Internal storage
The ThinkAgile VX5520 appliances support the internal drive configurations listed in the following table.
Table 7. Internal drive configurations
Model
Drive bays
Drive groups
(min / max)
Drive quantity per
group (min / max)
Storage
controller
Hypervisor boot drive
Cache
drives
Capacity
drives
M.2 SSDs
Storage
controller
VX5520 14x 3.5" HS*
1 / 2
1 / 1
1 / 6
1x 430-16i
2x 128 GB
M.2 with Mirroring
* 12 front drive bays and 2 rear drive bays. If only one drive group is selected, the rear drive bays are not present.
The following table lists the drive selection options.
Table 8. Drive selection options
Description
Quantity per
drive group
(min / max)
Cache drives - SSDs
ThinkSystem 3.5" HUSMM32 400GB Performance SAS 12Gb Hot Swap SSD
1 / 1
ThinkSystem 3.5" HUSMM32 800GB Performance SAS 12Gb Hot Swap SSD
1 / 1
ThinkSystem 3.5" HUSMM32 1.6TB Performance SAS 12Gb Hot Swap SSD
1 / 1
ThinkSystem 3.5" Intel S4600 1.92TB Mainstream SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD
1 / 1
Capacity drives - HDDs
ThinkSystem 3.5" 2TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD
1 / 6
ThinkSystem 3.5" 4TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD
1 / 6
ThinkSystem 3.5" 6TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD
1 / 6
ThinkSystem 3.5" 8TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD
1 / 6
ThinkSystem 3.5" 10TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD
1 / 6
ThinkSystem 3.5" 12TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD
1 / 6
Configuration note: All SSD drives in the appliance must be of the same type and capacity. All HDD
drives in the appliance must be of the same type and capacity.
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