EMC CLARiiON DAE2P User Manual

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DAE2P/DAE3P Hardware Reference
About DAE2P and DAE3P disk enclosures
Introduction
EMC® CLARiiON® DAE2P and DAE3P UltraPoint™ (sometimes
called "point-to-point") disk-array enclosures are highly available,
high-performance, high-capacity storage systems that use a Fibre
Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) as the interconnect interface. An
enclosure connects to another DAE or a CX-series processor, and is
managed by storage-system software in RAID (Redundant Array of
Independent Disk) configurations. The enclosure is only 3U (5.25
inches) high, but can include 15 hard disk drive/carrier modules. Its
modular, scalable design allows for additional disk storage as your
needs increase. The examples and illustrations in this manual show
the rackmounted DAE2P/DAE3P in a standard 40U EMC cabinet.
DAE2P enclosures include high-performance Fibre Channel disk
drives. DAE3P enclosures can include either Fibre Channel or
economical Serial Advanced Technology Attach (SATA 3 Gb/s,
sometimes called SATA II) drives. You can integrate and connect Fibre
Channel and SATA enclosures within a storage system, but you
cannot mix SATA and Fibre Channel components within a DAE3P.
Figure 1-1 DAE2P/DAE3P
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Disk
Drive
(0 - 14)
Front
Bezel
Rackmount
Cabinet

EMC CLARiiON DAE2P Specifications

General

Brand	EMC
Model	CLARiiON DAE2P
Category	Enclosure
Language	English