System Overview; Introduction - Dell PowerEdge MX7000 Manual

System overview

The PowerEdge MX portfolio delivers a fully managed, high performance system that will free up valuable IT resources and personnel
so you can focus on innovation. Break free from the bounds of technology silos and routine, daily and time consuming operational
management to realize your IT and digital business transformations.
PowerEdge MX, a unified, high performance kinetic infrastructure, provides the agility, resiliency and efficiency to optimize a wide
variety of traditional and new, emerging data center workloads and applications. With its kinetic architecture and agile management
the MX portfolio dynamically configures compute, storage and fabric, increases team effectiveness and accelerates operations. Its
responsive design delivers the innovation and longevity customers of all sizes need for their IT and digital business transformations.
The PowerEdge MX ecosystem consists of a new chassis infrastructure, compute sleds, fabric switches, and a storage sled, all
managed by OpenManage Enterprise-Modular Edition.

Introduction

The MX7000 and MX-series portfolio delivers a fully managed, high performance system that will free up valuable IT resources and
personnel so you can focus on innovation. Break free from the bounds of technology silos and routine, daily and time consuming
operational management to realize your IT and digital business transformations. The new PowerEdge MX, a unified, high
performance kinetic infrastructure, provides the agility, resiliency and efficiency to optimize a wide variety of traditional and new,
emerging data center workloads and appliances. With its kinetic architecture and agile management the MX portfolio dynamically
configures compute, storage and fabric, increases team effectiveness and accelerates operations. Its responsive design delivers the
innovation and longevity customers of all sizes need for their IT and digital business transformations.
The PowerEdge MX infrastructure provides:
Flexible architecture
• A flexible architecture – Non-disruptive provisioning, on-demand allocation of compute, storage and networking resource pools.
• A scalable fabric – Cost-effective multi-chassis architecture with a broad array of open networking options and upgrade
simplicity for future I/O flexibility.
• Granular storage – Dense, highly flexible, hot swappable, scale-out direct attached storage sled with easy front access.
Agile management
• End-to-end lifecycle management and single point authentication for all devices from a single interface.
• Simplified set-up/updates with no specialized training needed, and with multiple at-the-box management options.
• An operational template methodology and comprehensive Rest API.
Responsive design
• An industry leading fabric, system thermal architecture, mechanical design and control algorithms for dense configurations with
future compatibility.
• A hardened design to protect, detect and recover underlying infrastructure from cyber attacks.
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