Dell PowerEdge M610x - Manual (Page 11)

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Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 6
Fibre Channel:
Dual-Port QLogic
® FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (QME2572)
Dual-Port Emulex ® FC8 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) (LPe1205-M)
Infiniband:
Dual-Port Mellanox
® ConnectX-2™ Dual Data Rate (DDR) and Quad Data Rate (QDR)
InfiniBand
Communications
Two embedded Broadcom ® NetXtreme II™ 5709 Gigabit Ethernet NICs with failover
and load balancing.
TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) supported on Microsoft
® Windows Server ® 2003 SP1 or
higher with Scalable Networking Pack. iSCSI Offload supported on Windows Server ®
2003 SP1 or higher, Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ® 5, and SUSE ® Linux ® Enterprise Server
10. Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server ® 2003 is not required.
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
PCIe Expansion Bay
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:
NVIDIA
® Tesla™ M1060–240 core, double-
width PCIe card with 4GB of memory
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
Solid State Storage Options:
Fusion-io
® 160IDSS—160GB ioDrive PCIe
solid state storage card
Fusion-io
® 640IDSS—640GB ioDrive Duo
PCIe solid state storage card
Operating Systems
Microsoft ® Windows ® Essential Business Server 2008
Microsoft ® Windows Server ® 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-V™ )
Microsoft ® Windows Server ® 2008 R2, x64 (includes Hyper-V™ v2)
Microsoft ® Windows ® HPC Server 2008
Novell ® SUSE ® Linux ® Enterprise Server
Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ®
Sun ® Solaris™
For more information on the specific versions and additions, visit
http://www.dell.com/OSsupport .
Virtualization OS
Support
Microsoft ® Windows Server ® 2008, with Hyper-V™
VMware ® vSphere™ Version 4.0 (including ESX v4.0/ ESXi™ v4.0)
Optional Embedded Hypervisors:
Citrix
® XenServer™
Microsoft ® Windows Server ® 2008, with Hyper-V™
VMware ® ESXi™ 4.1