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Channel directors: Front End Directors (FC, ESCON, FICON, GigE,iSCSI), these are the I/O
Directors.
Disk directors: Back End Directors (DA), these control the drives in the System.
Global memory directors: Mirrored Memory available with DMX-4, Memory Director sizes
range from 8GB, 16GB, 32GB or 64GB totaling 512GB (256GB mirrored).
Disk adapters: Back End Adapters, they provide an interface to connect disk drives through the
storage bays.
Channel adapters: Front End Adapters, they provide an interface for host connection
(FC, ESCON, FICON, GigE, iSCSI).
Power supplies: 3 Phase Delta or WYE configuration, Zone A and Zone B based Power
Supplies, maximum 8 of them in the system bay.
Power distribution units (PDU): One PDU per zone, 2 in total.
Power distribution panels (PDP): One PDP per zone, 2 in total, power on/off, main power.
Battery backup Unit (BBU): 2 Battery backup modules, 8 BBUunits, between 3 to 5 mins of
backup power in case of a catastrophic power failure.
Cooling fan modules: 3 Fans at the top of the bay to keep it cool.
Communications and Environmental Control (XCM) modules:Fabric and Environmental
monitoring, 2 XCM located at the rear of the system bay. This is the message fabric, that is the
interface between directors, drives, cache, etc. Environmental monitoring is used to monitor all
the VPD (Vital Product Data).
Service processor components: Keyboard, Video, Display and Mouse. Used for remote
monitoring, call home, diagnostics and configuration purposes.
UPS: UPS for the Service Processor
Silencers: Made of foam inside, different Silencers for System and Storage bays.
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