Features And Benefits - Promise Technology VTrak J830s Product Manual

Features and Benefits

4U or 3U 19-inch wide enclosure
Supports Serial Attached SCSI
disk drives
Supports Serial ATA disk drives
Hot-swap feature for drive carriers,
I/O modules, and power supplies
Supports SBB 2.0 standard
Tool-less field-replaceable units
(FRUs)
Complete cable-less design
Redundant, hot-swappable power
supplies
Dual, active/active I/O Modules
Two SAS ports per I/O module
Command-line interface
Management through in-band SAS
or serial port
Compatible with leading SAS HBA
and RAID cards
Feature
Chapter 1: Introduction to VTrak
Installs easily in any standard rackmount.
Allows you to use the new dual-port SAS
disk drives.
Allows you to use your legacy SATA disk
drives.
Allows a defective component to be
replaced without interrupting data
accessibility to the host system.
Allows controller inter-connectability with
controllers of the same capacity from other
manufacturers.
All FRUs can be replaced without tools,
saving time and effort for support personnel.
All components easily plug directly into
boards. No cables to complicate setup or
maintenance.
Load sharing and full operation even with a
failed power supply.
High level of availability even with a failed
I/O module.
Enables host access or cascading JBOD
subsystems.
Control and monitoring with simple,
straightforward interface.
Choice of local or network management
options
Works the first time with all major SAS HBA
or RAID adapters
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