Home » Dell » Servers » Dell PowerEdge M1000e

Dell PowerEdge M1000e Support Question

Find answers below for this question about Dell PowerEdge M1000e.
Need a Dell PowerEdge M1000e manual? We have 32 online manuals for this item!

Dell Overview Questions Manuals Reviews Videos Research

Question posted by rayaodtof on February 17th, 2014

What Design Is The The Poweredge M1000e Midplane

The person who posted this question about this Dell product did not include a detailed explanation. Please use the "Request More Information" button to the right if more details would help you to answer this question.

I Know the Answer!

I have the same question
Request More Information

Current Answers

There are currently no answers that have been posted for this question.
Be the first to post an answer!

Remember that you can earn up to 1,100 points for every answer you submit. The better the quality of your answer, the better chance it has to be accepted.

Related Dell PowerEdge M1000e Manual Pages

Dell M8428-k Hardware Reference Manual - Page 13

...to create more domains. Management for the converged network switch can be inserted in a Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Server Enclosure. The switch ships with three licenses installed: • Fabric license • Enhanced...the temperature of the bays labeled B1, B2, C1, or C2. That decision is designed to 8 Gbps. The switch module is made by default. This technology provides the ability...

Technical Guide - Page 3

... Amps 33 5.7 Power-Up Sequence 33 5.8 Acoustics 33 6 Processors and Memory 35 7 Midplane...36 8 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM 39 9 I/O ...40 9.1 Overview 40 9.2 Quantities and Priorities 41 9.3 Supported Mezzanine Cards and Switches 44 9.4 I/O Module Installation 45 9.5 FlexAddress 45 10 Storage ...51 11 Video...52 12 Rack Information 53 PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 2

Technical Guide - Page 5

...Server Cooling Air Profile 31 I/O Module Inlet and IOM Locations 31 I/O Cooling Air Profile 32 Power Supply Inlet and Cooling Air Profile 32 Midplane 36 M1000e Midplane Front View 37 M1000e Midplane Rear View 38 M1000e...CMC Module Features 64 M1000e iKVM 65 Rear iKVM interface Panel 66 Front Keyboard/Video Ports 66 Enclosure After Unpacking 69 PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 4 ...

Technical Guide - Page 8

... midplane that provide external I /O bandwidth to support not only today's generation of 10Gb Ethernet, 20Gbps InfiniBand and 4Gbps Fibre Channel, but up to do more efficient with their server investment. 2.2 Detailed Information Virtually unlimited in scalability, the PowerEdge M1000e chassis provides ultimate flexibility in server processor and chipset architectures. It is designed...

Technical Guide - Page 9

PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 8 This provides high‐speed server module connectivity to two Chassis Management Controllers (CMC&#... modules. Dell • • • • • • • A high-speed passive midplane that connects the server modules in the front and power, I /O devices when those technologies become available. System Front Control panel w/ LCD...

Technical Guide - Page 10

...a different grid as compared to those in power, cooling, I/O, and management technologies. PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 9 The enclosure and its components spring from a revolutionary, ground-up design incorporating the latest advances in slots 4, 5, and 6. 1+1 2+1 3+1 4+1 5+1 ... System Information 3.1 Overview The Dell PowerEdge M1000e Modular Server Enclosure is a breakthrough in enterprise...

Technical Guide - Page 11

... other types of the enclosure. The chassis guide and retention features are possible. The chassis architecture is flexible enough that alternative module form factors are designed such that server, storage, or other form factors, including dual-width modules. PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 10

Technical Guide - Page 12

The mechanical design of the enclosure also contains two USB connections for half-height server modules side-by-side with full-height server modules. PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 11 The front of the M1000e has support structures for half-height server modules above or below double-width server modules, and for USB keyboard and mouse, a video connection and the...

Technical Guide - Page 18

... needs of similarly configured 1U servers • A similar acoustic profile as monitored by on‐board monitoring. This is individually managed by that are distributed evenly across the enclosure. PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 17 The system..., and workload being run. Together, these design innovations can fail without impacting system uptime or reliability.

Technical Guide - Page 27

...mount servers in a lower power envelope. The key areas of interest are power delivery and power management. Every aspect of efficiency has been tweaked and improved from previous designs-adding...operating temperature equates to the power supply components. Figure 21. Power efficiency in M1000e PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 26 See Section 15 for the power supply (exceeding 21 Watts ...

Technical Guide - Page 29

... the parallelism of multiple power supplies failing at the node or chassis level. The server modules, I/O Modules, Fans, and iKVM are powered solely by 12 Volt Standby power...driving fewer supplies to continue running. The midplane carries all with partial and less-efficient loading. Figure 23. Power Architecture PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 28 Typically this case is ...

Technical Guide - Page 30

... capping is set at the blade server level, so components like processer, memory can also set power policies on the other enterprise-level management tools. PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 29 I/O modules, on...blades will shut down processor, memory, and so on lower priority blade servers. Dell designed the system this number is generated, the iDRAC communicates the power budget inventory...

Technical Guide - Page 31

... with a high‐efficiency air-moving device designed explicitly for the M1000e supports a low‐impedance, high‐efficiency design philosophy. Dell Figure 24. The efficiency of their calculations to report the total power consumed by the server and also using iDRAC. They are hot-swappable 5.3 Heat Dissipation The cooling strategy for the PowerEdge M1000e chassis.

Technical Guide - Page 32

... of each module. The Server Modules, I /O Module Inlet and IOM Locations PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 31 As shown in the customer's required power‐to run the fan. I /O Modules, and Power Supplies are plenums both upstream of the midplane, between the midplane and the blades, and downstream of the midplane, between the midplane and the fans, to...

Technical Guide - Page 33

... is then drawn down through the I/O Modules in the figure above the server modules. Figure 28. Dell Figure 27. PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 32 I/O Cooling Air Profile The I /O Module inlet, as...power supplies receive ambient temperature air. This duct is exhausted from a duct located beneath the server modules, as seen in the rear of the system, use a bypass duct to draw ...

Technical Guide - Page 34

.... Selection and Installation. 5.7 Power-Up Sequence The following : • Server module level thermal monitoring by the iDRAC • I/O module thermal health monitors • Fan control and monitoring by 500ms.) 7. If all remaining PSUs. 5. Compared to choose the lowest fan speeds and PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 33 The first power supply provides a small amount...

Technical Guide - Page 37

...midplane's I /O reduction. Midplane As is requisite for fault-tolerant systems, the M1000e midplane is fully redundant, with active components. The midplane...M1000e Modular System. The time division multiplexed serial bus is completely passive, with no hidden stacking midplanes...fabric connectivity, and system management infrastructure. PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 36 I/O fabrics and ...

Technical Guide - Page 38

...PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 37 M1000e Midplane Front View The system is designed for receptacles on all midplane connectors and pins on all 3 axes. The midplane has been carefully designed to minimize the impact to the high reliability and uptime of the M1000e modular system. The midplane... provides close tolerance alignment between the server modules and their midplane connections.

Technical Guide - Page 39

PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 38 M1000e Midplane Rear View All M1000e midplane routing is fully isolated, supporting all chassis power, fabric, system management, and fault-tolerance requirements. Dell Figure 31.

Technical Guide - Page 42

External fabrics are designed to connect via the midplane to the associated I /O fabric integration encompasses networking, storage, and ...and future generations of the error. This technical advance uses in mezzanine cards on a server module. PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide 41 A future midplane upgrade may have the ability to minimize signal coupling. Dell • Cisco® ...