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Table of contents 1 System overview ..................................................................................................................................................................5 Introduction .........................................................................................................................................................................5 New technologies ...............................................................................................................
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Designed for your taxing workloads, such as email, database and virtual environments, the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M620 blade server is an ideal blend of density, performance, efficiency and scalability. The M620 delivers unprecedented memory density and superb performance with no compromise on enterprise-class features. Bring impressive new capabilities to your data center with the PowerEdge M620, which offers a memory capacity of up to 768GB of RAM (using 32GB DIMMs) along with scalable I/O capabilities.
A number of new technologies are featured on the PowerEdge M620 system, as shown in Table 1. New technologies Detailed descriptions Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family This new family of Intel processors has embedded PCI Express (PCIe) lanes for improved I/O performance and additional new features. See the Processors section for details. Intel C600 series chipset The Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip is implemented on the M620.
Compared to the previous generation of Dell PowerEdge blade servers, the M620 has more memory, processor cores, and networking options than ever before. Features include DDR3 memory, PCI Express 3.0, a network daughter card (NDC), dual internal SD module, and Dell’s next-generation iDRAC solution known as iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller. The PowerEdge M620 is a replacement for the predecessor M610 and M710HD systems, three systems that are compared in Table 2.
Table 3 lists the technical specifications for the PowerEdge M620 blade server. For the latest information on supported features, visit Dell.com. Feature Technical specification Form factor; enclosure Half-height blade; Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure Processors Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family Internal interconnect Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI): 6.4GT/s, 7.2GT/s, 8.0GT/s Cache 2.
Feature Power supplies and fans Technical specification Supplied by M1000e blade enclosure Dell OpenManage Systems Management (Agent-free or with OpenManage Server Administrator [OMSA] Agent) OpenManage Essentials Dell Management Console IT Assistant OMSA Agent OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller) Chassis Management Controller 4.
The Dell PowerEdge M620 implements a new module design that supports up to 24 DIMMS and two processors. The M620 is a half-height blade server that requires a PowerEdge M1000e chassis to operate. It occupies one slot vertically in the M1000e for a maximum of 16 blade servers in one M1000e chassis. The M620 can be mixed with other existing Dell blades of half-height and full-height form factors.
The chassis design of the M620 is optimized for easy access to components and for airflow for effective and efficient cooling. Figure 2 shows the M1000e chassis enclosure populated with M620 modules. The M620 module shown in Figure 3 supports up to 24 DIMMS, two processors, and many other features that are described in this guide. For additional system views, see the Dell M620 Systems Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals.
Table 4 lists the modules features for the M620 system. For additional information on these features, see the Dell PowerEdge M620 Systems Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals. Feature Description Two front-accessible USB connectors Hard drive activity LEDs Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Quick Resource Locator (QRL) Indicator for M620 power status Two front-accessible, hot-plug, 2.
This QRL code allows you to: View step-by-step videos, including overviews of system internals and externals, as well as detailed, concise, task-oriented videos and installation wizards Locate reference materials, including searchable owner’s manual content, LCD diagnostics, and an electrical overview Look up your service tag so you can quickly gain access to your specific hardware configuration info and warranty information Contact Dell directly (by link) to get in touch with technical support and
The Dell PowerEdge M620 features the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family, offering an ideal combination of performance, power efficiency, and cost. These processors provide high performance no matter what your constraint is—floor space, power, or budget—and on workloads that range from the most complicated scientific exploration to crucial web-serving and infrastructure applications.
The M620 supports up to two processors with up to eight cores per processor. Table 5 lists the Intel Xeon processors supported by the PowerEdge M620. For the latest information on supported processors, visit Dell.com. Model Speed Cache QPI Cores Turbo TDP E5-2680 2.7Ghz 20M 8.0 GT/s 8 Yes 130W E5-2670 2.6GHz 20M 8.0GT/s 8 Yes 115W E5-2667 2.9GHz 15M 8.0GT/s 6 Yes 130W E5-2665 2.4GHz 20M 8.0GT/s 8 Yes 115W E5-2660 2.2GHz 20M 8.0GT/s 8 Yes 95W E5-2650L 1.
More memory options are available than ever before with the Dell PowerEdge M620—greater capacities, higher frequencies, and more flexibility. The M620 supports up to 768GB of memory and speeds up to 1600 MT/s, providing high performance in a variety of applications. High memory density means there is no compromise when it comes to virtualization. Increase your uptime and reduce data loss, due to Dell’s focus on reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features.
Table 7 lists the DIMMs that are supported on the M620. For the latest information on supported memory, visit Dell.com. Only Capacity (GB) Speed (MT/s) Type Ranks per DIMM Data width SDDC support Voltage 2 1600 RDIMM 1 x8 Advanced ECC 1.35 2 1333 RDIMM 1 x8 Advanced ECC 1.35 2 1600 UDIMM 1 x8 Advanced ECC 1.35 4 1333 RDIMM 2 x8 Advanced ECC 1.35 4 1600 RDIMM 2 x8 Advanced ECC 1.35 4 1333 RDIMM 1 x4 All modes 1.35 4 1333 RDIMM 2 x8 Advanced ECC 1.
Up to two quad-rank (QR) DIMMs and up to three dual-rank (DR) or single-rank (SR) DIMMs may be populated per channel. Although an LRDIMM is physically a QR DIMM, logic on the LRDIMM can make it appear as a DR DIMM to the system, allowing up to three LDRIMMs per channel. DIMMs must be installed in each channel, starting with the DIMM farthest from the processor. DIMMs should be installed with largest rank count to smallest.
DIMM type UDIMM RDIMM Speed (MT/s) 800* 1066* 1333 SR Number of DIMMs 1 ∞ ∞ ∞ DR 1 ∞ ∞ ∞ DIMM 0 DIMM 1 DIMM 2 1600 SR SR 2 ∞ ∞ ∞ SR DR 2 ∞ ∞ ∞ DR DR 2 ∞ ∞ ∞ SR 1 ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ DR 1 ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ QR 1 ∞ ∞ ∞ SR SR 2 ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ SR DR 2 ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ DR DR 2 ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ QR SR 2 ∞ ∞ QR DR 2 ∞ ∞ QR QR 2 ∞ ∞ SR SR SR 3 ∞ ∞ ∞ SR SR DR 3 ∞ ∞ ∞ SR DR DR 3 ∞ ∞ ∞ DR DR DR 3 ∞ ∞ ∞ 1 ∞ ∞ 2 ∞ ∞ 3 ∞ QR QR QR QR QR QR
Feature Description Recovery from single DRAM device failure (SDDC) Recovery from Single DRAM Device Failure (SDDC) provides error checking and correction that protects against any single memory chip failure as well as multi-bit errors from any portion of a single memory chip. This feature provides the ability to identify a specific failing DIMM channel pair, thereby enabling the user to replace only the failed DIMM pair.
The Dell PowerEdge M620 provides comprehensive internal storage options, including several drive types and storage controllers to choose from. The M620 supports up to 1.2TB of internal storage. Express Flash PCIe SSDs are a new option that can provide vastly accelerated performance over previous technologies. Dell Express Flash drives use PCIe lanes to connect directly to the processor and chipset and are easily accessible by hot-plug drive bay.
resources or capturing DRAM. Also, Express Flash drives use a standardized, 2.5-inch hot-plug form factor, which allows a common management process for all drives. The PowerEdge M620 has an option to support up to two Express Flash PCIe SSD drives with the PCIe SSD backplane configuration. This backplane configuration may be selected at purchase, but may not be upgraded later. Dell provides highly capable RAID options for you to ensure that your data remains safe.
Feature PERC option S110 SAS hard drives H310 H710 H710P Un-configured hard drive support (non-RAID) RAID 0 RAID 1 DDR3 cache (512MB) DDR3 cache (512MB) Non-volatile cache option Linux support Virtualization support Mini form factor N/A N/A N/A PCIe 2.
The Dell PowerEdge M620 offers balanced, scalable I/O capabilities, including integrated PCIe 3.0 capable mezzanine card slots. Dell Select Network Adapters, Dell’s network daughter cards, let you choose the right network fabric without using up a valuable mezzanine card slot. Pick the speed, technology, vendor, and other options such as switch independent partitioning, which let you share and manage bandwidth on 10GbE connections.
Table 13 lists the available Select Network Adapter options and their supported features for the M620.
The M620 provides two PCIe 3.0 mezzanine connectors for add-in cards. The M620 has been designed to be PCIe 3.0 compliant in order to take full advantage of the processor capabilities. Table 14 lists the supported mezzanine cards for the M620.
Lower overall system-level power draw is a result of Dell’s breakthrough system design. The PowerEdge M620 blade server and M1000e chassis enclosure maximize performance per watt through a combination of power and cooling, energy efficient technologies, and tools. Additionally, the M620 has an extensive collection of sensors that automatically track thermal activity, which helps regulate temperature thereby reducing server noise and power consumption.
Feature Description Intel Node Manager is an embedded technology that provides individual server-level power reporting and power limiting functionality. Dell offers a complete power management solution comprised of Intel Node Manager accessed through Dell iDRAC7 Enterprise and OpenManage Power Center that allows policy-based management of power and thermals at the individual server, rack and data center level. Active power management Hot spare reduces power consumption of redundant power supplies.
Thermal control also detects and responds to hardware configuration. Thermal management adjusts cooling according to what the system really needs, and draws lower fan power draw and generates lower acoustical noise levels than those without such controls. Environmental specifications: The optimized thermal management makes the PowerEdge M620 reliable under a wide range of operating environments as shown in Table 24. When operating above 30°C ambient, performance impacts may be seen.
The Dell PowerEdge M620 supports a wide range of industry-standard operating systems and virtualization software. Table 17 lists the operating systems supported on the M620. For the latest information on supported operating systems, see Dell.com/OSsupport.
Support of the operating systems listed in Table 18 is limited to a virtual environment as a guest operating system. Please contact the software vendor for additional support or questions about running the operating system in a virtualized environment.
Whether your IT environment consists of a few servers or a few thousand servers, Dell OpenManage systems management solutions provide comprehensive management for evolving IT environments. OpenManage is based on open standards and provides agent-based and agent-free server lifecycle management functionality for Dell PowerEdge servers. OpenManage solutions help you automate and streamline essential hardware management tasks.
The Dell OpenManage systems management portfolio includes powerful hardware and software management tools and consoles. OpenManage simplifies the lifecycle of deploying, updating, monitoring, and maintaining your Dell PowerEdge servers. The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller is the heart of the 2nd generation of Dell PowerEdge server embedded management functionality.
Feature Electronic licensing Function Benefit To obtain a software license key for iDRAC7 Express for Blades or iDRAC7 Enterprise after server purchase, submit a request to purchase a software license key through the Dell Licensing Portal or with a Dell sales representative If iDRAC7 Express for Blades or iDRAC7 Enterprise is ordered during initial point of sale, license key is installed.
iDRAC7 Enterprise iDRAC7 Express for Blades Comprehensive monitoring ∞ ∞ Virtual console (4 user) ∞ ∞ Virtual media ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ Power control ∞ ∞ Power monitoring ∞ ∞ Virtual console chat ∞ Support for customer-supplied SD cards for vFlash media Virtual flash partitions ∞ Virtual folders ∞ Remote file share ∞ Crash video playback ∞ Boot record/playback ∞ Part replacement ∞ Backup and restore configurations ∞ Power capping ∞ Enterprise group power management ∞ Directory ser
Because Dell PowerEdge servers have embedded server lifecycle management, in many cases, there is no need to install an OpenManage systems management software agent into the operating system of a Dell PowerEdge server. This greatly simplifies and streamlines the management footprint. The Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC) is a systems management hardware and software solution for managing multiple Dell blade chassis. The CMC is a hot-pluggable module inserted in the back of a Dell blade chassis.
Dell OpenManage Systems Build and Update Utility—The Dell System Build and Update Utility (SBUU) provides one-to-one and one-to-many deployment and single-server update capabilities in the pre-operating system environment. Dell Update Packages—The Dell Update Packages (DUP) is a self-contained executable in a standard package format that updates a software element on a Dell server such as the BIOS, a driver, firmware and other software updates.
Dell OpenManage Connection for HP Operations Manager—This connection enables several functions through HP Operations Manager, including auto-grouping, SNMP trap reception, global health monitoring, and a context-sensitive launch of OpenManage Server Administrator. Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIBus—This connection provides event monitoring capabilities to monitor Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell EqualLogic systems.
Table 22 lists the products that are available for one-to-one and one-to-many operations, and when they are used in the server’s lifecycle: Operation One-to-one Deploy Lifecycle Controller GUI DTK SBUU One-to-many Update iDRAC7 with LifeCycle Controller Lifecycle Controller GUI Repository Manager DUP SUU SBUU Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter iDRAC7 OMSA Monitor Maintain IPMI iDRAC7 Lifecycle Controller GUI Symantec Dep
Figure 8 details the dimensions of the M620 module. Xa Xb Y Zb (handle closed) Zb (handle open) 197.92mm 192.3mm 50.35mm 544.32mm 564.9mm The weight of a maximum-configured M620 blade server is 7.0 kg (15.4 lb). The Dell PowerEdge M620 iDRAC incorporates an integrated video subsystem. The graphics controller is the 2D Matrox® G200. The video frame buffer (16MB) is contained within the iDRAC RAM (256MB) device. The M620 system supports the 2D graphics video modes in Table 23.
For additional information about environmental measurements for specific system configurations, see Dell.com/environmental_datasheets. Table 24 details the environmental specifications for the M620. Fresh Air: temperature, humidity, altitude de-rating Continuous operation 10°C to 35°C (50°F to 95°F) at 10% to 80% relative humidity with 26°C (78.8°F) maximum dew point (maximum wet bulb temperature). De-rate maximum allowable dry bulb temperature at 1°C per 300m above 950m (1°F per 547 ft above 3117 ft).
Maximum vibration Operating 0.26 Grms at 5Hz to 350Hz for 15 minutes Storage 1.54 Grms at 10Hz to 250Hz for 15 minutes Maximum shock Operating One shock pulse in the positive z axis (one pulse on each side of the system) of 31G for up to 2.6ms Storage Six consecutively executed shock pulses in the positive and negative x, y, and z axes (one pulse on each side of the system) of 71G for up to 2ms Altitude Operating –15.2m to 3048m (–50 ft to 10,000 ft) Storage –15.
The M620 system conforms to the industry standards in Table 25. Standard URL for information and specifications ACPI Advance Configuration and Power Interface Specification, v2.0c www.acpi.info Ethernet IEEE 802.3-2005 standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.3.html HDG Hardware Design Guide Version 3.0 for Microsoft Windows Server www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/pcdesign/desguid e/serverdg.mspx IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface, v2.0 www.intel.
Table 26 provides a list of documents and websites that provide for more information on the Dell PowerEdge M620. Resource Description of contents Location PowerEdge M620 Systems Owner’s Manual This manual is provided in HTML format on the CD provided with the M620 system, and also in HTML and PDF format at the Dell support site. A printed version is available in Asian languages as a customer-orderable option.
Resource Description of contents Location Dell Energy Smart Data Center Assessment uses infrastructure and thermal analysis to help maximize system efficiency Dell.com/EnergySmart Energy Smart Solution Advisor (ESSA) The Dell online advisor console enables easier and more meaningful estimates to help you determine the most efficient configuration possible. Use ESSA to calculate the power consumption of your hardware, power infrastructure, and storage. Dell.
