EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 consist of 1 System Bay and (1 upto 8) Scalable

Storage Bays. Each Storage Bay can hold up to 240 Disk Drives totaling
1920 drive in 8 Storage bays or 1024 TB System. Systems with special
requirements can be configured to 2400 drives instead of standard 1920
drives.
The primary bay is the System Bay which includes all directors, service
processor, adapters, etc, while the Storage Bay contains all the disk drives,
etc.

System Bay (1 Bay)
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 BBU units,
between 3 to 5mins 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.


Storage bay (1 Bay Minimum to 8 Bays Maximum)
Disk drives: Combination of 73GB, 146GB, 300GB, 400GB, 450GB, 500GB,
1TB and nowEFDs 73GB, 146GB and 200GB available. Speed: 10K, 15K,
7.2K SATA are all compatible, each RAID Group and each drive enclosure
should only have similar speed drives, similar type drives. 15 drives per
Enclosure, 240 per bay, 1920 total in the system. If the color of the LED
lights on the drive is Blue its 2GB speed, if the color of the LED is green, the
speed is 4GB.
Drive Enclosure Units: 16 per Storage Bay, 15 drives per enclosure
Battery Backup Unit (BBU): 8 BBU modules per Storage bay,
each BBU support 4 Drive enclosures
Power Supply, System Cooling Module: 2 per drive enclosure
Link Control Cards: 2 per drive enclosure
Power Distribution Unit (PDU): 1 PDU per zone, 2 in total
Power Distribution Panels (PDP): 1 PDP per zone, 2 in total
Some of the important hardware components of a DMX Machine are
Disk Directors (DA)
Back End Disk Adapters
Channel Directors (CA, EA, FA, FA2, FI, GI)
Back End Channel Directors
Memory Cards
Power Module
FAN
Battery
ECM (Environmental Control Module),
CCM (Communication Control Module)
Disk Drives
Service Processor