Below are my notes from the Symm V-Max Overview with Enginuity Overview session, please excuse any typographical errors as I posted this as quickly as possible. If you see any content errors or missing information please comment.
- Symm V-Max and V-Max SE
- Distributed Global Memory
- Symm V-Max Configuration Overview
- 1 – 8 V-Max Engines
- Up to 128 FC FE Ports
- Up to 64 FiCON FE Ports
- Up to 64 gigE FE Ports
- Up to 1 TB of Mem
- Up to 10 Storage Bays
- 96-2400 Drives
- Up to 2 PB of total capacity
- Director Boards Populated from 1 – 16 bottom to top
- Engines are populated from inside out
- Symm V-Max SE
- Singe V-Max Engine (Engine 4)
- Up to 16 FC FE Ports
- Up to 8 FiCON FE Ports
- Up to 8 gigE FE Ports
- Up to 128 GB of Mem
- Upto 120 Drives
- V-Max Engine Overview
- 2 Director Boards
- Redundant PS, battery, fans, etc…
- FA and DA on V-Max Engine
- Backend I/O module supports up to 4 DAEs
- 4 Backend I/O modules will support up to 8 DAEs in a redundant configuration
- EFD support for 200 and 400 GB drives
- FC I/O modules, FiCON I/O module, iSCSI/gigE I/O module
- Memory Config
- 32GB, 64GB, 128GB options
- Memory can be configured by adding memory to a existing V-Max engine or adding additional V-Max engines
- Memory is mirrored across V-Max engines for improved availability
- Hard to show the picture I am looking at but the rear of the V-Max engine chassis has the following ports
- Virtual Matrix interfaces
- Backend I/O modules interfaces
- Front End I/O modules interfaces
- Symm V-Max Matrix Interface Board Enclosure (MIBE)
- Each V-Max Engines can be directly connected to 8 DAEs
- Depending on the configuration up to two additional DAEs can be daisy chained beyond the primary DAE
- V-Max provides 2x the ability to connect directly to drive bays over the DMX, from 64 drive loops to 128 drive loops
- I/O Flow
- Director board has 2 quad core procs
- CPUs are mapped as A-H slices
