Dell ECS EX Series, Hardware Manual

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EX500 Platform
Topics:
• EX500 Hardware Components
• EX500 configurations
• EX500 upgrade paths
• EX500 server
• EX500 disk drives
• EX500 power cabling
• EX500 iDRAC cabling
• EX500 network cabling
• Network connections between multiple ECS appliances in a single site
EX500 Hardware Components
The EX500 ECS appliance includes the following hardware components.
Table 5. EX500 hardware components
Component Description
40U rack Titan D racks that include:
●
Gen3 0U PDUs supporting single phase, three-phase delta, and three-phase WYE
● Front and rear doors
● Racking by Dell EMC manufacturing
In addition to the Dell EMC-racked EX500 appliance, the EX500 nodes can be installed in
customer-provided racks. For more information about third-party racking requirements, see
the
ECS EX500 Third-Party Rack Planning and Installation Guide .
Back-end (BE) switches for
private network connection ● Two Dell EMC S5148F 25 GbE 1U Ethernet switches with 48 x 25 GbE SFP ports and 6 x
100 GbE uplink ports.
● 2 x 100 GbE VLT cables per HA pair.
Front-end (FE) switches for
customer public network
connection ● Two optional Dell EMC S5148F 25 GbE 1U Ethernet switches can be obtained for network
connection, or the customer can provide their own 10 GbE or 25 GbE HA pair for the front
end.
● If the customer provides their own front-end switches, they must supply all VLT cables,
SFPs, or external connection cables.
● If Dell EMC S5148F 25 GbE front-end switches are used, the 25 GbE ports are configured
to run at 25G to connect to the EX500 nodes, and 2 x 100 GbE VLT cables are provided.
Nodes ● Minimum number of nodes per rack is 1.
○ Minimum initial configuration is 5.
○ Supports spill-over expansion racks with 1 node. For example, a 17-node VDC has a
16-node rack and a 1-node rack.
● HDD sizes can be 8TB or 12 TB, ECS 3.5 and later supports 16TB (All drives sizes must be
the same in the node)
● Within a Dell EMC manufactured rack that is delivered from the factory, all nodes within
the rack are of the exact same drive size. For node upgrades in the field, nodes with other
sized drives are allowed within the rack.
● 12 (slots 12-23) or 24 (slots 00-23) SATA hard drives (HDDs) in each node.
● 480 GB M.2 (BOSS) system disk in each node.
● 64 GB RAM per node.
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