Support For The N7X50T Series Storage Systems - IBM N Series Manual

v One remote management port per controller
v One full-length PCIe slot and one 3/4-length PCIe slot per controller
v Service Processor
v 4 GB, 8 GB, or 16 GB main memory per controller
v Support for EXN1000, EXN2000, EXN3000, EXN3500 and EXN4000 storage
expansion units
v Maximum FlexVol volumes supported: N6210: 200; N6240 and N6270: 500
v Two on-board 10-GbE ports that are not available for configuration

Support for the N7x50T series storage systems

Data ONTAP 8.0.1 and later Data ONTAP releases support N7x50T series
storage systems.
Architectural features of the N7x50T series platform include:
v PCIe v2.0 (Gen 2) x8 architecture
v Much higher slot count on the N7x50T series storage systems
– Use as many Flash Cache cards, network adapters, and storage adapters
v Latest 64-bit processing architecture
v Faster DDR3 memory and significant increase in the amount of memory on
N7x50T
– Available memory per controller is 96-GB.
v High-performance onboard 10-GbE and 8-Gb FC ports
– 4 onboard 10-GbE ports with stateless offload per controller.
– 4 onboard 8/4/2-Gb FC ports configurable as targets or initiators per
v Reliability, availability, serviceability, and manageability (RASM)
improvements
– Persistent write log destages NVRAM to CompactFlash to safely protect
– Service Processor (SP), the next-generation RLM technology, adds more
v I/O expansion module (IOXM)
– Provides 10 additional slots to those in the controller.
– Provides configuration flexibility for HA solutions in 6U and 12U
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as the solution requires with slots to spare.
controller.
write data not yet committed to disk during extended outages.
RASM features and capabilities.
footprints.