Introduction ......................2 What’s New? ......................3 Comparison of MD3200i and MD3220i to the previous MD3000i ..........4 Product Positioning .....................4 Dell SAN Portfolio .......................5 PowerVault™ MD3200i and MD3220i Features and Descriptions ..........6 Product Overview .......................7 MD3200i and MD3220i Front View ..................7 MD3200i and MD3220i Back View ..................8 Solution Configurations ....................8...
Transition Guide for PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Series Arrays Introduction Dell™ worldwide introduction of the next generation PowerVault™ MD3200i and MD3220i iSCSI SAN arrays is on June 15, 2010. This document is intended as guidance for a product transition from Dell's MD3000i to the new MD3200i and/or MD3220i.
Transition Guide for PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Series Arrays What’s New? The PowerVault™ MD3200i and MD3220i offer the following new features: 2X performance improvements over MD3000i Up to 800MB/s RAID5 sequential reads Up to 30K RAID5 random disk reads ...
Transition Guide for PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Series Arrays Comparison of MD3200i and MD3220i to the previous MD3000i MD3000i Feature MD3200i MD3220i Single or Dual Single or Dual Single or Dual Number of controllers Host ports/controller Maximum servers 512MB Cache/controller 15, 3.5”...
The MD3200i series is mostly a PowerEdge-centric storage solution although it can support heterogeneous x86 servers. The MD3200i series enjoys common hard disk drives with the servers and capacity expansion via the MD1200 and MD1220 drive enclosures. Dell SAN Portfolio...
Transition Guide for PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Series Arrays PowerVault™ MD3200i and MD3220i Features and Descriptions Feature MD3200i MD3220i Rack Height Host interface technology 1Gb Ethernet 1Gb Ethernet Disk interface technology 6Gb SAS 6Gb SAS Controllers per system Single or Dual Single or Dual Host ports per controller Cache per controller...
Transition Guide for PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Series Arrays MD3200i and MD3220i Back View RAID Controller Module 0 RAID Controller Module 1 Power Supply / Cooling Fan Modules Solution Configurations Networked Configurations:...
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Transition Guide for PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Series Arrays Direct Connected Configurations:...
Connecting Expansion and Enclosures Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3200i and MD3220i arrays standardize on the 6Gb/s (SAS 2.0) Mini-SAS cable (SFF 8088). The Mini-SAS cable is unique from the SAS cable used with the previous generation Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i. Mini-SAS Cable Transition ...
The MD3200i series of storage arrays is compatible with all industry standard x86 servers. Management Software Support The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3200i and MD3220i arrays are managed via the 2 generation MD Storage Manager software provided on the Resource DVD that shipped with the product. This software is backwards with earlier version of the MD3000i allowing a single pane view to monitor all of your MD External RAID Array systems.
SP2 & R2 Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 & Drive Support Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3200i and MD3220i RAID arrays support SAS hot-pluggable HDDs (hard-disk drives) and SSD (solid-state drives). Refer to Table below for Drive Support details. MD3200i and MD3220i Drive Support...
Transition Guide for PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Series Arrays SATA interface drives are not supported with the Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3200 and MD3220 enclosures. Accessing a MD32X0i and MD3000i from the Same Server It is possible to have a single server accessing both an MD32X0iand an MD3000i running certain operating systems.
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