Dell PowerEdge M1000e CTO Blade Enclosure

Form Factor: 10U modular enclosure holds up to eight full-height, sixteen half-height, or thirty two quarter-height blade servers
44.0cm (17.3") H x 44.7cm (17.6") W x 75.4cm (29.7") D

• Empty chassis only -- 98lb
• Chassis with all rear modules (IOMs, PSUs, CMCs, KVM) -- 176lb
• Max Fully loaded with blades and rear modules -- 394 lb

M1000e chassis supports up to six 3000W high-efficiency power supplies, 2700W high-efficiency power supplies or up to six -48V DC 2700W power supplies. Based on Dell’s Energy Smart technologies, the M1000e power supplies deliver greater levels of efficiency, even at low levels of utilization. Supported power supply configurations include:

• 3+3 and 2+2 (grid redundancy)
• 2+1, 3+1, 4+2, and 5+1 (power supply redundancy)
• 2+0 and 3+0 (non-redundant mode)

The M1000e chassis supports dynamic power supply engagement (DPSE) mode, which if enabled, puts lightly loaded power supplies into standby mode, driving up the utilization and the efficiency of the active supplies. Dell supports either 110–120V or 208–240V AC power supply input and supports a wide range of power distribution options. Dell recommends 208–240V AC for all production environments.

M1000e chassis comes standard with nine hot-pluggable, redundant fan modules:

• Based on Dell Energy Smart Technologies, M1000e fans are a breakthrough in power and cooling efficiency.
• The fans deliver low power consumption, but also use next generation fan technologies to ensure the lowest possible amount of fresh air is consumed to cool the enclosure,

Front control panel with interactive graphical LCD:

• Supports initial configuration wizard
• Local server blade, enclosure, and module information and troubleshooting

Two USB keyboard/mouse connections and one video connection (requires the optional Avocent® iKVM switch to enable these ports) for local front “crash cart” console connections that can be switched between blades.

• Single, secure interface for inventory, configuration, monitoring, and alerting for the chassis and all components
• Multi-chassis management that allows up to nine chassis and 288 servers to be managed from a single, embedded, agent-less interface
• Automated and embedded one-to-many blade BIOS and firmware updates, independent of the operating system through the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)
• One-to-many blade server BIOS capture and replication
• Real-time power/thermal monitoring and management
• Real-time system AC power consumption with resettable peak and minimum values
• System-level power limiting and slot-based power prioritization
• DPSE functionality to help lower overall system power consumption by ensuring power supplies run at their optimal efficiency points
• Fan speed control using Dell’s enhanced efficiency technologies to ensure fans are delivering optimal cooling while minimizing power consumption and airflow
• Secure web (SSL) and command-line (Telnet/SSH) interfaces
• Multiple levels of user roles and permissions, including integration into Microsoft® Active Directory ® Services and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) services for authentication
• Two 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet ports + one serial port
• Single point of connection from management network to iDRAC on each of the servers and the management interfaces on the integrated I/O modules
• Second Ethernet port supports daisy chaining of CMCs for improved cable management

• Enables USB keyboard/mouse and video port on front control panel

• Dell OpenManage Server Administrator—monitoring agents and one-to-one management utilities
• Dell OpenManage Essentials—discover, inventory, monitor, and update M1000e chassis and blade servers
• Integration with third-party management solutions through Dell’s Certified Partner Program
• Remote management