What The FX Is In Your Data Center...What The FX Is In Your Data Center Mark Maclean –PowerEdge Business unit UK

What The FX Is In YourData Center Mark Maclean – PowerEdge Business unit UK

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PowerEdge – More Than 20 Years Of Innovation

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Requiring a Diverse Server Portfolio

TOWERS RACKSBLADES MODULAR

T VRTX MSeries FX2R

Dell PowerEdge Servers


Dell-EMC Modular Platforms –Innovative And Diverse

FX Architecture

VRTX

M1000E Integrated

Modular

Blade


PowerEdge VRTX –Front & Rear Views

LCD Display

Panel

Up to 4 PowerEdge

M-Series Servers

Internal low latency,

fast storage

Shared Storage

25 x 2.5” or 12 x 3.5”

(expandable)

8 External

PCIe Slots

Hot Plug

Redundant

PSUs

Remote

Management

Ports

Locking Front

Cover

Shared

DVD

KVM

Ports

Hot Plug

Redundant

Blowers8 RJ45

NIC ports


The PowerEdge FX2 enclosure

Rear view of FX2s enclosure

4 FC630 server blocks in a fully loaded FX2 enclosure

each with 8 1.8” SSDs

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PowerEdge FX2 Series –Individually tailored IT platform For Workloads

FX22U chassis houses flexible modules

FC830Full-width 4-socket

FC630Half-width 2-socket

FC430Ultra-dense 2-socket

FM120x4Half-width 4 microservers

FD332Half-width 3x per FX2 16x 2.5” devices

A revolutionary design for IT platforms that

integrates servers, DAS storage, networking and

management in a 2U chassis to enable a

workload-optimized infrastructure.

The FX systems architecture is a harbinger of the likely future direction of mainstream enterprise servers.

– Forrester Research


FD332 – DAS Storage


Workload examples Sample FX2 Configuration What FX2 looks like

• Traditional corporate IT

• Web front end / vSAN

• Low end Hadoop

• 4 x 2-socket FC430

• 2 x FD332

• vSAN • 2 x 2-socket FC630

• 2 x FD332

• Database • 1 x 4-socket FC830

• 2 x FD332

• Compute /VDI with network

storage


• Database consolidation • 2 x 4-socket FC830

• Low latency HPC

• Front end compute on san


option front Infiniband

• Physical hosting

• Light analytics

• 4 x FM120x4

• Virtualization with network

storage


PowerEdge FX2: Unparalleled workload agility


FX Is Datacentre Lego


IOAggregator “Zero Touch” 10GB Networking Reduce Cables & Ports

FN410T 12 Port IOA

FN410S 12 Port IOA

FN2210S 12 Port IOA

.

Offers East/West Traffic Support

Modes includes – Stand-alone “Transparent” / Stack / Full switch


IOA Stacking –

One-click setup !

Stack up to 6 IOAs (2 redundant stacks for this 6 chassis design )

Stacking ports 2 x 10G ports giving 20Gb bi-directional bandwidth.

Get to 8:1 aggregation

.

Example design six chassis – two redundant stacks


FX2 Management Flexibility –Unified systems management

CMC• Automated node deployment

• Chassis Provision/Update

• Manual IOA Config

• Monitor 20 FX2 chassis

iDRAC8 with

Lifecycle

Controller• Embedded Server lifecycle

management

Compute

Network & Storage

Compute

OME• Monitoring

• Massive Provisioning

• Update Compute nodes

• Scale up to 5000 devices

Compute NetworkStorage

Multiple FX2

Compute and Storage Sled

Extensive Deployment of FX2

Compute NetworkStorage

Storage


FX2 CMC GUI –Chassis Management


FX2 CMC Multi-Chassis Monitoring Capability -Monitor up to 20 platforms at-a-glance


Open Manage Essential –Server Fleet Management Solution

1:Many full management solution for Dell servers (deploy/discover/monitor/patch/report)

Including Server/Chassis/IOA templates

And

“Phone home support”

Plus

monitoring of Dell and 3rd party infrastructure

OpenManageEssentials

Dell StorageDell Networking

VRTX

FX M1000

TOWER

Full Monitoring

And Management

Server/idrac/CMC

Discover, Audit & Monitoring

RACK

Monitoring

3rd party Hardware

HP / Cisco / EMC /

Juniper / etc


ProSupport Enterprise Suite comparison

ProSupport ProSupport

Plus

Basic

Hypervisor and OS support

4 hour response to site in most major area

Escalation Management

Service delivery for hardware repairNext Business

Day or Mission

Critical

Next Business

Day or Mission

Critical

Next Business

Day Flexible

Technical support through tools, online, chat and phone 24x7 24x79x5 24x7

Direct access to elite ProSupport Plus & ProSupport Flex engineers

Dedicated Technical Account Manager

Monthly health check and performance recommendations

Monthly contract renewal and support history reporting

System maintenance (as needed)

Collaborative 3rd party assistance

ProSupport

Flex for Data

Center

Case Management API for helpdesk integration

2 hour response to site in most major cities

Support for up to 7 years

Automated case creation for issue resolution by SupportAssist

Self-service case management & parts dispatch through TechDirect


Summary


Thank You &

Any Questions

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What The FX Is In Your Data Center...What The FX Is In Your Data Center Mark Maclean –PowerEdge Business unit UK