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The 96 TB useable storage capacity drive configuration includes two operating system boot disk drives, two SSDs for cache tier,
two 12 TB disk drives for internal system storage, and 18 12 TB disk drives for customer storage capacity.
Drive 0
960 GB SAS SSD - system boot drive
Drive 1
960 GB SAS SSD - system boot drive
Drive 2
1.92 TB cache SSD - internal cache for Protection Storage metadata
Drive 3
3.84 TB cache SSD - internal cache for Protection Storage metadata. Required for DM5500 configurations of 24
TB capacity or more.
Drive 4
12 TB HDD - internal storage
Drive 5
12 TB HDD - internal storage
Drive 6-23 12 TB HDD
DM5500 rear view
Figure 8. DM5500 back panel features
1. Serial port
3. Dual or quad port expansion card (PCIe slot 3)
Can be configured to run as two 25 GbE SFP28 ports, two
10 GbE SFP+ ports, or four 10GBASE-T ports
5. SAS HBA (PCIe slot 5)
7. Power supply unit (PSU 1)
PSU 1 can be 1100W or 1600W, but must be the same
wattage as PSU 2.
9. Power supply unit (PSU 2)
PSU 2 can be 1100W or 1600W, but must be the same
wattage as PSU 1.
11. Ethernet port (2)
Gb1 and Gb2 service ports used for initial DM5500 login.
Only one of these ports at a time can be used for the initial
DM5500 login.
13. iDRAC9 dedicated network port
15. System identification button
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Overview
2. Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) card (PCIe slot 2)
4. Dual or quad port expansion card (PCIe slot 4)
Can be configured to run as two 25 GbE SFP28 ports, two
10 GbE SFP+ ports, or four 10GBASE-T ports
6. Filler (unused) PCIe expansion card (PCIe slot 6)
8. Information tag - this contains the DM5500 serial number.
The pull-out information tag contains a white label with the
14-character DM5500 serial number. The DM5500 serial
number is used as part of the default password when
you log in to the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance
Configuration UI for the first time when you perform the
initial DM5500 configuration.
10. LAN on motherboard (LOM) ethernet port (2) (PCIe slot 1)
Can be configured to run as two 25 GbE SFP28 ports, two
10 GbE SFP+ ports, or two 10GBASE-T ports
12. USB 3.0 port (2)
14. VGA port
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