EMC VNX Series Hardware Information Guide

138 EMC VNX8000 Hardware Information Guide
VNX8000 DAE cabling
Figure 116 Example of the VNX8000 Block platform with nine DAEs (2U, 25 disks) interleaved
cabling 40U rack 3 (continued)
Third 40U rack with 9, 2U DAEs
(25 disks per DAE).
Maximum number of disks 225.
Bus 2 and 3 are load balanced
and interleaved (daisy-chained)
from DAE 1 through 9.
40U Rack (3)
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
B
A
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
B
A
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
B
A
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
B
A
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
B
A
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
B
A
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
B
A
EA 6/Bus 3
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
B
A
EA 6/Bus 2
EA 5/Bus 3
EA 7/Bus 3
EA 8/Bus 3
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
6 Gb
6 Gb
SAS
SAS
X4
X4
#
B
A
EA 9/Bus 3
EA 8/Bus 2
EA 9/Bus 2
EA 7/Bus 2
VNX-000804

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)