Deployment Guide
MD1400
The MD1400 supports 3.5” hard drives in a 2U, 12-drive enclosure.
The Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft solution supports up to 4 MD1400 enclosures (or 48 x 3.5” HDDs) behind the PowerEdge
server.
Figure 9. MD1400 Storage Enclosure
MD1420
The MD1420 supports 24 2.5” hard drives in a 2U form-factor.
The solution supports up to 3 MD1420 enclosures (or 72 x 2.5” HDDs) behind the PowerEdge server.
Figure 10. MD1420 Storage Enclosure
Table 7. Storage Enclosure
Specications
Component Conguration
Storage enclosure model MD1400 or MD1420
Number of storage enclosures Up to 4 x MD1400 (48 x 3.5” HDD) or 3 x MD1420 (72 x 2.5” HDD)
Drives supported
• SSD for caching
• 3.5” Drives for data storage (MD 1400)
• 2.5” Drives for data storage (MD 1420)
Figure 11. Back of the Storage Enclosure (MD1400 and MD1420)
Network switches
The Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft uses Dell Networking S4048-ON, which is a 10/40GbE top-of-rack open networking switch. It
is a high-density, 1RU 48-port 10GbE switch with six 40GbE uplinks and ultra-low latency, nonblocking performance to ensure line-rate
performance.
For the networks, there are two types of network congurations to this solution:
Hardware infrastructure
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