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December 16th, 2024 19:18

Dell PowerVault ME484 Expansion

A seller of refurbished equipment is telling me the PowerVault ME484 they have on sale is an expansion unit, not a JBOD. I thought every ME484 is a JBOD and can be connected as a DAS using a HBA. Is the seller right? Are there two kinds?

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December 17th, 2024 10:13

Hello,

"Do all ME484's have thgese IOMs?" -> Yes.

Respectfully,

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December 17th, 2024 02:10

Hello, thanks for choosing Dell and welcome to our community.


I'm wondering if the reseller may have a wrong idea.
You can go through these first and let us know if you have any further questions.

https://dell.to/49NStwU
 
https://dell.to/3OZiLCA
 
Dell EMC PowerVault ME484 JBOD Storage Enclosure Deployment Guide

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December 17th, 2024 06:52

Thanks for the quick reply. The documents you suggested are not 100% clear. The second one states "When an ME484 enclosure is accessed from a host server using I/O Modules (IOMs), it is called an ME484 JBOD storage enclosure." Do all ME484's have thgese IOMs? Or is there a specific JBOD variety that has these?

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December 17th, 2024 07:06

I.e., when hooking the IOMs up to a Dell HBA355e it is a JBOD, but when hooking the same IOMs up to an ME4084, it becomes a EBOD/RBOD?

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