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height of 41U. 9U Library Expansion Modules provide additional capacity as your storage and tape drive requirements change.
See
Figure 4
for an illustration of library scalability. For information on installing, removing, and replacing modules, see
Installing, Removing, and
Each module has a specific number of fixed storage slots, I/E station slots, and tape drive slots available. See
is as follows.
for the number of slots available for each library configurations.
Note:
Slot counts in this document do not include five inaccessible slots in the bottom row of any library configuration.
For more information about these slots, see
Caution:
ML6030 (and higher) CM and Expansion Modules require professional installation. Professional installation
may have been included with your purchase. Please call 1 800 945 3355 to schedule professional installation of your
PowerVault library.
5U Library Control Module
The 5U Library Control Module is required in any PowerVault ML6000 library configuration. The 5U Library Control Module
contains the robotic controls, library control blade (LCB), and touch screen display. The 5U Library Control Module also
contains an import/export (I/E) station, fixed storage slots, tape drives, and at least one power supply.
9U Library Expansion Modules
9U Library Expansion Modules are supplementary modules that can be stacked above or below the 5U Library Control Module.
Each 9U Library Expansion Module contains fixed storage slots, tape drive slots, and power supply slots. The I/E stations on
9U Library Expansion Modules are included and may be configured as storage. 9U Library Expansion Modules also contain
bays for optional Fibre Channel (FC) Input/Output (I/O) blades.
If a 9U Library Expansion Module is used only for storage and does not contain tape drives or FC I/O blades, it does not need
a separate power supply. All power is derived from the 5U Library Control Module.
Stackability
The maximum rack height of the library is 41U, which consists of a 5U Library Control Module and four 9U Library Expansion
Modules.
Figure 4
illustrates the stackability of the library.
Figure 4 Base Systems Plus 9U Library Expansion Modules
ML6010
ML6020
(41
slots)
(133 slots)
5U Library
Control Module
5U Library
9U Library
Expansion Module
Control
Module
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Replacing.
Unused
ML6030
(225 slots)
5U Library
Control Module
9U Library
Expansion Module
9U Library
Expansion Module
Slots.
ML6030 CM + 1 9U Library
Expansion Module
(317 slots)
5U Library
Control Module
9U Library Expansion Module
9U Library Expansion Module
9U Library Expansion Module
Library capacity
ML6030 CM + 2 9U Library
Expansion Modules
(409 slots)
9U Library Expansion Module
5U Library
Control Module
9U Library Expansion Module
9U Library Expansion Module
9U Library Expansion Module
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