With the 10K you can have Engines 1 - 4. Engine 1 contains directors 1 and 2, Engine 2 contains directors 3 and 4, Engine 3, contains directors 5 and 6, and Engine 4 contains directors 7 and 8. The FA are the frontend CPUs on each IO module.  So you are displaying Engine 1 in the first diagram with the odd director, Director 1, on the right, and the even director, Director 2, on the left.  Directors within an engine will always have the IO modules installed in pairs so each director will have identical IO modules.  So FA-1E corresponds to Dir1, FA CPU E, ports 0 and 1, and so on...
I'm new to the VMAX and am just trying to understand the layout mapping on the VMAX, using the following:  [IMAGE] If I try and correlate what I see above to what I'm seeing in symmetric manager:  [IMAGE]  Can someone help me correlate for example what E0 in the physical diagram maps to and the correlation to which side?  Sorry for the stupid question, just trying to get a better appreciation for how the device is cabled.
VMAX 10K FA Port Layout