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Dell™ PowerEdge™ M710 Technical Guidebook
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•UniedServerCongurator(UEFI2.1)support
•PowermanagementsupportincludingDBS,PowerInventoryandmultiplePowerProles
The PowerEdge M710 BIOS does not support the following:
•EmbeddedDiagnostics(embeddedinMASER)
•BIOSlanguagelocalization
•BIOSrecoveryafterbadash(butcanberecoveredfromiDRAC6Express)
B. I
2
C (Inter-Integrated Circuit)
What is I
2
C? A simple bi-directional 2-wire bus for ecient inter-integrated circuit control. All I
2
C-bus
compatible devices incorporate an on-chip interface which allows them to communicate directly with
each other via the I
2
C-bus. This design concept solves the many interfacing problems encountered when
designing digital control circuits. These I
2
C devices perform communication functions between
intelligent control devices (e.g., microcontrollers), general-purpose circuits (e.g., LCD drivers, remote I/O
ports, memories), and application-oriented circuits.
SECTION 9. EMBEDDED NICS/LOMS
A. Overview/Description
Embedded Gigabit Ethernet Controllers with TCP Ooad Engine (TOE) support. Four embedded
Broadcom 5709C dual-port LAN controllers are on the M710 planar as independent Gigabit Ethernet
interface devices. The following information details the features of the LAN devices.
•x4PCIExpressGen2-capableinterface
•TheM710operatesthiscontrolleratGen1speed
•IntegratedMACandPHY3072x18Bytecontextmemory
•64KBreceivebuer
•TOE(TCPOoadEngine)
•iSCSIcontroller(enabledthroughanoptionalhardwarekey)
•RDMAcontroller(RNIC)(enabledpost-RTSthroughanoptionalhardwarekey)
•NC-SI(NetworkController-SidebandInterface)connectionformanageability
•Wake-On-LAN(WOL)
•PXE2.0remoteboot
•iSCSIboot
•IPv4andIPv6support
•Baremetaldeploymentsupport
•ISCSIooad-UsedforooadingISCItracasanISCSIaccelerator/HBA
SECTION 10. MEZZANINE CARD SLOTS
A. Overview / Description
The PowerEdge M710 contains 4 PCIe x8 Gen 2 mezzanine card slots. Each card is a dual port. Every
PowerEdge M710 blade can support up to 8 I/O ports (2 from each of the 4 mezzanine cards) plus the
two integrated NIC/LOM ports. Mezzanine card options include:
•EmulexandQLogicdual-port4Gbor8GbFCHBA
•Broadcom5709dual-portGbEthernetw/TOEandiSCSIooad
•SupportsIPv6ooads,improvedvirtualizationperformance,enablesM710tosupport2
Ethernet mezzanine cards, and lowers power consumption
•MellanoxConnectXdual-portDoubleDataRate(DDR–20Gbps)InnibandHCAorQuadData
Rate(QDR–40Gbps)HCA
•Broadcomdual-port10GbEthernetw/TOEandiSCSIooad