Technical Specifications; Component Guidelines; Population Rules - Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 Installation And Service Manual

The technical and environmental specifications of your system are outlined in this section.
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Component guidelines

• Chassis dimensions
• Chassis weight
• Fan specifications
• PSU specifications
• Ports and connectors specifications
• PowerEdge MX modules ports and connectors
• Video specifications
• Environmental specifications
Component guidelines

Population rules

System modules must be populated as described in the following table:
Table 10. MX7000 population rules
Category Maximum population
Blanks All the empty slots in the MX7000 enclosure must be populated with blanks (Sled, IOM, EC, and PSU). This is
required for proper cooling of the enclosure and components.
Fans All system fans must be populated in the enclosure.
Power supply The number of power supply units that are required is dependent upon system configuration and the required
units redundancy mode. The minimum quantity must be 2. For grid redundancy, power supply units must be populated in
the following order: 1, 4, 2, 5, 3, 6.
Power cable One C21/C20 power cable must be connected to the C22 plug corresponding to each populated PSU.
Management A Management module must be present to control and manage the enclosure.
module
NOTE:
NOTE:
Control panel The right control panel and one of the left control panel configurations (LCD or LED) must be present on the
MX7000 enclosure.
Compute sled Up to eight single-width or four double-width sleds or a combination can be populated. The double-width sleds must
be in slots 1, 3, 5, 7 due to the enclosures design.
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Technical specifications

If a single Management module crashes, the system functions normally.
The enclosure cannot be managed or controlled until the Management module is replaced.
Technical specifications
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