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QLogic offerings offer Switch Independent Partitioning technology, developed in partnership

with Dell, which allows for virtual partitioning of the 10Gb ports.

I/O Modules: The enclosure provides three redundant fabrics using six I/O modules. The modules can

be populated with Ethernet switches, Fibre Channel (FC), and pass-through modules. InfiniBand™

switch modules are also supported.

Chassis Management: The Dell PowerEdge M1000e has integrated management through a redundant

Chassis Management Controller (CMC) module for enclosure management and integrated Keyboard,

Video, and Mouse (iKVM) modules. Through the CMC, the enclosure supports FlexAddress Plus

technology, which enables the blade enclosure to lock the World Wide Names (WWN) of the FC

controllers and Media Access Control (MAC) addresses of the Ethernet controllers to specific blade

slots. This enables seamless swapping or upgrading of blade servers without affecting the LAN or SAN

configuration.

Embedded Management with Dell’s Lifecycle Controller: The Lifecycle Controller is the engine for

advanced embedded management and is delivered as part of iDRAC Enterprise in Dell PowerEdge 12

generation servers. It includes 1GB of managed and persistent storage that embeds systems

management features directly on the server, thus eliminating the media-based delivery of system

management tools and utilities previously needed for systems management. Embedded management

includes:

 Unified Server Configurator (USC) aims at local 1-to-1 deployment via a graphical user interface

(GUI) for operating system install, updates, configuration, and for performing diagnostics on

single, local servers. This eliminates the need for multiple option ROMs for hardware

configuration.

 Remote Services are standards-based interfaces that enable consoles to integrate, for example,

bare-metal provisioning and one-to-many OS deployments, for servers located remotely. Dell’s

Lifecycle Controller takes advantage of the capabilities of both USC and Remote Services to

deliver significant advancement and simplification of server deployment.

 Lifecycle Controller Serviceability aims at simplifying server re-provisioning and/or replacing

failed parts and thus reduces maintenance downtime.

For more information on Dell Lifecycle Controllers and blade servers, see

http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/dcsm-embedded-management and Dell.com/blades.

3.7 Dell Force10 S4810 Switches

The Force10 S-Series S4810 is an ultra-low-latency 10/40 GbE Top-of-Rack (ToR) switch purpose-built

for applications in high-performance data center and computing environments. Leveraging a non-

blocking, cut-through switching architecture, the S4810 delivers line-rate L2 and L3 forwarding

capacity with ultra-low latency to maximize network performance. The compact S4810 design provides

industry leading density of 48 dual-speed 1/10 GbE (SFP+) ports as well as four 40GbE QSFP+ uplinks to

conserve valuable rack space and simplify the migration to 40Gbps in the data center core. (Each

40GbE QSFP+ uplink can support four 10GbE ports with a breakout cable).

Powerful QoS features coupled with Data Center Bridging (DCB) support via a future software

enhancement, make the S4810 ideally suited for iSCSI storage environments. In addition, the S4810

incorporates multiple architectural features that optimize data center network flexibility, efficiency,