EMC VNX Series Hardware Information Guide

VNX8000 DAE cabling
EMC VNX8000 Hardware Information Guide 133
Note: If your VNX8000 platform was not cabled at the factory, refer to the cable wrap guide
(“Cable label wraps” on page 130) that came with your VNX8000 platform for the correct
cable labels.
Figure 113 Example of the VNX8000 Block platform with two DAEs (3U, 15 disks and 2U, 25 disks)
cabling
0123
0123
0123
0123
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
A
X4
X4
SP A SAS 5 Port 0
1
LCC A
SP B SAS 5 Port 0
2
LCC B
Disk-array
enclosure 1
Storage
processor
Standby
power
supply
Disk-array
enclosure 0
Standby
power
supply
SP A SAS 5 Port 1
LCC A
SP B SAS 5 Port 1
LCC B
3
4
VNX-000801

EMC VNX Series Specifications

General

Management Interface	Unisphere
Drive Support	SAS, NL-SAS, Flash (SSD)
RAID Levels	RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6
Protocols Supported	Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS
Data Services	Deduplication, Compression, Snapshots, Replication
Processor	Intel Xeon
Operating System	VNX Operating Environment (block), VNX File Operating Environment (file)