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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 Converged Network Adapter (CNA) offerings from
Broadcom, QLogic, and Intel, our customers can choose the networking vendor and technology
that’s right for them and their applications, and even change in the future as those needs
evolve over time.
The Broadcom and QLogic offerings offer Switch Independent partitioning technology,
developed in partnership with Dell, which allows for virtual partitioning of the 10Gb ports.
Chassis Management: The Dell PowerEdge M1000e has integrated management through a redundant
Chassis Management Controller (CMC) module for enclosure management and integrated Keyboard,
Video, and Mouse (iKVM) modules. Through the CMC, the enclosure supports FlexAddress Plus
technology, which enables the blade enclosure to lock the World Wide Names (WWN) of the FC
controllers and Media Access Control (MAC) addresses of the Ethernet controllers to specific blade
slots. This enables seamless swapping or upgrading of blade servers without affecting the LAN or SAN
configuration.
Embedded Management with Dell’s Lifecycle Controller: The Lifecycle Controller is the engine for
advanced embedded management and is delivered as part of iDRAC Enterprise in Dell PowerEdge 12
th
generation servers. It includes 1GB of managed and persistent storage that embeds systems
management features directly on the server, thus eliminating the media-based delivery of system
management tools and utilities previously needed for systems management. Embedded management
includes:
Unified Server Configurator (USC) aims at local 1-to-1 deployment via a graphical user interface
(GUI) for operating system install, updates, configuration, and for performing diagnostics on
single, local servers. This eliminates the need for multiple option ROMs for hardware
configuration.
Remote Services are standards-based interfaces that enable consoles to integrate, for example,
bare-metal provisioning and one-to-many OS deployments, for servers located remotely. Dell’s
Lifecycle Controller takes advantage of the capabilities of both USC and Remote Services to
deliver significant advancement and simplification of server deployment.
Lifecycle Controller Serviceability aims at simplifying server re-provisioning and/or replacing
failed parts and thus reduces maintenance downtime.
For more information on Dell Lifecycle Controllers and blade servers, see
http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/dcsm-embedded-management and Dell.com/blades.
Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator: The Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator (M I/OA) is a flexible 1/10GbE
aggregation device that is automated and pre-configured for easy deployment into converged iSCSI and
FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) networks. The key feature of the PowerEdge M I/OA is that all
VLANs are allowed as a default setting. This allows the top-of-rack (ToR) managed switch to perform all
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