Figure 53 Rear view (systems with Extended Retention software option or DD Cloud
Tier) (continued)
Slots 5 and 8 are used for SAS I/O modules for systems with Extended Retention or
DD Cloud Tier.
DD6300, DD6800 and DD9300 systems
DD6300, DD6800 and DD9300 Onboard IO is on the left of the rear side of the SP. A
DB-9 port is used as a serial console, and a USB 2.0 compliant port is for performing
DDOS upgrades. There are two 1000BaseT network port; the left port connects to a
dedicated BMC service port, and the right port is a general purpose embedded 1GBE
host interface port .
DD6300, DD6800 and DD9300 have eight SLIC slots (0-7) and are 8-lane PCIe Gen3
with an assigned specific functionality. The non-optional SAS, NVRAM, and 10GBaseT
SLICs are allocated to fixed slots. The optional Host Interface SLICs are used for front
end networking and fibre channel connections.
Figure 54 Rear view and SLIC slot numbering
1. Slot 0
2. Slot 1
3. Slot 2
4. Slot 3
5. Slot 4
6. Slot 5
7. Slot 6
8. Slot 7
Slots 2 and 7 are used for SAS I/O modules. DD6300 systems use only slot 7 when the
SAS module is needed.
Table 15 DD6300, DD6800 and DD9300 I/O module slot assignments
Slot Number DD6300 DD6800 DD9300
0 NVRAM NVRAM NVRAM
Data Domain-Specific Installation
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