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Dell PowerEdge VRTX Enclosure Owner's Manual

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CMC features

The CMC provides the following multiple systems management functions:
  • Enclosure-level real-time automatic power and thermal management:
    • Monitors system power requirements and supports the optional Dynamic Power Supply Engagement (DPSE) mode. The DPSE mode improves power efficiency by allowing the CMC to dynamically place power supply units in standby mode, depending on the load and redundancy requirements.
    • Reports real-time power consumption, which includes logging high and low points with a time stamp.
    • Supports setting an optional enclosure Maximum Power Limit, which either alerts or takes actions, such as throttling server modules and/or preventing the power up of new server modules to keep the enclosure under the defined maximum power limit.
    • Monitors and automatically controls cooling fans based on actual ambient and internal temperature measurements.
    • Provides comprehensive enclosure inventory and status or error reporting.
  • Centralized configuration of the following:
    • The shared storage settings of the enclosure.
    • Mapping of add-in PCIe cards to the server modules.
    • The network and security settings of the enclosure.
    • Power redundancy and power ceiling settings.
      NOTE: Modifying the modular enclosure redundancy policy is recommended to be performed while the modular enclosure is powered off.
    • I/O module and iDRAC network settings.
    • First boot device on the server modules.
    • Checks I/O fabric consistency for the I/O module, PCIe slots, storage subsystem, and server modules and disables components if necessary to protect the system hardware.
    • User access security.

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