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The RecoverPoint appliance (RPA) is a 1u hardware based server (‘EMC Europa 1U’ – Gen6). The specification of the Gen6 RPA is as follows (Note: The DVD drive has been removed, the options to install are from USB or External DVD):

•  2 x Haswell E5-2620 Processors
•  Two 1.2TB 2.5” SAS Drives in RAID1 configuration (Slot 0&2)
•  6 x 1GE ports (RJ-45) WAN, LAN & Remote management + 3 ports are unused
•  32 Gig DDR4 Memory (4X DIMMS)
•  2 x PSU 1100 Watts (N+1 configuration)
•  6 x Fans per Gen6 appliance
•  PCIe GEN3 slot1: Quad Port 16GB FC VortexQ Card (Labelled left-right 0-1-2-3 )
•  PCIe GEN3 slot2: Optional Quad Port 10GB Ethernet slic, 2 flavours: Rockslide (4prt 10GbaseT Copper) | Landslide (4prt SFP+ 10Gbe Optical)
Note: All supported options include the FC module. In the base configuration SLIC slot 1 is empty and customers can decide if they want to have 10GbE support or not. The possible SLICs configurations are as follows:

Apart from the improved hardware spec and in addition to the features already available on the previous Gen5 appliances Gen6 offers:

• Improved system performance.
• Flexible configuration of I/O modules (SLICs).
• Enhanced field and customer replacement options. (Field: HDD, PS, FAN, DIMM, Chassis, SLICs | Customer: HDD, PSU)

From the images below you can see the port usage for WAN, LAN, Serial, BMC and the HBA Port Sequence (left to right) 0-1-2-3. For each RPA, we use two Ethernet cables to connect the Management (LAN) interface to eth1 and the WAN interface to eth0.

Disks:

System LED:

Verify GEN 6 Hardware via CLI/Unisphere:

1) Login in as admin to the RP CLI
2) get_rpa_states
3) GEN VI hardware type will be EMC 500-541-044 GEN6

or Unisphere:

1) Login to RP Unisphere as admin user
2) Select RPA Clusters – RPAs
3) Check the Properties for the RPA
4) Hardware serial and Hardware platform will be listed