Chapter 1: Hardware overview
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Chapter 1: Hardware overview
This section contains the following topics:
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Hardware components
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Environmental and technical specifications
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About hardware upgrades
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About firmware revisions
The foundation of the SimpliVity architecture is two or more high-performance and highly-available
OmniCube servers. An OmniCube server provides computing, storage, networking, and other
resources to the virtual machines (VM) in the Federation.
After installing the hardware in a rack and connecting power and network cables, you can deploy each
OmniCube server into a SimpliVity Federation. As your capacity and performance needs increase, you
can add more OmniCube servers for easy, on-demand scalability, with no disruption to users.
Hardware components
Each OmniCube model provides different hardware configurations for storage, compute, and memory.
About the front panel components
The front panel of each OmniCube server provides system controls, diagnostic indicators, USB and
video ports, and contains a different number of solid state drives (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD).
Figure 1: OmniCube CN-5000 front panel