System Overview; Introduction; Accomplish More; Designed For Your Hyper-Dense Environments - Dell PowerEdge M620 Technical Manual

1 System overview

Introduction

Designed for your taxing workloads, such as email, database and virtual environments, the Dell™
PowerEdge™ M620 blade server is an ideal blend of density, performance, efficiency and scalability.
The M620 delivers unprecedented memory density and superb performance with no compromise
on enterprise-class features.

Accomplish more

Bring impressive new capabilities to your data center with the PowerEdge M620, which offers a
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memory capacity of up to 768GB of RAM along with scalable I/O capabilities. Powered by Intel
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Xeon E5-2600 or E5-2600v2 processors and Dell's unique Select Network Adapter, our flexible NIC
technology, the M620 provides the performance you require and allows you to allocate your
network throughput to match your application needs.

Designed for your hyper-dense environments

Dell's exclusive failsafe virtualization technology provides redundant media for hypervisor failover to
keep your critical virtual environments running. Your virtualization environments demand high
memory capacity in order to maximize the number of virtual machines per server, and the
PowerEdge M620 was designed with this in mind. If you are running high-performance computing
(HPC) application clusters, the M620 provides you with outstanding computational density and
powerful processing capability in a compact form factor.
Simplified systems management, without compromise The Dell OpenManage™ systems
management portfolio includes Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle
Controller. This embedded feature helps IT administrators manage Dell servers in physical, virtual,
local and remote environments, operating in-band or out-of-band, with or without a systems
management software agent installed. OpenManage iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller integrates and
connects to leading third-party systems management solutions (such as those from Microsoft,
VMware, and BMC Software), so users can maintain a single point of control and capitalize on an
existing systems management investment. OpenManage simplifies the lifecycle of deploying,
updating, monitoring and maintaining Dell PowerEdge servers.

The PowerEdge M-series blade server line

Implement the right combination of features and performance scalability with the PowerEdge
M-series blade servers, which can handle tough workloads in a data center of any size. In addition to
the world-class management features provided in all PowerEdge servers, the M620 also takes
advantage of the capabilities of the Dell PowerEdge M1000e's chassis management controller
(CMC). The CMC allows M-series blades to be managed individually or as groups, in single or
multiple chassis, and within a data center or in multiple geographically dispersed locations around
the globe without requiring an agent or additional hardware. PowerEdge M-series blade servers use
the redundant power, cooling, and networking infrastructure provided by the M1000e blade
enclosure, which is exceptionally easy to deploy and manage and maximizes power and cooling
efficiency.
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