1. Module 9 PS-M4110 Overview <Place supporting graphic here>
Welcome to the Dell 12G version of the PowerEdge M1000e training course. This training provides an overview of the components and features of the Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Server enclosure.

2. Module Objectives: Describe the PS-M4110 solution
Describe the features of the PS-M4110
Install the PS-M4110 in the M1000 Chassis
Operate the drawer of the PS-M4110
Describe the airflow features of the M1000
Identify whether the M1000 chassis has a version 1.1 Midplane
Describe how the PS-M4110 connects to the Servers via the Fabric modules .
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3. Introduction

4. PS Series Continuous advancements of inclusive software features
Early releases
PS100
PS3000
PS-M4110
PS4000
Series
FS7500
Sync Rep
IPSEC
SED
Product timeline
ASM/ME for Hyper-V™
Auto-Snapshot Manager/ VMware® Edition
SAN Headquarters
VMware® vStorage
Data Center Bridging (DCB)
Core File Capability
2003 +
Thin Provisioning
VMware®
Site Recovery Manager
Continuous advancements of inclusive software features
Start of Solution innovation

5. Dell PS-M4110 Blade Array CMC provides M1000e chassis management
EqualLogic iSCSI SAN for the Dell M1000e Blade chassis
14 hot-plug 2.5” disk drives
10G controllers
PS Series firmware / Group Manager
M1000e
CMC provides M1000e chassis management
M1000e chassis provides power, cooling, integrated networking and density
Blade server storage array.
Managed by the M1000e CMC (Chassis Management Controller). Minimum version CMC firmware that supports the PS-M4110 is 4.11-A01.

6. PS-M4110 Blade Array - Installed in the M1000e blade chassis.
Two control modules
Two 10 GbE ports
- Configurable Management port
- 14 hot pluggable 2.5” disks
- 6Gb/s SAS drives
M4110 Blade array.
Slides into two M1000e slots for power, cooling, and management. Connects to the M1000e midplane. No cables.

7. Dell PS M4110 and the PowerEdge M1000e 12G Enclosure
The Dell PowerEdge M1000e Modular Server Enclosure is a breakthrough in enterprise server architecture. The enclosure and its components spring from a revolutionary, ground up design incorporating the latest advances in power, cooling, I/O, and management technologies. Each blade server often is dedicated to a single application. The blades are literally servers on a card, containing processors, memory, integrated network controllers, an optional fiber channel host bus adaptor (HBA) and other input/output (IO) ports. The PowerEdge M1000e solution is designed for customers that require high performance, high availability, and manageability in the most rack-dense form factor including:
Corporate
Public
Small/Medium Business (SMB)
Modular blade servers are typically implemented in:
Virtualization environments
SAN applications (Exchange, database)
High performance cluster and grid environments
Front-end applications (web apps/Citrix/terminal services)
File sharing access
Web page serving and caching
SSL encrypting of Web communication
Audio and video streaming
Like most clustering applications, blade servers can also be managed to include load balancing and failover capabilities.
PS M4110 inserts into two M1000e slots.
M1000e chassis provides power, cooling, and management for the M4110 and server blades.

8. PS-M4110 Blade Array
Two 10Gbe iSCSI Ports wired internally to the M-series Ethernet fabrics
M-series Blade Server and M4110 Chassis Environment
Chassis provides power, cooling, Ethernet switch configuration
CMC provides chassis management, configuration and monitoring.
10G Ethernet fabric selection
- M4110 defaults to B fabric
- Can be on the A fabric with version 1.1 midplane
Support’s DCB (Data Center Bridging)
M4110 performance is similar to PS6100E
PS-M4110 can be installed in slots 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-16, or
RAID types 6, 6 accelerated 50 and 10 are all supported.

9. The power to do more in less space M1000e and the PS-M4110 EqualLogic Blade Array
4 Switches
2 PS Series Array’s
24 Servers
10 U
2 PS-M4110’s
Consider the following:
Rack space saved = 22 U’s
Network cables not needed:
- 54
Power cables not needed:
4 Switches
24 Servers
Physical Convergence = 3x space savings

10. Installation and Drawer Operation

11. Installing The PS M4110
The PS M4110 installs in the top slots using the rail guides on the top.
The PS M4110 installs in the bottom slots using the slot guides on the bottom.
Slide the array into the M1000e available slots.
Seat the array by sliding the handle firmly in place
Before installing the PS-M4110 in an M1000e enclosure, note the following:
• You should wear an electrostatic strap to prevent electrostatic damage.
• When shipped by itself, the PS-M4110 includes a retaining clip on the front to prevent the array drawer from sliding out of the array. It also includes protective plastic covers on the back to protect the rear connectors from damage. You must remove the retaining clip and protective covers before installing the array in the M1000e enclosure. Optionally, you can also remove the protective caps covering the serial ports on the front. Save the clip and protective covers for future use.
After you have installed the PS-M4110 into the M1000e enclosure, you can verify proper installation by turning on power to the M1000e enclosure. If the PS-M4110 is properly installed, the Blade System Status LED on its front panel will light up shortly after the M1000e is powered on.

12. PS M4110 Drawer To open the array inner drawer:
Push the array's front panel and release it quickly to unlatch the array’s inner drawer.
When the drawer is unlatched will be a “Caution” label visible
Caution: The front panel is not designed as a handle. It can break if treated roughly. When opening the array inner drawer, don't pull on the front panel. Grip and pull the drawer by its top, bottom, or sides.
The inner drawer can be opened while the member is operating to gain access to the hot swap components.

13. PS M4110 Drawer
When the PS-M4110 is out of the M1000 enclosure, the array's drawer cannot be opened unless its safety locking mechanism is released.
There is a release button located on the side of the PS-M4110 array that releases the latch that secures the array's drawer to its outer housing. This prevents the array's drawer from opening accidentally during handling when outside of the M1000e enclosure.
To open the array drawer, press and hold the release button to manually unlock the safety latch.

14. PS-M4110 / M1000e

15. EqualLogic PS-M4110 Ecosystem
M1000E Chassis
PS-M4110
Dell Force10 or PowerConnect Switch
PowerEdge Blades 11G or 12G
PS-M4110 Components
EqualLogic Host Software
Dual, hot-pluggable 10GbE controllers
4GB of memory per controller
1 x dedicated 10/100 management port – accessible through CMC
6Gb/s SAS backend
14x 2.5” drives
Auto-Snapshot Manager – Microsoft®, VMware®, Linux®
Multi-Path I/O
PowerShell Tools
Datastore manager
SAN HQ
PS-M4110 Design
PS-M4110 Scalability
EqualLogic Array Software
Drawer in Drawer
Double-wide, half-height storage blade
Operate/interoperate with servers inside/outside chassis
Up to 4 PS-M4110 per blade chassis
Up to 2 PS-M4110 per EqualLogic group
Scale up to 16 EqualLogic arrays per group by joining arrays outside chassis
Peer storage architecture
Advanced load balancing
Snapshots, cloning, replication
Thin provisioning
Thin clones

16. PS-M4110 Configuration Option #1 Fabric B Switch (Default)
Midplane
Fabric A1 Ethernet I/O Module
Fabric A2 Ethernet I/O Module
Fabric B1 Switch
Fabric B2 Switch
Fabric C1 I/O Module
Fabric C2 I/O Module
External Fabric Connections
PS-M4110
Fabric Interface
Module
Half-Height Blade Server (16 of 16)
Fabric A E’net LOM
Fabric B Mezz
Fabric C Mezz
Server Logic
CM0
(Active)
CM1
For increased availability, the Ethernet ports on both PS-M4110 control modules are automatically connected to each redundant M1000e IO module (IOM) of the configured fabric. (Assuming that both IO modules are installed.) One port is active and one port is passive. For example, if a PS-M4110 is configured for Fabric B, and both the B1 IOM and B2 IOM are installed, the ethernet ports from each control module are connected to both B1 and B2 IOMs. This provides a total of four potential ethernet paths. However, only one ethernet path is active at any given time.
In the above example, if the B1 IO module fails, both active and passive PS-M4110 ports will automatically failover to the B2 IO module.

17. PS-M4110 Configuration Option #2 Fabric A Switch
Midplane
PS-M4110
Fabric A1 Ethernet Switch
Fabric A2 Ethernet Switch
Fabric B1 I/O Module
Fabric B2 I/O Module
Fabric C1 I/O Module
Fabric C2 I/O Module
External Fabric Connections
Fabric Interface
Module
CM0
CM1
To install the M4110 on the A Fabric you must have a midplane version 1.1 installed.
Half-Height Blade Server (16 of 16)
Fabric A E’net LOM
Fabric B Mezz
Fabric C Mezz
Server Logic

18. External Fabric Connections
PS-M4110 Configuration Option #3/4 Fabric A/B Pass-Thru to External Switch Stack
Midplane
Fabric A1 Pass-Thru
Fabric A2 Pass-Thru
Fabric B1 I/O Module
Fabric B2 I/O Module
Fabric C1 I/O Module
Fabric C2 I/O Module
External Fabric Connections
PS-M4110
Fabric Interface
Module
Half-Height Blade Server (16 of 16)
Fabric A E’net LOM
Fabric B Mezz
Fabric C Mezz
Server Logic
CM0
CM1
Ethernet Switch
To install the M4110 on the A Fabric you must have a midplane version 1.1 installed.

19. PS-M4110 Configuration
PS-M4110 provides a single 10Gb Ethernet port that can be connected to one of two redundant Fabrics (A or B) in the M1000e chassis.
Above is a depiction of the internal links between the FIOM and the fabric IO modules. When a customer configures Colossus for Fabric B, the 2xFIOM 10G ports (one active and one passive) will establish links with the Fabric B IO module, both ports either link to B1 or both ports link to B2. This is shown in RED in the diagram above (in the example above both active and passive ports establish links to B1). The port from active FIOM is active and the other port is passive. But user can see both ports as being connected in the fabric B1 switch configurations. If fabric B1 were to fail, both active and passive FIOM ports will automatically link to fabric B2.
When a user configures Colossus to work with fabric B, the user cannot specify if to use B1 or B2 fabric. Colossus will automatically choose either B1 or B2 fabric. So when the user has multiple Colossus inside a chassis configured for fabric B, then B1 and B2 must be stacked, or else the two Colossus arrays may not talk to one another.

20. M1000e I/O Module Placement Options
Single Fabric
Split Fabric
Blade Server
Mezz B
Mezz C
Blade Server
Mezz B
Mezz C
Put the same kinds of modules in the same fabric, for example: green modules in “B” fabric and Yellow modules in “C” Fabric.
Do not put green and yellow in “B” Fabric and Green and Yellow in the “C” fabric. That would be considered a Split Fabric.

21. 10G IOM fabric 10G K supports PS-M4110
Pass through KR with top of rack (TOR) 8024F or TOR NX-5020
Force 10 (Navasota MLX)
M8024-K (10 gig) (Lavaca)
Brocade M8428-K (Brazos)
Other M-Series IOM fabrics – not supported for PS-M4110
10G XAUI
1GE FC
Infiniband
The PS-M4110 only operates with 10GbE I/O modules
10GbE K Based I/O module (Must be K for PS-M4110)
10GbE Pass through I/O module
All M4110 connections will be 10GbE

22. Switch Configurations
Stack or create a LAG between switches
Stack Switches Together
When using a PS-M4110 inside an M1000e enclosure, the IO modules must be interconnected (stacked or LAG’d together).
For example, if fabric B is configured, the B1 and B2 IOMs must be stacked or LAG’d together. The redundant fabric IO modules must be connected using interswitch links (stack interfaces or link aggregation groups (LAG). The links must have sufficient bandwidth to handle the iSCSI traffic.

23. Multiple M1000e Chassis Switch IOM’s
Stacked IOMs
LAG
m1000e
For multiple chassis
Stacking should be done in two rings, a left side ring and a right side ring
LAGs should be connected between the rings so that each port on the storage devices and can communicate to any other port on the storage devices.
DCB Support Requires:
DCB external switch (B8000)
IOM: Navasota only
Intel or Brocade CNA Mezz

24. Module Summary
Now that you have completed this module you should be able to:
Describe the PS-M4110 solution
Describe the features of the PS-M4110
Install the PS-M4110 in the M1000 Chassis
Operate the drawer of the PS-M4110
Describe the airflow features of the M1000
Identify whether the M1000 chassis has a version 1.1 Midplane
Describe how the PS-M4110 connects to the Servers via the Fabric modules
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25. Questions?
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