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Outstanding efficiency and performance per watt
Enhance data center efficiency with the shared power, cooling, networking and management infrastructure of the PowerEdge™ M1000e Blade Enclosure.
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A new era for blade servers
Help reduce the cost and complexity of managing blade resources with the PowerEdge M1000e blade enclosure.
Powerful management tools
Take charge of your blade environment with the integrated management tools that help make the M1000e one of the most effective blade-server products in the industry.
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Flexible remote management
Tailor your PowerEdge blade management with the Chassis Management Controller to best suit your needs over your entire blade infrastructure, in a single data center or around the world.
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Outstanding efficiency
Help increase capacity, lower operating costs and deliver better performance per watt with the PowerEdge M1000e.
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Take charge of your blade environment with the integrated management tools that help make the M1000e one of the most effective blade-server products in the industry.
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Flexible remote management
Tailor your PowerEdge blade management with the Chassis Management Controller to best suit your needs over your entire blade infrastructure, in a single data center or around the world.
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Outstanding efficiency
Help increase capacity, lower operating costs and deliver better performance per watt with the PowerEdge M1000e.
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Grow with ease
Expand your data center with a flexible and scalable system designed to support future generations of blade technologies.
Extensive I/O with flexible scalability
Meet your growing data center performance demands with the advanced I/O functionality and flexible scalability of the PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure.
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Simplified product integration
Limit your downtime with Dell FlexAddress, which can greatly streamline the process of integrating new servers and other components into the enclosure.
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Meet your growing data center performance demands with the advanced I/O functionality and flexible scalability of the PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure.
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Simplified product integration
Limit your downtime with Dell FlexAddress, which can greatly streamline the process of integrating new servers and other components into the enclosure.
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The new-generation PowerEdge experience
Make IT the engine for your business success. The newest generation PowerEdge family is engineered with the right combination of features and performance scalability to handle tough workloads for both large and small data center environments.
Improve operational efficiency with enhanced systems management
Streamline operations and boost productivity to get the most out of every dollar spent. Manage your Dell PowerEdge servers in complex IT environments by automating the most essential server lifecycle management tasks: deploy, update, monitor and maintain. For more information, visit dell.com/openmanage.
Global Services and Support
Dell Services can help reduce IT complexity, lower costs and eliminate inefficiencies by making IT and business solutions work harder for you. The Dell Services team takes a holistic view of your needs and designs solutions for your environment and business objectives while using established delivery methods, local talent and in-depth domain knowledge to help you lower your total cost of ownership.
Storage
- External Storage Options:
For information about Dell external storage options, visit Dell.com/Storage.
Enclosure I/O Modules
- Up to six total I/O modules for three fully redundant fabrics, featuring Ethernet FlexIO technology providing on-demand stacking and uplink scalability. Dell’s FlexIO technology delivers a level of I/O flexibility, bandwidth,investment protection, and capabilities unrivaled in the blade server market.
FlexIO Technologies include:
Completely passive, highly available midplane that can deliver greater than 8.4Tbps of total I/O bandwidth
Support for up to two ports of up to 56Gbps from each I/O Mezzanine card on the blade server
PowerConnect™ M8428-k
Converged 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) switch with 600 ns low-latency, wire-speed, cut-through 10GbE performance, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switching, and low-latency 8 Gb Fibre Channel switching and connectivity.
8 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and DCB support with 4 Fibre Channel ports supporting 2, 4, and 8 Gbps full duplex
PowerConnect™ M8024-k 10Gb Ethernet Switch
Includes up to 8 external LAN ports using four fixed SFP+ ports and one FlexIO modular bay supporting 4 additional SFP+, 10GBASE-T, or CX-4 ports for diverse connectivity.
PowerConnect™ M6220 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Includes 4 x fixed copper 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet uplinks standard plus 2 of the following optional modules:
48Gb (full duplex) Stacking module
2 x 10Gb Optical (XFP-SR/LR) uplinks
2 x 10Gb copper CX4 uplinks
PowerConnect™ M6348 Gigabit Ethernet Blade Switch
Includes 16 external fixed 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet RJ-45 ports to support 32 internal server GbE connections supplied by quad-port Gigabit Ethernet mezzanine cards (Broadcom® 5709 or Intel® ET 82572) plus up to 4 10Gb uplink ports:
2x 10Gb Optical SFP+ (SR/LR) and/or SFP+ DAC
2x 10Gb Copper CX4 or 32Gb stacking for M6348
Dell™ 10Gb Gigabit Ethernet Pass-Through -k Module
Supports 16 x 10Gb copper RJ45 connections
Dell™ 10Gb Gigabit Ethernet Pass-Through Module
Supports 16 x 10/100/1000Mb copper RJ45 connections
Cisco® Catalyst® Blade Switch M 3032
Includes 4 x fixed copper 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet uplinks standard plus 2 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 plus 2 optional module bays, each can support either 2 x 1Gb copper or optical SFPs
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 2 x X2 modules for up to a total of two 10Gb CX4 or SR/LRM uplinks
Brocade® M5424 8Gb Fibre Channel Switch
Includes 8 external SAN ports
Dell™ 8 or 4 Gb Fibre Channel SAN Module NPIV Port Aggregator
Emulex® 8 or 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Pass-Through Module
Mellanox® M2401G Dual Data Rate (DDR) InfiniBand Switch
8 copper or Optical external 4x Double Data Rate (DDR 20Gb) Infiniband ports
Mellanox® M3601Q Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand Switch
16 copper or Optical external 4x Quad Data Rate (QDR 40Gb) Infiniband ports
Power
- Up to six 2700W hot-plug power supplies.
Based on Dell’s Energy Smart technologies, the M1000e power supplies deliver greater levels of efficiency, even at low levels of utilization.
Supported power supply configurations include:
3+3 and 2+2 (AC redundancy)
3+1, 4+2, and 5+1 (power supply redundancy)
2+0 and 3+0 (non-redundant mode)
The M1000e chassis supports new Dynamic Power Supply Engagement functionality, which (if enabled) puts lightly loaded power supplies into standby mode, driving up the utilization and the efficiency of the active supplies.
Dell supports either 110–120V or 208–240V AC power supply input and supports a wide range of power distribution options. Dell recommends 208–240V AC for all production environments.
Chassis
- Form Factor: 10U modular enclosure holds up to sixteen half-height blade servers
44.0cm(17.3”)H x 44.7cm(17.6”)W x 75.4cm(29.7”)D
Weight:
Empty Chassis only – 98lbs (44.5kg)
Chassis w/ all rear modules (IOMs, PSUs, CMCs, KVM) - 176lbs (79.8kg)
Max Fully loaded w/ blades and rear modules - 394lbs (178.7kg)
Cooling Fans:
M1000e Chassis comes standard with 9 hot pluggable, redundant fan modules
Based on Energy Smart Technologies, M1000e fans are a breakthrough in power and cooling efficiency.
The fans deliver low power consumption, but also use next generation “low flow” technology to ensure the
lowest possible amount of fresh air is consumed to cool the enclosure
Input Devices:
Front Control Panel with interactive Graphical LCD
Supports initial configuration wizard
Local server blade, enclosure, and module information and troubleshooting
Two USB Keyboard/Mouse connections and one Video connection (requires the optional Avocent iKVM switch
to enable these ports) for local front “crash cart” console connections that can be switched between blades
Management
- System Management
Dell OpenManageTM System Management
Integration into 3rd party management solutions via Dell’s Preferred Partner Program
Remote Management
1 (standard) or optional 2nd (redundant) Chassis Management Controller(s) (CMC) which provide:
Single secure interface for inventory, configuration, monitoring, and alerting for the chassis and all components
Multi-chassis management capability allows up to 9 chassis to be managed from a single, embedded, agentless interface.
Real time power/thermal monitoring and management
Real time system AC power consumption with reset-able peak and minimum values
System level power limiting and slot based power prioritization
Manages dynamic power engagement functionality
Manages fan speed control
Secure web (SSL) and CLI (Telnet/SSH) interfaces
Supports multiple levels of user roles and permissions, including integration into Microsoft Active Directory Services
2 x 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet ports + 1 serial port
Provides single point of connection from management network to iDRAC on each of the blades and the management interfaces on the integrated I/O Modules
2nd Ethernet port supports daisy chaining of CMCs for improved cable management
Optional Integrated Avocent® keyboard, video and mouse (iKVM) switch
Enables USB and video port on front control panel
iKVM module has 2 x USB, video, and Analog Console Interface (ACI) ports
ARI port allows connectivity and seamless tiering via cat5 cables to Dell or Avocent KVM switches with Analog Rack Interface (ARI) ports.
Chassis Management Controller Version 4.0
Dell Global Services include a wide, customizable range of choices to simplify the assessment, design, implementation, management and maintenance of your IT environment, and to help you transition from platform to platform.
Depending on your current business requirements and the level of service you want, we can provide you with factory, on-site, remote, modular and specialized services that fit your needs and budget. We'll help you with a little or a lot — your choice — and provide you with access to our global resources such as our Global Command Centers.
Dell IT Consulting Services
Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services utilize skilled solution architects, innovative tools, automated analysis and our own intellectual property to give customers rapid insight into the root causes of unnecessary complexity. We seek better answers than traditional service models, based on our belief that solving problems should not need armies of people. Our strategy is to help customers quickly identify high-impact, short-duration projects that deliver returns on investment (ROI) and free up resources to obtain competitive advantage. The results are practical, action-oriented plans with specific, predictable, measurable outcomes. From Data Center Optimization to Server Virtualization to Systems Management, our consulting services help you build a more efficient enterprise.
Dell Managed Services
Dell Managed Services are a modular set of lifecycle services designed to help customers automate and centrally configure, deploy and manage their day-to-day data center operations. These services extend a customer's existing on-premise IT infrastructure with off-premise cloud services designed to better address challenges with mobility, highly distributed organizations, security, compliance, business continuity and disaster preparedness.
Deploy: Our factory, remote and on-site installation services for servers make efficient use of your employees' time by helping to speed up activities, such as configuration, customization and deployment, enabling delivery of systems that are ready to work right out of the box.
Operate: Dell can help optimize your data center operations, including storage, backup and virtual environments by focusing on remote monitoring, reporting and alerts, along with full remote management for storage and backup environments, to free up IT resources.
Protect: Dell Data Center Backup Management services are available to assist you with reporting to help refine service-level agreement (SLA) requirements, to provide monitoring to improve process efficiency or for the full management of your backup environment.
Recovery and Recycling: Dell Asset Recovery and Recycling Services help you recover and dispose off owned or leased computer equipment, in a manner that follows EPA guidelines.
Dell ProSupport
Dell ProSupport™ is a suite of support services that enable you to build the solution that's right for your organization. Choose support models based on how you use technology and where you want to allocate resources. From the desktop to the data center, address everyday IT challenges, such as unplanned downtime, mission critical needs, data and asset protection, support planning, resource allocation, software application management and more. From basic support to remote support services, optimize your IT resources by prescribing the right support model.
Depending on your current business requirements and the level of service you want, we can provide you with factory, on-site, remote, modular and specialized services that fit your needs and budget. We'll help you with a little or a lot — your choice — and provide you with access to our global resources such as our Global Command Centers.
Dell IT Consulting Services
Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services utilize skilled solution architects, innovative tools, automated analysis and our own intellectual property to give customers rapid insight into the root causes of unnecessary complexity. We seek better answers than traditional service models, based on our belief that solving problems should not need armies of people. Our strategy is to help customers quickly identify high-impact, short-duration projects that deliver returns on investment (ROI) and free up resources to obtain competitive advantage. The results are practical, action-oriented plans with specific, predictable, measurable outcomes. From Data Center Optimization to Server Virtualization to Systems Management, our consulting services help you build a more efficient enterprise.
Dell Managed Services
Dell Managed Services are a modular set of lifecycle services designed to help customers automate and centrally configure, deploy and manage their day-to-day data center operations. These services extend a customer's existing on-premise IT infrastructure with off-premise cloud services designed to better address challenges with mobility, highly distributed organizations, security, compliance, business continuity and disaster preparedness.
Deploy: Our factory, remote and on-site installation services for servers make efficient use of your employees' time by helping to speed up activities, such as configuration, customization and deployment, enabling delivery of systems that are ready to work right out of the box.
Operate: Dell can help optimize your data center operations, including storage, backup and virtual environments by focusing on remote monitoring, reporting and alerts, along with full remote management for storage and backup environments, to free up IT resources.
Protect: Dell Data Center Backup Management services are available to assist you with reporting to help refine service-level agreement (SLA) requirements, to provide monitoring to improve process efficiency or for the full management of your backup environment.
Recovery and Recycling: Dell Asset Recovery and Recycling Services help you recover and dispose off owned or leased computer equipment, in a manner that follows EPA guidelines.
Dell ProSupport
Dell ProSupport™ is a suite of support services that enable you to build the solution that's right for your organization. Choose support models based on how you use technology and where you want to allocate resources. From the desktop to the data center, address everyday IT challenges, such as unplanned downtime, mission critical needs, data and asset protection, support planning, resource allocation, software application management and more. From basic support to remote support services, optimize your IT resources by prescribing the right support model.
Flexibility Refedined
Only Dell M-Series provides complete, snap-in FlexIO scalability down to the switch interconnects. FlexIO technology is the foundation of the M1000e I/O subsystem that has the flexibility you need to design today’s solution and the scalability you require to add or change data center options to meet future demands.
 |  | EthernetThe M-Series enclosure supports a broad set of modular Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10GbE and Enhanced Ethernet blade switches. Dell's fully-modular PowerConnect switches provide great flexibility, with choices of 1Gb to 10Gb speeds, flexible modular uplinks of varying media types, and many other valuable features. The PowerConnect portfolio offers a selection of switches that can meet even the most extreme networking demands. For Cisco Catalyst customers, Dell provides models that span from simple, no frills GbE to more capable models with stacking or even 10GbE uplinks. The more advanced switches feature Cisco's Virtual Blade Switch functionality, enabling you to interconnect up to nine switches to create a single logical switch, thereby simplifying data center management. |
Fibre ChannelBrocade 8Gb Fibre Channel Switches provide powerful connectivity to Fibre Channel SANs, such as those offered by Dell/EMC. The M5424 includes 12-port and 24-port configurations as well as a performance pack for enhanced features and management. For heterogeneous integration into any Fibre Channel network, the Brocade M5424 Fibre Channel switch can even be enabled in Access Gateway mode. Based on N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) functionality, Access Gateway mode delivers the cable aggregation benefits and cost savings offered by Dell’s M-Series blade solutions without separate management or configuration requirements. | |
| InfiniBandFor high-performance computing (HPC) or other environments requiring the highest bandwidth and lowest latency available, the M-Series offers InfiniBand switches and adapter cards. Dell offers chassis-integrated Quad Data Rate (QDR) and Full Data Rate (FDR) InfiniBand switches from Mellanox, with speeds of up to 56Gbps. Each switch features 16 internal ports and eight external ports to ensure the availability and redundancy needed for the most demanding applications. |
FlexIO for M-Series: Delivering the speed you need, when you need it
 | The Dell OpenManage™ systems management portfolio, including Dell PowerEdge™ server embedded management feature integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller, helps IT Administrators efficiently manage Dell servers in physical, virtual, local and remote environments, operating in-band or out-of-band, with or without a systems management software agent. Irrespective of the operating system or hypervisor you deploy, iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller automates the most essential and frequently performed server management tasks to help your IT resources become more productive and your IT environment more cost effective and well maintained. Dell OpenManage also integrates and connects to leading 3rd party systems management solutions you may already own, so you can maintain your single point of control and capitalize on your existing investment. |
OEM-Ready Version Available
OEM ready for custom branding and XL program for enhanced stability and lifecycle predictability on select servers with ProSupport for OEM designed for OEM needs.
Solutions and Systems Management
Storage Options |
| With Dell Compellent™, Dell EqualLogic™ and Dell PowerVault™, we have created a comprehensive and innovative portfolio of storage products, all of which are easy to deploy, manage and grow. Whether you use network attached storage (NAS), direct attached storage (DAS), internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel (FC), Dell has a product that can meet your business needs and reduce the cost and complexity of storage. |
 | | The Value of Dell Storage: Dell’s open, standards-based solutions let customers of all sizes integrate new technologies without sacrificing performance or their existing IT investments.
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| Direct-Attached Storage: The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD storage family offers easy and economical expansion for Dell PowerEdge™ servers enabling high availability and scalability for demanding business applications. |
| Disk-to-Disk Backup Due to expanding volumes of data that must be backed up and protected along with shrinking backup windows, many IT departments have moved to or added disk-based backups. |
| Network-Attached Storage Network attached storage (NAS) is a specialized storage server with its own IP address that is made available to multiple clients and servers on a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN).
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| Object-Based Storage The Dell DX Object Storage Platform is designed to intelligently access, store, protect and distribute fixed digital content.
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 | | Storage Area Network A storage area network (SAN) is a network of shared storage devices, such as disk storage arrays and tape automation
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| Tape Backup Considered the first and last line of defense against data loss, tape and removable disks can be used for long-term data storage and backup. |
| Unified Storage Unified Storage is a term that describes the ability to manage both file- and block-level data. |
