Vnx8000 Product Description - EMC VNX Series Hardware Information Manual

VNX8000 product description

VNX8000 product description
6 EMC VNX8000 Hardware Information Guide
Expansion up to sixty 2U, 25 DAEs (a maximum of 1,500 2.5-inch disk drives), of up to
one-hundred 3U, 15 DAEs (a maximum of 1,500 2.5- or 3.5-inch disk drives), up to twelve
3U, 120 DAE (a maximum of 1,440, 2.5-inch disk drives), or up to twenty-five 4U, 60 DAEs
(a maximum of 1,500 2.5- or 3.5-inch disk drives) is supported.
Note: The Block or the File and Unified services configuration of the VNX8000 platform can
have a mix of DAE types to conform to your specific requirements. In other words, you can
have a mix of 2U DAEs, 3U DAEs, and 4U DAEs in the same environment so as long as the
VNX8000 platform does not have no more than the supported amount of 1,500 disk
drives.
This section shows examples of the front and rear views of a File/Unified VNX8000
platform. These are only examples with two DMEs and a Vault DAE. A typical File/Unified
VNX8000 could be comprised of up to four DMEs and up to several DAEs.
Note: The File/Unified VNX8000 platform described in this guide includes information
about the 2U and 3U DAEs in a typical rack/cabinet environment. A File/Unified VNX8000
platform having all 4U DAEs or a mix of 2U, 3U, or 4U DAEs is typically built by
manufacturing in a Dense rack environment.