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Hardware components
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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.
Table 1: Hardware components by hybrid model (hybrid models may contain both HDD and
SSD physical drives)
Component
CN-1400
CN-2400 and
CN-2400-E
CN-3400
CN-5400 and
CN-5400-E
Model
Intel Xeon
E5-2600 V3 or
V4 series
CN-2400:
Intel Xeon
E5-2600 V3 or
V4 series
CN-2400-E:
V4 series
Intel Xeon
E5-2600 V3 or
V4 series
Intel Xeon
E5-2600 V3 or
V4 series
CPU Count
1
1 or 2
1 or 2
1 or 2
CPU Core
Count
6 or 8
8 or greater
8 or greater
8 or greater
Speed in GHz 2.3GHz or
greater
2.3GHz or
greater
2.3GHz or
greater
2.3GHz or
greater
CPU
Wattage
145W or less
145W or less
145W or less
145W or less
Quantity
2
2
4
4
Capacity
400GB
400GB
400GB
800GB
Front SSD
Drives
Interface
SATA
SAS
SAS
SAS