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EMC CLARiiON
CX3-10 Network
Storage System
SKU: CX3-10
Category: CLARiiON CX3

Description

Description

EMC CX3-10 Overview

EMC CLARiiON CX3-10 brings you a cost-e"ective entry point to the advanced capabilities of the
CX3 UltraScale series of networked storage systems. The EMC CX3-10 is ideal for departmental
applications or midsize organizations that need a scalable networked storage solution to
consolidate storage.

The CX3-10 starts at 365 GB and scales up to 60TB of capacity. You get the price/performance
and five 9s availability (99.999 percent) that your growing business needs at an a"ordable price.
Advanced functionality protects your data and wizard-driven software capabilities make daily
management easy.

Deploy flexibly with four 4 Gbps Fibre Channel and four 1 Gbps iSCSI host ports.

EMC CX3-10 Pricing, Maintenance & Support,

Installation
Vilis Systems o"ers the best deals on used and refurbished EMC CX3-10 storage equipment.
Either click on the Price Quote or Support Quote buttons above or call us at 952-314-5905 to get
assistance from one of our solution architects today. If you’re looking to sell your EMC CX3-10,
we have a great asset recovery program to help you get the most out of your idle IT storage
equipment. We o"er EMC CX3-10 Support & Maintenance for hardware you already own and
newly purchased equipment from Vilis Systems for up to 5 years. Our EMC experts are also able
to help you with the installation of any EMC CLARiiON solution.

CX3-10 / CX3-10c Major Subassemblies

The minimum CX3-10 / CX3-10c assembly consists of a single 1U storage processor enclosure
(SPE), a 1U standby power supply (SPS), and a 3U 4Gbps UltraPoint disk-array enclosure (DAE),
for a total of 5U. A fully configured CX3-10 / CX3-10c consists of the SPE and dual SPS, plus four
3U-DAEs, for a total of 14U. Minimum and maximum configurations of the CX3-10 / CX3-10c
assembly are shown below in Figure 1.

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(upto4can
beadded)

3UDAE

140
maximum
3UDAE
configuration
50 (1cabinet)
minimum

configuration
1USPS

1USPE

Figure 1. Minimum and Maximum CX3-10 / CX3-10c

Configurations

The dual SPS, SPE, and DAE assemblies are rackmounted for e#ciency, and provide the user
with many di"erent configuration options. The CLARiiON 40U cabinet (with industry-standard
19-inch racks) can house di"erent configurations of the CX3-10 / CX3-10c systems, as well as 1,
2, or 4Gbps Fibre Channel switches (1U and/or 2U) and/or Ethernet network switches. The
standard 40U cabinet comes with four power distribution units (PDUs) and four power
distribution panels (PDPs). Power supplies on the left side of the cabinet use the left PDU; power
supplies on the right use the right PDU. Additionally, all CLARiiON storage systems can be
installed in non-EMC industry- standard cabinets.

CX3-10 / CX3-10c Storage Processor

Each CX3-10 / CX3-10c Storage Processor (SP) contains one 1.8Ghz 1MB L2 cache Intel Xeon
processor. This dual- storage processor architecture provides the power for enhanced
performance, stability, and reliability in the CX3- 10 / CX3-10c storage system. Each CX1-20 /
CX3-10c SP has 1GB of system memory. There is a PCI Express-x4 CMI channel between the
storage processors that is used for communication and messaging between the storage
processors as well for the mirroring of data that is written to the portion of memory that has
been designated for write cache on the storage system.
 2front-endiSCSIports(perSP)

Fibro

1back-endport(perSP) 2front-endFCports(perSP)

Figure 2. Air Dam of CX3-10 / CX3-10c Storage Processor’s

Front-End and Back-End Ports

Figure 2 shows the air dam for the CX3-10 / CX3-10c storage processor. LEDs provide indications
of LAN connectivity, SP power, boot prorgess, and fault status, as well as power supply and
blower status. The LEDs also indicate the speed at which the front and back-end ports are
running – green indicates 2Gbps and blue indicates 4Gbps.

Each CX3-10 / CX3-10c SP has both iSCSI and Fibre Channel front-end ports.

The two 1Gbps iSCSI front-end (FE) ports are copper Ethernet ports. Using Navisphere Manager
or CLI, the user can change the settings on each port from autonegotiate to 10/100/1000Mbps.
These ports may be connected to a 10/100/1000Mbps port on an Ethernet switch, or they may
be directly connected to a 10/100/1000Mbps NIC or iSCSI HBA on a server/host.

The two 4Gbps Fibre Channel front-end ports, which are small-form-factor pluggable (SFP)
optical transceivers, are customer-replaceable and have a default setting of auto-negotiate.
Using Navisphere Manager or CLI, the user can change the settings from auto-negotiate to 1, 2,
or 4Gbps. These front-end ports may be connected to a 1, 2, or 4Gbps transceiver on a switch,
or they may be directly connected to a 1, 2, or 4Gbps HBA on a server/host.

Each SP also has one Fibre Channel 4Gbps back-end port, which, along with the peer SP, form
one redundant FC back-end loop for disk connectivity and capacity expansion.

The CX3-10 / CX3-10c SP also has two 10/100 LAN ports, one for Management and one for
Service, as well as two micro-DB9 communication ports, one for serial communication and one
for SPS sensing. The Management port is used to access and manage the storage processor via
Navisphere, while the Serivce port is a dedicated port to be used by EMC Certifed Proven
Professionals, should the need arise for them to access the storage processor when they are
onsite.

Figure 3. CX3-10 / CX3-10c Power Supplies and Cooling

The CX3-10 / CX3-10c SPE uses four 260-watt power supplies supporting N+1 power and N+1
cooling per storage processor. The power supplies contain thermal sensors for Ambient Over-
Temperature monitoring. Cooling is achieved through high speed blowers attached to each
power supply module.

A single power supply can power a single storage processor and a single blower can cool a
single storage processor. Either storage processors can have a single fault and still maintain
write caching. The CX3-10 / CX3-10c can run indefinitely with one power supply/blower module
faulted or removed on each SP and still maintain high availability (HA).

CX3-10 / CX3-10c Standby Power Supply (SPS)

As shown in Figure 4, the CX3-10 / CX3-10c SPE uses one 1-kilowatt SPS to maintain power to the
storage system during a power loss to allow for a full dump of the write cache to a reserved
area on persistent disk. An additional SPS can be added for further redundancy

When only one SPS is used in the CX3-10 / CX3-10c, the power output connectors for the SPS
supply power to SP A and the first DAE on the first back-end loop. The power for SP B and the
remaining power to the first DAE on the first back-end loop are supplied by the PDU within the
CLARiiON 40U rack. When two SPSs are used, the power ouput connectors from the additional
SPS power both SP B and the first DAE.

Figure 4. View of CX3-10 / CX3-10c Standby Power Supply

(SPS)

It is important to cable each SPS so it connects completely to either the A side or the B side. For
example, if you are looking at the SPS from the back, they should be configured as follows:

SPS on the right: Power-out and sense cables should connect to power supply A and SP A.
SPS on the left: Power-out and sense cables should connect to power supply B and SP B
(optional).

If an SPS is cabled with the SPS sense cable going to SP A and the power-out cable going to
power supply B (or vice versa), error conditions are displayed when the SPS is tested while it is
charging.

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