Minimum and maximum configurations

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VxBlock System 1000 components scale with Cisco UCS blade and rack servers, bandwidth and connectivity options, and storage capacity and performance.

Compute

The following table lists the minimum and maximum requirements for Cisco UCS third and fourth-generation components:

Component	Minimum	Maximum
Component	Minimum	Cisco UCS third generation	Cisco UCS fourth generation
Cisco UCS domain	1	7 with Cisco Nexus 9336-FX2 Switch	7
Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis	2	10 per domain, up to 50	7 across domains, up to 77
Cisco UCS B-Series Servers or C-Series Rack Servers with M4 and M5 blade configurations	3	8 half-width servers per chassis (total of 400) 20 40 Gb Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers per domain (total of 140) 160 10 Gb Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers FEX connect mode, per domain (total of 1120)	8 half-width servers per chassis (total of 616) 44 dual port, 22 total with quad port 25 Gb Cisco UCS C-Series M5 Rack Servers per domain (total of 140) 160 10 Gb Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers in FEX connect mode, per domain (total of 1120)
Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Server for bare metal deployments	1	N/A	N/A

Network

The following table lists the minimum and maximum hardware requirements:

Component	Minimum	Maximum
Cisco Nexus 31108TC-V Switches	1 pair 96 management ports	2 pairs 192 management ports
Cisco Nexus 3232C or 9336C-FX Switches	N/A	1 pair
Cisco MDS 9148S or 9148T Multilayer Fabric Switches	1 pair	N/A
Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 Switch	1 pair	10 pairs
Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Directors with 348 16 Gbps or 32 Gbps FC ports	N/A	1 pair

Storage

The following table lists the minimum and maximum hardware requirements for VMAX All-Flash storage arrays:

Storage array	Component	Minimum	Maximum
950F and 950FX	Engine	1	8
	Front-end ports	16	192
	Drive support	17	1,920
250F and 250FX	Engine	1	2
	Front-end ports	16	64
	Drive support	9	100

The following table lists the minimum and maximum storage requirements for PowerMax storage arrays:

Storage array	Component	Minimum	Maximum
8000	Engine	1	8
	Front-end ports	16	256
	Drive support	8	288
2000	Engine	1	2
	Front-end ports	16	64
	Drive support	5	96

The single-engine configuration of the PowerMax 8000 is limited to three IOMs per director.

The following table lists the minimum and maximum drives for Dell EMC Unity and Dell EMC Unity XT storage arrays:

Storage array	Model	Minimum drives	Maximum drives
Dell EMC Unity All-Flash	350F	10	150
	450F	10	250
	550F	10	500
	650F	10	1000
Dell EMC Unity XT All-Flash	380F	10	500
	480F	10	750
	680F	10	1000
	880F	10	1500
Dell EMC Unity Hybrid	300	10	150
	400	10	250
	500	10	500
	600	10	1000
Dell EMC Unity XT Hybrid	380F	10	500
	480F	10	750
	680F	10	1000
	880F	10	1500

The storage array count depends on the number of 16 Gbps FC ports available in a single Cisco MDS director per SAN fabric.

The following table lists hardware requirements for XtremIO storage arrays:

Storage array	Component	Minimum	Maximum
X2	Drives per X-Brick	18	72
X2	Drives per cluster	72	288
X2-S X-Brick	X-Brick	7.2 TB raw	28.8 TB raw Up to 4 X-Brick blocks per cluster
	FC ports (16 Gbps)	4	16
	Ethernet ports (10 Gbps) for management	2	2
	Active/active controllers	2	8
X2-R X-Brick	X-Brick	34.5 TB raw	230 TB raw Up to 4 X-Brick blocks per cluster
	FC ports (16 Gbps)	4	16
	Ethernet ports (10 Gbps) for management	2	2
	Active/active controllers	2	8

The following table lists minimum and maximum drive requirements for Isilon storage arrays:

Storage arrays	Minimum	Maximum
F800, F810, and H600	0.06 m (2.5 in.)	0.06 m (2.5 in.)
H500, H5600, H400, A200, and A2000	0.11 m (4 in.)	0.09 m (3.5 in.)

Isilon uses 4 to 252 nodes with both 10 Gbps front-end and 40 Gbps front-end connectivity. The maximum Isilon configuration requires nine pairs of Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 Switches with the following minimums:

Eight 10 Gb ports or two 40 Gb ports for 10 Gb nodes
Eight 40 Gb ports for 40 Gb nodes

Note: The Cisco Nexus operating system 9.3 is required on the ToR switch to support more than 144 Isilon nodes.

AMPs

You can configure AMP Central with four to 16 servers to manage up to eight production VMware vCenter Servers. An integrated AMP Central supports up to four production VMware vCenter Servers, while the AMP Central stand-alone configuration supports up to eight production VMware vCenter Servers. AMP Central has a dedicated VMware vCenter Server for the local management workload and dedicated VMware vCenter Servers for the production workload. You must size AMP Central servers and Dell EMC Unity or Unity XT storage to support VMware vCenter Servers and data protection requirements. AMP Central supports core, optional, and ECO management workloads.

AMP-3S manages a single VxBlock System with two to six Cisco UCS M4 servers or four to 16 Cisco UCS M5 servers. Three servers are required to build a AMP-3S M4 cluster with VMware vSphere HA and DRS cluster. The AMP-3S M4 cluster is based on the core and optional workloads. AMP-3S M5 supports the additional ECO management workload.

AMP-VX manages up to eight VxBlock Systems. AMP-VX contains a single instance of VxBlock Central, VxBlock Central Orchestration Services, and VMware vRealize Orchestrator. The number of VxBlock Systems that VxBlock Central Orchestration consumes does not impact the number of VxBlock Central instances. Up to five servers can be deployed in a single workflow.

The combined components offer balanced CPU, I/O bandwidth, and storage capacity relative to the compute and storage arrays in the VxBlock 1000. All components have N+N or N+1 redundancy.

The following table lists the maximum number of servers with seven domains for FIs:

Component	Cisco UCS B-Series Servers	Cisco C-Series Rack Servers
Component	Half-width	Direct connect	FEX connect
Cisco UCS 6332-16UP Fabric interconnects	400	140	1120
Cisco UCS 6454 Fabric interconnects	616	308	1120

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Minimum and maximum configurations