The Blades. Dell PowerEdge M1000e

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IOM F ABRIC AND B ANKS

The Blades

The M1000e chassis supports half and full height blades. The following chart shows the manifest of IO ports by blade type (Assuming Dual Port Mezzanine cards. Certain combinations of Mezzanine cards installed in certain blades do not fully scale their IO ports).

Form

Factor

Half

Full

LOMs Fabric A ports Fabric B ports Fabric C ports

2

4

2

4

2

4

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M AXIMUM P ORT C OUNT BY F ORM F ACTOR

2

4

Total IO

Ports

8

16

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Half Height Blades

The M600, M605 and M610 are half height form factor server blades. They feature a Broadcom 57XX dual port embedded Ethernet LOM’s driving fabric “A” and two mezzanine card slots supporting fabrics “B” and “C”. Figure 4 depicts the layout of optional mezzanine cards.

FIGURE 4

Half HEIGHT BLADE

1.

Fabric C mezzanine card slot “Mezz1-FAB_C”

2.

Fabric B mezzanine card slot “Mezz2-FAB_B”

3.

mezzanine card

4.

mezzanine card connector

5.

retention latch

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Full Height Blades

M710, M805 and M905 are Full height blades. The number of potential IO ports was doubled along with the form factor. There are 2 dual port Broadcom 5709 Gigabit Ethernet Lan On Motherboard controllers (LOMS) and 4

Mezzanine card slots on each full height blade. There are 2 mezzanine cards supporting Fabric “B” and 2 supporting Fabric “C”. Figure 5 depicts the layout of optional mezzanine cards.

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F ULL H EIGHT B LADE

1.

Fabric C mezzanine card slot “Mezz1-FAB_C”

2.

Fabric B mezzanine card slot “Mezz2-FAB_B”

3.

Fabric C mezzanine card slot “Mezz3-FAB_C”

4.

Fabric B mezzanine card slot “Mezz4-FAB_B”

5.

retention latch

6.

mezzanine card connector

7.

mezzanine Card

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