Chapter 1 DXi3500 and DXi5500 System Description
DXi3500 and DXi5500 Systems
Quantum DXi3500 and DXi5500 User’s Guide
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DXi3500 System
Components
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The DXi3500 system houses the following components:
• Drive sleds (four or eight drive sleds per storage array) (
qualified IT
personnel serviceable
)
• Two redundant power supplies (
qualified IT personnel serviceable
)
• Redundant fan modules located internally (
qualified IT personnel
serviceable
)
• Battery Backup Unit, BBU (
qualified IT personnel serviceable
)
• Motherboard, CPU, and memory (
Quantum Field Service Only
)
• RAID controller (
Quantum Field Service Only
)
• Optyon Fibre Channel board (
Quantum Field Service Only
)
The
qualified IT personnel serviceable
components are removed and
replaced either through the front or back of the system (see
figure 3
).
Figure 3 DXi3500 System
Components
Power and reset buttons
Drive sleds
Power supplies
Ethernet ports
Fibre Channel ports
Keyboard, VGA,
parallel and COM
ports (service only)
Removable BBU