Performance Features - Silicon Graphics Total Performance 9300 User Manual

1: Introduction to the SGI TP9300

Performance Features

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The SGI TP9300 RAID storage system has the following basic features:
• Outstanding performance, built on multi-channel end-to-end Fibre Channel
technology.
• Continuous availability, with constant monitoring and optional redundancy of all
active components.
• Dynamic scalability, making it easy to grow all subsystem resources without
disruption.
• Superior connectivity, allowing simultaneous connections to multiple servers
directly or by way of storage area networks (SANs). Support for optical host
connections.
• Vast storage capacity with support for large numbers of drives.
• Storage management facilities for installation, configuration, expansion, and
monitoring.
• Redundant power supplies and hot-swappable components.
• Easily upgradeable to meet a variety of performance requirements.
• Integrated RAID controllers.
• Battery backup for cache data.
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