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The Unity Disk Processor Enclosure (DPE) is a 2U chassis housed in a standard EMC 40U
rack. DPEs support SAS/SATA drives in configurations of either 12 x 3.5 drives or 25 x 2.5
drive configurations.

Standard power and enclosure fault LED’s are located on the front of the DPE and will be
discussed later in the course.

System drives shown in green are contain array information and are located on drives 0
through 3 in the DPE.

Power and cooling specifications are below:

• Voltage: 100 – 240V

• Max Power: 400W

• Max Drive Power: 15W per slot

• Total Power Inputs: 2 (AC, DC)

If a user wishes to add capacity to an existing configuration, the Unity DPE can be
expanded by connecting the integrated SAS ports (2 ports) to a 15 or 25 drive Disk Array
Enclosure/s (DAE) depending on the number of drives supported for the Unity model. (Up to
500 max).

Supported DAEs are 12Gb/s only, previous VNX DAE and disk versions operating at 6Gb/s
are not supported in Unity.

Mounting rails are shipped with every Disk Processor Enclosure. DPEs ordered in an EMC
rack will use fixed rails, and DPEs ordered separately will include adjustable snap-in rails.

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Both the 2U 12 and 25 drive DPEs look identical from the rear. The chassis contains a two
Storage Processor Enclosures (SPEs or suitcases) as well as Power Supplies and two IO
expansion slots for frontend and/or backend expansion.

Storage Processor A is located on the bottom. Storage Processor B on the top.

Unity Storage Processors contain embedded (onboard) ports for Ethernet, Management,
Service, USB, Converged Network Adaptors (CNA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
connectivity.

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A Unity DPE is powered by two redundant intelligent Power Supplies, one for each SPE. This
creates single enclosure power zone. Each power supply is sized to provide enough power
to keep the entire enclosure running at full performance regardless if the peer power supply
is faulted or removed (N+1).

The Unity chassis has two power distribution buses. There is one 12V Standby bus and one
12V Main bus. The 12V main and 12V standby power connects directly to the CPU modules.
12V power is further fused to different 12V zones for the SLICs, Fans, IOs, DDR4 DIMMs
and the CPU modules.

Unity power supplies will be an off the shelf (OTS) hot swappable power supplies with 875W
or 1100 Watts of primary 12V power and 30 watts of standby power. As stated earlier, each
supply will be capable of supplying power to a CPU module as well as its SLICs and drives.
There will be one OTS supply per CPU module as shown in the slide. The Power Supplies
used in Unity will NOT monitor/control the cooling fans.

The Unity system is intended to be powered from a 200 -240VAC nominal line (180 -
265VAC).

The Unity Power Supply has three LEDs on its face. The Power Supply’s 3 internal LEDs are
AC Input Good (Green), DC Power output Good (green), and DC Output Fault (yellow). The
fault LEDs are on the front of the supply, to indicate which supply should be removed. The
power LED is near the AC input connector on the front of the supply and provides status
about the input power.

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The Storage Processor Enclosure (SPE) contains the Unity Storage Processor (SP).

Unity SPs are the core of the Unity platform. SPs deliver the block components and
services, such as Multicore Cache (MCC) and Multicore RAID (MCR). The two SPs also
provide block and file data access and multi-protocol support (NFS, SMB) to attached hosts
via I/O module (SLICs) technology that supports Fibre Channel and iSCSI.

The Unity storage processors operate in Active/Active mode, in that both controllers are
active/on-line and receiving host I/O simultaneously for the backend storage.

The large orange knob is part of a torque limiting system for engaging and dis-engaging the
SPE from the Disk Processor Enclosure chassis. There are multiple back-plane contact
points that provide the connection.

The component locator chart is visible when the Storage Processor has been removed from
the SPE. The locator chart provides instructions to remove the SP cover, and locate
components within the enclosure.

Note that the terms Storage Processor and CPU are used interchangeably.

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With the cover removed, key components are visible for identification and replacement if
necessary. The clear plastic air baffle will need to be removed to access some of the
components.

The suitcase contains several Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) including the 5 Fans.
Each SP contains a M.2 device. This device is a non-volatile device used by the OE and SP
memory. There are four DIMM slots on the baseboard. The battery backup unit provides
power to the SP in the event of an AC power outage. Each SP also contains its own power
supply.

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Five cooling fan packs (10 total) provide adaptive cooling and are located in each Storage
Processor Enclosure.

Fan packs are divided into two zones. Zone 1 covers ambient, CPU, DIMMs, BoB, HDD and
onboard I/O contains fan packs 0, 1, and 2. Zone 2 covers ambient and SLICs and contains
fan packs 3 and 4.

Each CPU module slot takes advantage of five fans in a 4+1 configuration. Each fan pack
consists of two fans operating in the opposite direction to counter the torque.

A fan pack will fault if one or both fans fail, and the Baseboard Management Controller
(BMC) will increase fan RPMs on surviving fans.

In the event two fan packs fault, the SP will do a thermal shutdown after a 5 minute timer
expires.

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Each Storage Processor contains a 6Gb/s internal M.2 SSD used as a Linux OS and vaulting
device. The M.2 drive is a CRU. The M.2 device is not visible to external connections as it is
internally connected.

The M.2 size must be large enough to hold the contents of dirty cache and provide enough
bandwidth during the vaulting process. The size of the M.2 device in Unity is designed for
safe operation at 32GB.

There are two possible error states for the M.2 SSD:

• Degraded – only a few spare blocks remaining. The SSD should replaced in near future.

• Faulted – no spare blocks remaining, replace immediately. If not replaced, it could result
in bringing the SP down or not being able to save the Cache Vault during a power failure.

M.2, formerly known as the Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF), is a specification for
internally mounted computer expansion cards and associated connectors. It replaces the
mSATA standard.

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Storage Processors have four slots to support up to 4 DDR4 SDRAM modules depending on
the Unity model. Each DIMM is a CRU.

Total supported memory is up to 128 GB (8 or 16 GB) per CPU module (SP). Slots should
be evenly populated with identical sized DIMMs where possible.

During a Power on, the Unity BIOS and POST test should detect any issues with DIMMS.

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There are two Battery on Bus Units (BoB) in a Unity array, one located on each Storage
Processor. Each BoB is an eight cell lithium-ion battery pack.

It is designed to provide just under 12V so as not to deliver power until the main power
supply drops or if the SP is removed from the midplane. The BoB will power the first four
drives, CPU, DIMMs, and M.2 drive and can keep up 1 CPU module to do 2 cache vaults.

Each BoB powers its own SP and does not provide power for the peer SP. Cache is enabled
as long as the supporting BoB is ‘ready’. If both SP BoBs are not ready, cache is disabled.

Battery life depends on usage and operating temperatures.

An A/C power loss event of 10ms or more will initiate a vaulting of cache. The SPs
immediately reboot into “low_power_mode” and while on battery, vault cache to the local
M2 drive. During the vaulting process all non-essential services and all but one CPU core is
shutdown. Once the vault is saved the system will completely shutdown. Or if A/C power
has been restored before the system shuts off, the system will reboot and come back up in
normal mode.

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This slide shows the location of the 12Gb SAS connectors on each Storage Processor. The
connectors are used to cable a mini-HD SAS cable to an expansion DAE when adding
capacity to an existing Unity array.

The Unity SAS component is a highly-embedded Gen3.0 eight-port encryption-capable SAS

controller. The controller contains 8 independent SAS ports and interfaces directly with the
CPU through a PCIe Gen3 bus.

SAS Port 0 is connected internally to the DPE disk drives, known as Bus 0, Enclosure 0,
(0_0), BE0 EA0.

The first attached DAE physically connects to mini-HD SAS Port 1. For example, Bus 1
Enclosure 0 (1_0), BE1 EA0.

The second attached DAE physically connects to mini-HD SAS Port 0. For example, Bus 0
Enclosure 1 (0_1), BE0 EA1.

All Unity models support two embedded backend ports per Storage Processor (four per
array). The number of additional supported backend busses with the addition of a 12Gb/s
SLIC is model dependent. Unity 500 and 600 models support a total of six, Unity 300, and
400 support two.

Four of the eight SAS ports are connected to a 12Gbps SAS expander, the remaining four
SAS ports on the SAS controller are connected to one expansion connector.

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Unity supports a 1G-BaseT dual channel 10/100/1000 Mbit PCIe Gen2 Broadcom 5720 LAN
controller which supplies two 1Gb Ethernet ports for service and management usage.

Each port can be configured with it own IP address.

The Ethernet management port (shown in red) and the Ethernet service port (shown in
yellow) are identified for SPA and SPB.

The service port can be used to provide a Serial Over LAN (SOL) connection to the array
using the IPMI tool.

The management port is used to connect to the network for management operations.

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Onboard SP 10G BASE-T Ethernet (10GigE) ports 2 (shown in red) and 3 (shown in yellow)
are identified for SPA and SPB.

These two ports are connected to the two single RJ45 connectors. These connections are
intended to be used for supporting 10 or 1GbE for block iSCSI and file IP at the same time
using SFP+ or Active TwinAX (auto-negotiates down to 1Gbps). These ports support MTU
1500/9000 frames and up to 256 initiators and 8 VLANs per port.

Note: Passive TwinAx is not supported.

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The USB ports for each SP are identified here. Unity supports a USB port that is v2.0 and
v3.0 capable. The port connects internally to the platform Controller Hub (PCH) on the
respective CPU. This port is for internal use only.

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Unity arrays support an onboard Converged Network Adapter (CNA) for front-end
connectivity utilizing a Qlogic PCIe Gen3 dual personality controller.

The CNA supports 10Gb Ethernet, iSCSi, or 16Gb Fibre Channel protocols. Each Storage
Processor has 2 CNA ports. CNA ports can only be configured as 1 protocol across both SPs
of the system.

Fibre Channel topologies and speed supported include 8/16 Gbps (auto negotiable), 2 node
loop topology with 4/8 Gbps configurations and Point to Point topology in 2 node or
switched configurations for all speeds.

iSCSI CNA ports support switched or direct attachment. Each port can operate at 10Gbps,
support VLAN tagging and 32 virtual ports per physical port.

Sync/Replication is supported when the lowest number port is enabled as Sync/Replication

port. All ports are available for use with EMC RecoverPoint.

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The SLIC (Small IO Cards) modules for SPA and SPB are shown here. Slot 0 is highlighted
in red and Slot 1 is highlighted in yellow.

Each SP in a Unity DPE will support two 2.0 SLICs modules for expansion. Each SLIC will
connect to each CPU through two x8 PCIe Gen 3 buses.

Note: SLIC 2.0 IO modules are not backward compatible with the previous SLIC 1.0
generation IO modules.

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The 25 drive Disk Processor Enclosure LEDs are identified in this image. In the normal
operation of a DPE power LED is solid blue when and the enclosure fault LED will be off.

Upon a power failure, the blue power LED is off. When a fault occurs on the DPE or if a
component in the DPE chassis is faulted, the enclosure LED will be amber.

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The 12 drive Disk Processor Enclosure LEDs are shown in this image. In the normal
operation of a DPE power LED is solid blue when and the enclosure fault LED will be off.

Upon a power failure, the blue power LED is off. When a fault occurs on the DPE or if a
component in the DPE chassis is faulted, the enclosure LED will be amber.

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This image shows the DPE Power Supplies (PS) as viewed from the rear. When the AC
power is good, the AC input LED will be lit solid green. When DC power is good the DC
power LED will be solid green. When DC power is faulted this LED will be amber.

Each power supply can provide power to the entire enclosure if the peer PS has been
removed or is faulted. Power during a power failure is provided by BoB modules within the
SP enclosures.

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The Memory/Boot Fault LED is normally off. When a memory or boot fault occurs, this
indicator will be solid amber. In this state the SP cannot boot. BIOS and POST should detect
any issues with the DIMMs or M.2 module because the DIMMs and M.2 are tested during
startup.

The main purpose of the Memory/Boot Fault LED is to identify a bad DIMM or bad M.2 in a
single SP. In a dual SP system, the peer SP can read the SP's System Error Log (SEL) and
indicate that the CRUs need to be replaced. However, on a single SP this is not possible.

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If the SP Power LED is off, then DC power is not present to the Storage Processor. When
the LED indicator is green and glows solid, power is present. When the Indicator is
blinking green at a rate of 1Hz (one cycle per second) the SP is in Standby Mode indicating
the SP is initializing a serial over LAN session.

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The Storage Processor fault LED show various states when a fault occurs. The LED is off for
normal operation.

An amber LED will blink at various rates during the BIOS and POST tests. If the LED is on
amber solid, the SP has failed. Reseat/replace SP if fault persists.

A blinking blue LED indicates blink codes.

• Amber/blue at 1 second blink rates indicate the system is in rescue mode.

• Amber (1 second), blue (3 seconds) indicate no ECOM IP is set.

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Embedded SAS ports 0 and 1 activity LEDs will be off to indicate a fault, blink blue at a one
second interval to indicate the port is marked, and illuminate solid blue to indicate the SAS
port is up.

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Do not remove the Storage Processor from the DPE chassis if the Unsafe to Remove LED is
illuminated white. In a Unity system with dual SPs, a single SP may fail. In this case, cache
data is still available on the peer SP and the Unsafe to Remove LED will light white.
Removing the SP means all cached data would be lost. Never remove the healthy SP when
the system is in this condition.

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There are four Ethernet ports embedded on the Unity baseboard. Each port has two LEDs, a
Link Port LED and a Port Activity LED. The Ethernet Port Link LED will blink amber at 1 Hz to
indicate the port is marked. The Ethernet Port Activity LED will be blue when activity is
present or off when there is no activity.

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Disk Array Enclosures (DAE) can be added to a Unity DPE by connecting up to four Mini-
SAS-HD cables. The 2U DAE holds up to 25 x 2.5 drives at speeds of 12Gb/s.

Front side LED indicators include Power On and DAE Fault.

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There are two green, 7-segment displays on the LCC. These LEDs are backend IDs and
identifies which host port it is connected to.

The blue 7–segment identifies the enclosure ID which is the enclosure’s position in the
backend chain.

Additional LEDs include:

• One amber marker/fault LED.

• One green power LED positioned (next to an amber marker/fault LED).

• One blue LED positioned for each 4x Mini SAS HD connector. On solid indicates that any
link is established at any speed. Blinking at 1Hz is for marking the port.

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There are three LEDs on the power supply that display power supply status.

The Power OK LED is on and green under normal operation and off if any or all outputs are
outside the specified operating range.

The Cooling Fault LED is off under normal operation and on amber when one or two blower
faults detected within unit.

The Power Supply Fault LED is off under normal operation and on amber if any or all
outputs are outside the specified operating range.

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There are two green, 7-segment displays on the LCC. These LEDs are backend IDs and
identifies which host port it is connected to.

The blue 7–segment identifies the enclosure ID which is the enclosure’s position in the
backend chain.

Additional LEDs include:

• One amber marker/fault LED.

• One green power LED positioned (next to an amber marker/fault LED).

• One blue LED positioned for each 4x Mini SAS HD connector. On solid indicates that any
link is established at any speed. Blinking at 1Hz is for marking the port.

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This table shows the available SLIC modules for use in Unity storage arrays. Currently,
there is no upgrade path for existing SLICs or addition of new SLICs outside of initial
configuration and installation.

SLICs used in the Unity platforms utilize the SLIC 2.0 connectors and are therefore not
compatible with previous SLIC versions.

The maximum number of available expansion slots on a Unity storage array is two.

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The 12Gb/s SAS BE SLIC is a four port x16 interface designed to accommodate DAE
expansion. This SLIC module uses a PMC Sierra SAS Controller.

Unity arrays support two slots for I/O modules. Where the integrated SAS controller
provides connectivity to the DPE based drives and two busses on the backend, some Unity
models (Unity 500, Unity 600) support the addition of a 12Gb/s SAS I/O module up to a
maximum of six backend busses.

Note: This SLIC is not supported on the Unity ALL Flash array (Unity500F, Unity600F).

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The 16Gb FC IO module is used to serve front-end FC block protocol in a direct connect
configuration or via a switch. The Qlogic quad-port SLIC is offered as an array option in
pairs (one for each SP). Each of the 4 ports uses an optical 16Gb capable SFP+ that are hot
swappable.

The SLIC supports Point-to-Point direct connect at 4/8/16Gbps (Loop direct connect at
4/8Gbs only).

Note that FICON is not a supported protocol.

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The 1Gb Base-T front-end no offload SLIC provides iSCSI block connectivity and NAS file
connections configureabel at the same time. Each port can operate at speeds up to 1Gb/s.
The controller chip is a Broadcom BCM5719 device. Each of the four ports uses an RJ45
copper Ethernet plug.

This SLIC supports MTU 1500/9000, frames, 256 initiators and 8 VLANs per port.

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The 10GbE Base-T front-end SLIC provides iSCSI block connectivity and NAS file
connections configurable at the same time. Each port can operate at speeds up to 10 Gb/s.
The controller chip is a Broadcom BCM57840S device. Each of the four ports uses an RJ45
copper Ethernet plug.

This SLIC supports frames of MTU 1500/9000, 256 initiators and 8 VLANs per port.

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The 10GbE Optical front-end SLIC has two ports and supports 10Gb iSCSI for block using
iSCSIQL driver. This SLIC supports switch-connect or direct-connect attachment via SFP+
Twin-Ax active connectors.

This SLIC has a full iSCSI offload engine, supports VLAN tagging, and supports 32 virtual
ports per physical port. Each port can operate at 10Gb/s. The SLIC supports up to 256
Initiators per port for all Unity models.

All host operating systems supported by EMC 10GbE iSCSI array connections are supported.

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The 4-port 10GbE no offload optical SLIC IO only operates at 10 Gb/s speeds. It allows
block (iSCSI) and file connections at the same time and can use SFP+ and
Twin-AX (active or passive) cables.

This SLIC supports frames of MTU 1500/9000, 256 Initiators and 8 VLANs per port.

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Disk Array Enclosures (DAE) can be added to a Unity DPE by connecting up to four Mini-
SAS-HD cables. The maximum number of DAEs on a single bus is 10 (250 drives).

The 2U DAE holds up to 25 x 2.5 drives at speeds of 12Gb/s. The rear of the DAE has two
Power Supplies (PS). Each PS can supply power to both LCCs and the peer power supply
fans. The DAE chassis contains the midplane connecting the power supplies to the LCCs and
disk drives. Max power consumption is 427W at 200V for a 25 drive DPE (5W per drive
slot). Each DAE can support operation in a DC environment when equipped with the DC
version of the power supply.

Software detects cabling issues such as crossed cables or asymmetric cabling and also
provides Energy Star statistics like input power and air inlet temperature. Use SAS port 0 as
the Primary Port and port 1 as the Expansion Port.

Mounting rails are shipped with every DAE. DAEs ordered in an EMC rack will use fixed
rails. DAEs ordered separately will include adjustable, snap-in rails.

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The 15 drive DAE is 3U high and holds up to 15 drives (2.5” drives can be used with an
adapter).

The rear of the DAE has two power supplies. Each PS can supply power to both LCCs and
the peer power supply fans. The DAE chassis contains the midplane connecting the power
supplies to the LCCs and disk drives. Each DAE can support operation in a DC environment
when equipped with the DC version of the PS. Max power consumption is 277W at 200V for
a 12 drive DPE (18W per drive slot).

Software detects cabling issues such as crossed cables or asymmetric cabling and also
provides Energy Star statistics like input power and, air inlet temperature.

Mounting rails are shipped with every DAE. DAEs ordered in an EMC rack will use fixed
rails. DAEs ordered separately will include adjustable, snap-in rails.

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The image details the main components on a 25 drive DAE. Each Link Control Card (LCC)
has an input and output port for connecting to a DPE or another DAE.

Connectivity is provided by mini-HD SAS cables. Only one type of SAS cable is used for all
DAE connections. Cables have the same connector on both ends (mini-SAS HD connector)
and the cables are not keyed. Available cable lengths are from 1 to 8 meters. Please note
that the 12Gb SAS cables are different from 6Gb SAS cables and are not interchangeable.
The back-end supports 12Gb/s.

AC Power is provided by connecting the PS to the appropriate Power Distribution Unit (PDU)
on the rear of the cabinet. LCC A connects to the PDU on the right side, and LCC B connects
to the PDU on the left side of the rack.

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The image details the main components on a 15 drive DAE. Each Link Control Card (LCC)
has an input and output port for connecting to a DPE or another DAE. Connectivity is
provided by mini-HD SAS cables. This DPE supports 12 Gb/s and 6 Gb/s transfer speeds.

The DPE uses a miniSAS HD x4 cable for connectivity to the DPE. Cables have the same
connector on both ends and are not keyed. Note that the 12Gb/s SAS cables are different
from 6Gb/s SAS cables and are not interchangeable.

The 15 drive DAE supports SAS and NL-SAS but not SATA drives.

AC Power is provided by connecting the PS to the appropriate Power Distribution Unit (PDU)
on the rear of the cabinet. LCC A connects to the PDU on the right side, and LCC B connects
to the PDU on the left side of the cabinet.

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SAS FLASH 2 drives use eMLC technology and are rated to 10 WPD. SAS Flash 2 drives
have a 2.5” form factor, and are available in capacities of 200, 400, 800GB, 1.6TB and
3.2TB.

Fast Cache and FAST VP considerations:

• 1.6TB and 3.2TB drive cannot be used in FAST Cache

• 3.2 drive cannot be used in either FAST Cache or FAST VP

• 800GB drive can be in FAST Cache on Unity 600 model only

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SAS Flash 3 drives are rated to 3 WPD (referred to as ‘FLASH 3’ in Unisphere), have a 2.5”
form factor, and are available in capacities of 400, 800 GB and 1.6 TB.

The SAS Flash 3 drive can only be used in an all flash pool and not intermixed with other
drive types. These drives cannot be used in FAST Cache or FAST VP.

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The SAS 10K RPM drive is a 2.5” form factor, uses a 4K block size and is available in
600GB, 1.2TB and 1.8TB capacities. The drive can be placed in a 3.5” carrier and used in
the 12 Drive DPE or the 15 Drive DAE.

The SAS 15K RPM drive is a 2.5” form factor uses, a 4K block size and is available in a 600
GB capacity.

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The NL-SAS 7.2K RPM drive is a 3.5” form factor, uses a 4K block size and is available in
2TB, 4TB, or 6TB capacities.

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