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The PowerEdge M710HD blade server helps you run business applications efficiently, reduce your data center footprint, ease data management and trim system maintenance time.
Flex Your Data Center Muscles
With massive I/O throughput, powerful core processing and ultra-high-density memory, the PowerEdge M710HD blade server can take on your toughest data center workloads.
- Flexible deployment achievable through multiple iSCSI, Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand options (10GbE, QDR IB, 8Gb FC and more)
- Modular Network Daughtercard (NDC) for future integrated network connectivity options
- Robust processing power from up to 12 Intel® Xeon® 5600 series cores
- Maximized RAM density with 18 DIMM slots for cost-efficient DDR3 memory scaling
The expanded addressable memory in a two-socket, half-height blade allows you to leverage more virtual machines from your existing hypervisor licensing, helping you save money and increase your virtualized deployments using existing resources.
Additional Information
18 DIMM Slots with support for up to 192GBs using RDIMMs
Microsoft? Windows Server? 2008, with Hyper-VT
VMware? vSphere Version 4.1 (including ESX v4.1/ESXi v4.1)
Microsoft Windows? Server 2008 R2, x64 (includes Hyper-V v2)
Novell? SUSE? Linux? Enterprise Server v11, x86/x64, SP1
Red Hat? Enterprise Linux? Server v5.5, x86/x64
Red Hat? Enterprise Linux? AS/ES v4.8, x86/x64
Virtualization OS Options
Microsoft? Windows Server? 2008, with Hyper-V
VMware? vSphere Version 4.0 (including ESX v4.0/ ESXi v4.0)
2.5" SAS (10K rpm): 146GB, 300GB1, or 600GB
2.5" SAS (15K rpm): 73GB or 146GB
Solid State Drives (SSD): 50GB, 100GB, 150GB
Maximum Internal Storage:
Up to 1.2TB per blade via two x 2.5" 600GB hot-plug SAS hard drive
Fully populated mezzanine card slots and switch modules will yield 3 redundant I/O fabrics per blade.
1Gb & 10Gb Ethernet:
Dual-Port Broadcom® Gb Ethernet w/ TOE (BCM-5709S)
Quad-Port Intel® Gb Ethernet
Quad-Port Broadcom® Gb Ethernet (BCM-5709S)
Dual-Port Intel® 10Gb Ethernet
Dual-Port Broadcom® 10Gb Ethernet (BCM-57711)
10Gb Enhanced Ethernet & Converged Network Adapters (CEE/DCB/FCoE):
Dual-Port Intel® 10Gb Enhanced Ethernet (FcoE Ready for Future Enablement)
Dual-Port Emulex® Converged Network Adapter (OCM10102-F-M) - Supports CEE/DCB 10GbE + FCoE
Dual-Port Qlogic® Converged Network Adapter (QME8142) - Supports CEE/DCB 10GbE + FCoE
Fibre Channel:
Dual-Port QLogic® FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (QME2572)
Dual-Port Emulex® FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (LPe1205-M)
Infiniband:
Dual-Port Mellanox® ConnectX-2TM Dual Data Rate (DDR) and Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand
TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) supported on Microsoft? Windows Server? 2003 SP1 or higher with Scalable Networking Pack. iSCSI Offload supported on Windows Server? 2003 SP1 or higher, Red Hat? Enterprise Linux? 5, and SUSE? Linux? Enterprise Server 10. Scalable Networking Pack for 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
M710HD Dimensions and Weight (blade only):
Height: 18.9 cm (7.4 in)
Width: 5 cm (2 in)
Depth: 48.6 cm (19.2 in)
Remote Management
iDRAC6 Enterprise (standard)
Systems Management
BMC, IPMI2.0 compliant
DellTM OpenManageTM featuring Dell Management Console
Unified Server Configurator
Lifecycle Controller
iDRAC6 Enterprise with optional Vflash
Management
Dell OpenManage® software tools
Dell Management Console
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)
Out of Band alerting, status, inventory, and troubleshooting via Secure Web GUI / CLI (telnet/SSH)
Console Redirection
vMedia (virtual media) - Map optical or hard drives to the blade from remote workstations over a network
vKVM (virtual KVM) out-of-band remote console redirection-supports Java or ActiveX plug-ins
IPMI 2.0 support

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