Dell has set a new standard for datacenter energy efficiency and flexibility with the PowerEdgeÔäó M-Series blade solution. The PowerEdge M-Series was designed from the ground up using Dell Energy Smart technologies, resulting in 30 industry patents, to help customers simplify information technology and better address mounting environmental challenges in their datacenters.
"Blade offerings have been long on promises and short on helping customers address the growing costs and complexity in their datacenters, said Eric Velfre, director of enterprise product marketing, Dell Europe, Middle East and Africa. "The PowerEdge M-Series delivers on those promises with unmatched energy efficiency, flexibility and manageability. It enables customers to achieve the compute performance they need while lowering their overall power consumption and reducing datacenter complexity and server sprawl.
The PowerEdge M-Series consumes up to 19 percent less power and achieves up to 25 percent better performance per watt than the HP BladeSystem c-Class. Compared to the IBM BladeCenter H, the M-Series consumes 12 percent less energy and achieves up to 28 percent better performance per watt. Built on Dell's Energy Smart technologies, the PowerEdge M-Series enables businesses to save on power and cooling costs while increasing server capacity. The M-Series also provides lead-free configurations, delivering a "green IT solution that further helps customers minimise their environmental impact.
The PowerEdge M1000e, a 10U-sized enclosure, supports 16 blade servers. It is optimised for Dell's PowerEdge M600 and M605 blade servers and supports up to two quad-core Intel┬« Xeon┬« and quad-core AMD OpteronÔäó processors, respectively. The M600 and M605 blade servers are 60 percent more dense than standard Dell 1U servers, helping customers to better address datacenter space constraints.
Dell's PowerEdge M-Series incorporates FlexIO switch technology, making it the only blade solution providing snap-in scalability all the way down to the switch interconnects, helping to protect and maximise a customer's server investment by eliminating the need for wasteful "rip-and-replace upgrades. With Flex IO switch technology, M-Series customers can get the flexibility they need to efficiently design a networked blade environment that best meets their infrastructure requirements today, and easily and cost effectively add or modify network stacking and uplink capabilities as technology or business needs change.
Dell PowerEdge M-Series is the ideal platform for virtualization and enables customers to consolidate their datacenter operations and improve utilisation without sacrificing performance. The ability to provision virtual machines and physical machines in the same blade server chassis simplifies deployment and management of a virtualized environment.
Dell's OpenManageÔäó systems management suite available with the PowerEdge M-Series simplifies IT with easy-to-use yet powerful management tools that help reduce the cost and complexity of managing computing resources. OpenManage provides customers with a more holistic view and greater understanding of their datacenter infrastructures, enabling timely, more informed IT management decisions.
Dell provides expanded management features in the M-Series at no additional cost, including:
Centralised chassis management controllers that provide redundant, secure access paths for IT administrators to manage multiple enclosures and blades from a single console;
Dynamic power management enabling administrators to set high/low power thresholds to help ensure blades operate within their defined power envelope;
Real time reporting for enclosure and blade power consumption, and the ability to prioritise blade slots for power to provide optimal control over power resources;
and Integrated KVM (keyboard/video/mouse), allowing for easy set-up, deployment and seamless integration into an existing KVM infrastructure.