Description

PowerEdge MX5016s Blade server Nigeria

The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s Nigeria offers a cutting-edge storage solution tailored to meet the demands of data-intensive workloads with unmatched scalability, flexibility, and reliability. Designed to integrate seamlessly with the PowerEdge MX modular architecture, this direct-attached storage sled provides high-capacity expansion, supporting up to 16 x 2.5-inch HDDs or SSDs per sled and offering the ability to scale out with up to 7 sleds per chassis, delivering an impressive 112 drives per chassis. It excels in environments requiring diverse workloads, including software-defined storage (SDS), SQL databases, ERP systems, and dense virtualization. With the flexibility to map drives to two-socket MX740c or four-socket MX840c servers, it enables precision drive configurations that optimize performance.

The PowerEdge MX5016s Nigeria ensures high availability for critical workloads through dual-port 12Gb/s SAS, hot-pluggable drives, and hot-serviceable expanders. Its modular design empowers businesses to adapt quickly, balancing compute, storage, and networking resources as needs evolve. The system’s integrated management capabilities are enhanced with OpenManage Enterprise – Modular Edition, which allows for streamlined administration through a unified console or RESTful API interface, simplifying setup and updates while reducing operational complexity.

Security is a key feature of the MX5016s Nigeria, built on a cyber-resilient architecture that protects critical components like HBAs, RAID controllers, and storage drives with cryptographic signature verification. The solution also benefits from a secure supply chain, safeguarding hardware integrity from production to deployment, while ensuring future compatibility for long-term investment protection. With its robust design, the PowerEdge MX5016s Nigeria is the ideal choice for organizations that need dense, scalable storage, simplified management, and secure infrastructure to support their data-heavy applications and evolving IT requirements.

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 Nigeria 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 Nigeria 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 Nigeria 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 Nigeria 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