• Industry leading 56 port design:
– 32x 10Gb internal server ports
– Up to 6 external 40Gb ports
– Up to 24 external 10Gb ports (6 QSFP+ ports with breakout cables)
• Two FlexIO bays enable choice (Modules can be different)
– 2-port 40GbE QSFP+ module (can convert to 8-port 10GbE SFP+ using
breakout cables)
– 4-port 10GbE SFP+ module
– 4-port 10GBASE-T module (If running Base-T module then second IO slot
must be of different type due to power constraints)
– 4-port FC module
• Stack up to 6 devices
• VLT
• PVST+ protocol for easy integration into Cisco environments
• Converged
• Supports DCB (protocols PFC, ETC and DCBx)
• Converged iSCSI with EqualLogic (supports iSCSI TLV)
• Two FCoE Options
• Native Fibre Channel uplinks with FC FlexIO module (FCoE on internal ports to the
servers)
• FCoE transit to top of rack switch with IOM acting as a FIP Snooping Bridge
• Industry standard CLI
• Enterprise class OS (FTOS)
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Two
FlexIO
Modules
Two
QSFP+
ports
Converged
MXL – 10/40GbE blade
Dell M-Series Blade I/O Guide
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