Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 User manual
Dell PowerEdge MX7000
Next Generation Modular Platform, the Dell EMC Poweredge
MX7000 hosts exible blocks of server and storage resources
while providing outstanding eciencies through shared power,
cooling, networking, I/O, and management within the chassis itself.
Technical Guide
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2018 - 08
Rev. A00
Contents
1 System overview ............................................................................................................ 6
Introduction........................................................................................................................................................................6
New technologies............................................................................................................................................................... 7
2 System features.............................................................................................................. 8
Product comparison........................................................................................................................................................... 8
Specications..................................................................................................................................................................... 9
3 Chassis view and features..............................................................................................10
Front view of the enclosure.............................................................................................................................................. 10
Left control panel.........................................................................................................................................................11
Right control panel...................................................................................................................................................... 13
Back view of the enclosure............................................................................................................................................... 14
4 Internal Architecture...................................................................................................... 15
Infrastructure boards.........................................................................................................................................................15
Main distribution board............................................................................................................................................... 15
Vertical power distribution board.................................................................................................................................15
Rear fan board............................................................................................................................................................ 15
System interconnection.....................................................................................................................................................16
Power supply AC connection...................................................................................................................................... 16
Internal fabrics............................................................................................................................................................ 16
USB............................................................................................................................................................................ 16
Front control panel and power control interfaces........................................................................................................ 16
5 Input output fabrics....................................................................................................... 17
Input output fabrics...........................................................................................................................................................17
Standalone pass through modules...............................................................................................................................17
Front sled to rear port mappings................................................................................................................................. 17
Other I/O modules......................................................................................................................................................18
6 Storage fabrics.............................................................................................................. 19
Storage fabric................................................................................................................................................................... 19
Power distribution.......................................................................................................................................................19
Fabric-C IOM interconnect......................................................................................................................................... 19
7 System Modules............................................................................................................20
Management Module (MM).............................................................................................................................................20
External Network RJ-45 Ports .................................................................................................................................. 20
External Micro USB Serial Port ..................................................................................................................................20
System ID Button ...................................................................................................................................................... 20
Compute Sled.................................................................................................................................................................. 20
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Storage Sled.....................................................................................................................................................................20
I/O Modules......................................................................................................................................................................21
Power Supplies .................................................................................................................................................................21
Fans ................................................................................................................................................................................. 21
8 Rail kit...........................................................................................................................22
9 Power, thermal, and acoustics ......................................................................................23
Power...............................................................................................................................................................................23
Power Supply............................................................................................................................................................. 23
Thermal............................................................................................................................................................................ 24
Ambient Temperature Requirements...........................................................................................................................24
Acoustics..........................................................................................................................................................................25
Deployment Environment........................................................................................................................................... 25
Acoustical Performance............................................................................................................................................. 25
Acoustical Bae ........................................................................................................................................................26
Sound Cap................................................................................................................................................................. 26
Acoustical Dependencies............................................................................................................................................26
10 OpenManage systems management.............................................................................27
iDRAC with Lifecycle controller.........................................................................................................................................27
OpenManage Enterprise OpenManage Enterprise feature and benets..................................................................... 27
OpenManage Enterprise - Modular Edition.................................................................................................................30
Agent-free management.................................................................................................................................................. 30
Agent-based management............................................................................................................................................... 30
OpenManage console....................................................................................................................................................... 31
OpenManage systems management tools, utilities and protocols......................................................................................31
OpenManage Integrations................................................................................................................................................ 32
OpenManage Connections...............................................................................................................................................32
11 Appendix A. Additional specications........................................................................... 33
Population rules................................................................................................................................................................33
PSU redundancy and population rules.............................................................................................................................. 34
Chassis dimensions.......................................................................................................................................................... 35
Chassis weight................................................................................................................................................................. 35
Fan specications.............................................................................................................................................................36
PSU specications........................................................................................................................................................... 36
Ports and connectors specications.................................................................................................................................36
USB ports.................................................................................................................................................................. 36
Mini DisplayPort......................................................................................................................................................... 36
PowerEdge MX modules ports and connectors................................................................................................................37
PowerEdge MX740c...................................................................................................................................................37
PowerEdge MX840c.................................................................................................................................................. 37
PowerEdge MX7116n..................................................................................................................................................37
PowerEdge MX9116n..................................................................................................................................................37
PowerEdge MX5108n.................................................................................................................................................38
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PowerEdge MXG610s................................................................................................................................................ 38
PowerEdge MX 10GBASE-T Ethernet Pass-Through Module.....................................................................................38
PowerEdge MX 25 Gb Ethernet Pass-Through Module..............................................................................................38
Video specications..........................................................................................................................................................38
Environmental specications............................................................................................................................................ 39
Standard operating temperature.................................................................................................................................40
Expanded operating temperature............................................................................................................................... 40
Particulate and gaseous contamination specications ................................................................................................41
12 Appendix B. Standards compliance.............................................................................. 42
13 Appendix C. Additional resources................................................................................. 43
14 Appendix D. Support and deployment services............................................................ 44
ProDeploy Enterprise Suite and Residency Services.........................................................................................................44
ProDeploy Plus........................................................................................................................................................... 44
ProDeploy...................................................................................................................................................................44
Basic Deployment.......................................................................................................................................................44
Residency Services.................................................................................................................................................... 45
Deployment services........................................................................................................................................................ 45
Remote Consulting Services............................................................................................................................................ 45
Data Migration Service.....................................................................................................................................................45
ProSupport Enterprise Suite.............................................................................................................................................45
ProSupport Plus............................................................................................................................................................... 46
ProSupport.......................................................................................................................................................................46
ProSupport One for Data Center......................................................................................................................................47
Support Technologies....................................................................................................................................................... 47
SupportAssist.............................................................................................................................................................47
TechDirect..................................................................................................................................................................48
Additional professional services........................................................................................................................................ 48
Dell Education Services.................................................................................................................................................... 48
Dell EMC Global Infrastructure Consulting Services......................................................................................................... 48
Dell EMC Managed Services............................................................................................................................................ 48
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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 unied, high performance kinetic infrastructure, provides the agility, resiliency and eciency 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 congures compute, storage and fabric, increases team eectiveness 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 unied, high
performance kinetic infrastructure, provides the agility, resiliency and eciency 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
congures compute, storage and fabric, increases team eectiveness 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 exible architecture – Non-disruptive provisioning, on-demand allocation of compute, storage and networking resource pools.
• A scalable fabric – Cost-eective multi-chassis architecture with a broad array of open networking options and upgrade
simplicity for future I/O exibility.
• Granular storage – Dense, highly exible, 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.
•Simplied 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 congurations with
future compatibility.
• A hardened design to protect, detect and recover underlying infrastructure from cyber attacks.
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New technologies
The following are the new technologies featured on the PowerEdge MX7000:
Table 1. New technologies
New technology Detailed description
Form factor The MX7000 has all new chassis, sled and I/O module form
factors
I/O Fabrics The MX7000 support exible I/O Fabrics
Direct Orthogonal connection Direct Orthogonal Compute to I/O connections allowing for
future technology upgrades
System management solution New Systems Management solution including x86 management
processor option
KVM module KVM solution integrated into Management processor
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System features
The MX7000 enclosure has the following features:
• Sleds
– 8 single wide or 4 double wide sleds
– Double wide sleds in slots 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
• Power supply units
– Up to 6 front loading power supply units
• Fans
– 4 x 60 mm front fan modules
– 5 x 80 mm rear fan modules
• Right control panel ear
– Power button and LED indicators
– 2 USB Type-A and 1 USB type Micro-AB
– 1 Mini DisplayPort
• Left control panel ear - three congurations
– LCD with QuickSync
– LCD without QuickSync
– LED indicators only
Product comparison
Table 2. Feature comparison
Feature MX7000 M1000e
Rack height 7U rack chassis enclosure 10U blade chassis enclosure
Sled orientation Vertical Vertical
Sled support Up to:
8 single-width sleds or
4 double-width sleds
Up to seven Storage sleds can be
populated in the enclosure.
Up to:
16 half-height blades or
8 full-height blades or
32 quarter-height blades
Input output modules 3+3 (A/B/C)
A/B direct-IO interconnect
C is Midplane-based interconnect
3+3 (A/B/C)
Midplane-based interconnect
A reserved for Ethernet
Power Supplies 6 x 3 kW 6 x 3 kW
KVM Integrated with the Management module Discrete design
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Specications
Table 3. Technical specications
Features Specications
Form factor 7U rack
Sled orientation Vertical
Sled support Up to 8 standard-height, or 4 double-wide, or 16 half-height
sleds
I/O modules 3+3 (A/B/C). A and B direct I/O Ethernet interconnect. C is
midplane-based bre channel or SAS interconnect.
Power supplies 6 x 3KW
KVM Integrated with EC/MSM
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Chassis view and features
The MX740c is a full-height, two socket compute sled for the MX7000 chassis.
Front view of the enclosure
Figure 1. Front view of the enclosure
1. Left control panel 2. Single-width compute sled
3. Sled blank 4. Front fan (4)
5. Double-width compute sled 6. Single-width storage sled
7. Right control panel 8. Information tag
9. Power supply unit (6)
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