Dell DD and PowerProtect Hardware 8.0 Features and Specifications

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DD6300 and ES30 shelf guidelines

The system rediscovers newly configured shelves after it restarts. You can power off the system and recable shelves to any other position in a set, or to another set. To take advantage of this flexibility, you need to follow these rules before making any cabling changes:

Do not exceed the maximum shelf configuration values for your system as listed in the following table below.
Use the Installation and Setup Guide for your system to minimize the chance of a cabling mistake.
A system cannot exceed its maximum raw external shelf capacity, regardless of added shelf capacity.
ES30 SATA shelves must be on their own chain.

Table 1. DD6300 and ES30 shelf configuration
DD system	Memory required (GB)	SAS cards/ port per card	ES30 support (TB)	Max shelves per set	Max number of sets	Max external capacity available (TB) ¹	Max RAW external capacity (TB) ²
DD6300	48	1x4 (Optional)	SAS 30, 45, 60	1	1	48	60
DD6300 w/ Expanded Capacity ³	96	1x4 (Optional)	SAS 30, 45, 60	5	1	144	180

^{1. This figure only counts drives that have user data in the shelves.}

^{2. The raw capacity of an ES30 is 125% of the available capacity.}

^{3. DDOS 6.0 and FS15 SSD shelf configuration}