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Vblock Series 700 cabinets
VCE Vblock™ Systems Series 700 Architecture Overview
CB compute base cabinet
The CB compute base cabinet contains the following components:
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One fibre patch panel
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Two Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnects or two Cisco UCS 6140XP Fabric Interconnects
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Four Cisco UCS 5108 blade chassis, each containing up to four full-width blades or eight half-width
blades.
CE compute expansion (CE) cabinet
The CE compute cabinet consists of four Cisco UCS 5108 chassis each containing up to four full-width blades
or eight half-width blades.
Storage cabinets
700MX can contain one EMC Symmetrix VMAX 20K system cabinet and one storage cabinet and up to seven
optional EMC Symmetrix VMAX 20K storage cabinets.
Network cabinets
If additional space is required for networking or storage switching components, one or more network cabinets
are added.
Network cabinets serve as aggregation points for:
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IP networking components for cross-Vblock system communication and customer access points
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The core portion of core-edge block fabrics to support shared replication and fabric services
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AMP IP management connectivity consolidation
Use network cabinets to house the following components:
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A centralized AMP for large Vblock system environments
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Fibre patch panels
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Two Cisco MDS SAN switches
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Two Cisco Ethernet switches
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