EMC VNX Series Hardware Information Manual page 162

Eight- and sixteen-bus DAE cabling
Upgrading an eight-bus system to a sixteen-bus system
162 EMC VNX8000 Hardware Information Guide
An eight-bus VNX8000 system with 6-Gb/s SAS I/O modules in slots 5 and 10 of Storage
Processors A and B supports up to eight loops using standard x4 SAS cables.
Table 57 describes the 6-Gb/s SAS I/O module slot, port, back-end loop or bus number,
and cable label color for an eight-bus system.
Table 57 An eight-bus VNX8000 scenario
I/O module slot
number Port
5 0
5 1
5 2
5 3
10 0
10 1
10 2
10 3
As described in Table 57, the resulting numbering scheme for an eight-bus VNX8000
shipped from the factory is shown in
These figures show the 6-Gb/s SAS I/O module slot location, port location in the I/O
module, and the cable with cable labels from the I/O module side to the LCC side on the
respective DAE.
"Slot 5 (eight-bus) configuration" on page 163
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"Slot 10 (eight-bus) configuration" on page 164
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Back-end SP A an B cable labels
loop # (white w/black text)
0 SP A SAS 5 Port 0
SP B SAS 5 Port 0
1 SP A SAS 5 Port 1
SP B SAS 5 Port 1
2 SP A SAS 5 Port 2
SP B SAS 5 Port 2
3 SP A SAS 5 Port 3
SP B SAS 5 Port 3
4 SP A SAS 10 Port 0
SP B SAS 10 Port 0
5 SP A SAS 10 Port 1
SP B SAS 10 Port 1
6 SP A SAS 10 Port 2
SP B SAS 10 Port 2
7 SP A SAS 10 Port 3
SP B SAS 10 Port 3
Figure 131 on page 163
Back-end loop cable
label colors
Orange
Blue
Black
Green
Brown
Cyan
Purple
Pink
and Figure 132 on page 164.