EMC VNX Series

Eight- and sixteen-bus DAE cabling
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Upgrade to a sixteen-bus system
To upgrade to a sixteen-bus system, add two more 6-Gb/s SAS I/O modules to slots 4 and
6 of the eight-bus system in Storage Processors A and B (Table 58).
Table 58 A VNX8000 (sixteen-bus) 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
500SP A SAS 5 Port 0
SP B SAS 5 Port 0
Orange
511SP A SAS 5 Port 1
SP B SAS 5 Port 1
Blue
522SP A SAS 5 Port 2
SP B SAS 5 Port 2
Black
533SP A SAS 5 Port 3
SP B SAS 5 Port 3
Green
10 0 4 SP A SAS 10 Port 0
SP B SAS 10 Port 0
Brown
10 1 5 SP A SAS 10 Port 1
SP B SAS 10 Port 1
Cyan
10 2 6 SP A SAS 10 Port 2
SP B SAS 10 Port 2
Purple
10 3 7 SP A SAS 10 Port 3
SP B SAS 10 Port 3
Pink
408SP A SAS 4 Port 0
SP B SAS 4 Port 0
Yellow
419SP A SAS 4 Port 1
SP B SAS 4 Port 1
Medium gray
4 2 10 SP A SAS 4 Port 2
SP B SAS 4 Port 2
Red
4 3 11 SP A SAS 4 Port 3
SP B SAS 4 Port 3
Tan
6 0 12 SP A SAS 6 Port 0
SP B SAS 6 Port 0
Light blue/green
6 1 13 SP A SAS 6 Port 1
SP B SAS 6 Port 1
Dark gray/green
6 2 14 SP A SAS 6 Port 2
SP B SAS 6 Port 2
Light gray
6 3 15 SP A SAS 6 Port 3
SP B SAS 6 Port 3
Peach