PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure

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.

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.

Outstanding efficiency
Help increase capacity, lower operating costs and deliver better performance per watt with the PowerEdge™ M1000e.

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 input/output (I/O) functionality and flexible scalability of the PowerEdge™ M1000e Blade Enclosure.

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.

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:
Dell/EMC fibre channel and/or iSCSI external storage, including Dell/EMC AX150, AX150i, CX300, CX3-10c,
CX3-20, CX3-40, and CX3-80, PowerVault MD3000i
Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage, including PS6000E, PS6500E, PS6000X, PS6000XV, PS6000S, PS4000E, PS4000X, & PS4000XV arrays

Enclosure I/O Modules

Up to six total I/O modules for three redundant fabrics, featuring Ethernet FlexIO Switches providing
on demand stacking and uplink scalability.

PowerConnect™ M6220 Ethernet Switch
Includes 4 x fixed copper 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet uplinks 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

Standard Features include
Layer 3 routing (OSPF, RIP, VRRP)
IPv6 support
Layer 2/3 QoS
Access Control Lists

PowerConnect™ M8024 10Gb Ethernet Switch
24 auto-sensing 1/10Gb Ethernet switching ports available
16 internal server 1/10Gigabit Ethernet ports
Up-to 8 external 10GbE ports via up-to 2 selectable uplinks modules

Ideal for I/O intensive environments
Built upon FlexIO architecture

Cisco^® Catalyst Blade Switch M 3032
Includes 4 x fixed copper 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet uplinks plus 2 optional module bays,
each can support either 2 x 1Gb copper or optical SFPs
Standard features include:
L2 switching
Base L3 routing (static routes, RIP)
Access Control Lists
L2/3 QoS

Cisco^® Catalyst Blade Switch M 3130G
Includes 4 x fixed copper 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet uplinks and Cisco Virtual Blade Switch technology standard plus 2 optional module bays, each can support either 2 x 1Gb copper or optical SFPs
Standard Features include
L2 switching
Base L3 routing (static routes, RIP)
Access Control Lists
L2/3 QoS
Virtual Blade Switch Technology provides a high bandwidth interconnect between up to 8 CBS 3130 switches enabling them to be configured and managed as 1 logical switch. This radically simplifies management, allows server-server traffic to stay within the VBS domain vs. congesting the core network, and can help significantly consolidate external cabling.
Optional software license key upgrades to IP Services (Advanced L3 protocol support)
and Advanced IP Services (IPv6)

Cisco^® Catalyst Blade Switch M 3130X
Includes 4 x fixed copper 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet uplinks, Cisco Virtual Blade Switch technology standard,
and support for 2 x X2 modules for up to a total of two 10G CX4 or SR/LRM uplinks
Standard Features include
L2 switching
Base L3 routing (static routes, RIP)
Access Control Lists
L2/3 QoS
Virtual Blade Switch Technology provides a high bandwidth interconnect between up to 8 CBS 3130 switches enabling them to be configured and managed as 1 logical switch. This radically simplifies management, allows server-server traffic to stay within the VBS domain vs. congesting the core network, and can help significantly consolidate external cabling.
Optional software license key upgrades to IP Services (Advanced L3 protocol support)
and Advanced IP Services (IPv6)

Dell Ethernet Pass-Through Module
Supports 16 x 10/100/1000Mb copper RJ45 connections
Only Ethernet Pass-through module on the market that supports full range of 10/100/1000Mb operation
Emulex^® 8 or 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Pass-Through Module

Brocade^® M5424 8Gb Fibre Channel Switch
Auto-Negotiating Full Fabric Fibre Channel or Access Gateway
Non-blocking and non-oversubscribed platform with an aggregate bandwidth of 128 Gbit/sec end-to-end
Up to 24 ports universal ports (E_Port, F_Port, and N_Port)

Brocade^® M4424 SAN I/O Module
Access Gateway Mode or FC Switch
Access Gateway Mode enables NPIV functionality on external ports which delivers enhanced fabric interoperability, simplified set up, and doesn’t consume an FC domain

12 or 24 port versions with 4 or 8 x FC 1/2/4Gb SFPs respectively

4Gb Fibre Channel Pass-Through Module
16 x FC 1/2/4Gb SFP ports

Brocade Switch M5424
Brocade^® M5424 Lead-Free Switch
PowerConnect™ B-Series M8428-k

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)
2+1, 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

1 (standard) or optional 2nd (redundant) Chassis Management Controller(s) (CMC) that provide:
Single secure interface for inventory, configuration, monitoring, and alerting for the chassis and all components
Multi-chassis management capability allows up to nine chassis and 288 servers to be managed from a single, embedded, agent-less interface
Enables automated and embedded one-to-many blade BIOS and firmware updates, independent of the OS through iDRAC
Allows one-to-many blade server BIOS capture and replication
Real-Time Power/Thermal Monitoring and Management
Real-Time System AC Power Consumption with resettable peak and minimum values
System-level power limiting and slot-based power prioritization
Manages Dynamic Power Engagement functionality that can help to lower overall system power consumption by ensuring power supplies run at their optimal efficiency points
Manages fan speed control using Dell’s enhanced efficiency technologies to ensure fans are delivering optimal cooling while minimizing power consumption and airflow
Secure Web (SSL) and Command Line (Telnet/SSH) interfaces
Supports multiple levels of user roles and permissions, including integration into Microsoft® Active Directory® Services and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) services for authentication
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 keyboard/mouse and video port on front control panel

Dell OpenManage™ Systems Management
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator—monitoring agents and 1:1 management utilities
Dell OpenManage Essentials—discover, inventory, monitor, and update M1000e chassis and blades
Integration with third-party management solutions through Dell’s Certified Partner Program
Remote Management

Regulatory

Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page
Dell and the Environment

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.

Ethernet

The M-Series enclosure supports a broad set of modular gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10GbE and Enhanced Ethernet blade switches.

Dell's fully modular PowerConnect™ and Dell Force10™ 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 and Dell Force10 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 Channel

Brocade 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.

InfiniBand

For 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 fourteen data rate (FDR) InfiniBand switches from Mellanox, with speeds of up to 56Gbps. Each switch features 16 internal ports and 8 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.

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 of 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.

Dell OpenManage Systems Management portfolio

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 third-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

Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions
You face an expanding set of challenges for provisioning, managing and supporting end-user computing across your enterprise. Your IT team is not growing, but support requirements are more complex as you plan how best to migrate and update client systems and secure new “smart” mobile devices.

With Dell’s Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) you can create a centralized end-user computing environment that streamlines desktop management and reduces maintenance burden on your IT staff. Now you can focus on important projects to improve IT services. Dell DVS solutions are completely integrated and tested solutions that are powered by advanced Dell PowerEdge rack and blade servers.

Dell’s purpose built DVS solutions combine the performance, memory capacity and embedded hypervisor options in Dell PowerEdge servers with desktop virtualization software in optimized configurations. DVS solutions simplify deployments and accelerate your time to value. Dell DVS solutions deliver:

Simplified management: Centralized desktop management so you can support a wider range of end-user devices without incurring additional cost or complexity
Streamlined operations: Decoupling the operating system, applications and user data from devices reduces complexity and streamlines desktop maintenance and updates
Secure IP and data: Intellectual property and business data is secured and centralized reducing your vulnerabilities for data loss and unauthorized access to your network
Support for mobility: Provide secure access for smartphones and personal devices across your organization and externally to your contractors and partners

Dell DVS solutions are informed by more than 50,000 hours of testing and validated by implementations in organizations like yours so you can deploy with confidence.

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.

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).

Object-Based Storage
The Dell DX Object Storage Platform is designed to intelligently access, store, protect and distribute fixed digital content.

Storage Area Network
A storage area network (SAN) is a network of shared storage devices, such as disk storage arrays and tape automation

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.