User's Guide

Chapter 1 DX3000 and DX5000 System Description
DX3000 and DX5000 Systems
Quantum DX3000 and DX5000 User’s Guide 6
Figure 3 DX3000 System
Components
DX3000 Quantum
H
12
PS
STATUS
Power and reset buttonsDrive sleds
Power supplies Ethernet ports
Fibre Channel ports (optional Optyon™ card)
Keyboard, VGA,
parallel and COM
ports (service only)
DX5000 System
Components
1
The DX5000 system houses the following components:
• Drive sleds (twelve or twenty four drive sleds per storage array)
(qualified IT personnel serviceable))
• Four redundant power supplies (qualified IT personnel qualified)
• Redundant fan modules located at the back of the unit (trained IT
personnel serviceable)
• Motherboard, CPU, and memory (Quantum Field Service Only)
• RAID controllers (Quantum Field Service Only)
• Optional Optyon™ Fibre Channel/compression board (Quantum Field
Service Only)
The qualified IT personnel serviceable components are removed and
replaced either through the front/back of the system or by removing the
top cover (see figure 4
).
Note: The DX5000 system with 24 hard drives requires two Optyon
Fibre Channel compression cards if Fibre Channel
compression is enabled.