Dell PowerEdge M605 Blade Server

The Dell Blade Advantage The DellTM PowerEdgeTM M605 blade server, featuring the latest Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processors, removes complexity to help your servers run better, use space smarter, and cost less over time. Dell PowerEdge blades address datacenter server sprawl and complexity by delivering one of the most energy efficient, flexible, and manageable blade servers on the market. See All PowerEdge M605 Tech Specs

Streamlined Virtualisation Dell’s most energy efficient Blade solution, the PowerEdge M605 offers outstanding virtualisation performance in a 2-socket blade server combined with factory integrated virtualisation capabilities. Dell continues to simplify virtualisation by streamlining virtualisation deployment and providing ease of use in virtual infrastructures. By factory integrating VMware® ESXi 3.5, customers receive VMware capabilities and migration of virtual machines within a few clicks of a mouse. Our virtualisation-ready server configurations provide an easy path to virtualisation through factory-integrated hypervisors and recommended hardware configurations that support an ideal virtual infrastructure.

Energy Efficiency That Can’t Be Beat Designed for energy efficiency and density, blade servers address the growing power and space constraints of your data center. The M605 blade server is one of the most energy efficient blade products on the market. Energy efficiency and density that can’t be beat.See All PowerEdge M605 Tech Specs

Easy Expandability and Manageability With blade servers expanding your data center has never been easier. Once you have installed a blade enclosure, adding an additional server is as simple as sliding in a new blade and powering it up. Coupled with the Altiris® Deployment Solution for Dell servers, and Dell OpenManageTM Systems Management tools, Dell blades are one of the easiest to deploy and manage in the industry. See All PowerEdge M605 Tech Specs

Optimised Solution The M605 blade server is paired with the M1000e modular blade enclosure for an optimised blade solution. Designed to support future generations of Dell blade servers and technologies, your M1000e investment is protected for the future.See All PowerEdge M605 Tech SpecsLearn more about the PowerEdge M1000e modular blade enclosure

Processors
AMD Quad-Core Opteron 2384, 2.7GHz, 6MB L3 Cache(75W) AMD Quad-Core Opteron 2382, 2.6GHz, 6MB L3 Cache(75W) AMD Quad-Core Opteron 2378, 2.4GHz, 6MB L3 Cache(75W) AMD Quad-Core Opteron 2376, 2.3GHz, 6MB L3 Cache(75W)
Chipset
NVIDIA MCP55
Memory
Support for up to 64GB (w/ 8 x 8GB DIMMs) 512MB/1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB DDR2 (667MHz) 800 MHz REG-PDIMMs
Embedded Hypervisor (optional)
VMware ESXi 3.5 Hard drive implementation Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition Citrix XenServer Dell Enterprise Edition Microsoft HyperV via Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Operating Systems
Factory Installed O/S: Microsoft Windows® Server 2008 Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 R2, SP2 Standard and Enterprise Edition Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 R2, SP2 x64, Standard and Enterprise Edition Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise v5 Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise v4.5, WS, AS, ES SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, x86-64 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 VMware ESX 3.5 Standard edition VMware ESX 3.5 Enterprise edition Solaris 10 (Non-factory Installed) Novell SuSe Linux 10 SP2 Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 x86_64 Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 x86 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Small Business Server Standard Edition
Storage
Hard Drives: 2.5" SAS (10K rpm): 36GB1 , 73GB1 , 146GB1 or 300GB1 2.5" SAS (15K rpm): 36GB1 or 73GB1 2.5” SATA (7.2k rpm): 80GB1, 120GB1, 160GB1 or 250GB1 25GB1, 50GB1 Solid State Drive (SSD) Maximum Internal Storage Up to 600GB1per blade via two x 2.5" 300GB1 hot-plug SAS (10k rpm) External Storage Options: Dell/EMC fibre channel and/or iSCSI external storage
Drive Bays
Two 2.5" Hot Plug SAS/SATA drives
I/O Mezzanine Cards
Two Optional PCIe x8 Mezzanine Card slots Mellanox Infiniband I/O Card Dual-Port Broadcom M5708t Gigabit2 Ethernet mezzanine card w/TCP/IP Offload and iSCSI boot capability Dual-Port Qlogic QME2472 4Gb Fibre Channel mezzanine card Dual-Port Emulex M Lpe1105 4Gb Fibre Channel mezzanine card Dual-Port Mellanox ConnectX-MDI 4xDDR Infiniband mezzanine card3
RAID Controllers
SAS6ir (H/W based) with RAID 0/1 support
Communications
Dual embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme IITM 5708 Gigabit2 Ethernet NIC w/ TOE and iSCSI Firmware Boot
Management
Dell OpenManageTM software tools OpenManage Server Administrator- monitoring agents and 1:1 management utilities OpenManage Storage Services – RAID management OpenManage Deployment Toolkit- utilities for remote, unattended configuration Dell Server Assistant- local, simplified OS installation utility Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with: Out of Band alerting, status, inventory, and troubleshooting via Secure Web GUI/CLI (telnet/SSH) Remote Virtual Media (vMedia) and Virtual KVM (vKVM) VMedia- Map media from remote workstation/network to the blade vKVM- out of band remote console, supports Java or ActiveX plug-ins IPMI 2.0 support
Standard Interfaces
Two bootable USB 2.0 ports on front panel for floppy, CD/DVD4, memory key, keyboard/mouse
Video
Embedded ATI RN50 video controller with 32MB memory
Environmental
Operating Temperature: 10º C to 35º C (50º F to 95º F) Storage Temperature: -40º C to 65º C (-40º F to 149º F) Operating Relative Humidity (non-condensing twmax=29C): 8% to 80% non-condensing Maximum humidity gradient: 10% per hour, operational and non-operational conditions Storage Relative Humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing (twmax=38C) Operating Vibration: 0.26Grms at 10Hz to 350Hz for 15 minutes Storage Vibration: 1.54Grms Random Vibration at 10Hz to 250Hz for 15 minutes Operating Shock: 1 shock pulse of 41G for up to 2ms Storage Shock: 6 shock pulses of 71G for up to 2ms Operating Altitude: -16 to 3,048m (-50 ft to 10,000 ft) Storage Altitude: -16m to 10,600m (-50 ft to 35,000 ft)