Table 1.
New technologies ................................................................................................................................................ 6
Table 2.
Technical specifications ....................................................................................................................................... 7
Table 3.
Comparison of PowerEdge M610, M710HD, and M620 ............................................................................... 9
Table 4.
Module features ................................................................................................................................................... 12
Table 5.
Supported processors ........................................................................................................................................ 15
Table 6.
Memory technologies supported ..................................................................................................................... 16
Table 7.
DIMMs supported ................................................................................................................................................ 17
Table 8.
Memory speed capabilities ................................................................................................................................18
Table 9.
Memory RAS features ......................................................................................................................................... 19
Table 10. Hard-drive backplane options ......................................................................................................................... 20
Table 11. Supported hard drives ....................................................................................................................................... 20
Table 12. RAID controller feature support ....................................................................................................................... 21
Table 13. Supported Select Network Adapter options and features .......................................................................... 24
Table 14. Supported mezzanine cards............................................................................................................................. 25
Table 15. Power tools and technologies ......................................................................................................................... 26
Table 16. M620 acoustical performance ......................................................................................................................... 28
Table 17. Primary operating system support .................................................................................................................. 29
Table 18. Virtual guest operating system support ......................................................................................................... 29
Table 19. Virtualization support ........................................................................................................................................ 30
Table 20. iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller functions and benefits ........................................................................... 32
Table 21. Feature comparison for iDRAC7 Enterprise and iDRAC7 Express for Blades .......................................... 33
Table 22. One-to-one and one-to-many operations .................................................................................................. 37
Table 23. Environmental specifications ........................................................................................................................... 39
Table 24. Supported video modes .................................................................................................................................... 40
Table 25. Industry standard documents .......................................................................................................................... 42
Table 26. Additional resources .......................................................................................................................................... 43
Figure 1. M620 front view ................................................................................................................................................. 10
Figure 2. M1000e chassis enclosure with M620 blades ............................................................................................... 11
Figure 3. M620 internal module view ............................................................................................................................... 11
Figure 4. QRL code located on module .......................................................................................................................... 12
Figure 5. Blade network daughter card (NDC) .............................................................................................................. 23
Figure 6. Dell systems management solutions ............................................................................................................... 31
Figure 7. Systems management server lifecycle ........................................................................................................... 37
Figure 8. Module dimensions ............................................................................................................................................ 39
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