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Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide
Fibre Channel:
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Dual-Port QLogic
FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (QME2572)
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Dual-Port Emulex
FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (LPe1205-M)
Infiniband:
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Dual-Port Mellanox
ConnectX-2™ Dual Data Rate (DDR) and Quad Data Rate (QDR)
InfiniBand
Two embedded Broadcom
and load balancing.
TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) supported on Microsoft
higher with Scalable Networking Pack. iSCSI Offload supported on Windows Server
2003 SP1 or higher, Red Hat
10. Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server
Boot from SAN (iSCSI and FC) supported
Optional add-in NICs: See I/O Mezzanine Card Options
Optional add-in HBAs: See I/O Mezzanine Card Options
Two 2nd-generation full-length x16 slots with supplemental power for either two
cards at 250 watt draws or one card at a 300watt draw.
GPGPU Options:
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NVIDIA
Tesla™ M1060–240 core, double-
width PCIe card with 4GB of memory
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NVIDIA
Tesla™ M2050/M2070–448 Core,
double-width PCIe card with 3/6GB of
ECC memory
SAS/PERC Options:
Dell™ H800 PERC–Dual-port 6Gb/s SAS
RAID controller with up to 512MB cache
Dell™ SAS6E HBA–Dual-port 6Gb/s SAS
HBA
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Microsoft
Windows
Essential Business Server 2008
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Microsoft
Windows Server
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Microsoft
Windows Server
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Microsoft
Windows
HPC Server 2008
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Novell
SUSE
Linux
Enterprise Server
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Red Hat
Enterprise Linux
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Sun
Solaris™
For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit
http://www.dell.com/OSsupport.
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Microsoft
Windows Server
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VMware
vSphere™ Version 4.0 (including ESX v4.0/ ESXi™ v4.0)
Optional Embedded Hypervisors:
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Citrix
XenServer™
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Microsoft
Windows Server
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VMware
ESXi™ 4.1
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NetXtreme II™ 5709 Gigabit Ethernet NICs with failover
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Enterprise Linux
5, and SUSE
Solid State Storage Options:
Fusion-io
solid state storage card
Fusion-io
PCIe solid state storage card
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2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V™ )
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2008 R2, x64 (includes Hyper-V™ v2)
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2008, with Hyper-V™
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2008, with Hyper-V™
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Windows Server
2003 SP1 or
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Linux
Enterprise Server
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2003 is not required.
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160IDSS—160GB ioDrive PCIe
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640IDSS—640GB ioDrive Duo
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