Key Technologies - Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Manual

Key technologies

The PowerEdge M1000e is designed to help you 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, and 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
10Gbps Serial Ethernet, and 8Gbps Fibre Channel
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Lower 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 pass-through modules), a high-
performance, and highly available passive midplane that connects server modules to the
infrastructure components, power supplies, fans, and integrated KVM and CMC. The PowerEdge
M1000e uses redundant and hot-pluggable components throughout to provide maximum uptime.
The M1000e provides identical and symmetrical 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,
10GbE copper ports or 10GbE optical ports. True modularity at the system and subsystem level
provides simplicity of extension and enhancement, now and in the future.
The main benefits of these features include improved:
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Data center density
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Power and 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 help you do more with your server investment.
Virtually unlimited in scalability, the PowerEdge M1000e chassis provides ultimate flexibility in server
processor and chipset architectures. The M1000e infrastructure can simultaneously support both
Intel and AMD server architectures, while cutting-edge mechanical, electrical and software interface
definitions enable multi-generational server support and expansion.
The chassis features:
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A high-speed passive midplane that connects the server modules in the front and to power, I/O
and management infrastructure in the back of the enclosure
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and 4Gbps Fibre Channel, but up to 40Gbps QDR InfiniBand,