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PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide The M1000e chassis provides flexibility, power and thermal efficiency with sca

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 10 3 System Information 3.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e modular server enclosure is a breakth

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 11 4 Mechanical 4.1 Chassis Description The Dell™ PowerEdge™ server modules are accessible from the fr

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 12 Figure 2. M1000e Front View The M1000e enclosure supports half‐height or full-height server modules,

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 13 Server modules can be freely located within each 2 x 2 half-height quadrant. The mechanical design of t

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 14 The enclosure ships by default with a single CMC, with the option of adding a second CMC to provide a f

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 15 For information on cabling for the M1000e modular system, see the Routing and Managing Cables section i

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 16 4.9 Fans ` Figure 7. Back View of Chassis Showing Fans The PowerEdge M1000e chassis comes standard w

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 17 Note: The blank blade, hard drive, and server I/O fillers for every blank slot are required for coolin

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 18 Figure 10. I/O Module and One Open Slot Needing to be Filled

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 19 Figure 11. Installed CMC, I/O Module, and Power Supply Blanks Figure 12. Installed iKVM Blank Fi

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide ii This document is for informational purposes only. Dell reserves the right to make cha

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 20 4.10 Cabling There are two types of external cabling simplification features offered: • Stacked Ether

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 21 4.11 Control Panel/LCD The control panel contains the local user interface. Functions include chassis-

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 22 The LCD panel can be used as a diagnostic source and as a place to configure parameters of certain chas

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 23 4.12 Security The M1000e offers many security features, including the ability to: • Assign one admini

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 24 5 Power, Thermal, Acoustic Built on Dell™ Energy Smart technology, the PowerEdge™ M1000e is one of t

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 25 Figure 19. M1000e Power Supply Back View The Dell power supplies use output ORing FETs to isolate the

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 26 Figure 20. Power Architecture These supplies are hot-swappable, so at any time you can move the power

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 27 5.2 Power Redundancy Options The six power supplies allow for two different redundancy options: Grid R

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 28 Table 8. Power Supply Redundancy Configuration Maximum Power Available (Watts DC) 2700W PSU 1350W PSU

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 29 The following power-supply combinations are not allowed in the M1000e chassis: • 2360W + 1350W • 2700

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Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 30 5.2.5.4 Behavior of 1350W + 2360W/2700W Power Supplies Mixing 1350W (110VAC) and 2360W/2700W (220VAC)

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 31 The following information is also applicable for half-height blade servers:  Throttling (performance

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 32 Table 12. Full-Height Servers Per Power Supply Configuration Power Supply Configuration Number of Serv

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 33 Dell recommends that all customers running PowerEdge M910 blade servers should install the modular iDRA

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 34 If power consumption demands exceed available power, the enclosure throttles back the power supplied to

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 35 as a chassis view; or the ability make use of that knowledge (available through SMBIOS structures) to

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 36 Figure 22. Server Cooling Air Profile The server modules are cooled with traditional front‐to‐back co

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 37 Figure 24. I/O Cooling Air Profile The I/O modules use a bypass duct to draw ambient air from the fro

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 38 This hardware design is coupled with a thermal cooling algorithm that incorporates the following: • Se

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 39 5.10 Acoustics The M1000e is engineered for sound quality in accordance with the Dell Enterprise acous

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Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 40 6 Processors and Memory See the Dell PowerEdge Mxxx Technical Guide on Dell.com for each of the compat

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 41 7 Midplane Though hidden from view in an actively running system, the midplane is the focal point for

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 42 Figure 27. M1000e Midplane Front View The system is designed for receptacles on all midplane connecto

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 43 Figure 28. M1000e Midplane Back View All M1000e midplane routing is fully isolated, supporting all ch

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 44 8 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM) For information on embedded NICs/LOMs, see the Dell PowerEdge

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 45 9 Input/Output (I/O) 9.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M-series provides complete, snap-in Flex I/O s

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 46 The M1000e system management hardware and software includes Fabric Consistency Checking, preventing the

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 47 Figure 30. Fabric Specifications Fabric Encoding Symbol Rate Per Lane (Gbps) Data Rate Per Lane (Gbps)

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 48 I/O modules are used as pairs, with two modules servicing each server module fabric providing a fully r

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 49 • Mellanox® DDR (20Gb) InfiniBand switch • Mellanox QDR (40Gb) InfiniBand switch For an up-to-date li

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide v Figure 12. Installed iKVM Blank ...

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 50 Figure 33. FlexAddress Addresses FlexAddress replaces the factory-assigned World Wide Name/Media Acce

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 51 The CMC manages the following functions specific to FlexAddress: • Provides user interface for enablin

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 52 Wake on LAN (WOL) is enabled after a power down and power up of the enclosure. FlexAddress on Ethernet

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 53 10 Storage The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e was designed primarily to support external storage over the net

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 54 11 Video The iKVM supports a video display resolution range from 640 x 480 at 60 Hz up to 1280 x 1024

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 55 12 Rack Information 12.1 Overview The Dell™ RapidRails™ static rail system for the PowerEdge™ M1000e

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 56 Figure 37. M1000e VersaRails Static Rails The VersaRails static rails are not intended to be mounted

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 57 Figure 38. M1000e Strain Relief Bar and Cable Enumerator Clip (12 Per Kit) 12.4 Rack View The M1000e

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 58 Figure 40. M1000e Strain Relief Bar and Cable Enumerator Clips More information can be found in the R

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 59 13 Virtualization The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e and the blade servers which fit in it have been designed

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 6 1 Product Comparison The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e modular server enclosure offers significant enhancemen

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 60 14 Systems Management 14.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e server solution offers a holistic man

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 61 Management connections transfer health and control traffic throughout the chassis. The system managemen

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 62 o Updates are staged on the Lifecycle Controller and applied immediately or during a scheduled mainten

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 63  Updating o Reporting of firmware versions o One-to-many iDRAC firmware update o Consolidated CMC

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 64 o Two factor authentication with SmartCard o Single sign on using OS credentials (with AD) o Private

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 65 The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) on each server module is connected to the CMC thro

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 66 14.4 Integrated Keyboard and Mouse Controller (iKVM) Figure 44. M1000e iKVM The M1000e modular enclo

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 67 Figure 45. Front Keyboard/Video Ports Dell modular servers also include vKVM as a standard feature, r

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 68 15 Peripherals Common peripherals for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e include the following: • An externa

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 69 Appendix A. Regulatory Certifications See the external Product Safety, EMC, and Environmental Datashee

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 7 Greater density means: • Smaller footprint • More processing performance • More RAM capacity • Lower

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 70 Appendix B. Status Messages LCD Status Messages A 1.For a detailed list of LCD status messages, see

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 71 Appendix C. Additional Information Videos highlighting the major Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e features are

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 8 2 Key Technologies 2.1 Overview The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e is designed to help customers be more ef

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 9 The chassis features: • A high-speed passive midplane that connects the server modules in the front and