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| What is CMC for VRTX? | Blades Wiki |
| What's New? | iDRAC8 Home |
| VRTX Manuals | Lifecycle Controller Home |
| VRTX Video Demos | CMC Home |
| VRTX White Papers | M1000e Home |
| VRTX Useful Links | |
| VRTX Hardware |
What is CMC for VRTX?
The newly announced Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a revolutionary, easy-to-manage, remote and office-optimized platform that converges servers, storage and networking into a compact package. It can hold up to 4 server nodes, up to 48TB of integrated, shared storage, and network switching.
Unique VRTX Features
More than simply a small blade server, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX offers something that no other blade server solution has: the ability to use PCIe slots. By combining the density of blade servers with the flexibility of rack server I/O options with PowerEdge VRTX, Dell gives you the flexibility to use less expensive PCIe cards while still being managed through shared chassis management. Another exciting new feature is VRTX's shared storage and on-board RAID controller. Pulling this all together into one, easy-to-manage platform is where VRTX shines.
CMC's role
Part of each VRTX platform, CMC is a dedicated, hot-pluggable module (a second, redundant unit is optional) within the platform that provides a secure web/browser-based interface that is used to take inventory, perform configuration and monitoring tasks, remotely power on/off blades and enable alerts for events on servers and components in the blade chassis. CMC integrates with each of the VRTX server nodes’ embedded iDRAC module, so users can perform iDRAC functions such as opening a remote console session from the CMC interface. Chief among those configuration tasks is setting up shared storage, creating virtual disks and managing PCI slot assignments. Like iDRAC7, CMC for VRTX is licensed in two different varieties: Express and Enterprise. More details on the difference between what comes with each license for both CMC and iDRAC7 for VRTX is available here.
What's New
| VRTX Release Summary | ||
|---|---|---|
| VRTX 1.30 |
| 3/17/2014 (Download) |
| VRTX 1.25 |
| 2/07/2014 (Download) |
| VRTX 1.0 |
| 6/28/2013 (Download) |
| VRTX Manuals (home)& Docs | |
|---|---|
| User Guide | CMC for PowerEdge VRTX [1.0] |
| RACADM Reference | RACADM Command Line Reference Guide [1.0] |
| Event Message Reference | Describes all messages, message IDs, and message arguments from all profiles in one document [ 1.0 ] |
| WSMAN Profiles | Describes the behavior for each 12G feature and necessary classes, properties and methods as well as configurable management attributes that represent the feature. Also see Managed Object Files (MOFs). |
| Fault Tolerance | Upgrading PowerEdge VRTX to support Fault Tolerant Shared PERC 8 [NEW] |
| VRTX Useful Links |
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| A look at the Dell PowerEdge VRTX |
| Dell Enterprise Demo Tools |
| VRTX Platform Page |
| Supported PCIe Cards (low profile and full height) | |
|---|---|
| AMD FirePro W7000 | 6Gb/s SAS HBA |
| Broadcom Dual Port 1Gb | 6Gb/s SAS HBA |
| Intel Dual Port 1Gb | Intel Dual Port 10Gb Base-T |
| Intel Dual Port 10Gb Base-SFP+ | Broadcom Quad Port 1Gb |
| Intel Quad Port 1Gb | Broadcom Dual Port 10Gb Base-SFP+ |
| Supported Hard Drives | |
|---|---|
| 500GB 7.2k NLSAS 2.5” HDD | 1TB 7.2k NLSAS 2.5” HDD |
| 600GB 10k SAS 2.5” | 900GB 10k SAS 2.5” |
| 1.2TB 10k NLSAS 2.5” HDD | 146GB 15k SAS 2.5” |
| 300GB 15k SAS 2.5” | 1TB 7.2k NLSAS 3.5” |
| 2TB 7.2k NLSAS 3.5” | 3TB 7.2k NLSAS 3.5” |
| 300GB 15k SAS 3.5” | 450GB 15k SAS 3.5” |
| 600GB 15k SAS 3.5” | 200GB SAS SSD 2.5” |
| 400GB SAS SSD 2.5” | 4TB 7.2k NLSAS 3.5” |