One Dell Way Round Rock, Texas 78682 www.dell.com Dell PowerEdge M1000e Modular Enclosure Architecture January 2008 By John Loffink, E
AlaneisdefinedasasinglefabricdatatransportpathbetweenI/Oenddevices.Inmodernhighspeedserialinterfaceseachlaneiscomprisedof
haveadualGELOMconfiguration,thesystemmidplaneisdesignedtoallowfuturesupportforuptoquadGELOMsintheHalf‐Heightformfactor.Opt
TypicalFabricConfigurationsFabricA FabricB FabricCLowCostComputeClusterNode2x1GELOM Empty EmptyEthernet/SANserverorHACluster
Figure5M600DualSocketModularServerwithIntelProcessorsinstallation,harddrives,fabriccardsandremovableHardDrivecage.Photoso
Figure6M605DualSocketModularServerwithAMDProcessorsFigure7HalfHeightModularServerFrontPanelViewThereareguidepinsonbot
Figure8ModularServerRemovalServer Module Summary Table4summarizesthefeaturesforthefirsttwoservermodulesshippingforthePowerEdge
ServerModule M600 M605FabricExpansion2x8lanePCIemezzaninedaughtercards1. DualportGEw/TOE2. DualPortFC4(Emulex&Qlogic)3.
PowerEdge M1000e Midplane and I/O PowerEdge M1000e Front View ServermodulesareaccessiblefromthefrontofthePowerEdgeM1000eenclosure.Atth
Feature ParameterChassisSize 10UhighrackmountBladesperChassis 16HalfHeight,8FullHeightTotalBladesina42URack 64HalfHeight,
multiplexedserialbusisfullyredundant,withhealthmonitoring,separatelinksperCMCanderrorcheckingacrossalldata.Figure10PowerEdge
Contents Key Benefits 2 Summary 2 Index of Figures 3 Index of Tables 3 Acronyms and Definitions 4 Background 7 Server Modules 7 PowerEdge M1000e M
Figure11PowerEdgeM1000eMidplaneRearViewWhileyoumightthinkthatmultiplemidplanesarebetterfortheproduct,therereallyisnosyste
OneimportantnewcapabilityinthePowerEdgeM1000eisfull10/100/1000MEthernetsupportwhenusingEthernetpassthroughmodules.Inthepast,cu
comparativebandwidthbetweencurrentandforthcomingfabrics.SymbolRateisdefinedasthemaximumfabricspeedwithalldataencodedasperits
GEfabricsusesinglelanesperlinkover1000BASE‐KX.Initially10GEistobesupportedthrough10GBASE‐KX4,whichlikeInifiniBandusesfourlane
SAN/IPCconfigurationisshownas2lanesofGE,2lanesofFC8,and2lanesofQDRInfiniBand,andstillusesonly35%ofPowerEdgeM1000epotentia
differencebetweenthesetwotypesofIOMs.Figure17showstheDellGigabitEthernetPassthroughModule.Figure15PowerEdgeM1000eRearView
External Fabric ConnectionsM1000e MidplanePassthrough ModuleSwitch ModuleSwitchPHYPHYPHYPHYPHY.server2data..server1data..server4data..server3data..s
TheinitialoptionsforI/OModulesareoutlinedinTable7,Table8andTable9.DellplansfutureI/OModulereleasessupportingalltechnologyup
I/OModule/FeaturesCiscoSFSM7000InfiniBandSwitch*Internalports16Externalports8CopperorOpticalportsSpeed4xDDRManageabilityFabri
Power Delivery InsupportofthePowerEdgeM1000e,DellintroducesaSinglePhase60AmpPDUandaThreePhase30AmpPDU.Becausethreephase30A
Index of Figures Figure1PossibleServerModuleSizes,FrontPanelView... 8 Fig
Figure19PowerEdgeM1000eSinglePhasePDUPowerSystemPSU-1 2360WPSU-6 2360WPSU-5 2360WPSU-4 2360WPSU-3 2360WPSU-2 2360WThree Phase 30 Amp PDU-1
Figure21PowerEdgeM1000e2360WattPowerSupplyPowerefficiencyinthePowerEdgeM1000edoesnotstopwiththepowersupply.Everyaspectofe
Page32Figure22PowerRedundancyModes
Figure23PowerArchitecturePower Management Powerisnolongerjustaboutpowerdelivery,itisalsoaboutpowermanagement.ThePowerEdgeM100
availability,whichcouldresultinaspontaneousactivationofpowersupplyovercurrentprotectionwithoutthesefeatures.Thesystemadministrato
intothesystemwithindependentairflowpaths.Thisisolatesthesecomponentsfrompre‐heatedair,reducingtherequiredairflowconsumptionsofe
TheServerModulesarecooledwithtraditionalfront‐to‐backcooling.AsshowninFigure25,thefrontofthesystemisdominatedbyinletareafor
FansareN+1redundant,meaningthatanysinglefancanfailwithoutimpactingsystemuptimeorreliability.Intheeventofafanfailure,system
switchedandoneunswitched.AllsystemmanagementEthernetisroutedfor100Mbpssignaling.EverymodulehasamanagementnetworklinktoeachCMC
TheCMCprovidessecureremotemanagementaccesstothechassisandinstalledmodules.Itmanagesorfacilitatesthemanagementofthefollowing:•
Page4Table7EthernetI/OModuleOptions... 27
emulationofUSBDVD‐R/W,USBCD‐R/W,USBFlashDrive,USBISOimageandUSBFloppyoveranIPinterface.ConnectiontovKVMandvMediaisthrough
Figure32iKVMFrontPanelControl Panel and LCD Thecontrolpanelcontainsthelocaluserinterface.Functionsincludechassisleveldiagnostic
Page42Figure34PowerEdgeM1000eLCDPanelDuringUsageTheChassisLCDshowschassisinformation,chassisstatusandfaults,majorservermodule
GB‐GigabyteGbps–GigabitspersecondGE–GigabitEthernetGen1–Generation1Gen2–Generation2GPIO–GeneralPurposeI/OGUI–GraphicalUs
PCIe–PCIExpress,orPeripheralComponentInterconnectExpressPDU–PowerDistributionUnitPMBus–PowerManagementBusQDR–QuadDataRateQOS
Background ITISALLABOUTEFFICIENCY.ThenewPowerEdgeM1000eisdesignedtohelpyoubemoreefficientwithyourtime,yourpowerandcooling,yo
Figure1PossibleServerModuleSizes,FrontPanelViewFigure2ExampleServerModuleConfigurationsServer Processors ThefirstgenerationofH
Figure3DualSocketModularServerArchitectureandChipKill/SDDCaresupportedwithbothAMDandIntelbaseddesigns.Memorymirroringissuppor
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