Dell EMC ME4 Series - Enclosure variants

You can attach or remove the optional 2U enclosure bezel. Locate the bezel, and while grasping it with your hands, face the front panel of
the 2U12 or 2U24 enclosure. A partial view of a 2U12 enclosure is shown in Figure 7. Attaching or removing the 2U enclosure front bezel.
1 Hook the right end of the bezel onto the right ear cover of the storage system.
2 Insert the left end of the bezel into the securing slot until the release latch snaps in place.
3 Secure the bezel with the keylock as shown in Figure 7. Attaching or removing the 2U enclosure front bezel.
To remove the bezel from the 2U enclosure, reverse the order of the preceding steps.
NOTE: See Enclosure variants for details about various enclosure options.
Enclosure variants
The 2U chassis can be congured as a controller enclosure ME4012, ME4024, or an expansion enclosure ME412/ME424 as shown in Table
1. 2U12 enclosure variants and Table 2. 2U24 enclosure variants. The 5U chassis can be congured as a controller enclosure ME4084 or an
expansion enclosure ME484 as shown in Table 3. 5U84 enclosure variants.
NOTE:
The 2U and 5U core products—including key components and CRUs–are described herein. Although many CRUs dier between the
form factors, the IOMs are common to 2U12, 2U24, and 5U84 chassis. The IOMs are introduced in 2U enclosure core product and
cross-referenced from 5U84 enclosure core product.
2U12
2U12 enclosures consist of 12 x LFF (Large Form Factor) disk drives and 12 x HFF (Hybrid Form Factor) disk drives.
Table 1. 2U12 enclosure variants
Product Conguration PCMs
1
IOMs
2,3
ME4012 12 Gb/s direct dock LFF SAS 2 2
12 Gb/s direct dock LFF SAS 2 1
ME412 12 Gb/s direct dock LFF SAS 2 2
1
-Redundant PCMs must be compatible modules of the same type (both AC).
2
-Supported controller module IOMs include 4-port FC/iSCSI, 4-port HD mini-SAS, and 4-port iSCSI 10Gbase-T. Supported expansion
module IOMs are used in expansion enclosures for adding storage.
3
-In single-controller congurations, the controller module installs into IOM slot A, and an IOM-blank is tted to IOM slot B.
2U24
2U24 enclosures consist of 24 x SFF (Small Form Factor) disk drives.
Table 2. 2U24 enclosure variants
Product Conguration PCMs
1
IOMs
2,3
ME4024 12 Gb/s direct dock SFF SAS 2 2
12 Gb/s direct dock SFF SAS 2 1
Storage system hardware 11