Dell EMC ECS EX Series User Manual

EX500 hardware components
The EX500 ECS appliance includes the following hardware components.
Lists EX500 hardware components and its description.
Table 5 EX500 hardware components
Component Description
40U rack Titan D racks that include:
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Gen3 0U PDUs supporting single phase, three-phase delta, and three-phase WYE
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Front and rear doors
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Racking by Dell EMC manufacturing
In addition to the Dell EMC-racked EX500 appliance, the EX500 nodes can be installed
in customer-provided racks. For more information on third-party racking requirements,
see the ECS EX500 Third-Party Rack Planning and Installation Guide .
Back-end (BE) switches
for private network
connection
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Two Dell EMC S5148F 25 GbE 1U ethernet switches with 48 x 25 GbE SFP ports
and 6 x 100 GbE uplink ports.
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2 x 100 GbE VLT cables per HA pair.
Front-end (FE) switches
for customer public
network connection
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Two optional Dell EMC S5148F 25 GbE 1U ethernet switches can be obtained for
network connection or the customer can provide their own 10 GbE or 25 GbE HA
pair for the front end.
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If the customer provides their own front-end switches, they must supply all VLT
cables, SFPs, or external connection cables.
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If Dell EMC S5148F 25 GbE front-end switches are used, the 25 GbE ports are
configured to run at 25G to connect to the EX500 nodes, and 2 x 100 GbE VLT
cables are provided.
Nodes
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Minimum number of nodes per rack is 1.
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Minimum initial configuration is 5.
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Supports spill-over expansion racks with just 1 node. For example, a 17-node
VDC has a 16-node rack and a 1-node rack.
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HDD sizes can be 8 or 12TB. (All drive sizes are the same in the node.)
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Within a Dell EMC manufactured rack delivered from the factory, all nodes within
the rack are of the exact same drive size. For node upgrades in the field, nodes
with other sized drives are allowed within the rack.
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12 (slots 12-23) or 24 (slots 00-23) SATA hard drives (HDDs) in each node.
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480 GB M.2 (BOSS) system disk in each node.
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64 GB RAM per node.
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Two 10-core Xeon Silver 85W processors per node.
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8x, 8GB RDIMM, 2666MT/s, Single Rank, x8 Data Width.
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Dual 1100W Platinum power supply.
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Each node has 4 x 25 GbE networking.
EX500 Platform
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Dell EMC ECS EX Series Specifications

General

Brand	Dell EMC
Model	ECS EX Series
Category	Network Hardware
Language	English