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9 PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis Power Sequence
3 Chassis Powering ON sequence in detail.
This section explains the order in which components are powered on.
• The first components which power ON are chassis infrastructure items: the power supplies, followed
by fans and other critical internal components such as temperature sensors and the I/O Module
microcontrollers.
• Once the infrastructure is up & running then all I/O Modules (IOMs) present in chassis are powered
ON.
• After IOMs, any PowerEdge MX5016s present in chassis are powered ON.
• Once PowerEdge MX5016s are powered ON, the chassis is considered ON.
• Once the chassis reaches power ON state, individual compute sleds follow their individual BIOS
settings for power-on.