how to identify the director count

Each Director has 8 slices A - H

1, 2 are the director numbers

Slice C is for the DS – Back End Emulation

Each slice has 10 cores allocation.

Ports are used for backend connectivity. Hope this answers your query

I am looking for front end adapters .

Symmetrix ID: XXX (Local)

         S Y M M E T R I X    D I R E C T O R S

    Ident  Type          Engine  Cores  Ports  Status
    -----  ------------  ------  -----  -----  ------

    FA-1D  FibreChannel     1     10     13    Online
    FA-2D  FibreChannel     1     10     12    Online
    FA-3D  FibreChannel     2     10     12    Online
    FA-4D  FibreChannel     2     10     13    Online

VMAX3 is designed to support 32 ports per director, ports 0 through 31.

ŸSlice D through H will be used for emulations  –Fiber (FA), Fiber (RF), and GigE (RE)

Cool...so you can still apply what Ugin said above, although with the Front-end adapters the slice emulation could be anything from D-H depending on the order and config of the box (FA's, RF's for RDF, DX for FTS, etc). In your output you look like the default which would have "D" as the FA slice since it is the first emulation next in line free after the internal emulations are laid down (A.B,C) when the array is built. FA's are use for Host Connectivity.

So using Ugin's answer above for the cores and the ports will still apply here and the only addition to it with the FA adapters is that the logical port noted in the 4th column is how your port groups would be referenced (basically the FA port - like FA1D:Port13). With the VMAX3 you have the ability to dynamically assign ports so it is possible that if you do this in the future these ports won't be in consecutive order...just as an FYI for how you view them in the future should to associate new ports with these FA emulations - this is a big change from the VMAX original architecture.

HTH,

-Keith