Deployment Topology; Expansion Configuration Rules - Qsan XCubeNAS XN8012R Owner's Manual

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Deployment Topology

This chapter will show detailed deployment topology for XCubeNAS. You can build up a
deployment plan for your XCubeNAS storage environment. It supports a maximum of up to
226 drives for the system storage space expansion; both single and dual path cabling are
supported.
9.1.

Expansion Configuration Rules

The table below shows the rule of configuration for XCubeNAS and enclosure units. Please
refer to the table below for a maximum number of expansion enclosures and disk drives prior
to performing system deployment.
Table 9-1
NAS Model
XN8012R with
SAS 12G Adapter
Card
XCubeNAS System and Expansion Enclosure Configuration Rules
Expansion
Enclosures
XD5312
(2U 12Bay)
XD5316
(3U 16Bay)
XD5324
(4U 24Bay)
XD5326
(2U 26Bay)
INFORMATION:
See the configuration of XCubeNAS enclosure units on
Expansion Enclosure List
Max. No. of
Max. No. of
Expansion
Disk Drives
Units
(12 + 4 + 2) +
8
12 X 8 = 114
(12 + 4 + 2) +
8
16 X 8 = 146
(12 + 4 + 2) +
8
24 X 8 = 210
(12 + 4 + 2) +
8
26 X 8 = 226
Max. Raw Capacity
(HDD: 14 TB
SATA SSD: 2 TB
NVMe SSD: 1TB)
1,522 TB
1,970 TB
2,866 TB
594 TB
Appendix:
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