Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s and MX5000s Installation and Service Manual

Each slot in the PowerEdge MX7000 chassis supports a Compute Sled or a Storage Sled, and there are no fixed mappings for the sleds. Using the OpenManage Enterprise-Modular web interface the disks in a storage sled can be mapped to a Compute Sled that gives you the following options:

• Enclosure-Assigned mode
• Drive-Assigned mode

Enclosure-Assigned mode:

• All the drives in the PowerEdge MX5016s are assigned to the selected compute sleds.
• The Fab-C Mezz controller can be either PERC H745P MX, or HBA330 MMZ. Enclosure assignment mode is required if the PowerEdge MX5016s is to be shared between multiple compute sleds (that is clustered). Only HBA330 MMZ controller supports shared assignments.
  NOTE

  The Enclosure assigned shared mode requires the use of only Windows 2016 operating system and is not supported with the PERC MX745P. The MX5016s is listed on Microsoft's Windows Server Catalog as Storage Spaces capable storage for Windows Server 2016 x64: https://www.windowsservercatalog.com

  This is currently the only clustered file system/OS that is supported in Enclosure assigned shared mode.

Drive-Assigned mode:

• A specified group of disks is assigned.
• Drive-Assigned mode assigns the individual drive from the PowerEdge MX5016s to another compute sleds (but cannot be assigned to more than one sled simultaneously). The Fab-C Mezz controller on the mapped compute sled can be either a PERC H745P MX, or HBA330 MMZ.

The first compute sled maps to disks 0 through 7 and the other compute sled maps to disks 8 through 15. The disk assignment can be asymmetric, for example, 12 drives that are mapped to the first compute sled and 4 drives to the other compute sled. Also the disks can be divided up among more than two compute sleds, for example, four disks to each of 4 compute sleds.