PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Solutions Design (VMAX All Flash Models)

Question 1

What are the racking options for VMAX 950F?

Answer 1

support for single V-Brick in bay
bay dispersion
systems bay 2 through 4 up to 25 meters from system bay 1

Question 2

What is the service access available on VMAX 250F?

Answer 2

onsite connectivity with service laptop

Question 3

What is the service access available on VMAX 950F?

Answer 3

Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) component in System Bay 1

service tray on additional system bays

Question 4

What is the host connectivity available on VMAX 250F?

Answer 4

Open Systems (OS)

Question 5

What is the host connectivity available on VMAX 950F?

Answer 5

Open Systems (OS)
Mainframe (MF)
Mixed (OS and MF)

Question 6

What are the maximum drives in a V-Brick on VMAX 250F?

Answer 6

50

Question 7

What are the maximum drives in a V-Brick on VMAX 950F?

Answer 7

240

Question 8

What are the power options on VMAX?

Answer 8

three phase delta (50 amp), WYE (32 amp), single phase (32 amp)

Question 9

What is the vaulting process on VMAX?

Answer 9

vault to flash in engine

Question 10

What are the vBrick scalability of VMAX 250F?

Answer 10

1-2

Question 11

What are the vBrick scalability of VMAX 950F?

Answer 11

1-8

Question 12

What is the range of cores available on a vBrick on VMAX 250F?

Answer 12

48-96

Question 13

What is the range of cores available on a vBrick on VMAX 950F?

Answer 13

72-576

Question 14

What are the cache options on a vBrick on VMAX 250F?

Answer 14

512GB, 1TB, 2TB

Question 15

What are the cache options on a vBrick on VMAX 950F?

Answer 15

1TB, 2TB

Question 16

What is the max cache per array on VMAX 250F?

Answer 16

4TB

Question 17

What is the max cache per array on VMAX 950F?

Answer 17

16TB

Question 18

What are the maximum drives per array on VMAX 250F?

Answer 18

100

Question 19

What are the maximum drives per array on VMAX 950F?

Answer 19

1920

Question 20

What type of DAEs are available on VMAX 250F?

Answer 20

25 drive

Question 21

What type of DAEs are available on VMAX 950F?

Answer 21

120 drive

Question 22

What is the minimum capacity on VMAX 250F?

Answer 22

11TBu

Question 23

What is the minimum capacity on VMAX 950F?

Answer 23

53TBu (OS)
13TBu (MF)

Question 24

What are the capacity increments you need to scale VMAX in?

Answer 24

13TBs

Question 25

What is the maximum usable capacity on VMAX 250F?

Answer 25

1PBe

Question 26

What is the maximum usable capacity on VMAX 950F?

Answer 26

4PBe

Question 27

What are the max FE ports for VMAX 250F?

Answer 27

64

Question 28

What are the max FE ports for VMAX 950F?

Answer 28

192 (OS) 256 (MF)

Question 29

What are the Infiniband connectivity options on VMAX?

Answer 29

none on 250F (direct IB connections) dual 18 port switches on 950F

Question 30

What are the software package options on PowerMax?

Answer 30

F FX zF zFX

Question 31

What is included in the F Software package?

Answer 31

HYPERMAX OS thin provisioning inline compression non-disruptive migration virtual volumes (vVols) QoS Host IO Limits eManagement TimeFinder SnapVX AppSync Starter Bundle

Question 32

What is HYPERMAX OS?

Answer 32

provides emulations that performs specific data service and control functions

Question 33

What is thin provisioning?

Answer 33

storage is created and allocated from a common pool on an as-needed basis remainder of physical storage is available for use when asked

Question 34

What is non-disruptive migration on VMAX?

Answer 34

provides migrations of live workloads to new VMAX AF systems from older VMAX systems without going offline

Question 35

What are vVols?

Answer 35

make storage VM centric allowing provisioning based on performance and storage requirements of the VM management also performed at volume level

Question 36

What are the Host IO Limits on VMAX?

Answer 36

feature used to limit the amount of FE bandwidth/IOPS that can be consumed by a set of devices over specific ports

Question 37

What is included in the FX software package?

Answer 37

D@RE SRDF/S SRDF/A SRDF/Multisite SRDF/Metro eNAS Unisphere 360 PowerPath - 75 Hosts CloudArray Enabler SRM AppSync Advanced

Question 38

What is CloudArray Enabler?

Answer 38

provides connectivity of VMAX with Dell EMC CloudArray additional hardware packs required to enable CloudArray

Question 39

What comes in the zF software package?

Answer 39

HYPERMAX OS eManagement TimeFinder SnapVX Mainframe Essentials

Question 40

What are the optional parts of the zF software package?

Answer 40

SRDF D@RE Unisphere 360 AutoSwap zDP Mainframe Essentials Plus GDDR

Question 41

What is included in Mainframe Essentials Plus?

Answer 41

includes features like zBoost PAV Optimizer for improved performance on high performance FICON (zHPF) multi-track IO

Question 42

What is included in the zFX software package?

Answer 42

All zF features SRDF D@RE Unisphere 360 zDP AutoSwap

Question 43

What are the optional features on the zFX software package?

Answer 43

GDDR Mainframe Essentials Plus

Question 44

What is inside of a vBrick?

Answer 44

an engine and 2 DAEs

Question 45

What is in the Engine in VMAX?

Answer 45

contain two director boards that are configured identically within the engine

Question 46

What is located within the Directors?

Answer 46

have supporting cache for the system in rear of director board modules used for FE host, BE disk and inter-engine connectivity

Question 47

What is the KVM on VMAX 950F?

Answer 47

installed in System Bay 1 provides service access to the system for onsite service activities service tray available in all other bays for remote connectivity from service laptop

Question 48

How are Ethernet Switches connected in VMAX 950F?

Answer 48

located in System Bay 1 provides connectivity to each engine and IB Switches for environmental communications

Question 49

What is the configuration for each Ethernet Switch in VMAX 950F?

Answer 49

each is a 16 port unmanaged switch w/ a single power supply cabling to the switches is port specific Ethernet A cables are green and Ethernet B cables are violet

Question 50

What are the flexible racking options on VMAX 250F?

Answer 50

one or two systems can be installed in a single rack

Question 51

What are the restrictions on VMAX 250F racking?

Answer 51

lower portion of rack is reserved for the first system and upper portion for second

Question 52

How is VMAX 950F racked?

Answer 52

minimum dual engine bays contains up to 2 engines per bay, a supporting power subsystem, and up to 4 DAEs

Question 53

How are DAEs attached in a VMAX 950F?

Answer 53

all 4 DAEs are direct attached - two to each engine

Question 54

What are unique components of a bay of a dual engine VMAX 950F system?

Answer 54

KVM System Bay 1 - pair of Ethernet switches for internal communications - pair of IB switches for fabric interconnect between engines System Bays 2-4 - work tray providing option to connect service laptop