Chapter 1 DXi3500 and DXi5500 System Description
DXi3500 and DXi5500 Systems
Quantum DXi3500 and DXi5500 User’s Guide
8
DXi3500 Customer
Replaceable Components
1
The following list of DXi3500 components are customer replaceable (see
“Related Documents”
on page xv for replacement instructions):
• Drive sleds (four or eight drive sleds per storage array)
• Two redundant power supplies
• Redundant fan modules located internally
• Battery Backup Unit, BBU
DXi5500 System
Components
1
The DXi5500 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 (
qualified IT
personnel qualified
)
• Battery Backup Unit, BBU (
qualified IT personnel serviceable
)
• Motherboard, CPU, and memory (
Quantum Field Service Only
)
• RAID controllers (
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/back of the system or by removing the
top cover (see
figure 4
).
Note:
The replacement procedures must be completed by qualified
IT personnel.
Note:
The DXi5500 system with 24 hard drives requires two Optyon
Fibre Channel cards.
