Introduction
The vision of Dell Technologies is to be the essential technology company from the edge, to the core, and to the cloud. Dell Technologies ensures modernization for today's applications and the emerging cloud-native world. Dell Networking is committed to disrupting the fundamental economics of the market with an open strategy that gives you the freedom of choice for networking operating systems and top-tier merchant silicon. The Dell Technologies strategy enables business transformations that maximize the benefits of collaborative software and standards-based hardware, including lowered costs, flexibility, freedom, and security. Dell Technologies provides further customer enablement through validated deployment guides that demonstrate these benefits while maintaining a high standard of quality, consistency, and support.
The Dell PowerEdge MX platform is a unified, high-performance data center infrastructure. It provides the agility, resiliency, and efficiency to optimize a wide variety of traditional and new, emerging data center workloads and applications. With its kinetic architecture and agile management, PowerEdge MX dynamically configures compute, storage, and fabric; increases team effectiveness; and accelerates operations. The responsive design delivers the innovation and longevity that customers need for their IT and digital business transformations.
As part of the PowerEdge MX platform, the Dell SmartFabric OS10 network operating system includes SmartFabric Services (SFS), a network automation and orchestration solution that is fully integrated with the MX platform.
Hardware
This section contains information about the hardware and options available in the Dell PowerEdge MX7000. The section is divided into two parts:
- The front of the MX7000 chassis, containing compute and storage sleds
- The back of the MX7000 chassis, containing networking, storage, and management components