Chapter 1 DX3000 and DX5000 System Description
DX3000 and DX5000 Systems
Quantum DX3000 and DX5000 User’s Guide
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Figure 3 DX3000 System
Components
DX3000
Quantum
H
1
2
PS
STATUS
Power and reset buttons
Drive sleds
Power supplies
Ethernet ports
Fibre Channel ports (optional Optyon™ card)
Keyboard, VGA,
parallel and COM
ports (service only)
DX5000 System
Components
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The DX5000 system houses the following components:
• Drive sleds (twelve or twenty four drive sleds per storage array)
(
qualified IT personnel serviceable
))
• Four redundant power supplies (
qualified IT personnel qualified
)
• Redundant fan modules located at the back of the unit (
trained IT
personnel serviceable
)
• Motherboard, CPU, and memory (
Quantum Field Service Only
)
• RAID controllers (
Quantum Field Service Only
)
• Optional
Optyon
™ Fibre Channel/compression board (
Quantum Field
Service Only
)
The
qualified IT personnel serviceable
components are removed and
replaced either through the front/back of the system or by removing the
top cover (see
figure 4
).
Note:
The DX5000 system with 24 hard drives requires two Optyon
Fibre Channel compression cards if Fibre Channel
compression is enabled.
