Description

PowerEdge MX7000 Kenya

The PowerEdge MX7000 Kenya kinetic infrastructure sets the foundation for software-defined environments, ensuring seamless support for new processor technologies, storage innovations, and advancements in networking fabrics. This modular chassis dynamically scales to evolving application needs while delivering high performance.

• Innovative Design: The 7U modular enclosure supports a combination of compute and storage sleds. It offers eight front-accessible slots for 2-socket single-width or 4-socket double-width compute sleds, as well as 12Gbps single-width storage sleds.
• High-Performance Networking: Enjoy low-latency, cost-efficient connectivity with 25Gb Ethernet, 12Gb SAS, and 32Gb Fibre Channel I/O options.
• Scalable Fabric Architecture: Scale effortlessly with multi-chassis networking capabilities supporting up to 10 chassis.
• Future-Ready: Designed to accommodate multiple future generations of server processor microarchitectures.

Unlock Next-Generation Performance with Modular, Software-Defined Infrastructure

Adaptable Power for Evolving Workloads

Empower your data center with cutting-edge modular infrastructure designed to tackle demanding workloads with ease. The PowerEdge MX family combines capable compute, storage, and networking components to address changing needs efficiently. With flexible ratio assignments and a robust rack-based modular chassis, this infrastructure is built for long-term adaptability.

Simplify Management and Enhance Operations

With the PowerEdge MX7000 Kenya, operational efficiency meets innovation. Its comprehensive embedded systems management tool, Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise – Modular Edition, provides centralized control of compute, storage, and networking environments.

• Efficient Management Tools: Deploy, monitor, and update multiple chassis simultaneously with an operational template methodology and OpenManage RESTful API, based on Redfish standards.
• Enhanced Accessibility: Features a flexible touchscreen LCD, wireless access, and crash cart management options. Remote server management is a breeze with the OpenManage Mobile app and the Quick Sync 2 feature.
• Built-In Intelligence: Embedded agent-free Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)9 with Lifecycle Controller ensures seamless operations and faster rollouts.

Cyber Resilience with Advanced Security

The PowerEdge MX7000 Kenya ensures robust protection across every layer of your infrastructure. Its Cyber Resilient Architecture safeguards firmware, data, operating systems, peripheral devices, and management processes with a deep layer of defense and rapid detection mechanisms.

• Security by Design: Built with the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) model, integrating security across the infrastructure’s entire lifecycle.
• Compliant and Secure: Adheres to industry standards such as NIST SP800-147B and UEFI Secure Boot.
• Enhanced Automation: Robust iDRAC APIs allow for streamlined deployment and management of security features.

Why Choose PowerEdge MX?

• Modular chassis tailored for software-defined data centers.
• Extensible architecture designed for future scalability and compatibility with emerging technologies.
• Centralized, comprehensive management for seamless operations.

Upgrade your infrastructure to the PowerEdge MX7000 Kenya for unparalleled scalability, enhanced team productivity, and long-term investment protection. Prepare your data center for the future today!

Features and Design:

Liberate IT resources to achieve optimal utilization, productivity and efficiency

As dynamic and innovative as your business, PowerEdge MX kinetic infrastructure bridges traditional and software-defined data centers with unequal flexibility and agility. At the foundation, PowerEdge MX7000 Kenya chassis hosts disaggregated blocks of server and storage to create consumable resources on-demand. Shared power, cooling, networking, I/O and in-chassis management provides outstanding efficiencies.

• 7U modular enclosure with eight slots holds 2S single or four 4S double-width compute sleds and 12Gbs single-width storage sleds
• 25Gb Ethernet, 12Gb SAS and 32Gb Fibre Channel I/O options
• Three I/O networking fabrics, two general purpose and one storage specific, each with redundant modules
• Multi-chassis networking up to 10 chassis
• Single management point for compute, storage and networking
• High-speed technology connections, now and into the future, with no midplane upgrade
• At least three server processor microarchitecture generation support assurance

Dynamically scale and respond with kinetic infrastructure

Designed with Dell EMC’s kinetic infrastructure, PowerEdge MX creates shared pools of disaggregated compute and storage resources, connected by scalable fabric, from which workloads can draw resources needed to run most quickly and efficiently. Then when no longer needed the resources are returned into the pool. By essentially creating hardware on the fly the capacity can be managed at a data center level instead of a per server level.

• Full-featured, no compromise compute sleds with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
• Generous, scalable on-board SAS, SATA, and NVMe storage drives, plus substantial, granular SAS direct-attached storage using optional storage sleds
• Scalable fabric architecture with a grow-as-you-need fabric expansion capability for up to 10 chassis in fabric.

Increase effectiveness and accelerate operations with unified automation

Embedded Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise – Modular Edition delivers the key abilities of OpenMange Enterprise systems management within the PowerEdge MX chassis. A unified simple interface manages compute, storage and fabric, reducing costs and the learning curve and consolidates multiple tools. Redundant management modules ensure highest availability.

• Automatic expansion from one to multiple chassis; scale management to thousands of PowerEdge MX and rack servers with OpenManage Enterprise
• Flexible, at-the-box management front control panel options include Quick Sync 2 (wireless), touchscreen LCD and traditional crash cart
• Comprehensive RESTful API helps automate multiple tasks and integrates to third-party tools
• Seamlessly integrates with integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) and Lifecycle Controller (LC)

Protect infrastructure and investment with responsive design

Reduce the risk of infrastructure investment and help make new innovations more easily available with PowerEdge MX7000 Kenya future-forward architecture. Designed to maximize longevity and minimize disruptive technology changes support across both generational and architectural transitions is provided.

• Multi-generational assurance with support for at least three server processor microarchitecture generations
• Nearly zero throughput limitations, providing high-speed technology connections, and well into the future, with no midplane upgrade
• Industry-leading thermal architecture and mechanical design and control algorithms support dense configurations and future compatibility

Technical Specifications:

Processor:

• Up to 6 3000W processors
• PSU and grid redundancy support

Cooling:

• 5 rear-accessible hot-swap fans
• 4 front-accessible hot-swap fans

Dimensions:

• 816.8mm (32.16 inches) x 482mm (18.98 inches) x 307.4mm (12.10 inches)

Rack Units:

• 7U

Embedded Management:

• MX7000 chassis: OpenManage Enterprise Modular Edition (OME-Modular), running on up to 2 redundant MX9002m management modules
• Unified control: Single management point for server, storage, and networking
• Intelligent automation: Operational template methodology and comprehensive RESTful API
• Quick Sync 2 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)/wireless module option

Compute Sled Management:

• Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)9 with Lifecycle Controller (LC)

Bezel:

• OpenManage™ Software Suite:
  • OpenManage Enterprise
  • OpenManage Essentials
  • OpenManage Mobile (OMM)
  • OpenManage Power Center (OMPC)

Integrations & Connections:

• Integrations:
  • Microsoft® System Center
  • VMware® vCenter™
  • BMC Software (available from BMC)
  • Ansible by Red Hat
• Connections:
  • Nagios Core and Nagios XI
  • Oracle Enterprise Manager
  • Microfocus Operations Manager (OM) and Operations Manager i (OMi)
  • IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus

Security:

• TPM 1.2/2.0 (optional)
• Cryptographically signed firmware
• Silicon Root of Trust
• Secure Boot
• System Lockdown (requires OpenManage Enterprise)
• System Erase

Embedded NIC:

• Networking options (NDC):
  • Fabric options: Up to 2 pairs of redundant general-purpose switch or pass-through modular bays (Fabrics A and B)
  • Redundant pair of storage-specific switch bays (Fabric C)
  • Up to 25GbE, 32Gbps Fibre Channel, 12Gbps SAS

GPU Options:

• Available

Front Ports:

• 2 USB 2.0 Type-A or KVM control (keyboard and mouse only)
• 1 USB 2.0 Type Micro-AB direct management port
• 1 Mini DisplayPort connector for video

Front Buttons/Indicators:

• Power button
• System status LED
• Health icon
• Ambient temperature icon
• IOM icon
• Fan icon
• Stack/group icon
• ID button