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=== Specifications ===
The system scales from a single Symmetrix VMAX Engine system with one storage bay to a large eight-engine system with a maximum of ten storage bays.

The Symmetrix VMAX system bay can hold one to eight engines. These engines house the hardware for all the data processing capabilities. Each engine contains two director boards, memory chips, and front-end (FE) and back-end (BE) ports for connectivity to hosts and storage bays, respectively.

Each director board contains two Intel quad-core processors for data processing, 16, 32 or 64 GB of physical memory, one System Interface Board (SIB) that connects the director to the Matrix Interface Board Enclosure (MIBE), front-end and back-end ports.

The VMAX has one to ten storage bays for hard drives. Each storage bay contains 16 Disk Array Enclosures (DAE). Each DAE contains 15-25 hard drives. VMAX supports SATA, Fiber Channel, SAS and Solid State drives.<ref name="emc.com 2011">{{cite web <!--title & date gleaned from properties of PDF-->|title=H6544.5 EMC Symmetrix VMAX with Enginuity, Guide |website=emc.com |date=2011-09-29 |url=https://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/product-description/h6544-vmax-w-enginuity-pdg.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107012812/https://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/product-description/h6544-vmax-w-enginuity-pdg.pdf |archive-date=2017-11-07 |url-status=dead}}</ref>