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Storage Hardware

The document provides an overview of various disk storage hardware options from major vendors, including NetApp, IBM, EMC, and Fujitsu. It details technical specifications for entry-level, midrange, and high-end storage solutions, highlighting features such as connectivity, capacity, RAID support, and cache sizes. The information is structured in a comparative format to assist in understanding the capabilities and configurations of each storage solution.

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Storage Hardware

The document provides an overview of various disk storage hardware options from major vendors, including NetApp, IBM, EMC, and Fujitsu. It details technical specifications for entry-level, midrange, and high-end storage solutions, highlighting features such as connectivity, capacity, RAID support, and cache sizes. The information is structured in a comparative format to assist in understanding the capabilities and configurations of each storage solution.

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Disk Storage Hardware

M.Vivekraja
Major Storage Vendors
Entry level NetApp hardware
FAS2000 series
Midrange Storage Hardware
High End Storage Hardware
Technical Specifications Midrange FAS3200 High End FAS6200
Series Series

Dual 12 16
10GbE(Optical/Copper)

Quad GbE (Copper) 12 12 X 2

Dual 10GbE FCoE SAN 12 24


Unified Target Adapter

8Gb Target 12 24
Adapter(optical)

Flash 4 /N/A 16
Cache(512MB/256MB)

Quad 6Gb SAS Storage 12 12


HBA

Quad 4Gb FC 12 24 / 16
Storage/Tape HBA
Technical Specification
Max Raw Capacity
Max Disk Drives
Controller from factor
Memory
Flash cache
PCI Expansion Slots
On Board I/O 4 GB FC
On Board I/O 6 GB SAS
On Board I/O GbE
Storage Network support
OS Version
RAID Groups
Supported OS
Max LUNS
Entry Level IBM Disk
Storage

Midrange IBM Disk Storage


High-End IBM Disk Storage
Technical Entry level Disk Midrange Disk High-End Disk
Specifications Storage Exp 3000 Storage DS4800 Storage DS 8300
Host Connectivity SAS Fibre Channel 2 Gbps & 4 Gbps FC
FICON, ESCON
SAN Support N/A Direct, FC-AL, Direct, FC-AL,
Switched Fabric Switched Fabric
Copy Services N/A Remote mirroring Metro Mirror, Global
Flash copy, Volume Mirror, Flash Copy SE
copy
Availability Features Fault-tolerant RAID Dual controllers, Dual controllers,
Hot Swap Dual-pathing, Dual-pathing,
Poer/Drives Concurrent Concurrent
Microcode Updated Microcode Updated
Controller MegaRAID 8480 Dual active 4 Gbps Dual active/active
RAID Controller
Cache 256 MB 16 GB 256 GB
Drive Interface 3 Gbps SAS, 4 Gbps Switched 2 Gbps Fibre
3 Gbps SATA II Channel
RAID 0,1,3,5,6,10 0, 1, 3, 5, 10 5, 10
Capacity 12 TB 512 TB
Drive Support SAS:300 GB at 15000 1 TB 7200 SATA 500 GB 7.5 K FATA
rpm,1 TB SATA II at
7500 rpm
Clustering Support N/A Available Available
Entry Level EMC CLARiiON
Disk Storage

Midrange EMC CLARiiON


Disk Storage
High-End EMC CALRiiON
Disk Storage
Technical CLARiiON AX4 CLARiiON CX4 CLARiiON CX4
Specifications model 240 model 960

Max. Capacity per 120 TB 459 TB 1899 TB


System
HA hosts per Array 64 256 512

Maximum Logical 512 2048 8192


Unitd
Host ports per Array 4 FC or 4 IP 4 FC & 4 ISCSI 8 FC & 4 ISCSI

System Memory 2 GB 8 GB 32 GB

Drives per Array 60 240 480 or 960


Technical CLARiiON AX4 CLARiiON CX4 CLARiiON CX4
Specifications model 240 model 960

Disk type SATA II & SAS FC, SATA II, LP SATA FC, SATA II, LP SATA
& Enterprise Flash & Enterprise Flash
Drives Drives

Software Navisphere Express, Snapview, Snapview,


SAN copy,Unisphere Unisphere, Unisphere,
Replication Replication
Manager Manager

Host Support Windows, Linux, Windows, Linux, Windows, Linux,


Solaris,AIX, HP-UX, Solaris,AIX, HP-UX, Solaris,AIX, HP-UX,
Netware, Vmware Netware, Vmware Netware, Vmware
Entry level FUJUTSU
ETERNUS
DX90

Midrange FUJUTSU
ETERNUS
DX400
High-End FUJUTSU
ETERNUS DX8000
Technical DX90 DX400 DX8000
Specifications
Host Interface FC 8/4/2 Gbps FC 8 Gbps, iSCSI 1 FC 8 Gbps, iSCSI 1
Gbps Gbps, FCLINK 2 Gbps
No of CM 1 2 8
No of CA 1 Eash CM with 1 FC Each CM with 4 FC
CA CA
No of CH 124 per System 256 per System 1024 per System
Cache 4 GB 32 GB 512 GB
RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5, 5+0, 6 0, 1, 1+0, 5, 6 0, 1, 1+0, 5, 6
No of Drives 120 420 2760
Maximum Physical 240 TB 834.4 TB 5456 TB
Storage Capacity
Technical DX90 DX400 DX8000
Specifications
Maximum Logical 176.1 TB 591.2 TB 4250.6 TB
Storage Capacity
FC Disk Drives 600 GB 146 GB for Global
server
SATA Disk Drives 2 TB 2 TB
Drive Interface Fibre Channel 4 Fibre Channel 4
Gbps Gbps
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