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Table 4 Supported Trays and the Maximum Number of Drives and Volumes
Table 1 lists controller-drive trays and controller trays can co-exist in a storage
network with hardware running storage management software version 10.86 and
controller firmware version 7.86. They cannot, however, be upgraded to storage
management software version 10.86 and controller firmware version 7.86.
Table 5 Co-existing Trays and the Maximum Number of Drives and Volumes
Tray Name
Maximum Drives slots
per Storage Array
Maximum Volumes per
Storage Array
1
E2600 192 512
E5400 (E5412, E5424,
and E5460)
384 (240 with
InfiniBand)
2048
E5500 (E5512, E5524,
and E5560)
384
2
(240 with
InfiniBand)
2048
1
Snapshot (Legacy) repository volumes and Synchronous Mirroring repository
volumes are included in the number of volumes supported.
2
The drive slot limit might be lower than 384 for some sub-models of the E5500
controller-drive trays.
Tray Name
Controller
Type
Maximum
Drive Slots per
Storage Array
Maximum
Volumes per
Storage Array
1
Controller-drive trays
SHV2520 2880 (dual)
14
2
1024
SHV2600 2882 112 1024
SAT2700 2820-SATA
14
2
512
SAT2800 2822-SATA 112 512
CDE3994 3992 or 3994 112 1024
Controller trays
FC1250 4884 224 2048
FC1275 5884 224 2048
CE6998 6091 224 2048
1
Snapshot (Legacy) repository volumes and Synchronous Mirroring
repository volumes are included in the number of volumes supported.
2
Additional drive trays are not supported.