Installation guide

Product Overview
Hardware Features
2-2 ARX®1000 Hardware Installation Guide
• inline management of storage capacity, to adapt the back-end storage to client
demands,
• ability to add or remove back-end storage without any effect on clients, and
• the ability to seamlessly migrate files from one back-end storage device to
another.
In addition, the ACM provides the switch fabric and control plane functions for the
switch.
The ARX®1000 enables Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet throughput and provides
six 100/1000 BASE-T external ports for connectivity to network infrastructure,
network-attached storage (NAS) devices, and file servers with direct-attached storage
(DAS).
Figure 2-1. ARX®1000 Adaptive Resource Switch
Hardware Features
The ARX®1000 switch provides or supports the following hardware features:
• 2U compact design
• Box-to-box failover capability (for redundant ARX®1000 switches; see the next
section)