Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Manual page 10

Feature Parameter
Up to six total blade I/O modules for three fully redundant fabrics that take advantage of a fully
Enclosure I/O
passive midplane that can scale up to 8.4Tbps with current technologies featuring 1/10Gb
modules
Ethernet to servers, 40Gb Ethernet to top-of-rack switches, Fibre Channel 8Gb, and InfiniBand
QDR/FDR10/FDR. Dell's blade Ethernet devices also have FlexIO technology, providing
on-demand uplink scalability and investment protection unrivaled in the blade server market.
Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator
Supports Active System Manager and CMC Aggregator GUI. 1/10 Gb Ethernet connectivity with
Zero touch FCoE and converged iSCSI deployment. 32 internal 10GE ports provide full
redundancy to the M420 blade on fabric A.
Dell Networking MXL 10/40Gb Ethernet Switch
Converged 1/10/40Gb Ethernet switch with up to 56-10GE ports (32 internal), converged iSCSI
and FCoE (transit to ToR), 320Gb stacking of up to 6 switches, FlexIO technology, and PVST+
industry standard spanning tree. 32 internal 10GE ports provide full redundancy to the M420 blade
on fabric A.
Dell PowerConnect™ M8024-k 10Gb Ethernet Switch
Converged 1/10Gb Ethernet switch with up to 24-10GE ports (16 internal), converged FCoE
(transit to ToR), stacking of up to 6 modules, FlexIO technology, and simple mode.
Dell M8428-k 10Gb Converged Network Switch
Converged 1/10Gb Ethernet switch with 24-10GE Ethernet ports (16 internal) and 4 native Fibre
Channel ports, converged iSCSI and FCoE (FC breakout at blade switch). Fibre Channel ports
support 2Gb, 4Gb, and 8Gb.
Dell PowerConnect M6220 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
1Gb Ethernet switch with up to 24 ports (16 internal), stacking of up to 12 switches, simple mode,
and 4 x fixed copper 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet uplinks and FlexIO technology for up to four
additional 10GbE uplinks.
Dell PowerConnect M6348 Gigabit Ethernet Blade Switch
1Gb Ethernet switch with up to 48 ports (32 internal), stacking of up to 12 modules, simple mode,
and 16 external fixed 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet RJ-45 ports to support 32 internal server GbE
connections supplied by quad-port Gigabit Ethernet adapters plus up to four 10Gb uplink ports.
Dell 10Gb Gigabit Ethernet Pass-Through -k Module
Supports 16 x 10Gb connections only.
Cisco
16 internal 10GbE ports and 8 external 10GbE ports; provides 10GbE connectivity to Cisco Nexus
5500 series infrastructure.
Cisco Catalyst
Includes 4 x fixed copper 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet uplinks standard plus two optional module
bays, supporting 2 x 1Gb copper or optical SFPs each.
Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch M 3130G
Includes 4 x fixed copper 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet uplinks, 64Gb full duplex StackWise Plus
stacking ports, and support for two x2 modules for up to a total of two 10Gb CX4 or SR/LRM
uplinks.
Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch M 3130X
Includes 4 x fixed copper 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet uplinks, 64Gb full duplex StackWise Plus
stacking ports, and support for two x2 modules for up to a total of two 10Gb CX4 or SR/LRM
uplinks.
Brocade
Includes eight external SAN ports.
Dell 8Gb/4Gb Fibre Channel SAN Module NPIV Port Aggregator
Emulex
Mellanox
16 internal ports and 16 external QSFP+ ports in a single wide form factor.
Brocade M6505 16Gb Fibre Channel SAN I/O Module
24 × 16Gbps Fibre Channel ports (16 internal server ports and 8 external fabric ports). Zero
footprint, hot-pluggable design with no additional fans or power supplies. Dynamic Ports on
Demand (PoD) and "pay-as-you-grow" port upgrades for 12-port configurations.
PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide
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Nexus™ B22DELL Fabric Extender (FEX)
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Blade Switch M 3032
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M5424 8Gb Fibre Channel Switch
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8Gb or 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Pass-Through Module
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M4001Q QDR, M4001T FDR10, M4001Q FDR InfiniBand Switches