Description

PowerEdge MX5016s Blade server Dubai

The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s Dubai is a cutting-edge storage solution designed to meet the demands of data-intensive workloads with unmatched scalability, flexibility, and reliability. Built to integrate seamlessly with the PowerEdge MX modular architecture, this dense, direct-attached storage sled offers businesses a robust platform for adapting to evolving IT requirements. Supporting up to 16 x 2.5-inch HDDs or SSDs in a single sled and scalable to 7 sleds per chassis (for a total of 112 drives), the MX5016s ensures exceptional storage capacity. Ideal for diverse applications like software-defined storage (SDS), SQL databases, ERP systems, and virtualization, it empowers organizations to map drives precisely to MX740c or MX840c servers, optimize performance using PERC and HBA storage controllers, and enhance availability with hot-pluggable drives and hot-serviceable expanders.

The MX5016s simplifies IT operations through OpenManage Enterprise – Modular Edition, enabling unified management of compute, storage, and networking resources via a single console or RESTful API. With intelligent automation for streamlined deployment and updates, businesses can reduce complexity and operational overhead while ensuring security through its cyber-resilient architecture. Enhanced protections like cryptographic signature verification for HBAs, RAID controllers, and storage drives, as well as a secure supply chain, deliver a future-proof design that safeguards data and hardware. With its modular design and seamless resource allocation, the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s Dubai provides organizations with an adaptable, highly secure, and efficient storage solution, making it the ultimate choice for modern IT environments.

Features and Design

Consolidate compute, storage and networking in one trusted platform

Dell EMC PowerEdge MX offers a scalable and flexible architecture so you can adapt to changing requirements. Tailor your ideal storage to compute configuration ratio within the MX7000 chassis with the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s Dubai SAS storage sled.
The MX5016s supports up to 16 SSDs and HDDs that can be mapped across one or more PowerEdge MX compute sleds. This granular drive-level assignment lets you address diverse workloads without wasting any space.

Ideal workloads:

• Software defined storage like vSAN
• Databases such as SQL and ERP
• Dense virtualization workloads

Flexible storage that scales as you grow

The PowerEdge MX5016s Dubai full-height, single-width storage sled provides easy front access to swap and add drive capacity and performance options. Scale incrementally to keep your budget in check.

• Map individual drives to two-socket MX740c and four-socket MX840c servers
• Scale-out to 7 MX5016s sleds with up to 112 drives per MX7000 chassis (plus up to an additional 6 internal server drives and two M.2 boot devices)
• Configure your direct-attached SAS environment with PERC and HBA storage controller options
• Help ensure uptime with dual port 12Gb SAS, hot-pluggable drives and hot serviceable expanders

Automate productivity with agile management

The PowerEdge MX5016s Dubai simplifies lifecycle management from a single interface that allows you to deploy, monitor and update.

• Unified control: single management point for server, storage, and networking
• Simplified administration: easy set-up/updates, no specialized training, multiple at-the-box management options
• Intelligent automation: via an operational template methodology and comprehensive RESTful API

Responsive design ensures infrastructure and investment protection

The PowerEdge MX5016s Dubai offers a future-forward architecture and a hardened design to protect, detect and quickly recover from cyber-attacks.

• Provides investment protection for compute and storage with forward-compatibility
• Helps ensure authentic firmware runs on critical components like HBAs, RAID and storage drives with cryptographic signatures

Technical Specifications

• Enclosure:

• • Model: PowerEdge MX Chassis

• Form Factor:

• • Full height, single width
  • Supports up to 7 MX5016s storage sleds per PowerEdge MX enclosure

• Dimensions:

• • Height: 250.2 mm
  • Width: 42.15 mm
  • Depth: 600 mm
  • Weight: 12 kg maximum (with all 16 HDDs installed)

• Drive Bays:

• • Up to 16 x 2.5” SAS drives (HDDs/SSDs) per storage sled
  • Supports up to 112 drives with 7 storage sleds per PowerEdge MX chassis
  • Additional 6 internal server storage drives available

• Storage Controllers:

• • HBA330 mini-mezz (MMZ) – located on the connected server
  • PERC H745P MX – located on the connected server

• Power Supplies:

• • Provided by the PowerEdge MX chassis

• I/O & Ports:

• • Connects to servers via the MX5000s SAS switch

• Systems Management:

• • OpenManage Enterprise – Modular Edition for unified management of servers, storage, and networking across multiple chassis via a single web console or RESTful API
  • Support for managing multiple PowerEdge MX groups, rack servers, and legacy modular systems with OpenManage Enterprise
  • Once drives are mapped to servers, they can be configured, monitored, and updated using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller