- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Additional resources
- Platform Overview
- Technical specifications
- Hardware component descriptions
- Disk-array enclosures
- Cabling
- Rail kits and cables
This section shows examples of the front and rear views of Unity 300/300F/350F/380/380F, Unity 400/400F/450F, Unity 500/500F/550F, and Unity 600/600F/650F and a discussion of the hardware features.
Shown here are examples of the front and rear of a Unity 300/300F/350F/380/380F, Unity 400/400F/450F, Unity 500/500F/550F, and Unity 600/600F/650F platform disk processor enclosure (DPE).
Contained in a 2U architecture, the Unity™ All Flash and Unity Hybrid platform DPE fully loaded with hard disk drives and without I/O modules or DAEs weighs either:
The 2U DPE measures:
Between the front and rear of the enclosure, a midplane distributes power and signals to all the enclosure components. On the front DPE, drives plug directly into the midplane connections. On the rear of the DPE, the storage processors, power supply modules, and I/O modules plug directly into the midplane connections. Internal to each storage processor are a battery backup unit (BBU), redundant cooling modules, DDR4 memory, and an E5 v3 Intel processor.
The following table describes the hardware limits for Unity All Flash models.
Limit description | Unity 300F | Unity 350F | Unity 400F | Unity 450F | Unity 500F | Unity 550F | Unity 600F | Unity 650F | |
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CPU type in SP | 6-core 1.6 GHz (E5-2603) | 6-core 1.7 GHz (E5-2603) | 8-core 2.4 GHz (E5-2630) | 10-core 2.2 GHz (E5-2630) | 10-core 2.6 GHz (E5-2660) | 14-core 2.0 GHz (E5-2660) | 12-core 2.5 GHz (E5-2680) | 14-core 2.4 GHz (E5-2680) | |
Memory per SP | 24 GB | 48 GB | 48 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB | 128 GB | 256 GB | |
Three 8 GB DDR4 DIMMs | Three 16 GB DDR4 DIMMs | Three 16 GB DDR4 DIMMs | Four 16 GB DDR4 DIMMs | Four 16 GB DDR4 DIMMs | Four 32 GB DDR4 DIMMs | Four 32 GB DDR4 DIMMs | Four 64 GB DDR4 DIMMs | ||
Embedded CNA ports per SP | 2 ports, configurable as either:
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Embedded 10GbaseT ports per SP | 2 ports | ||||||||
Max. SAS I/O ports per SP | 2 (2 embedded mini-HD SAS ports) | 6 (2 embedded and 4 I/O mini HD SAS ports) | |||||||
Max. number of I/O modules per SP | 2 | ||||||||
Supported Back-End I/O modules | None | Four-port 12-Gb/s SAS | |||||||
Supported Front-End I/O modules |
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Max. number of Front-End ports per SP (all types) | 12 | ||||||||
Max. number of Front-End Fibre Channel ports per SP (CNA and I/O modules) | 10 | ||||||||
Max. number of Front-End ports 1GbaseT/iSCSI ports per SP (Onboard, CNA, and I/O modules) | 8 | ||||||||
Max. number of Front-End ports 10GbE iSCSI ports per SP (Onboard, CNA, and I/O modules) | 12 | ||||||||
(Dell Unity OE 4.1 and later) Min./Max. number of drives 1 | 5/150 | 5/150 | 5/250 | 5/250 | 5/500 | 5/500 | 5/1000 | 5/1000 | |
(Dell Unity OE 4.0 only) Min./Max. number of drives | 5/150 | N/A | 5/250 | N/A | 5/350 | N/A | 5/500 | N/A | |
Disk-array enclosures types supported |
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Max. number of 2U 25-drive DAEs supported | 5 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 19 | 19 | 39 | 39 | |
Max. number of 3U 80-drive DAEs supported | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 12 | |
Max. raw capacity (PB) | 2.4 | 2.4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 16 |
The following table describes the hardware limits for Unity Hybrid models.
Limit description | Unity 300 | Unity 400 | Unity 500 | Unity 600 | |
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CPU type in SP | 6-core 1.6 GHz (E5-2603) | 8-core 2.4 GHz (E5-2630) | 10-core 2.6 GHz (E5-2660) | 12-core 2.5 GHz (E5-2680) | |
Memory per SP | 24 GB | 48 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB | |
Three 8 GB DDR4 DIMMs | Three 16 GB DDR4 DIMMs | Four 16 GB DDR4 DIMMs | Four 32 GB DDR4 DIMMs | ||
Embedded CNA ports per SP | 2 ports, configurable as either:
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Embedded 10GbaseT ports per SP | 2 ports | ||||
Max. SAS I/O ports per SP | 2 (2 embedded mini-HD SAS ports) | 2 (2 embedded mini-HD SAS ports) | 6 (2 embedded and 4 I/O mini-HD SAS ports) | 6 (2 embedded and 4 I/O mini-HD SAS ports) | |
Max. number of I/O modules per SP | 2 | ||||
Supported Back-End I/O modules | None | Four-port 12-Gb/s SAS | |||
Supported Front-End I/O modules |
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Max. number of Front-End ports per SP (all types) | 12 | ||||
Max. number of Front-End Fibre Channel ports per SP (CNA and I/O modules) | 10 | ||||
Max. number of Front-End ports 1GbaseT/iSCSI ports per SP (Onboard, CNA, and I/O modules) | 8 | ||||
Max. number of Front-End ports 10GbE iSCSI ports per SP (Onboard, CNA, and I/O modules) | |||||
Min./Max. number of drives | 5/150 | 5/250 | 5/500 | 5/1000 | |
Disk-array enclosures types supported |
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Max. number of DAEs supported per system2 | up to 9 | up to 15 | up to 33 | up to 59 | |
Max. number of 80-drive DAEs supported per system | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | |
Max. raw capacity (PB) | 2.4 | 4 | 8 | 16 |
The Unity™ All Flash and Unity Hybrid platform includes the following hardware features:
On the front of the 2U DPE:
On the rear of the 2U DPE are two storage processors. Each storage processor consists of:
Each model supports a different number of drive slots and DAEs.
The number of DAEs supported by the Unity™ All Flash and Unity Hybrid is variable depending on the drive type in the DPE and DAEs. A Dell Unity™ All Flash and Unity Hybrid system cannot be configured with more drive slots than supported and will fault the DAE that contains the slots above the system limits.
Unless the array is restricted by its slot count, each back-end loop could contain: