Dell PowerEdge M610 User Manual

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Installing Blade Components

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General Memory Module Installation Guidelines – PowerEdge M600

To ensure optimal performance of your system, observe the following

guidelines when configuring your system memory:

• Memory modules must be installed in pairs of identically-sized DIMMs.

The total number of memory modules must equal two, four, or eight.

Six modules are not supported.

• All memory modules in the blade must be identical in speed and

technology. The memory modules in each pair must be the same size.
For best system performance, all memory modules should be identical

memory size, speed, and technology.

• Memory sparing and memory mirroring require eight memory modules of

identical size, speed, and technology.
Memory sparing and memory mirroring cannot be implemented at the

same time.

Table 3-14 shows examples of supported memory configurations.

CAUTION:

Memory module blanks must be installed in unoccupied memory

sockets to maintain proper cooling airflow.

Table 3-14. Examples of Memory Configurations

– PowerEdge M600

Total
Memory

DIMM

1 GB

512 MB 512 MB blank

blank

2 GB

512 MB 512 MB 512 MB 512 MB blank

blank

2 GB

1 GB

blank

4 GB

512 MB 512 MB 512 MB 512 MB 512 MB 512 MB 512 MB 512 MB

4 GB

1 GB

blank

8 GB

1 GB

8 GB

2 GB

blank

16 GB

2 GB

16 GB

4 GB

blank

32 GB

4 GB