New Technologies; Overview; Detailed Information - Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Manual

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2.1

Overview

The PowerEdge M1000e is designed to help customers be more efficient with time, power and
cooling, investment, and system performance. It is a breakthrough Dell engineered and patent-
pending design that maximizes flexibility, power and thermal efficiency, system-wide availability,
performance, and manageability. The chassis integrates the latest in management, I/O, power and
cooling technologies in a modular, easy-to-use package. Designed from the ground up to support
current and future generations of server, storage, networking, and management technologies, the
PowerEdge M1000e includes the headroom necessary to scale for the future.
Dell optimized the PowerEdge M1000e Modular Server Enclosure and Server Modules to:
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Maximize flexibility—modular I/O, power, cooling, and management architecture.
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Maximize longevity—optimized power and cooling design supports current and future
generations of server modules and I/O. I/O bandwidth to support not only today's generation
of 10Gb Ethernet, 20Gbps InfiniBand and 4Gbps Fibre Channel, but up to 40Gbps QDR
InfiniBand, 10Gbps Serial Ethernet, and 8Gbps Fibre Channel.
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Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)—lower cost than rack-mount servers with equivalent
features. Best in class power and cooling efficiency.
The PowerEdge M1000e Modular Server Enclosure solution supports server modules, network,
storage, and cluster interconnect modules (switches and passthrough modules), a high-performance
and highly available passive midplane that connects server modules to the infrastructure
components, power supplies, fans, integrated KVM and Chassis Management Controllers (CMC). The
PowerEdge M1000e uses redundant and hot‐pluggable components throughout to provide maximum
uptime.
The M1000e provides identical and symmetric fabric options B and C for each modular server.
Ethernet I/O switches support I/O sub-modules that provide external I/O flexibility of stacking ports,
10GE copper ports, or 10GE optical ports. True modularity at the system and subsystem level
provides simplicity of extension and enhancement, now and in the future.
The main benefits to customers of these features include improved:
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Data center density
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Power & cooling efficiency
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Flexibility
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Scalability
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Virtualization capability
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Ease of deployment
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Manageability
Together, these factors enable customers to do more with their server investment.
2.2

Detailed Information

Virtually unlimited in scalability, the PowerEdge M1000e chassis provides ultimate flexibility in server
processor and chipset architectures. Both Intel and AMD server architectures can be supported
simultaneously by the M1000e infrastructure, while cutting-edge mechanical, electrical, and
software interface definitions enable multi‐generational server support and expansion.
The chassis features:
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