PowerProtect X400 introduction
The Dell EMC PowerProtect X400 is an integrated data protection appliance,
providing both data protection software and storage. The PowerProtect X400 comes
pre-installed with the PowerProtect Data Manager, and provides built-in data
deduplication technologies, as well as replication and data reuse functionality.
The X400 Appliance includes the following hardware components:
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The PowerProtect X400 platform cube serves as the foundation of the X400
Appliance. The X400 platform cube provides resiliency of the data protection
service, ensuring the highest levels of appliance availability. It is a 2U four-node
Dell EMC PowerEdge C6400 server with four Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sleds.
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The PowerProtect X400 capacity cube provides the deduplicated storage
capacity, in a scale-out model, to support a wide range of data protection capacity
needs. It is a 2U single-node Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd server. An X400
capacity cube can be either a Hybrid or All Flash model. The Hybrid model is
referred to as the X400H capacity cube and has a maximum useable capacity of 96
TB. (The term Hybrid refers to the fact that the cube contains hard disk drives
(HDDs) for main data storage and solid state drives (SSDs) for performance
optimization.) The All Flash model is referred to as the X400F capacity cube and
has a maximum useable capacity of 112 TB.
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One or two switches (two for redundancy): Any SFP+ switches that support 10
GbE or 25 GbE and VLAN are compatible with the PowerProtect X400. The X400
platform cube is configured to run at 10 GbE and the X400 capacity cube can be
configured to run at 10 or 25 GbE. All ports on an X400 capacity cube must run at
the same speed.
Note:
Network switches are not included in the X400 hardware and must be
purchased separately or provided by the user.
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cube is defined as the basic building block of the X400 Appliance. Each cube is
comprised of one or more nodes which contribute memory, compute, networking, and
storage to the overall cube. A PowerProtect X400 Appliance includes one X400
platform cube and one to four X400 capacity cubes. The minimum appliance
configuration is one X400 platform cube and one X400 capacity cube for a total of 4U.
The maximum appliance configuration is one X400 platform cube and four X400
capacity cubes for a total of 10U.
All X400 capacity cubes within an X400 Appliance must be either all X400F capacity
cubes or all X400H capacity cubes. You cannot mix X400H capacity cubes with X400F
capacity cubes within an X400 Appliance. The maximum useable storage capacity for
an X400 Appliance with four X400H capacity cubes is 384 TB. The maximum useable
storage capacity for an X400 Appliance with four X400F capacity cubes is 448 TB.
The X400 cubes are shipped with rail kits and are installed in a customer-provided
rack. The X400 Appliance is designed as a flexible, scale-out data protection solution
that is easy to rack and stack in any enterprise data center. There are no direct
connections between the X400 cubes in an X400 Appliance. There are connections
from the X400 cubes to the switches.
CAUTION
Not following the instructions provided in this guide may result in the
X400 Appliance being unuseable. You must read this guide before installing the
PowerProtect X400 hardware and configuring the appliance. It is also critical that
you do not change the physical configuration of the X400 hardware.
Overview
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PowerProtect X400 Appliance Hardware Configuration and Installation Guide
