Scalability; Performance Reporting And Monitoring - Acer HDS WMS100 Reference Manual

Cable
Fibre Channel: With Fibre Channel, the subsystem can be located up to 300 meters from
the host.
Ethernet: With Ethernet, the subsystem can be located up to 100 meters from the host.
The subsystem can be installed in the location far from the host.
The Number of Connectable Devices
Fibre Channel: The WMS100 subsystem enables you to construct a system which can
connect up to 126 fibre channel devices by using the fibre channel interface and
connecting the FC-AL and FC-SW.
Security Function
Fibre Channel and Ethernet: When the system is configured to connect multiple hosts, a
function is provided which rejects a boot by any host except a specified host. This
function can prevent access from an illegal host.
1.1.3

Scalability

You can construct a variety of systems; for example, a system with 15 disk drives can be
configured using a single RKXS, or a more complex system can be set up using the
maximum of 105 disk drives, expanded by connecting up to 6 RKAJATs to the RKXS.
Up to 15 spare disks can be set up in any location. Use the system effectively by
configuring each spare disk in a disk drive slot left unused due to system construction.
From the host computer, the subsystem can be used as a single large-scale disk drive or
as 512 logical disks (LUs) maximum.
1.1.4

Performance Reporting and Monitoring

The Storage Navigator Modular program provides the capability to either monitor the disk
array in real-time or to collect historical data regarding the performance of the disk array.
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