Dell DD and PowerProtect Hardware 8.0 Features and Specifications

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Rear panel

The DD3300 rear panel contains the system serial port, NIC cards, power supplies, and 3.5" drive bays. shows the rear of the system.

Figure 1. Rear panel
DD3300 rear panel
  1. Full height PCIe expansion card slots
    • The top slot is for the optional 2 x 10 GbE NIC
    • The middle slot is for the optional 4 x 16 Gbps FC module
    • The bottom slot is not supported
  2. Not Supported -- Half height PCIe expansion card slot
  3. Rear handle
  4. 3.5" drive bays (used for 1 x 480 GB SSD in the 8 TB, 16 TB, and 32 TB configurations)
  5. Power supply units (1 or 2)
  6. Network daughter card Ethernet ports
  7. Not Supported -- USB 3.0 ports
  8. Not Supported -- VGA port
  9. Serial port
  10. iDRAC9 dedicated management port
  11. System identification button

The DD3300 system supports the use of the iDRAC9 dedicated management port to emulate a serial console.

Disk layout

8 TB, 16 TB, and 32 TB configurations use one rear slot for an SSD. 4 TB configurations do not use an SSD. The following table shows the physical location of the rear SSD slots.

NOTE:Although the physical slots are numbered starting from 0, the software identifies the slots starting at 1.
Table 1. Rear disk slot numbers
Slot 12 (SW slot 13) Slot 13 (SW slot 14)

Network port layout

The DD3300 network daughter card provides 4 x 1 GbE or 4 x 10 GbE network ports for network connectivity.

NOTE:Starting with DD OS 6.2, DD3300 systems ship with a 4 x 10 GbE RJ-45 network daughter card.

The following table lists the layout of the network daughter card ports.

Table 2. Network daughter card port identifiers
ethMa ethMb ethMc ethMd

An optional 2 x 10 GbE module is supported on the DD3300 system.

Figure 2. 2 x 10 GbE module
2 x 10 GbE module

The following table lists the layout of the 10 GbE ports.

NOTE:The 10 GbE module is inserted upside down, therefore the ports are in descending order from left to right.
Table 3. Optional 10 GbE module port identifiers
eth1b eth1a

FC port layout

An optional 4 x 16 Gbps FC module is supported on the DD3300 system.

Figure 3. 4 x 16 Gbps FC module
4 x 16 Gbps FC module

The following table lists the layout of the FC ports from left to right.

Table 4. Optional 16 Gbps FC module port identifiers
22d 22c 22b 22a

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