EMC VNX Series Hardware Information Guide

VNX8000 product description
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Front view
Figure 1 shows an example of the front view of a File/Unified VNX8000 platform having a
4U SPE, two 1U Control Stations (one optional), two dual SPSs (one for the SPE and one
for the Vault DAE), two 2U Data Mover enclosures with four Data Movers, and a Vault DAE.
Figure 1 Example of a File/Unified VNX8000 platform (front view)
Data Mover
enclosure 0
AC
AC
AC
AC
Control Station 0
Control Station 1
(optional)
Data Mover
enclosure 1
AC
AC
AC
AC
Storage
processor
enclosure
SPE standby
power supply
DAE standby
power supply
Disk-array
enclosure 0
DC
AC
!
AC
!
AC
!
AC
!
DC
DC
AC
!
AC
!
AC
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AC
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DC
AC
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DC
AC
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DC
AC
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DC
AC
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DC
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0
SAS SAS SASSASSAS
SAS SASSASSASSAS
SAS SASSASSASSAS
Will Make the Array Unusable
Caution: Array Software on drives 0-3. Removing or relocating them
Blade Enclosure 1
Remove Prior to powering up equipment
046-003-752_A01
VNX-000559

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)