB, 146GB

2.5‖ 6Gbs SAS (10K): 146GB, 300GB

2.5‖ 6Gbs SAS (7.2K): 500GB

2.5‖ SSD: 50GB, 100GB

External:

Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Dell™ PowerVault™ MD Series & NX Series

Dell/EMC CX Series, AX Series & NS Series

RAID Controller Options

PERC H200 Modular RAID Controller (6Gb/s) PERC H700 Modular RAID Controller (6Gb/s) with 512MB battery-backed cache;

512MB, 1GB Non-Volatile battery-backed cache

I/O Mezzanine Card Options

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

1Gb & 10Gb Ethernet:

Broadcom® Dual-Port Gb Ethernet w/ TOE (BCM-5709S) Intel® Quad-Port Gb Ethernet Broadcom® Quad-Port Gb Ethernet (BCM-5709S)

3 System Information

3.1 Overview

The PowerEdge M910 is an innovative blade design that allows scaling from 2 to 4 sockets (no single or 3 socket support) based on a new generation of Intel four-socket enhanced processors, RAM, and management while still taking advantage of the M1000e chassis architecture. Along with the M1000e chassis, the PowerEdge M910 server leads the industry in high speed, redundant IO throughput and power efficiency with more RAM slots in the 2-socket space.

3.2 Product Features Summary

Table 2. Product Features

GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with preloaded material and

operating environment and will be less.

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Intel® Dual-Port 10Gb Ethernet Broadcom® Dual-Port 10Gb Ethernet (BCM-57711) 10Gb Enhanced Ethernet & Converged Network Adapters (CEE/DCB): Intel® Dual-Port 10Gb Enhanced Ethernet (FcoE Ready for Future Enablement) Emulex® Dual-Port Converged Network Adapter (OCM10102-F-M)—Supports CEE/DCB

10GbE + FCoE Qlogic® Dual-Port Converged Network Adapter (QME8142)—Supports CEE/DCB 10GbE

+ FCoE

QLogic® Dual-Port FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (QME2572) Emulex® Dual-Port FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (LPe1205-M)

Mellanox® Dual-Port ConnectX™ Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand

Operating Systems

Microsoft® Windows® Essential Business Server 2008 Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V™) Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2, x86/x64 (includes Hyper-V™ v2) Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008 Novell® SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Sun® Solaris™ For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit

www.dell.com/OSsupport.

Citrix® XenServer™ Microsoft® Hyper-V™ via Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 VMware® vSphere™ 4.1 (including VMware ESX® 4.1 or VMware ESXi™ 4.1)

For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit the Operating

System Support Matrix for Dell PowerEdge Systems on Dell.com.

Featured Database Applications

Microsoft® SQL Server® solutions (see Dell.com/SQL) Oracle® database solutions (see Dell.com/Oracle)

Power Supply

Supplied by Dell™ M1000e Blade Chassis

Video

Matrox® G200eW w/ 8MB memory

Systems Management

BMC, IPMI2.0 compliant Dell™ OpenManage™ featuring Dell Management Console Unified Server Configurator Lifecycle Controller iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash Remote Management: iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional vFlash

Embedded Hypervisor

Optional Dual-Media Redundant Hypervisor

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4 Mechanical

4.1 Overview

The M910 is a full height blade server that requires an M1000e chassis (shown in Figure 1) to operate.

Figure 1. M1000e

It occupies 2 slots in the M1000e rack chassis for a maximum of 8 blades in one M1000e chassis. It can be mixed with other existing Dell blades and is designed to mix with possible future half-heightdouble-wide and full-height-double-wide blades. Some highlights are:

• Support for RAID

• Support for persistent storage (internal USB connector and two external SD card slots)

Refer to the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide for information on fans, power and power supply, racks, security, and other chassis information.

4.2 Module Dimensions and Weight

Height: 38.5cm (15.2in)

Width: 5cm (2in)

Depth: 48.6cm (19.2in)

Weight: 13.1kg (29lb) maximum configuration

4.3 Internal Module

A view of the internal module is shown in Figure 2. See Opening and Closing the Blade in the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual for more information.

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Figure 2. Internal Module View

4.4 Security

Configurable client IP address range for clients connecting to iDRAC6.

4.5 Cover Latch

The blade module includes a latch for the cover. See Opening and Closing the Blade in the Dell PowerEdge Modular Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual for more information.

4.6 TPM (Trusted Platform Module)

The TPM is used to generate/store keys, protect/authenticate passwords, and create/store digital certificates. TPM can also be used to enable the BitLocker™ hard drive encryption feature in Windows Server 2008. TPM is enabled through a BIOS option and uses HMAC-SHA1-160 for binding. TCM is available in China.

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