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Dell EMC PowerVault MD32XX/36XX Series Support Matrix

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Supported expansion enclosures

Dell EMC PowerVault MD 3x60 Series Dense Storage Arrays support a maximum of 180 physical disk drive slots (with premium feature activation). For a system without premium feature activation, the physical disk drive slots limit is 120. The additional slot support can only be provided by up to two Dell EMC PowerVault MD3060e expansion enclosures.

Table 1. Expansion enclosures supported on dense (4U) storage arrays. This table describes the expansion enclosures supported on dense (4U) storage arrays.
Enclosure model Minimum firmware version
Dell PowerVault MD3060e 03.9F

Dell EMC PowerVault MD32xx/36xx series storage arrays support a maximum of 192 physical disk drive slots (with premium feature activation). For a system without premium feature activation, the physical disk drive limit is 120. You can provide the additional slots with up to 15 MD1200 expansion enclosures, seven MD1220 expansion enclosures, or a combination of both. When you use a combination of expansion enclosures, the total number of physical disk drive slots in the system cannot exceed 192.

Table 2. Expansion enclosures supported on non-dense (2U) storage arrays. This table describes the expansion enclosures supported on non-dense (2U) storage arrays.
Enclosure model Minimum firmware version
Dell PowerVault MD1200 1.06
Dell PowerVault MD1220 1.06
  • NOTE: Attaching a 4U (dense) expansion enclosure to a 2U (non-dense) RAID storage array is not supported. Alternately, you cannot attach a 2U expansion enclosure to a 4U RAID storage array. All EMMs in an expansion stack must be at the same firmware level.

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