Setup Guide

102 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration and Troubleshooting Guide
A Hardware overview
This section briefly describes the hardware that is used to validate the deployment examples in this
document. Appendix E
contains a complete listing of hardware and software validated for this guide.
NOTE: While the steps in this document were validated using the specified Dell EMC Networking switches and
operating systems, they may be leveraged for other Dell EMC Networking switch models utilizing the same
networking OS version or later assuming the switch has the available port numbers, speeds, and types.
A.1 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 chassis
The PowerEdge MX7000 chassis has one of three control panel options for administration, up to six hot-
pluggable, redundant, 3000-watt power supplies and up eight compute and storage sleds. Figure 94 shows
the front of the chassis and the following installed components:
• One touchscreen LCD panel (optional)
• Two Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c sleds in slots one and two
• Six blank inserts in slots three through eight
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000–front