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CMC for M1000e

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What is M1000e?Blades Wiki
What's New?iDRAC7 Home
M1000e Manuals & DocsLifecycle Controller Home
M1000e Video DemosCMC Home
M1000e White PapersVRTX Home
M1000e Useful Links
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CMC 4.4 (released June 2013) Overview

Dell Chassis Management Controller

What is the M1000e?

The M1000e is Dell’s foundation for a blade server solution. It provides the infrastructure (industry-leading power & cooling, networking and blade manageability) for companies who choose to deploy blade-based server solutions. Its components include:

  • The Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC) is a systems management hardware and software solution for managing multiple Dell blade chassis.
  • PowerEdge servers- M420, M520, M620, M820, M610, M610X, M710, M710HD, M905 and M910 Blade Servers.
  • Blades Manageability Options- CMC, iDRAC, Dell AIM, Dell OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center, and Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter.
  • Integrated Networking

What's New

M1000e Release Summary
CMC 5.0

  • Supportfor13thGenerationBlades
  • VirtualAddressInventoryforservers
  • Firmwaresignaturecheck
  • OptiontouseCIFS/NFSforserverprofiles
  • DisplayFClinkstatusandPClinkspeedforIOA

December2014

(Download)

CMC 4.50

 November 2013 (Download)

CMC 4.45
  • Bug-fix update to 4.4
  • Uses XML-based technology for rapid one-to-many updates of system settings across multiple server blades
  • Chassis-wide Firmware Inventory
  • IO Aggregator Updates
  • Security Enhancements

 August 2013

(Download)

CMC 4.3

 

  • 1:Many agent free, FW update capability for supported 12G FC mezzanine cards
  • Update Dell PowerEdgeM IO Aggregator firmware from CMC
  • Racadm Support to configure Dell EqualLogic PS-M4110 Blade Array
  • MultiChassis Management Enhancements

12/19/2012
(Download)

CMC 4.11
  • Support for quarter-height server form factor
  • Support for Dell PowerEdge M820 Server
05/22/2012
(Download)
CMC 4.0
  • Server Cloning

  • Multi Chassis Management Enhancements

  • OpenManage Power Center enabled to manage server power

03/06/2012
(Download)
CMC 3.21
  • Firmware update of server component(s) across
    multiple servers in the chassis using Lifecycle Controller

  • Extended Non-Volatile (persistent) Storage,
    using 2 GB Secure Digital (SD) media in the CMC card slot(s)

  • Support for remote management of MAC addresses
  • Support for the following new hardware (various
    NDC, mezzanine cards, PowerConnect M8024-k 10GB Ethernet Switch)
03/15/2011(Download)
CMC 3.1
  • Multi Chassis Management
  • Power Management Enhancements
  • GPL/Open Source Compliant
12/07/2010 (Download)
CMC 3.01
  • 10GB Ethernet Enablement
  • New and more efficient fans
  • LDAP support
  • Option to launch virtual Keyboard-Video-Mouse (remote console) session for a server
  • Spport for the IPv6 protocol
  • Support for vLAN tagging
  • Support for 1:Many iDRAC firmware update (from CMC)
  • Support for CMC to iDRAC Single Sign On (SSO)
07/07/2010 (Download)
CMC 1.2
  • Enhanced Chassis Power reporting through the CMC
  • Enhanced CMC Firmware update to allow both CMC to be updated with single command
08/26/2008
(Download)
CMC 1.1
  • Support for optional upgrade FlexAddress feature
01/22/2008
(Download)
 
CMC 1.0
  • Support for Dynamic Domain Name System (DNS) registration
  • Support for remote system management and monitoring using a Web interface, iKVM, or Telnet/SSH connection.

  • Support for Microsoft(R) Active Directory(R) authentication

  • Support for Dell OpenManage(TM) software integration

01/22/2008
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M1000e Manuals & Docs

User Guide &

Release Notes &

Troubleshooting Guide

1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 4.3, 4.45, 4.5 user guide, & 4.5 release notes
RACADM Reference3.2, 4.04.1, 4.3, 4.45, 4.5
WSMAN ProfilesDescribes the behavior for each feature and necessary classes, properties and methods as well as configurable management attributes that represent the feature.

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M1000e Useful Links
Updating Modular Firmware
Server and Switches Enablement Table
OpenManage System Management SW Compatibility Matrix

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