Dell launches Nehalem servers

Dell in London presented its new PowerEdge servers. The two blade and
two rack servers and tower server. All models are equipped with two
Intel Xeon 5500 CPU's based on the Nehalem architecture.

The M610 is half high blade, while the M710 is a full-height model.
The R610 and R710 are rack servers, and the T610 is a tower with a
height of 5U. All models have two sockets for CPUs from Intel's Xeon
5500 series. These are the first server chips based on Nehalem EP.
Intel server platform will be presented on March 30, too many
technical specifications and benchmark results if Dell is still not
out of the office. It is already clear that Nehalem EP allows three
channels per socket DDR3 to speak, so that more than four times as
much bandwidth available as the Town-Harper platform.

The new PowerEdge servers are equipped with pci-e 2.0 slots. Dell for
M710 and R710 are also 125 percent more memory than the current
PowerEdge models, so that the type of DDR3 instead of DDR2 is. The
manufacturer provides its standard servers with 24 to 36GB ram,
because most demand would be. The extensive I / O and the larger
amount of RAM should be better virtualization capabilities provide.
Each model is also a 1GB SD-card which hypervisors from Microsoft,
Citrix and VMware are.

In the field of energy has the Dell necessary. Thus, the two redundant
psu's a return of 90 percent and offer the 45nm Xeon baked a better
performance / energy ratio. Dell claims to the Airflow within the
system improved, so there is not six but only five fans needed.

Dell does the deployment of servers easier by what the company
'Lifecycle Controller' calls: if the server for the first time, the
administrator in the EFI environment indicate the raid set-up he
wants, or he or bios want to update the firmware and the operating
system he would install the correct drivers so ready to be put.
Installing an operating system should thus be easy. Finally, the
server manufacturer Dell Management Console introduced, a new
management tool based on Symantec Altiris platform. Dell has said the
Altiris management platform chosen because it uses open standards, as
well as management tools for hardware from other manufacturers via
simple plug-ins added. The new Dell server line looking for the fight
with HP, Cisco last week while in the ring is on.