EMC VNX Series

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)
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EA 6/Bus 3
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EA 6/Bus 2
EA 5/Bus 3
EA 7/Bus 3
EA 8/Bus 3
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6 Gb
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6 Gb
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EA 9/Bus 3
EA 8/Bus 2
EA 9/Bus 2
EA 7/Bus 2
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