Chapter 1: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX Platform Overview
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Dell EMC PowerEdge MX
Networking Architecture Guide
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Touch screen LCD panel equipped with Dell EMC PowerEdge iDRAC Quick Sync 2
The bottom of Figure 2 shows six hot-pluggable, redundant, 3,000-watt power supplies.
Above the power supplies eight slots are available. In the example below, the slots
contain:
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Four Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c sleds in slots one through four
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One Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840C sled in slots five and six
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Two Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s sleds in slots seven and eight
Figure 2.
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000
– front
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c is a two-socket, full-height, single-width compute sled
that offers impressive performance and scalability. It is ideal for dense virtualization
environments and can serve as a foundation for collaborative workloads. The MX7000
chassis supports up to eight MX740c sleds.
Key features of the MX740c include:
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Single-width slot design
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Two CPU sockets
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24 DIMM slots of DDR4 memory
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Boot options include BOSS-S1 or Internal Dual SD Modules (IDSDM)
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Up to six SAS/SATA SSD/HDD and NVMe PCIe SSDs
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Two PCIe mezzanine card slots for connecting to network Fabric A and B
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One PCIe mini-mezzanine card slots for connecting to storage Fabric C
Dell EMC
PowerEdge
MX740c compute
sled
