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The Dell PowerEdge M520 2-socket, half-height blade server delivers an extraordinary balance of value and performance for mainstream business applications, with no compromise on enterprise-class features. Enjoy excellent performance and exceptional value with the Dell PowerEdge M520’s well-balanced processing capabilities and memory capacity in a compact half-height blade form factor. With up to 16 processor cores and up to 12 DIMMs of RAM, the scalability and performance of the M520 makes it a natural fit for general business applications such as e-mail and databases, as well as mid-tier virtual environments.
- Up to 12 DIMMs
- Mainstream performance
- Hot-pluggable hard drives and hardware RAID
- Impressive systems management capabilities
- Leverages M1000e enclosure
Form Factor: |
Half-height blade; Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e Blade Enclosure |
Processors: |
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family Chipset: Intel C600 Series Processor sockets: 2 Internal Interconnect: Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI): 6.4GT/s, 7.2GT/s, 8.0GT/s Cache: 2.5MB per core; core options: 2, 4, 6, 8 |
Memory: |
Up to 384GB (12 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600MT/s |
RAID Controllers: |
Internal controllers: PERC S110 (software RAID), PERC H310, PERC H710, PERC H710P |
Primary Storage: |
Hot-plug hard drive options: Up to 2 x 2.5” Express Flash PCIe SSD, SATA HDD/SSD, or SAS HDD/SSD |
USB Ports: |
2 front, 1 internal (with optional RIPS card) |
NIC/LOM: |
Two Broadcom® 5720 1Gb Dual Port LOMs (4 x 1Gb ports) |
I/O Options: |
Ethernet: Broadcom 5719 Quad Port 1Gb Intel I350 Quad Port 1Gb 1Gb/10Gb adapters: Brocade® BR1741M-k Dual Port 10Gb CNA QLogic® QME8262-k Dual Port 10Gb KR CNA Broadcom 57810S-k Dual Port 10Gb KR Intel Ethernet X520-x/k Dual Port 10Gb Intel I350 Quad Port 1Gb Broadcom 5719 Quad Port 1Gb Fibre channel: QLogic QME2572 (FC8) Emulex® LPe1205-M (FC8) InfiniBand: Mellanox® ConnectX®-3 Dual Port FDR10 Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port QDR |
Power Supplies and Fans: |
Supplied by Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure |
Remote Management: |
iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller for Blades (default), iDRAC7 Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller (upgrade option) |
Systems Management: |
IPMI 2.0 compliant Dell OpenManage™ Essentials and Dell Management Console Dell OpenManage Power Center Dell OpenManage Connections: • OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft® System Center • Dell plug-in for VMware® vCenter™ • HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli® Netcool® , and CA Network and Systems Management |
Supported Operating Systems: |
Microsoft Windows Server® 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (includes Hyper-V®) Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V) Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Virtualization options: Citrix® XenServer® VMware® vSphere® ESXi™ Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization® |
Embedded Hypervisor: |
Two internal SD cards dedicated for hypervisor or One SD card dedicated for vFlash media support |
More information can be found on the official Dell PowerEdge M520 Specs PDF.
PowerEdge M520
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