EMC VNX Series Hardware Information Guide

136 EMC VNX8000 Hardware Information Guide
VNX8000 DAE cabling
Figure 114 Example of the VNX8000 platform with eleven DAEs (2U, 25 disks) interleaved cabling
for a 40U rack 1
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
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B
A
6 Gb SAS
X4
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6 Gb SAS
X4
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B
A
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
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B
A
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
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B
A
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
A
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
A
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
A
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
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B
A
6 Gb SAS
X4
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6 Gb SAS
X4
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B
A
First 40U rack with 11, 2U DAEs
(25 disks per DAE).
Maximum number of disks 275.
Bus 0 and 1 are load balanced
and interleaved (daisy-chained)
from DAE 1 through 11.
SPE
0123
0123
0123
0123
SPS
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
A
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
A
EA 4/Bus 1
EA 0/Bus 1
EA 1/Bus 1
EA 2/Bus 1
EA 3/Bus 1
EA 0/Bus 0
EA 2/Bus 0
EA 3/Bus 0
EA 4/Bus 0
EA 1/Bus 0
EA 5/Bus 0
SPS
Use slot A5 and B5
ports 0 for Bus 0 and
ports 1 for Bus 1.
40U Rack (1)
Reserved space from
4U to 10U for File/Unified
upgrade.
VNX-000802

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)