EMC VNX Series Hardware Information Guide

VNX8000 DAE cabling
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Figure 117 Example of a VNX8000 Block platform (rack 1) with eleven DAEs (2U, 25 disks) stacked
and load balanced
6 Gb SAS
X4
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#
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
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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 (rack 1) with
10, 2U DAEs (25 disks per DAE).
Maximum number of disks 250.
Bus 0 is stacked and load
balanced in a daisy-chain
from DAE 1 through 10.
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 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
port 0 for Bus 0
40U Rack (1)
Reserved space from
4U to 10U for File/Unified
upgrade.
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
EA 6/Bus 0
EA 8/Bus 0
EA 7/Bus 0
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
A
EA 9/Bus 0
VNX-000805

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)