Specifications

A Principled Technologies test report 6
Dell Active System 800 converged infrastructure solution: User
collaboration performance
ABOUT THE ACTIVE SYSTEM 800
A member of the Active Infrastructure converged infrastructure framework family, the
Active System 800 is a comprehensive solution for rapid deployment of a pre-integrated
enterprise data center solution. Available in a number of configurations, Dell aims for the Active
System 800 to be simple to purchase, configure and maintain, as well as expand to meet
additional requirements in the future. The solution features:
 Unified management, via Dell Active System Manager software
 Converged LAN/SAN fabrics, using the Dell Force10 S4810 and Dell M I/O Aggregators
 Industry-standard Data Center Bridging (DCB) protocols for interoperability with 3rd
party infrastructure, which maximizes traffic performance for protocols such as iSCSI
 Flexible scalability using the Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade chassis
 Enhanced TOR switch functionality and coordination with Dell PowerEdge M I/O
Aggregators
 Dell PowerEdge M620 servers for compute
 Dell EqualLogic PS6110 storage
 Support for VMware®-based enterprise virtualization
Active System 800 base specifications
 Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade chassis (1 or 2)
 Dell PowerEdge M620 blade server (8 or 16, 24, 32)
o Intel® Xeon® processors E5-2660 (Upgradeable)
o 128G RAM (Upgradeable)
 Dell Force10 S4810 TOR switch (2)
 Dell Force10 S55 management switch
 EqualLogic PS6110
 PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator
Active System Manager
Active System Manager provides centralized management for the solution, through:
 Template-based configuration for provisioning and management, resulting in less
manual configuration for administrators
 Automated discovery, inventory, deployment, and management of blade infrastructure
 Guided user workflows, multi-level views of I/O topology
 Rapid workload migration
About the Dell PowerEdge M620 blade server
The Dell PowerEdge M620 is a half-height two-socket blade server powered by the Intel
Xeon processor E5-2600 series that can hold up to 768 GB of RAM in 24 DIMM slots. The
PowerEdge M620 comes standard with several management features, including iDRAC7 Express