Product manual

VessRAID 1000s Series Product Manual

• Three years complete system limited warranty includes 24 x 7 email and

phone support with highly experienced technical support technicians and an

advanced replacements program.

• Support for the latest RAID technology—RAID 6—Protection from a

catastrophic double-drive failure.

• Resilient data protection features such as Predictive Data Migration™ and

PerfectRAID™ provide rock solid data protection.

• LUN Mapping and Masking bring flexibility for multiple application and OS

support on the same storage subsystem.

• Open architecture, industry’s most comprehensive support for SAS and

SATA hard drives and standards-based management interfaces including

SNMP and WBEM.

• Support for the industry standard Disk Data Format (DDF from SNIA)

ensures interoperability and drive roaming even among different RAID

vendors.

• Compatible with leading SAS hard drives, host bus adapters, and RAID

controllers.

Subsystem and Controller Features

• Drive Support: Up to 16 3.5" x 1" SAS or SATA 3 Gb/s hard disk drives.

• Supports any combination of SAS and SATA drives in the system.

• Staggered physical drive spin-up.

• External I/O Ports: Dual 3 Gb/s SAS x4 host ports; One external 3 Gb/s SAS

x4 port for JBOD expansion.

• Data Cache: Shared 512 MB predictive data cache (expandable to 2 GB);

Automatic write cache destaging; optional 72-hour battery backup (for 512

MB cache).

• Command Queue Depth: 1024 commands per VessRAID.

Operational Features

• RAID Levels: RAID 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60 – Any combination of these

RAID levels can exist at the same time.

• Configurable RAID stripe size: 64 KB, 128 KB, 256 KB, 512 KB, and 1 MB

stripe size per logical drive.

• Background task priority tuning: Adjustment of minimum I/O reserved for

server use during all background tasks.

• Hot spares: Multiple global or dedicated hot-spare drives with revert option.

• Maximum LUNs per subsystem: 256 in any combination of RAID levels.