Dell PowerEdge M520 - New Technologies; Table 1. New Technologies

6 PowerEdge M520 Technical Guide
New technologies
A number of new technologies are featured on the PowerEdge M520 system, as shown in Table 1.
Table 1. New technologies
New technology
Detailed description
Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor
E5-2400 product family
This new family of Intel processors works with the Intel C602 chipset and has
embedded PCI Express
®
(PCIe) lanes for improved I/O performance. See the
Processors section for details.
Intel C602 series chipset
The Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip is implemented on the M520.
Next-generation PERC
options
The M520 supports new Dell PERC controller cards with improved functionality
and faster performance. See the Storage section for details.
PERC S110 software
RAID solution
This new software RAID solution supports RAID 0 and 1. See the Storage section
for details.
iDRAC7 with Lifecycle
Controller
The new embedded system management solution for Dell servers features
hardware and firmware inventory and alerting, in-depth memory alerting, faster
performance, a dedicated gigabit port and many more features. See the Systems
management section for details.
Advanced power
management
The M520 supports advanced power monitoring and power capping tools that can
help manage power consumption in the data center.
Failsafe hypervisors
The internal dual SD module enables Dell's unique failsafe virtualization
architecture, ensuring uptime by providing failover capability for embedded
hypervisors, such as VMware
®
vSphere
®
ESXi™.
Fresh Air cooling
Dell has tested and validated an integrated data center solution that enables you to
operate at higher temperatures or even chiller-less. See the Power, thermal, and
acoustics section for details.