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3.5 OpenManage Essentials and OpenManage Server Administrator
The Dell OpenManage™ Essentials (OME) Console provides a single, easy-to-use, one-to-many interface
through which to manage resources in multivendor operating system and hypervisor environments. It
automates basic repetitive hardware management tasks — like discovery, inventory, and monitoring—
for Dell servers, storage, and network systems. OME employs the embedded management of
PowerEdge™ servers — Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller —
to enable agent-free remote management and monitoring of server hardware components like storage,
networking, processors and memory.
OpenManage Essentials helps you maximize IT performance and uptime with capabilities like:
 Automated discovery, inventory and monitoring of Dell PowerEdge™ servers, EqualLogic™ and
PowerVault™ storage and PowerConnect™ switches
 Server health monitoring as well as BIOS, firmware and driver updates for Dell PowerEdge
servers, blade systems and internal storage
 Control of PowerEdge servers within Windows®, Linux®, VMware® and Hyper-V® environments
For more information on OpenManage Essentials, see Dell.com/openmanageessentials.
OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) is installed on each ESXi server to provide comprehensive
one-to-one management solution.
3.6 Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers
Blade Modular Enclosure: The Dell PowerEdge M1000e is a high-density, energy-efficient blade chassis
that supports up to sixteen half-height blade servers, or eight full-height blade servers, and six I/O
modules. A high-speed passive mid-plane connects the server modules to the I/O modules,
management, and power in the rear of the chassis. The enclosure includes a flip-out LCD screen (for
local configuration), six hot-pluggable/redundant power supplies, and nine hot-pluggable N+1
redundant fan modules.
Blade Servers: The Dell PowerEdge M620 blade server is the 12
th
generation half height blade server
offering:
 New high-efficiency Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 family processors for more advanced processing
performance, memory, and I/O bandwidth.
 Greater memory density than any previous PowerEdge server. Each PowerEdge M620 can deploy
up to 24 x 16GB DIMMs, or 768GB or RAM per blade – 12TB or RAM in a single PowerEdge M1000e
chassis.
 ‘Agent Free’ management with the new iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller allows customers to
deploy, update, maintain, and monitor their systems throughout the system lifecycle without a
software management agent, regardless of the operating system.
 The PowerEdge Select Network Adapter on the PowerEdge M620 offers three modular choices
for embedded fabric capability. With 10Gb CNA offerings from Broadcom, QLogic & Intel, our
customers can choose the networking vendor & technology that’s right for them and their
applications, and even change in the future as those needs evolve over time. The Broadcom &