DELL PowerEdge M630 Blade 2× Xeon E5-2697A v4 384GB DDR4 2× 300GB SAS

Blade server with dual 16-core CPUs

This Dell PowerEdge M630 blade carries two Xeon E5-2697A v4 processors at 2.6 GHz with 16 cores each. 384 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory is installed and the system can accept up to 512 GB. Two 300 GB 10K SAS drives connect through a PERC H330 RAID controller. Remote management is handled by iDRAC8 Enterprise and a 10 GbE 562T two-port adapter provides network connectivity.

Suited for dense virtualisation hosts.

The dual 16-core layout and large memory pool make this blade a good fit for virtualisation clusters or memory-heavy databases in a chassis that accepts half-height blades. Integrated graphics and the half-height form factor rule out GPU acceleration, so render farms or AI training should look elsewhere. Buyers who need more than two internal 2.5-inch drives or who require storage interfaces other than SAS will also need a different platform.

Two-drive SAS limit decides fit

The chassis supports a maximum of two 2.5-inch SAS drives and the PERC H330 controller manages only those bays. If the application demands more local spindles or a different drive protocol this blade cannot satisfy it.