Overview of ZS5-4 Racked System Performance Configurations

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Performance configurations take advantage of high-performance disk shelves and are available in a base cabinet, or a base cabinet with up to three expansion cabinets for some configurations. Five base cabinet options are offered in a total of 24 possible system configurations, and all base cabinet options contain two ZS5-4 controllers.

ZS5-4 Racked System maximum performance configurations feature up to eight Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24P All-Flash disk shelves in the base cabinet. The disk shelves are configured as one single shelf per chain to obtain maximum performance. No expansion cabinets are supported for this configuration.

Table 24 ZS5-4 Racked System Maximum Performance Configurations Components

Base Cabinet	Expansion Cabinet
Up to eight DE3-24P All-Flash disk shelves Two ZS5-4 controllers	Not supported

ZS5-4 Racked System optimum performance configurations feature up to 16 Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24P disk shelves (configured as two shelves per chain) as well as a combination of up to 14 Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C and DE3-24P disk shelves in the base cabinet. Only DE3-24C disk shelves, up to 10 each, are offered in the expansion cabinets. Configurations are offered in multiples of two disk shelves, as well as half-rack expansion. Each expansion cabinet can contain 2, 4, 5 (half-rack), 6, 8, or 10 DE3-24C disk shelves. ZS5-4 Racked System performance configurations can have up to three expansion cabinets.

Table 25 ZS5-4 Racked System Optimum Performance Configurations Components

Base Cabinet	Expansion Cabinet 1	Expansion Cabinet 2	Expansion Cabinet 3
Up to 16 DE3-24P disk shelves, or up to 14 DE3-24C and DE3-24P disk shelves Two ZS5-4 controllers	Up to 10 DE3-24C disk shelves	Up to 10 DE3-24C disk shelves	Up to 10 DE3-24C disk shelves

The ZS5-4 Racked System performance configurations support various storage options.

Table 26 ZS5-4 Racked System Disk Shelf Device Types and Allowable Configurations

Disk Shelf	Data Devices	Read Cache Devices	Log Devices
DE3-24P All-Flash	3.2 TB SSDs: 24 in slots 0 - 23 or 20 in slots 0 - 19	Not allowed	200 GB SSDs in slot 20 - 23
DE3-24P	1.2 TB HDDs: 24 in slots 0 - 23 or 20 in slots 0 - 19	3.2 TB SSDs in slot 20 - 23	200 GB SSDs in slot 20 - 23
DE3-24C	8 TB HDDs: 24 in slots 0 - 23 or 20 in slots 0 - 19	3.2 TB SSDs in slot 20 - 23	200 GB SSDs in slot 20 - 23