Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Information

PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide Maximized performance and bandwidth for mission-critical workloads and applications.

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 10 2 New Technologies The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 features AMD Opteron™ 6100 series processors, designed sp

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 11 3 System Information For the latest information on supported features for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915, vis

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 12 Operating Systems Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V™) Microsoft Window

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 13 4 Mechanical 4.1 Chassis Description The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 is a full-height blade server that requ

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 14 4.3 Front View and Features Figure 1 shows the front view of the M915. Front View Figure 1.See the B

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 15 4.4 Back View and Features Figure 2 shows the back view of the M915. Back View Figure 2.See the Blade

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 16 4.7 Side View Figure 3 shows the side view of the M915. Side View Figure 3.

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 17 4.8 Internal-Chassis View Figure 4 shows the internal-chassis view of the M915. Internal Chassis Vie

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 18 4.10 Chassis View Figure 5 shows the M915 mounted in the PowerEdge M1000e chassis. M1000e Chassis Figu

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 19 4.15 Cover Latch The blade module includes a latch for the cover. See the Opening and Closing the Blade s

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide ii This document is for informational purposes only. Dell reserves the right to make changes wi

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 20 5 Power, Thermal, Acoustic 5.1 Power Supplies See the PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide for information

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 21 Storage Half sine shock on all six sides of 71G +/- 5% with a pulse duration of 2ms +/- 10% Altitude Ope

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 22 o The highest fan-speed request from the above algorithms is used to set the appropriate fan speed for t

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 23 6 Processors 6.1 Overview The AMD Opteron™ 6100 series processors (G34) are designed specifically for hi

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 24 6.3 Supported Processors For the latest information on supported processors for the PowerEdge M915, visi

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 25 7 Memory 7.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 utilizes DDR3 memory, providing a high performance, hig

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 26  Quad-rank DIMM types can support speeds up to 1066 MHz.  If DIMMs of different speeds are mixed, all

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 27 8 Chipset 8.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 chipset has a dual I/O Bridge (IOB) configuration with

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 28 8.6 PCI Express Mezzanine Connectors The M915 supports four PCI Express Gen 2 x8 mezzanine connectors. Th

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 29 9 BIOS 9.1 Overview The M915 BIOS is based on the Dell BIOS core, and supports the following features:

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide iii Table of Contents 1 Product Comparison ...

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 30 10 Embedded LAN on Motherboard (LOM) 10.1 PCI Express Network Daughtercards The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 is

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 31 11 I/O Mezzanine Card Options 11.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 contains four PCIe Gen2 mezzanine

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 32 12 Storage 12.1 Drives The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 supports up to two 2.5‖ SSD or SAS hard disk drives. Se

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 33 12.5 RAID Configurations Factory RAID Configurations Table 8.Configuration Hot-plug Min. HD Max. HD De

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 34 12.6.3 SATA Repeater The M915 does not support the SATA repeater. The only SATA drives supported by M915

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 35 13 Video The M915 Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6) incorporates an integrated video s

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 36 14 Rack Information For information on rack and cable accessories for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915, see the

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 37 15 Operating Systems The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 is designed to meet the Microsoft® WinLogo 3.0 design spe

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 38 16 Virtualization 16.1 Overview Table 11 shows the supported and certified virtualization software for t

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 39  Integrate existing infrastructure (networking, storage devices, and servers) into an AIM solution to p

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide iv 7.5 Memory Speed ...

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 40 17 Systems Management 17.1 Overview Dell delivers open, comprehensive, and integrated solutions that hel

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 41 17.3 Embedded Server Management The PowerEdge M915 implements circuitry for the next generation of Embedd

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 42 whether that server is located in a different room, a different building, a different city, or in a diffe

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 43 Feature Base Management Functionality iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media VLAN Tagging    IPv6  

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 44 Feature Base Management Functionality iDRAC6 Enterprise vFlash Media Logging Features System Event Log 

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 45 18 USB Peripherals The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 provides an internal USB connector for a USB flash memory k

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 46 Appendix A. Statement of Volatility The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 contains both volatile and non-volatile (N

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 47 Remarks RTC is inside SP5100 south bridge chip. Jumper on motherboard can be used to reset to factory de

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 48 Does it retain data when powered off? Yes Purpose? [boot code] H200 Firmware How is data input to this m

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 49 Can user programs or operating system write data to it during normal operation? Yes (Customer can use DO

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide v B 2. Product Safety Certifications ...

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 50 Appendix B. Certifications B 1. Regulatory Certifications Regulatory compliance certificates can be loc

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 51 B 3. Electromagnetic Compatibility The product has been certified and bears the Mark, as applicable, of

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 52 Appendix C. Industry Standards The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 system conforms to the industry standards detai

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 53 Standard URL for Information and Specifications UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification,

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 6 1 Product Comparison 1.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M915 is a 4-socket full-height blade server ideal

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 7 software. Multi-chassis management provides one console access to several blade enclosures.  Industry l

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 8 Feature M910 M915 R815 R910 Optional Hard Drive Controller PERC H200 PERC H700 PERC 6/i PERC H200 PERC H70

Dell PowerEdge M915 Technical Guide 9 Feature M910 M915 R815 R910 NIC/LOM 4 x 1GbE LOMs Broadcom® BCM5709S 4 x 1GbE LOMs Broadcom® BCM5709S or