Dell EMC PowerEdge MX Series Manual de usuario
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX
Networking Architecture Guide
January 2019
Architecture Guide
Abstract
This architecture guide provides an overview of the architecture,
features, and functionality of the PowerEdge MX networking
infrastructure.
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Contents
Chapter 1 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX Platform Overview 4
PowerEdge MX models and components..............................................................5
PowerEdge MX7000 (front)...................................................................................5
PowerEdge MX7000 (rear)....................................................................9
PowerEdge MX7000 chassis fabric slots.............................................................16
Chapter 2 OpenManage Enterprise - Modular Console 18
Introduction.........................................................................................................19
PowerEdge MX7000 initial deployment...............................................................19
PowerEdge MX7000 Multi-Chassis Management groups....................................19
PowerEdge MX7000 OME-M component management......................................22
Chapter 3 PowerEdge MX Scalable Fabric Architecture 25
Scalable Fabric architecture................................................................................26
QSFP28 double density connectors....................................................................28
Interfaces and port groups ..................................................................................29
Embedded Top of Rack switching.......................................................................33
Scalable Fabric OS10EE CLI Commands...........................................................35
Chapter 4 PowerEdge MX Ethernet Switch Operating Modes 36
Operating modes description ..............................................................................37
PowerEdge MX7000 SmartFabric topologies......................................................39
SmartFabric uplink topologies.............................................................................41
Deploying a SmartFabric.....................................................................................46
Appendix A Additional Guidelines and Equipment Details 49
Scalable Fabric restrictions and guidelines .........................................................50
Supported cables and optical connectors............................................................57
Rate limited 32 Gb Fibre Channel.......................................................................64
Spanning Tree Protocol recommendations .........................................................65
NIC teaming restrictions......................................................................................66
PowerEdge MX IOM slot support matrix..............................................................67
PTM port mapping...............................................................................................69
Examples of unsupported Scalable Fabric topologies.........................................71
Appendix B Additional Information 74
Documentation and Support................................................................................75
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Chapter 1 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX
Platform Overview
This chapter presents the following topics:
PowerEdge MX models and components..........................................................5
PowerEdge MX7000 (rear)..................................................................................9
PowerEdge MX7000 chassis fabric slots ........................................................16
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PowerEdge MX models and components
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX, a unified, high-performance data center infrastructure,
provides the agility, resiliency, and efficiency to optimize a wide variety of traditional and
new, emerging data center workloads and applications. With its kinetic architecture and
agile management, PowerEdge MX dynamically configures compute, storage, and fabric,
increases team effectiveness and accelerates operations. Its responsive design and
delivers the innovation and longevity customers of all sizes need for their IT and digital
business transformations.
This section contains information about the hardware and options available in the
PowerEdge MX7000. The section is divided into two parts:
•The front of the MX7000 chassis, containing compute and storage sleds
•The back of the MX7000 chassis, containing networking, storage, and management
components
Figure 1. Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 chassis
PowerEdge MX7000 (front)
Figure 2 shows the front view of the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 chassis. The left side
of the chassis can have one of three control panel options:
•LED status light panel
•Touch screen LCD panel
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•Touch screen LCD panel equipped with Dell EMC PowerEdge iDRAC Quick Sync 2
The bottom of Figure 2 shows six hot-pluggable, redundant, 3,000-watt power supplies.
Above the power supplies eight slots are available. In the example below, the slots
contain:
•Four Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c sleds in slots one through four
•One Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840C sled in slots five and six
•Two Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s sleds in slots seven and eight
Figure 2. Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 –front
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c is a two-socket, full-height, single-width compute sled
that offers impressive performance and scalability. It is ideal for dense virtualization
environments and can serve as a foundation for collaborative workloads. The MX7000
chassis supports up to eight MX740c sleds.
Key features of the MX740c include:
•Single-width slot design
•Two CPU sockets
•24 DIMM slots of DDR4 memory
•Boot options include BOSS-S1 or Internal Dual SD Modules (IDSDM)
•Up to six SAS/SATA SSD/HDD and NVMe PCIe SSDs
•Two PCIe mezzanine card slots for connecting to network Fabric A and B
•One PCIe mini-mezzanine card slots for connecting to storage Fabric C
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•iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller
Figure 3. Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c sled with six 2.5-inch SAS drives
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840c is a powerful four-socket, full-height, double-width
server that features dense compute, exceptionally large memory capacity, and a highly
expandable storage subsystem. It is the ultimate scale-up server that excels at running a
wide range of database applications, substantial virtualization, and software-defined
storage environments. The MX7000 chassis supports up to four MX840c compute sleds.
Key features of the MX840c include:
•Dual-width slot design
•Four CPU sockets
•48 DIMM slots of DDR4 memory
•Boot options include BOSS-S1 or IDSDM
•Up to eight SAS/SATA SSD/HDD and NVMe PCIe SSDs
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•Four PCIe mezzanine card slots for connecting to network Fabric A and B
•Two PCIe mini-mezzanine card slots for connecting to storage Fabric C
•iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller
Figure 4. Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840c sled with eight 2.5-inch SAS drives
The PowerEdge MX5016s storage sled delivers scale-out, shared storage within the
PowerEdge MX architecture. The MX5016s provides customizable 12 GB/s direct-
attached SAS storage with up to 16 SAS HDDs/SSDs. Both the MX740c and the MX840c
compute sleds can share drives with the MX5016s using the PowerEdge MX5000s SAS
module. Internal server drives may be combined with up to seven MX5016s sleds in one
chassis for extensive scalability. The MX7000 chassis supports up to seven MX5016s
storage sleds.
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Figure 5. Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s sled with the drive bay extended
PowerEdge MX7000 (rear)
The MX7000 includes three I/O fabrics. Fabrics A and B are for Ethernet and future I/O
module connectivity, and Fabric C is for SAS and Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity. Each
fabric provides two slots to provide redundancy. Figure 6 shows the rear of the
PowerEdge MX7000 chassis. From top to bottom the chassis is configured with:
•One Dell EMC Networking MX9116n Fabric Switching Engine (FSE) installed in
fabric slot A1
•One Dell EMC Networking MX7116n Fabric Expander Module (FEM) installed in
fabric slot A2
•Two Dell EMC Networking MX5108n Ethernet switches installed in fabric slots B1
and B2
•Two Dell EMC Networking MXG610s Fibre Channel switches installed in fabric slots
C1 and C2
•Two Dell EMC PowerEdge MX9002m modules that are installed in management
slots MM1 and MM2
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Figure 6. Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 –rear
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX9002m management module controls the overall chassis
power, cooling, and hosts the OpenManage Enterprise - Modular (OME-M) console. Two
external 1G-BaseT Ethernet ports are provided to enable management connectivity and to
connect more MX7000 chassis into a single logical chassis. The MX7000 chassis
supports two MX9002m modules for redundancy. Figure 7 shows a single MX9002m
module and its components.
Figure 7. Dell EMC PowerEdge MX9002m module
The following MX9002m module components are labeled Figure 7:
1. Handle release
2. Gigabit Ethernet port 1
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