E2600 Controller-Drive Tray Installation Guide 1
Step 1 - Preparing for an E2600 Controller-Drive Tray Installation
Storage arrays for 6-Gb/s SAS drives consist of a E2600 controller-drive tray model and one or more drive trays in
a cabinet.
Use this document to install one of the following E2600 controller-drive tray models and all necessary drive trays
for your configuration:
E2612 controller-drive tray
E2624 controller-drive tray
E2660 controller-drive tray
The following tables (Table 1 and Ta
ble 2 on page 2) show the various configuration options.
Table 1 E2612 Controller-Drive Tray and E2624 Controller-Drive Tray Options
E2600
Configurations
Options
Simplex (one controller)
E2612 controller-drive
tray or E2624
controller-drive tray with
no host interface card
A maximum of 96 drives that you can upgrade to 192. The upgrade is
a Premium feature.
Any combination of E2600 controller-drive trays attached to DE1600
drive trays or DE5600 drive trays, not to exceed a maximum of 96 (or
192) drive slots or 8 total trays in the storage array.
Two 6-Gb/s host connectors.
Options of 1-GB, 2-GB, or 4-GB memory for cache offload to flash
memory battery backup.
Simplex E2612
controller-drive tray or
E2624 controller-drive
tray with a host interface
card
A maximum of 96 drives that you can upgrade to 192. The upgrade is
a Premium feature.
Any combination of E2600 controller-drive trays attached to DE1600
drive trays or DE5600 drive trays, not to exceed a maximum of 96 (or
192) drive slots or 8 total trays in the storage array.
Two 6-Gb/s host connectors, in addition to one of the following host
interface cards:
Two 6-Gb/s SAS connectors
Four 1-Gb/s iSCSI connectors
Two 10-Gb/s iSCI connectors
Four 8-Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) connectors
Options of 1-GB, 2-GB, or 4-GB memory for cache offload to flash
memory battery backup.
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