EMC VNX Series Hardware Information Guide

154 EMC VNX8000 Hardware Information Guide
Eight- and sixteen-bus DAE cabling
Sixteen-bus factory-shipped VNX8000 system
The back end port numbering for a VNX8000 is set at system test (at the factory). Ports are
identified and numbered, low to high, left to right. The 6-Gb/s SAS I/O modules are in
slots 4, 5, 6, and 10 of Storage Processors A and B.
IMPORTANT
Slot 5, port 0 is reserved for connection to the vault drives.
A sixteen bus VNX8000 system with 6-Gb/s SAS I/O modules in slot 4, 5, 6 and 10
supports up to sixteen loops using standard x4 SAS cables (Table 56).
Table 56 A (sixteen-bus) VNX8000 scenario
I/O module slot
number Port
Back-end
loop #
SP A an B cable labels
(white w/black text)
Back-end loop cable
label colors
401SP A SAS 4 Port 0
SP B SAS 4 Port 0
Blue
412SP A SAS 4 Port 1
SP B SAS 4 Port 1
Black
423SP A SAS 4 Port 2
SP B SAS 4 Port 2
Green
434SP A SAS 4 Port 3
SP B SAS 4 Port 3
Brown
500SP A SAS 5 Port 0
SP B SAS 5 Port 0
Orange
515SP A SAS 5 Port 1
SP B SAS 5 Port 1
Cyan
526SP A SAS 5 Port 2
SP B SAS 5 Port 2
Purple
537SP A SAS 5 Port 3
SP B SAS 5 Port 3
Pink
608SP A SAS 6 Port 0
SP B SAS 6 Port 0
Yellow
619SP A SAS 6 Port 1
SP B SAS 6 Port 1
Medium gray
6 2 10 SP A SAS 6 Port 2
SP B SAS 6 Port 2
Red
6 3 11 SP A SAS 6 Port 3
SP B SAS 6 Port 3
Tan
10 0 12 SP A SAS 10 Port 0
SP B SAS 10 Port 0
Light blue/green

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)