Dell PowerEdge M820 Systems Specifications

PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide The PowerEdge M820 full-height blade delivers exceptional performance and scalability.

10 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Feature Technical specification Operating systems Microsoft Windows Server® 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2008

11 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide 3 Module views and features The Dell PowerEdge M820 implements a new module design that supports up to 48 DI

12 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide The chassis design of the M820 is optimized for easy access to components and for airflow for effective and ef

13 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Figure 3. M820 internal module view For additional system views, see the Dell PowerEdge M820 Systems Owner’s

14 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Feature Description Quick Resource Locator (QRL) This code on the chassis can be scanned by a smartphone appli

15 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide 4 Processors The Dell PowerEdge M820 features the Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 product family, which offer an

16 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Supported processors The M820 supports up to four processors with up to eight cores per processor. Table 5 lis

17 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide 5 Memory More memory options are available than ever before with the Dell PowerEdge M820 — greater capacities,

18 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Table 7 lists the DIMMs that are supported on the M820. For the latest information on supported memory, visit

19 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Memory speed The M820 server supports memory speeds of 1600MT/s, 1333MT/s, 1066MT/s and 800MT/s, depending on

ii PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide This document is for informational purposes only. Dell reserves the right to make chan

20 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Table 9. Memory RAS features Feature Description Dense configuration optimized profile Increased memory relia

21 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide 6 Storage The Dell PowerEdge M820 provides comprehensive internal storage options, including several drive typ

22 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide The PowerEdge M820 has an option to support up to two Express Flash PCIe SSD drives with the PCIe SSD backplan

23 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Feature PERC option H310 H710 H710P DDR3 cache (512MB)  DDR3 cache (512MB)  Non-volatile cache option 

24 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide 7 Networking and mezzanine cards The Dell PowerEdge M820 offers balanced, scalable I/O capabilities, includin

25 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Table 13 lists the available Select Network Adapter options and their supported features for the M820. Table 1

26 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Mezzanine cards The M820 provides four PCIe 3.0 mezzanine connectors for add-in cards. The M820 has been desig

27 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide 8 Power, thermal and acoustics Lower overall system-level power draw is a result of Dell’s breakthrough system

28 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Feature Description accessed through Dell iDRAC7 Enterprise and OpenManage Power Center that allows policy-bas

29 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide  Environmental specifications: The optimized thermal management makes the PowerEdge M820 reliable under a wi

iii PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Table of contents 1 System overview ...

30 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide 9 Operating systems and virtualization The Dell PowerEdge M820 supports a wide range of industry-standard oper

31 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Operating System Platform Edition Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 with SP2 x86 Standard Enterprise x64 Standard Ente

32 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide 10 Dell OpenManage systems management Whether your IT environment consists of a few servers or a few thousand

33 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide OpenManage systems management The Dell OpenManage systems management portfolio includes powerful hardware and

34 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Feature Function Benefit Electronic licensing To obtain a software license key for iDRAC7 Express for Blades o

35 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Feature (function) iDRAC7 Enterprise iDRAC7 Express for Blades SNMP alerts ∞ ∞ Comprehensive monitorin

36 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Agent-free management Because Dell PowerEdge servers have embedded server lifecycle management, in many cases,

37 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide  RACADM — The RACADM command-line utility provides a scriptable interface that allows you to locally or remo

38 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Dell server management operations Dell OpenManage systems management is centered on automating the server mana

39 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Operation One-to-one One-to-many Update  iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller GUI  Repository Manager  DUP

iv PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Tables Table 1. New technologies ...

40 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Appendix A. Additional specifications Module dimensions and weight Figure 8 details the dimensions of the M820

41 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Environmental specifications For additional information about environmental measurements for specific system c

42 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Maximum shock Operating One shock pulse in the positive z axis (one pulse on each side of the system) of 31G f

43 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Appendix B. Standards compliance The M820 system conforms to the industry standards in Table 25. Table 25. In

44 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Standard URL for information and specifications Windows Logo Windows Logo Program System and Device Requiremen

45 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Appendix C. Additional resources Table 26 provides a list of documents and websites that provide for more info

46 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Resource Description of contents Location Energy Smart Solution Advisor (ESSA) The Dell online advisor console

47 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Appendix D. System board block diagram Figure 9. M820 system board block diagram

5 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide 1 System overview Introduction The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M820’s scalability makes it a perfect fit for core busines

6 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide New technologies A number of new technologies are featured on the PowerEdge M820 system, as shown in Table 1. T

7 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide 2 System features Compared to the previous generation of Dell PowerEdge blade servers, the M820 has more memory

8 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Feature PowerEdge M910 PowerEdge M820 Dell OpenManage Systems Management Dell OpenManage Lifecycle Controller 1

9 PowerEdge M820 Technical Guide Feature Technical specification I/O mezzanine card options 1Gb/10Gb adapters: Broadcom® 5719 quad-port 1Gb Int