Ex300 Disk Drives - Dell EMC ECS EX Series Hardware Manual

Item Panel, Ports, and Slots
3 Rear handle
4 Drive slots
5 Power supply unit (2)
6 NIC ports
7 USB port (2)
8 VGA port
9 Serial port
10 iDRAC9 dedicated port
11 System identification button

EX300 disk drives

Table 9 Server Panel, Ports, and Slots (continued)
Description
The rear handle can be removed to enable any external cabling of PCIe
cards that are installed in the PCIe expansion card slot 6.
The two rear 3.5 inch rear drive slots contain fillers.
Two AC or DC power supply units (PSUs)
The NIC ports that are integrated on the network daughter card (NDC)
provide network connectivity. The two left 10 GbE data ports of each node
connect to one of the data ports on the back-end switches. The two right
10 GbE data ports of each node connect to one of the data ports on the
front-end switches.
The USB ports are 9-pin and 3.0-compliant. These ports enable you to
connect USB devices to the system.
Enables you to connect a display device to the system.
Enables you to connect a serial device to the system.
Enables you to remotely access iDRAC. For more information, see the
Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) User's
The System Identification (ID) button is available on the front and back of
the systems. Press the button to identify a system in a rack by turning on
the system ID button. You can also use the system ID button to reset
iDRAC and to access BIOS using the step through mode.
Describes the disk drives that are integrated into the server chassis of the EX300
appliance.
EX300 nodes contain twelve 3.5 inch SATA front-accessible, hot-swappable drives in
slots 0 to 11. Disk size can be 1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB, or 8 TB. All drives within a node must
be of the same drive size, but there can be nodes of differing drive sizes within a rack.
In PCIe slot 1 of each node there is a 480 GB Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem
(BOSS) controller card with one M.2 stick.
EX300 Platform
Guide.
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