The EX500 chassis includes a 2U single node and either 12 or 24 8TB hard drives. In total, this chassis configuration delivers up to 126TB of usable capacity.
Usable capacity is the aggregate capacity available for client/application use after factoring in the overhead of erasure-coding resiliency operations (used to protect data from drive and node failure).
Multiple chassis work together to form an ECS cluster, or Virtual Data Center (VDC). Further details on the cluster configuration limits are described in ECS EX500 Cluster Configurations.
Each EX500 node contains:
- Dual 10-core Xeon Silver 85w CPUs, 192 GB memory
- 1x SSD for ECS OS
- 25Gbps I/O Adapters for front-end and back-end network connectivity
Network connectivity for to the EX500 is accomplished using the port assignments shown in the following image.
Further details on the hardware specifications for the ECS EX500 can be found in the ECS EX Series Hardware Guide on the Dell ECS InfoHub.