PowerEdge FX2

With FC640 and FD332

 PowerEdge FX2 Enclosure – Front
Shared Infrastructure Designed To Meet Datacenter Future Needs
Front View (half-width configuration)
Bays for Compute or Storage Blocks (FC640 or FD332)

VGA/USB
Power Button Simple KVM Switch
Slot1 Slot2
Diagnostics

Slot4 Latch
Slot3

• Up to 8 PCIe Gen 3 I/O expansion slots (low • 4 half width or 8 quarter width • Choice of chassis or rack based
profile/half length) configurations management
• Up to 2 pass-thru modules. 1GB and 10GB • Redundant hot-plug cooling fans • iDRAC on every node
capable • Front KVM access; USB; • Entry “Express” and advanced
• IO Aggregator (IOA) module “Enterprise” levels of chassis-level
• Redundant hot-plug PSUs management
• Optional IO aggregator, 8:1 cabling • Redundant out-of-band
simplification management fabric
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FX2 Chassis Options – Rear: Power, I/O, Management and Fabrics
Ethernet GB1 and STK/GB2 – (1Gb Ethernet)
- All iDRAC OOB mgmt connectivity consolidated via CMC.
- iDRAC can also be accessed directly via IP without CMC being configured.
FX2
Serial connector

Hot Plug Redundant PSU’s

I/O Modules - 1600W/2000W/2400W
- Redundant Ethernet - Modes: 1+1, RAO, FTR and
Fabrics No PCIe slots 2+0.
- PE IO Aggregator (3
SKU’s)
- Pass-through 1Gb & FX2s
10Gb SFP+
8 x Low Profile PCIe x8 Slots.
Individually serviceable from
the rear.
PCIe slots

FX2s “No IO Module”

PCIe slots

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PowerEdge FX2/FC640 – Power Overview
• FX2 supports – 1600W, 2000W and 2400W PSU’s

• The 1.4 or higher CMC firmware version is required for 2400W PSU upgrades.

• Redundancy Alerting Enabled (RAO) is the recommended PSU configuration.

• Only consider 1+1 PSU configuration after explaining to the customer how RAO functions

• When operating with 100 – 120V input (low line)

– 1600W  800W, 2000W  1000W and 2400W  1400W

• Power Supply Mode Options:

– 1+1 Grid Redundant : FC640 power is limited to the maximum capacity supported by a single PSU, which guarantees redundancy in all combinations
workload transients and PSU/grid failures

– Redundancy Alerting Enabled (RAO) : Enables maximum system utilization, while minimizing exposure to PSU/grid failures. Normal runtime operation is
identical to 1+1, but system power is not limited to the maximum capacity supported by a single PSU

– 2+0 Non Grid Redundant : Identical to RAO mode without alert logging. This mode would typically be used for extremely high performance applications

New – Fault Tolerant Redundancy (FTR) : Similar to Grid Redundancy, FTR is a conservative redundancy policy that ensures that the PowerEdge FX2 shared
infrastructure Chassis and installed components will remain operational with no risk of shutdown in the event of an AC Grid or PSU even when all installed
component are simultaneously running at their worst case power consumption. New FTR is a limit on peak performance that occurs when redundancy is
lost. Fault Tolerant Redundancy is able to maintain the same conservative standards of redundancy as traditional Grid Redundancy by limiting peak power
after redundancy is lost to levels which will fit within the surviving Power Supply.

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PowerEdge FC640
Perfect for dense “anything-as-a service” (XaaS) environments
Designed for flexibility and performance with
best-in-class density.

Targeted Workloads
• Virtualization: denser footprint with greater infrastructure flexibility
• Software defined storage: compatible with SDS solutions like vSAN
• In-memory OLTP: performance and memory density well suited for
HIGHLIGHTS
clustered database environments
• Density and performance of blade servers
with the convenience, flexibility and cost
Key Capabilities advantages of rack-based systems
• Up to 4, two-socket, half-height/width compute sled housed in FX2
chassis, powered by up to two 28-core Intel Xeon SP processors • Offering exceptional performance and a rich
set of storage options
• 16 DDR4 DIMM slots, supports RDIMM / LRDIMM / LRDIMM, up to
2667MT/s speeds, 1TB max memory at RTS, and 2TB in Q118. • Supports several different server node
• Storage options include two 2.5-inch drives; option of NVMe PCIe SSDs configurations to meet unique requirements
for high performance DAS needs
Based on Dell Internal Analyses 03/01/2017.

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 PowerEdge FC/M640 Sled – Memory Overview
Memory Topology
• FC/M640 – Dual CPU’s with 6 Memory Channels Per CPU

• All channels are 1 DIMM per channel except channel 0 and 3

support 2 DIMM’s per channel.

• Intel 3D Xpoint DIMM’s will be supported on DIMM A7, A8, B7

and B8 – Require future Intel Xeon Scalable refreshed
processors

• To achieve best performance, DIMM configurations need to be

balanced, which means same number of DIMM’s per channel
across all populated channels.

• For maximum performance, 12 DIMM’s per FC640 achieves

max performance and capacity.

Supported DDR4 Memory DIMM’s

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FX2 Storage – FD332

Drive release
buttons Eight
Side-loading
drives

Pull-out Top and bottom drives

handle
Sled release knobs

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PowerEdge FD332 – Storage Flexibility/Operation Modes.

Single Controller: Joined Dual Controller: Split Single Host Dual Controller: Split
LOMs

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FX2 networking pass-through modules

1 Gb pass-through module 10 Gb pass-through module

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PowerEdge FX2 Networking – FN Series I/O Modules

Fiber LOMs
Copper

FN410T: 4 port GE/10GE Base-T

FN410S: 4 port GE/10GE SFP+
Addresses
comprehensive USB Console
customer need
USB Storage

Combo 10GbE SFP+

10Gb Base-T
FN2210S: 2 port FC2/4/8G + 2 port GE/10GE SFP+
Convertible
2/4/8G FC

Key Software Features

• Aggregates L2/L3 traffic (PIM multicast, IP ACL, QoS not supported)
Software • Supports LAG/LACP (no spanning tree)
Features • VLT
• Stacking on FN410S and FN410T
• All 4 modes of IOA – default, stacking, VLT and PMUX
• Supports LAN, ISCSI, DCB, FCoE, NPG (only on FN2210S)
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