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Base Standard Capabilities
| TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR DELL POWEREDGE M520 BLADE SERVER | |
|---|---|
| Form Factor | Half-height blade |
| Processors | Intel® Xeon E5-2400 Series Product Family Processors |
| Internal Interconnect | Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI): 6.4GT/s, 7.2GT/s, 8.0GT/s |
| Cache | 2.5MB per core Core Options: 4, 6, 8 |
| Memory | Up to 384GB (12 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600MT/s |
| Chipset | Intel C600 |
| Primary Storage | Hot-plug Hard Drive Options: Up to two SATA HDD/SSD or SAS HDD/SSD |
| USB Ports | 2 in Front 1 Internal with Optional RIPS Card |
| NIC/LOM | Two Broadcom® 5720 1Gb Dual Port LOMs (4 x 1Gb ports) |
| RAID Controller Options | Internal: PERC S110 (software RAID) PERC H310 PERC H710 PERC H710p |
| I/O Mezzanine Card Options | Ethernet: Broadcom® 5719 Quad Port 1Gb Intel I350 Quad Port 1Gb 1Gb/10Gb Adapters: Brocade® BR1741M-K Dual Port 10Gb CNA QLogic ® QME8262-K Dual Port 10Gb KR CNA Broadcom® 57810S-k Dual Port 10Gb KR Intel Ethernet X520-x/k Dual Port 10Gb Intel I350 Quad Port 1Gb Broadcom 5719 Quad Port 1Gb Fibre Channel: QLogic QME2572 (FC8) Emulex® LPe1205-M (FC8) InfiniBand: Mellanox® ConnectX®-3 Dual Port FDR10 Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port QDR |
| Power Supplies and Fans | Supplied by M1000e Blade Enclosure |
| Remote Management | iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller for Blades (default) iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller (upgrade) |
| Systems Management | IPMI 2.0 Compliant Dell OpenManage™ Essentials and Dell Management Console Dell OpenManage Power Center Dell OpenManage Connections: OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft® System Center Dell Plug-in for VMware® vCenter™ HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli® Netcool®, and CA Network and Systems Management |
| Operating Systems | Microsoft Windows Server® 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V® v2) Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Virtualization Options: Citrix® XenServer® VMware® vSphere® ESX™ and ESXi™ Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization® |
| Embedded Hypervisor | Two internal SD cards dedicated for hypervisor or one SD card dedicated for vFlash media support |
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| Feature | PowerEdge M520 | PowerEdge M620 | PowerEdge R420 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chassis; enclosure | Half-height blade; PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure | Half-height blade; PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure | 1U rack |
| Processors | Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families | Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 and E5-2600v2 product families | Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families |
| Internal interconnect | Intel QuickPath Interconnect | Intel QuickPath Interconnect | Intel QuickPath Interconnect |
| Memory | 12 x DDR3 RDIMM and UDIMM | 24 x DDR3 RDIMM, UDIMM and LRDIMM | 12 x DDR3 RDIMM |
| Hard drive bays (hot plug) | 2 x 2.5” | 2 x 2.5” | 4 x 3.5” 8 x 2.5” |
| Embedded NIC | 2 x 1GbE dual-port LOM | Dual Port Select Network Adapter, 3 options of 2 x 10GbE | 1 x 1GbE dual-port LOM |
| RAID | S110, H310, H710, H710P | S110, H310, H710, H710P | S110, H310, H710, H710P, H810 |
| Express Flash drives | Not supported | Up to 2 | Not supported |
| I/O slots | 2 x PCIe 2.0 x8 mezzanine card slots | 2 x PCIe 3.0 x8 mezzanine card slots | 2 PCIe 3.0 |
| Optional SD port | Yes (redundant hypervisor + vFlash media) | Yes (redundant hypervisor + vFlash media) | Yes (redundant hypervisor + vFlash media) |
| Dell OpenManage Systems Management | OpenManage Essentials OMSA Agent OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller) CMC 4.x (available with the M1000e Modular Blade Enclosure) OpenManage Integrations and Connections iDRAC7 Express for Blades with Lifecycle Controller (standard option) | OpenManage Essentials OMSA Agent OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller) CMC 4.x (available with the M1000e Modular Blade Enclosure) OpenManage Integrations and Connections iDRAC7 Express for Blades with Lifecycle Controller (standard option) | OpenManage Essentials OMSA Agent OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller) OpenManage Integrations and Connections iDRAC7 Express with Lifecycle Controller (standard option) |
