Overview
The following figure shows the front view of the PowerEdge MX7000 chassis. The left side of the chassis can have one of three control panel options:
- LED status light panel
- Touch screen LCD panel
- Touch screen LCD panel equipped with Dell EMC PowerEdge iDRAC Quick Sync 2
The bottom of the figure shows six hot-pluggable, redundant, 3,000-watt power supplies. Above the power supplies are eight single-width slots that support compute and storage sleds. In the example below, the slots contain:
- Four Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c, MX750c, and MX760c sleds in slots one through four
- One Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840C sled in slots five and six
- Two Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s sleds in slots seven and eight
The PowerEdge MX740c and MX750c are two-socket, full-height, single-width compute sleds that offer impressive performance and scalability. The MX740c and MX750c are ideal for dense virtualization environments and can serve as a foundation for collaborative workloads. The MX7000 chassis supports up to eight MX740c and MX750c sleds, or both.
Key features include:
- Single-width slot design
- Two CPU sockets
- 24 or 32 DIMM slots of DDR4 memory (MX740c and MX750c)
- Boot options include BOSS-S1 or Internal Dual SD Modules (IDSDM)
- Up to six SAS/SATA SSD/HDD and NVMe PCIe SSDs
- Two PCIe mezzanine card slots for connecting to network Fabric A and B
- One PCIe mini-mezzanine card slot for connecting to storage Fabric C
- iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller
Dell PowerEdge MX760c compute sled
The Dell PowerEdge MX760c is a two-socket, full-height, single-width compute sled that offers impressive performance and scalability. The MX760c is ideal for dense virtualization environments and can serve as a foundation for collaborative workloads. Businesses can install up to eight MX760c sleds in a single MX7000 chassis, which can be combined with compute sleds from different generations.
Key features of the PowerEdge MX760c include:
- Single width slot design
- Single or dual CPU (up to 56 cores per processor/socket with four x UPI @ 24 GT/s)
- 32x Dimm slots DDR5 with eight memory channels
- 8x E3.S NVMe (Gen5 x4) or 6 x 2.5" SAS/SATA SSDs or 6 x NVMe (Gen4) SSDs
- BOSS-N1 HW-RAID for boot, (2 x M.2 NVMe Internal)
- H965i Performance RAID, SAS/SATA or NVMe RAID
- iDRAC9 with lifecycle controller
- Dual Port Mezz 100 GbE on fabrics A/B
- Dual Port and Quad Port Mezz 25 GbE on fabrics A/B
- Dual Port FC32G on fabric C
PowerEdge MX840c compute sled
The PowerEdge MX840c is a powerful four-socket, full-height, double-width server that features dense compute, exceptionally large memory capacity, and a highly expandable storage subsystem. It is the ultimate scale-up server that excels at running a wide range of database applications, substantial virtualization, and software-defined storage environments. The MX7000 chassis supports up to four MX840c compute sleds.
Key features of the MX840c include:
- Dual-width slot design
- Four CPU sockets
- 48 DIMM slots of DDR4 memory
- Boot options include BOSS-S1 or IDSDM
- Up to eight SAS/SATA SSD/HDD and NVMe PCIe SSDs
- Four PCIe mezzanine card slots for connecting to network Fabric A and B
- Two PCIe mini-mezzanine card slots for connecting to storage Fabric C
- iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller
PowerEdge MX5016s storage sled
The PowerEdge MX5016s storage sled delivers scale-out, direct attached storage within the PowerEdge MX architecture. The MX5016s provides customizable 12-GB/s direct-attached SAS storage with up to 16 SAS HDDs/SSDs. The MX740c, MX750c, and the MX840c compute sleds can share drives with the MX5016s using the dedicated PowerEdge MX5000s SAS switch. Internal server drives may be combined with up to seven MX5016s sleds on one chassis for extensive scalability. The MX7000 chassis supports up to seven MX5016s storage sleds.