Deployment Guide

Configuration prerequisites

To deploy your storage solution, you must ensure that the physical requirements and network

requirements of the installation environment are fulfilled prior to installing and configuring the solution.

The following sections describe the prerequisites of the deployment infrastructure.

Rack space

This solution requires a minimum amount of rack space for the servers and storage enclosures. The

following table lists the amount of contiguous rack space required based on your solution.

Table 1. Required rack space for SOFS configurations

Server or storage

solution

2x1 2x2 2x3 2x4 3x3 3x4 4x4

DSMS 630 with DSMS

14x0 series

4U 6U 8U 10U 9U 11U 12U

DSMS 630 with DSMS

3060e

6U 10U 14U 18U 15U 19U 20U

DSMS 730 with DSMS

14x0 series

6U 8U 10U 12U 12U 14U 16U

DSMS 730 with DSMS

1420 (All Flash Array)

6U 8U N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

DSMS 730 with DSMS

3060e

8U 12U 16U 20U 18U 22U 24U

Table 2. Required rack space for converged configurations

Server or storage

solution

2x1 2x2 2x3 2x4 3x3 3x4 4x3 4x4

DSMS 630 with DSMS

14x0 series

4U 6U 8U 10U 9U 11U 12U N/A

DSMS 630 with DSMS

3060e

6U 10U 14U 18U 15U 19U N/A 20U

DSMS 730 with DSMS

14x0 series

6U 8U 10U 12U 12U 14U 14U 16U

DSMS 730 with DSMS

1420 (All Flash Array)

6U 8U N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A