MX5016s

MX5016s is a storage sled that is connected to a blade chassis to provide extended storage access, other than the physical storage available in the PowerEdge Modular servers. It supports up to six PSU at the front and a maximum of four fans in a single chassis. It can accommodate up to 16 HDDs (SAS/SED/SSD/). The blade chassis have I/O modules that are connected at the back. The platform uses these I/O modules in order to access the disks that are connected to MX5016s. SATA disk supports only with compute nodes.

Hard drives connected to MX5016s can be mapped to PowerEdge Modular servers in two ways:

  • Slot Mapping: In slot mapping, hard drives can be mapped to specific PowerEdge Modular servers slots. Slot level mapping of MX5016s is possible from compute. If you have 1 compute and 3 MX5016s, you can have any individual slots of any MX5016s mapped to the compute. Storage Management discovers and lists only the slots with hard drive present in MX5016s.
    NOTE: This release supports slot level mapping.
  • Enclosure Mapping: In enclosure mapping, Storage Management discovers and lists the complete enclosure.
NOTE: Storage Management does not monitor the inventory when MX5016s is not mapped to the specific PowerEdge Modular servers.
NOTE: Storage Management does not enumerate any slot information when dynamic assign or unassign of empty MX5016s or drive is not present before the dynamic assign or unassign is performed.
NOTE: For a fully populated PowerEdge MX7000 chassis, the Storage Management system takes a few minutes to load the storage components.
NOTE: While hot-plug-in multiple drives of MX5016s physically, wait for each insert alert to avoid the wrong enumeration.