Dell (News - Alert) has launched its PowerEdge M-Series blade solution, which offers enhanced data center efficiency and flexibility. The PowerEdge M-Series is based on Dell Energy Smart technology, which has more than 30 industry patents. The solution enables customers to efficiently address environmental issues in their data centers.
The PowerEdge M1000e offers the most advanced connectivity options in the industry, Dell claims. Customers benefit from a flexible solution that provides low total cost of ownership for data centers of any size. The features of the PowerEdge M1000e include an upgradeable Ethernet
blade switch, the Layer 3 Dell PowerConnect M6220 with four 1Gb ports and optional upgradable ports for stacking or 10Gb.
In addition to this, the PowerEdge M1000e also incorporates three Cisco (News - Alert) Ethernet switch options, an Infiniband switch option from Cisco, two Brocade 4Gb Fibre Channel
connectivity options, FC4 Host Bus Adaptors from QLogic and Emulex, and an Infiniband mezzanine card from Mellanox (News - Alert). It also provides Fibre Channel and Ethernet Pass Through options for customers who have already set-up a switch infrastructure. These include an Ethernet pass through module with the capacity of running at 10/100/1,000Mb per second.
Dell’s OpenManage systems management suite is available with the PowerEdge M-Series. OpenManage offers a wider perspective of customers’ data center infrastructures, thereby helping them make timely, better informed IT management decisions.
Dell is also offering expanded management features at no additional cost. These include centralized chassis management controllers, dynamic power management, real time reporting and integrated KVM (keyboard/video/mouse).
The additional advantages of the solution include:
- Consume 19 percent less power to offer 25 percent better performance per watt than the HP BladeSystem c-Class1. Vis-à-vis IBM’s (News - Alert) BladeCenter H, the M-Series uses 12 percent less energy and delivers up to 28 percent better performance per watt1. While increasing server capacity, the solution reduces power and cooling costs. At the same time, the lead-free configurations reduce environmental impact.
- With FlexIO switch technology, the PowerEdge M-Series is the only blade solution that offers snap-in scalability. The feature eliminates the need for wasteful “rip-and-replace” upgrades. Customers will be able to efficiently develop a networked blade environment for their infrastructure requirements. Additionally, they will be able to easily and cost effectively add or modify network stacking and uplink capabilities.
- The solution is an ideal platform for virtualization. It helps customers to consolidate their data center operations as well as improve utilization without affecting the performance.
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Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Calvin’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
Virtualization | X |
| Central Processor Virtualization or Virtualization allows one computer system to emulate as multiple �virtual� computer systems. A Virtual Machine Monitor also known as a hypervisor is a system of sy...more |
Fibre Channel | X |
| In the Fibre Channel protocol, there are three different fabric topologies: 1-Point-to-Point, 2-Arbitrated Loop and 3-Fabric. Point-To-Point topology is a direct connection between two N Ports, with a...more |
Ethernet | X |
| An industry-standard network hardware specification (IEEE 802.3) developed by IEEE that offers dedicated network (and Internet) access. Standard Ethernet is half-duplex transmission system. That is, d...more |
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