EMC VNX5500 - Page 119

Cabling the 6-Gb/s SAS I/O module in the VNX5500 platform
VNX5500 Hardware Information Guide 119
Figure 101 Example of the VNX5500 Block platform with nine DAEs (2U, 25 disks) interleaved
cabling
40U rack
Maximum number of DAEs 9
Maximum number of disks 240
Maximum number of
DAEs per bus 10
DPE
Power
Power
Switch
Power
Power
Switch
X4
2
3
4
5
6Gb
SAS
8Gb
bre
1
0 X4
6Gb SAS
X4
2
3
4
5
6Gb
SAS
8Gb
bre
1
0 X4
6Gb SAS
0
1
2
3
SP B
S
P
A
2U DAE (25 disks per DAE)
SPS B SPS A
VNX-000667
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
6 Gb SAS
X4
#
B
EA 0/Bus 5
EA 0/Bus 4
EA 2/Bus 0
EA 1/Bus 1
EA 1/Bus 2
0123
0123
EA 0/Bus 1
EA 0/Bus 2
EA 0/Bus 3
EA 1/Bus 0