Cisco Cisco MXE 3500 (Media Experience Engine) Guía De Instalación

Environmental specifications and regulatory standards compliance for the Cisco MXE 3500 V3 
appliance are in the product data sheet at this URL:

Network and 
management I/O

The appliance provides these rear-panel connectors:

One 1-Gb Ethernet dedicated management port.
Two 1-Gb Base-T Ethernet ports. (See 

 for more information)

One RS-232 serial port (RJ-45 connector).
One 15-pin VGA connector.
Two USB 2.0 connectors.

One front-panel KVM connector used with the included KVM cable that provides 
two USB, one VGA, and one serial connector.

Front-panel 
locator LED

One indicator light to help direct administrators to specific appliances in a data 
center environment.

Power

Up to two power supplies, 650 W each. 
Redundant as 1+1.

Cooling

Five hot-swappable fan modules for front-to-rear cooling.

PCIe I/O

Two Generation 3 PCIe

2

 expansion slots on risers, occupied by a RAID

3

 card 

(LSI MegaRAID SAS9266-8i with SuperCap power module RAID backup unit, 
configured for RAID 5) and a NIC

4

 card (Broadcom 5709 quad port 1-Gb 

Ethernet). 

Storage

Drives are installed into front-panel drive bays that provide hot-pluggable access. 
Small Form Factor—The appliance can hold up to eight 2.5 in x .55 in (63.5 mm x 
14mm) SAS

5

 or SATA

6

 hard drives or solid state drives. The appliance ships with 

four drives installed.

Hard disk option: 2.5-inch, 600 GB SAS hard drive that operates at 10,000 RPM.

Disk 
Management
(RAID)

LSI MegaRAID 9266-8i (RAID 5).

RAID Backup

There is an LSI battery backup unit for the LSI MegaRAID card. 

Video

Resolution up to 1600 x1200, 16 bpp at 60 Hz. Up to 256 MB of video memory.

1.

DDR3 = double data rate, type 3

2.

PCIe = peripheral component interconnect express

3.

RAID = redundant array of independent disks

4.

NIC = network interface card

5.

SAS = serial attached SCSI

6.

SATA = serial advanced technology attachment