NexStor 4900F Series User Manual page 13

Raid storage systems
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The NexStor 4900F Series Storage Systems are designed for mission critical
applications requiring the highest performance with uncompromised data reliability,
such as mid-range and enterprise server storage, while maintaining exceptionally
high throughput. The storage system is ideally suited for high bandwidth data
intensive applications, such as electronic commerce, digital video, CAD, seismic
research, digital pre-press, 3-D imaging, and SAN environments.
The following are major features of the NexStor 4900F Series Storage Systems:
2 Gb Fibre Channel-to-Fibre Channel storage system enclosure.
Hot pluggable disk drives, 12 per enclosure.
Hot pluggable cooling fan module.
Dual redundant AC power supplies.
(Optional) Dual redundant DC power supplies.
SES Enclosure management includes onboard environmental monitoring.
Designed to fit standard 19-inch rack enclosures and a deskside tower.
Front panel LEDs provide notifications of system component status and
logical and physical drive status.
Support for 16 drives per array and 64 arrays.
RAID Controller employs an Intel XScale 600MHz RISC processor. It also
provides dual XOR engines for increased throughput processing.
512 MB or 1GB cache memory using standard DDR SDRAM.
(Optional) On controller embedded StorView Management Suite software.
StorView is the GUI-based software that provides the robust and
easy-to-use configuration and monitoring tool.
Transparent failover/failback RAID Controllers in duplex Active-Active
operations.
On-board controller-to-host SAN LUN Mapping.
Mirrored Cache for write-through and write-back operations with a "Save
to Disk" feature for unlimited backup protection.
Operating system independence – no special software or drivers required.
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