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Design Guide—VMware IaaS on PowerEdge MX Servers and PowerMax Storage
Ready Stack Design
Introduction Compute design Network design Storage design Management design

Compute design

  • This Ready Stack was designed with two compute sleds: PowerEdge MX740c and PowerEdge MX840c.

    Table 8.           Compute sled configurations

    Component/feature

    MX740c compute sled

    MX840c compute sled

    Form factor

    Single width, 2 sockets

    Double width, 4 sockets

    Processors

    1 or 2 x 28-core Skylake Intel Xeon Scalable processors

    2 or 4 x 28-core Skylake Intel Xeon Scalable processors

    I/O card for fabrics

    1 or 2 x dual-port 25Gb QLogic FastLinQ QL41262HMCU-DE CNAs

    1 or 2 x dual-port 25 Gb QLogic FastLinQ QL41262HMCU-DE CNAs

    Disk

    Up to 6 x 2.5-in. SAS/SATA (HD/SDD) or NVMe SSDs

    Up to 8 x 2.5-in. SAS/SATA (HD/SDD) or NVMe SSDs

    NVMe

    Optional support for up to 6 Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSDs

    Optional support for up to 8 Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSDs

    Boot device

    Dell EMC BOSS (2 X M.2 SDDs)

    or Dell EMC Internal Dual SD Module (IDSDM)

    Dell EMC BOSS (2 X M.2 SDDs)

    or Del EMC Internal Dual SD Module (IDSDM)

    OOB server management

    Dell EMC iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller

    Dell EMC iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller

    Hypervisor

    VMware ESXi 6.7

    VMware ESXi 6.7

    Within the MX7000 blade chassis:

    • The MX740c server features the Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Skylake) family, with up to 24 DIMMs, PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 enabled I/O slots, and a choice of high-bandwidth Ethernet and FC mezzanine cards.
    • The MX840c server features the Intel Skylake family, with up to 48 DIMMs, PCIe 3.0-enabled I/O slots, and a choice of high-bandwidth Ethernet and FC mezzanine cards.

    Both server models use QLogic dual-port 25 Gb QLogic FastLinQ QL41262HMCU-DE converged network adapters (CNAs).

    MX7000 chassis

    The PowerEdge MX7000 chassis hosts elastic compute and storage resources that are connected by a smart I/O fabric. Featuring an innovative design to accommodate streamlined transition to emerging technologies, the chassis delivers extensibility for evolving application requirements. Features include:

    • Flexible 7U modular enclosure, with eight front-accessible slots, that holds 2-socket single-width or 4-socket double-width compute sled and 12 Gb/s single-width storage sled combinations
    • Low-latency, cost-efficient 25 GbE, 12 Gb SAS, and 32 Gb FC I/O options
    • Three I/O networking fabrics, two general purpose and one storage specific, each with redundant modules
    • Scalable fabric architecture for multichassis networking (up to 10 chassis)
    • Assured support for multiple future generations of server processor microarchitectures

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