EMC VNX Series

VNX8000 DAE cabling
EMC VNX8000 Hardware Information Guide 137
Figure 115 Example of the VNX8000 Block platform with forty DAEs (2U, 25 disks) interleaved
cabling 40U rack 2 (continued)
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Second 40U rack with 20, 2U DAEs
(25 disks per DAE).
Maximum number of disks 500.
Bus 0 and 1 are load balanced
and interleaved (daisy-chained)
from DAE 1 through 9.
Bus 2 and 3 are cabled from
SPE slot A5 and B5 ports 1
and 2.
Bus 2 and 3 are load balanced
and interleaved (daisey-chained)
from DAE 10 through 20.
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EA 5/Bus 1
EA 6/Bus 1
EA 7/Bus 1
EA 8/Bus 1
EA 6/Bus 0
EA 8/Bus 0
EA 7/Bus 0
40U Rack (2)
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EA 1/Bus 2
EA 1/Bus 3
EA 2/Bus 2
EA 2/Bus 3
EA 3/Bus 2
EA 3/Bus 3
EA 4/Bus 2
EA 4/Bus 3
EA 5/Bus 2
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EA 9/Bus 0
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EA 9/Bus 1
EA 0/Bus 2
EA 0/Bus 3
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