Reference Guide

9 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Deployment Guide
The MX7000 includes three I/O fabrics. Fabrics A and B for Ethernet I/O Module (IOM) connectivity, and
Fabric C for SAS and Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity. Each Fabric provides two slots for redundancy.
Figure 3 shows the back of the PowerEdge MX7000 chassis configured with the following:
• One Dell EMC Networking MX9116n Fabric Switching Engine (FSE) shown in fabric slot A1
• One Dell EMC Networking MX7116n Fabric Expander Module (FEM) shown in fabric slot A2
• Two Dell EMC PowerEdge MX9002m modules installed in management slots MM1 and MM2
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000–back
Note: Two PowerEdge MX7000 chassis with the hardware shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3 are used in this
guide. Compute sled models and quantities vary in the examples.