Chapter 2: Product Compatibility 35
CE6998 controller
tray and CE6994
controller tray
2 Gb/s or
4 Gb/s
224 FC4600
AT2655
FC2610
FC2600FC2
600
Copper FC
cables or
fiber-optic FC
cables
If you are using the FC4600 drive tray
in your configuration, design for a limit
of seven expansion drive trays for each
redundant pair of loops. With the
AT2655, FC2610, or FC2600
expansion drive trays, the limit is eight
per channel pair.
Mixing drive types is supported. When
a channel has a mix of FC4600,
AT2655, FC2610, or FC2600 drive
traysFC4600, AT2655, or FC2610
drive trays, up to seven drive trays per
channel and up to 14 drive trays per
controller tray are supported.
When a controller traycontroller tray
has a mix of FC4600, AT2655,
FC2610, or FC2600 drive
traysFC4600, AT2655, or FC2610
drive trays but each channel has only
one type of drive tray, up to seven drive
traydrive trays for each channel with
FC4600 drive trays and up to eight
drive trays for each channel with other
drive tray types are supported.
E5460, E5424, and
E5412
controller-drive
trays
6 Gb/s SAS 384 DE1600
DE5600
DE6600
SAS cables The E5400 controller-drive trays have
12-drive, 24-drive, and 60-drive
configurations respectively.
The DE1600 drive tray has up to 12
drives.
The DE5600 drive tray has up to 24
drives.
The DE6600 has up to 60 drives.
The maximum number of drive trays
per controller-drive tray is 15.
The maximum number of drives for
High Performance Computing
configurations is 240.
Product
Drive Port
Speeds
Maximum
Number of
Drives
Supported
Drive
Trays
Cable Type Notes
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