APPLIANCE-BASED PACKAGING: THE V-BRICK The Dynamic Virtual Matrix Architecture that allows aggregate scaling of system resources has been extended to VMAX All Flash Arrays, where basic storage building blocks are defined by appliance-based entities called V-Bricks. Each V-Brick includes an engine with two VMAX directors, packaged software, and, depending on the platform, from 512GB to 2TB of cache, two 25-slot Drive Array Enclosures (DAEs) housing a minimum base capacity of 11TBu of flash capacity in the VMAX 250F, or two 120- slot DAEs with a base capacity of 53TBu in the VMAX 450F/850F. Multi V-Brick systems also include redundant Infiniband interfaces to connect all V-Bricks in the array. Additional flash capacity can be added to each V-Brick in varying increments up to a total usable capacity of 4.3 Petabytes Effective (PBe, which represents PBu plus inline compression invoked) on the VMAX 850F.
