PowerVault MD32x0 and MD32x0i Series

Shared Storage Arrays

ASG Technical Training June, 2010
RTS : June 16, 2010

What number/term you need to remember?

2 2GB data cache/ctrl, 2 times capacity of MD3K
4- 4 port/ctrl, 4 HA support for MD3200, 4 type HDDs 8 8 Snapshot per LUN(max 128 per array), 8 volume copy simultaneous(max 255 per system) 10 10 Sec controller failover time 32 Up to 32 host connectivity

SED Self-Encrypting Disk

Turbo Mode - Incremental boost to performance

Product Overview

PowerVault MD32x0 Family

Highly available shared storage
PowerVault MD32x0 Series
MD3200 MD3220

PowerVault MD32x0i Series

MD3200i MD3220i

6Gb SAS Array

Details Two enclosure options 2.5 and 3.5 inch 2U 12 drive 3.5 inch enclosure 2U 24 drive 2.5 inch enclosure 4 6Gb SAS host ports per controller Details

Entry iSCSI SAN Array

Two enclosure options 2.5 and 3.5 inch 2U 12 drive 3.5 inch enclosure 2U 24 drive 2.5 inch enclosure 4 iSCSI host ports per controller

Expands to 96 drives
Mix and match drive sizes and speeds 7.2K, 10K and 15K SAS and SSD Optional Turbo mode and Premium Features
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Expands to 96 drives
Mix and match drive sizes and speeds 7.2K, 10K and 15K SAS and SSD Optional Turbo mode and Premium Features

MD32x0 Family

Key Hardware improvements

MD3200 and MD3200i Controller and Chassis Improved Performance

Doubled the number of points per controller (both iSCSI and SAS)

6Gb/s SAS technology

Optional Turbo mode

Introducing both Solid State Drives (SSD) and Self Encrypting Drives (SED) Replacing SATA drives with NL-SAS for high capacity Expand to 96 drives with MD1200 and MD1220 Redundant 80% efficient power supplies and fans Mix 2.5 and 3.5 inch enclosures behind a SAS or iSCSI controller Mix 2.5 and 3.5 inch drives in the 3.5 inch enclosures General Enhancement

Linux Device Mapper support Rebalancing support

MD32x0 Family

Key software improvements

New Enhanced Modular Disk Storage Manager (MDSM) new GUI Added a many-to-one monitoring window

Backward compatible to the MD3000 series Provides many-to-one array firmware updating Physical views for MD3200 systems & expansion enclosures

Improved array management window

New tab layout simplifies usability

Basic snap shots increases to 8 snaps/LUN Reduced failover time from 144 to 10 seconds Easier iSCSI set-up by improving the configuration wizard flow and integrating into the resource CD Integration into non-Dell management tools

VSS, VDS, SCOM & SMI-S providers delivered on resource CD

Key Features
Feature
4 - 1GbE ports/controller 4 6Gb SAS ports/controller

Benefit
Doubled the number of ports per array improving throughput and overall performance Doubled the throughput over previous generation, with 6Gb SAS as well as double the number of servers you can connect to this generation of arrays. Doubles the capacity over previous generation Provides an incremental boost to performance Ideal for sequential applications like web streaming or backup Enterprise Management Window allows you to monitor all you MD arrays in a single view. The Physical View tab provides you with a imaged based array view.

Product
iSCSI SAS

Expansion to 96 Drives Optional Turbo Mode Usability improvements to MD Storage Manager

Both Both Both

Optional Premium features

Supports for Virtual Disk Copy (full replicated copy) and Snapshots (point in time copy)
Maximum drive flexibility within a single array enables customers datatiering capability. No need to purchase a second shelf to mix drive types. Offering customers the ability to tier their data to match the speed and capacity of a variety of drives Self-encrypting drives help ensure your data is secure with drive-level encryption. to access it without the appropriate security authorization. Solid state drives (SSD) which have 3x the IOPs performance over 15K SAS drives and offer an ideal solution for applications that rely on random block access.

Both

Support for 2.5 drives in 3.5 enclosure Mixing 2.5 and 3.5 enclosures behind a single controller Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) Solid State Drives (SSDs)

3.5 inch enclosures Both Both 2.5 inch drives only

Technical Deep Dive

MD32xx Controller Block Diagram

Key Controller Features Active/Active controllers w/ mirrored cache Support for RAID 0, 1/10, 5 and 6 Up to 30 HDD per disk group in RAID 5 & 6 Up to 96 HDD per disk group in RAID 0, 1/10 Permanent cache retention to flash memory Automatic HDD rebuild with global hot spares Maximum of 256 Virtual Disks Smart battery support Online firmware upgrades (dual cntrl systems only) Automated background data scrubbing Maximum of 8 storage partitions 128 snap shots, maximum of 8/virtual disk 8 simultaneous virtual disk copies, maximum of 255 Dynamic expansion for disk groups, virtual disks and enclosures Dynamic RAID level migration

MD32x0 Generational Differences

Feature MD3200 MD3220 MD3000

Number of controllers
Host ports/controller Maximum hosts in a dual cntrl system Cache/controller

Single or Dual
4 4 HA 8 non HA 2GB

Single or Dual
4 4 HA 8 non HA 2GB

Dual Only
2 2 HA 4 non HA 512MB

Drives/enclosure
Maximum HDD count Expansion enclosures Enclosure mixing HDD supported HDD mixing in enclosures HDD carriers SAS cables HBA support Turbo Performance

12, 3.5 in 2U
96 MD1200 and MD1220 Yes SSD, SAS, NL-SAS Yes 11G server design 8088 mini SAS connectors 6Gb SAS HBA Premium Feature

24, 2.5 in 2U
96 MD1200 and MD1220 Yes SSD, SAS, NL-SAS Yes 11G server design 8088 mini SAS connectors 6Gb SAS HBA Premium Feature

15, 3.5 in 3U
45 MD1000 N/A SAS & SATA Yes 9G/10G server design 8047 SAS connectors SAS 5/E HBA N/A

MD32x0i Series Controller Architecture

Key Controller Features Active/Active controllers w/ mirrored cache Support for RAID 0, 1/10, 5 and 6 Up to 30 HDD per disk group in RAID 5 & 6 Up to 96 HDD per disk group in RAID 0, 1/10 Permanent cache retention to flash memory Automatic HDD rebuild with global hot spares Maximum of 256 Virtual Disks Smart battery support

Online firmware upgrades (dual cntrl systems only)

Automated background data scrubbing Maximum of 32 storage partitions 128 snap shots, maximum of 8/virtual disk 8 simultaneous virtual disk copies, maximum of 255 Dynamic expansion for disk groups, virtual disks and enclosures Dynamic RAID level migration

MD32x0i Generational Differences

Feature Number of controllers Host ports/controller Maximum hosts support Cache/controller Drives/enclosure Maximum HDD count Expansion enclosures Enclosure mixing HDD supported HDD mixing in enclosures HDD carriers MD3200 Single or Dual 4 RJ45 32 2GB 12, 3.5 in 2U 96 MD1200 and MD1220 Yes SSD, SAS, NL-SAS Yes 11G server design 8088 mini SAS connectors Premium Feature MD3220 Single or Dual 4 RJ45 32 2GB 24, 2.5 in 2U 96 MD1200 and MD1220 Yes SSD, SAS, NL-SAS Yes 11G server design 8088 mini SAS connectors Premium Feature MD3000 Single or Dual 2 RJ45 16 512MB 15, 3.5 in 3U 45 MD1000 N/A SAS & SATA Yes 9G/10G server design

SAS cables
Turbo Performance

8047 SAS connectors

N/A

MD3200 and MD3200i Controller Views

MD3200
Four 6Gb/s SAS ports for host connectivity One PS/2 serial interface for service

MD3200 controllers will not plug into MD1200 or MD1220 chassis

One 6 Gb/s SAS port for drive expansion connectivity

One 1-Gb Ethernet port for LAN out-of-band management

MD3200i

Four 1-Gb Ethernet ports for host connectivity

One PS/2 serial interface for service

MD3200 controllers will not plug into MD3000 chassis

One 6Gb/s SAS port for drive expansion connectivity One 1-Gb Ethernet port for LAN out-of-band management

New Efficient Power Supply

Meets power efficiency standards for reduced power consumption with 80% efficient power supplies Runs cooler Less heat with 2.5-in. drives and SSDs (SSDs have no moving components)
LSI Data Power Consumption*
MD3000 1061watts (48 drives, 4 enclosures) MD3200 909 watts (48 drives, 4 enclosures) MD3220 487 watts (48 drives, 2 encl)

Cache Improvements
What has changed? Increased cache size from 512MB to 2GB/controller battery backed Improved cache retention from 72 hours to permanent
What it means to the customers?

Larger cache improves general overall system performance

Permanent retention ensures no lost data will ever occur no matter how long it takes the use to get his system back up and running

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MD3220 vs. MD3000 Performance

2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0

SEQUENTIAL READ (MiB/s)

3000 3220

600 500 400 300

SEQUENTIAL WRITE (MiB/s)

3000 3220

200
100 0

80000 70000 60000 50000

SEQUENTIAL READ IOPS

3000 3220

30000 25000

SEQUENTIAL WRITE IOPS

3000 3220

20000
15000 10000 5000 0

40000
30000 20000 10000 0

MD3220 vs. MD3000 Performance

30000 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0

RANDOM READ IOPS

3000 3220

8000 7000 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0

RANDOM WRITE IOPS

3000 3220

MD3220i vs. MD3000i Performance

1200

SEQUENTIAL READ (MiB/s)

3000i 3220i

600 500 400 300 200 100 0

SEQUENTIAL WRITE (MiB/s)

3000i 3220i

1000
800 600 400 200 0

50000 45000 40000 35000 30000 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0

SEQUENTIAL READ IOPS

3000i 3220i

25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0

SEQUENTIAL WRITE IOPS

3000i 3220i

MD3220i vs. MD3000i Performance

30000 25000 20000 15000 10000

RANDOM READ IOPS

3000i 3220i

8000 7000 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0

RANDOM WRITE IOPS

3000i 3220i

5000
0

Turbo Mode
What is it?
Provides an incremental boost to performance by opening up additional PCI lanes on the system improving both throughput and I/O Ideal for sequential applications like web streaming or backup Turbo performance key removes firmware limitations

What does it mean to customers?

For customers where performance, specifically throughput is critical, turbo will offer a very cost effective solution that rivals FC performance

What sales needs to know

This is a premium feature additional charge We are doing 3rd party testing to show the performance improvements over the base model

Turbo Performance Mode

Premium feature key delivering a pay as you grow performance enhancement

Sequential Throughput Random IOPs

Turbo 2X improvement Base

Turbo 33% improvement Base

Turbo performance is key for bandwidth-oriented and mixed (consolidated) workloads and can make a difference for larger-scaled transactional applications

MD3220 Turbo vs. Base Performance

4000 3500 3000 2500 2000

SEQUENTIAL READ (MiB/s)

Base Turbo

1600 1400

SEQUENTIAL WRITE (MiB/s)

Base Turbo

1200
1000 800 600 400 200 0

1500
1000 500 0

45000 40000 35000 30000 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0

RANDOM READ IOPS

Base Turbo

12000 10000 8000 6000 4000

RANDOM WRITE IOPS

Base Turbo

2000
0

MD3220i Turbo vs. Base Performance

1200

SEQUENTIAL READ (MiB/s)

1200 1000 800

SEQUENTIAL WRITE (MiB/s)

Base Turbo

1000
800 600 400 200 0 Base Turbo

600 400 200 0

40000 35000 30000 25000

RANDOM READ IOPS

Base Turbo

20000
15000 10000 5000 0

10000 9000 8000 7000 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0

RANDOM WRITE IOPS

Base Turbo

Enterprise Window
What is it?
Enhancement to the Modular Disk Storage Manager software that allows customer to monitor the system status of multiple arrays, including previous generation arrays.

Why do customers care?

A single source to monitor both new MD3200 series as well as the previous MD3000 series.

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Physical View Tab

What is it?
A new tab in the array management window that provides customers with an image of the system with key status of controllers, power supplies, enclosures and hard disk drives

Why do customers care?

A much more user friendly way to see where individual storage resources are and perform configuration activities

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 Viewable physical representation of the storage array

Physical tab

MD Storage Manager Improvements (continued)

Old Summary window provided a general storage array overview.

New Physical tab provides a detailed and clear physical representation of a storage array

LSI

MD Storage Manager Improvements

View all arrays from a single window
Enterprise Management Window (EMW)

Old View one storage array at a time from a drop-down menu (maximum view up to 16 storage arrays)

New View all storage arrays from a single window including legacy MD3000 and MD3000i (maximum view in the hundreds!)

LSI

 Viewable physical representation of the array

Physical tab

MD Storage Manager Improvements (continued)

Old From the Summary window, you could find general drive information (no drive assignment detail)

New Selecting a drive from the Physical tab provides drive details. Right-clicking the drive outlines the drive assignment.

LSI

New Look-and-Feel for the Current MDSM

If an MD3000 or MD3000i is opened by the enhanced MDSM, a new MD3000 /MD3000i look-and-feel is invoked
No new functionality
No backwards compatibility

LSI

Enhanced MDSM (Summary)

Feature Snapshots 8 per LUN MD3000/MD3000i MD3200/MD3200i 8 / LUN, Max 128/System

Virtual Disk Copy

(Host) Partitions SED management Dynamic virtual disk Expansion Dynamic defragmentation Fail a drive Performance Monitor Not supported CLI CLI CLI CLI

8 simultaneous
4 per array (MD3000) 16 per array (MD3000i)

8 simultaneous, 255/system
8 per array (MD3200) 32 physical, unlimited virtual (i)

SED management GUI GUI GUI GUI

Self encrypting drives (SED)

What are they?
Specific drives with additional security features that encrypt your data at rest and enable instant secure erase for when you decommission your drives.

Why do customers care?

Drives move around, between systems, between sites and even get retired. Opportunity to have a data breach is high. Compliance requirements

What sales needs to know

They are an upsell Not available for sale online, must contact sales rep to purchase Local key management only

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Secure Encryption Disk

Self-Encrypting Disk is a security measure Data on drive platters is encrypted and cannot be accurately read without appropriate key (stored in drive circuitry)

-SEDs encrypt everything written to the drive and de-crypt everything read

from the drive

-SED is secured, if the drive is ever powered down or removed from the storage array, the SED becomes locked and the encryption key within that drive will not encrypt or decrypt data making the drive unreadable No performance impact because all encryption is handled by the drive

Management of SED Drives

In combination with SEDs, MD Storage Manager supports a full data encryption solution
Maintains /controls the key linkage and communications with the SED Provides all the management tools necessary to quickly and simply enable and SEDs

Secure Cost-effective No impact on performance or ease-of-use

Application Servers

SAN
MDSM Local Key Management

Authentication Key Flow

Data Flow

Why Encrypt Data-At-Rest?

- At some point, ALL storage leaves the data center

This year, between 20M to 30M hard drives will leave the warm security of the glass house, either in systems or as bare drives

Compliance 42 states have data privacy laws with encryption safe harbors New data breach bills have explicit encryption safe harbors PCI DSS requires rendering stored cardholder data unreadable
Exposure of data loss is expensive Data center disk drives are mobile ALL drives/systems leave the security of the data center eventually The vast majority of decommissioned drives are still readable . .

. . . and not all leave under the owners control

Source: Seagate Technology

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Configuration Flexibility
2.5 & 3.5 HDD can mix in one tray and enclouse Tune any attribute to meet any application need Single storage system supports:
Multiple RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, 5, 6 Multiple drive types, capacities and rotational speeds Multiple and various disk group sizes
RAID 1 and 10 96 drives RAID 5 and 6 2+1 up to 29+1

One or more virtual disk per disk group

Settings defined on a virtual disk basis
Concurrently maximize performance, capacity and availability

Dynamic configuration / re-configuration

Anytime Administration Anytime Data

Dynamic Array Expansion (DAE)
Add drives to existing array (restripes virtual disks, defrags array)

Dynamic virtual disk Expansion (DVE)

Add available capacity to existing virtual disks (OS dependent)

Dynamic RAID Level Migration (DRM)

Change the RAID configuration of an array (without relocating data )

Dynamic Segment Size Migration (DSS)

Change the data stripe size (without relocating data )

MD3200 & MD3220 Homogeneous Expansion

MD3200/MD3200i MD3220/MD3220i

96 drives via 3 MD1220 enclosures

96 drives via 7 MD1200 enclosures

MD3200/3220 Heterogeneous Expansion

MD3200/MD3200i MD3200/MD3200i

96 drives via 1 MD1200 and 3 MD1220 enclosures 96 drives via 1 MD1220 and 4 MD1200 enclosures

Any combination of enclosure ordering is allowed Do not exceed 96 total HDD slots when mixing enclosures

Expansion and Cabling

Top down bottom up

Daisy chain

MD1200 and MD1220 enclosures can be intermixed behind an MD3200/MD3200i Do not exceed 96 total drive slots when mixing enclosures

3Gb to 6Gb SAS Cable Transition

SAS to SAS 3Gb Cable MD3000 / MD3000i MD1000 / MD1120

Mini-SAS to Mini-SAS 6Gb Cable MD32X0 / MD32X0i MD1200 / MD1220

3Gb to 6Gb SAS HBA Transition

SAS 5/E IOC LSI 1068 Intel PCIx to PCIe bridge MD3000, External Tape attached IOC LSI 2008 Native PCIe MD3200/MD3220, External Tape attached (MD3000 4QCY10) 6Gb SAS HBA

SAS 1.1, 3Gb/s

2x4 wide connectors (SSF8484) Full size, half length form factor

SAS 2.0, 6Gb/s

2x4 mini SAS connectors (SSF8088) Half heights, half length form factor

Qualified Drives
Capacity
73 GB
146 GB 300 GB 450 GB 500 GB 600 GB

SSD

15K

10K

7200

2.5-in.

3.5-in.

SED SED SED SED RTS +

1 TB
2 TB

SED

Operating System Support

Microsoft
Windows 2008 R1 & R2 Standard & Core Enterprise Editions & Core Data Center & Core Foundation & Core Small Business Server Essential Business Server Windows Storage Server 2008 R1 & R2 Windows 2008 HPC Server R1 & R2 Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2008 R1 & R2 (SAS Only) Windows 2008 Web Windows 2003 Standard, Enterprise & Small Business with SP2 and R2 Windows 2003 Standard & Enterprise x64 with SP2 & R2 Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 & SP2 Red Hat 5.4 & 5.5

Linux

Virtualization
VMWare ESX 4.0 (iSCSI) ESX 4.0 U1 (iSCSI) ESX 4.1 (SAS & iSCSI)

SuSE Enterprise Server 10 with SP3 SuSE Enterprise Server 11 & 11 U1

Windows 2008 w/Hyper-V Hyper-V Server 2008 & 2008 with R2 Citrix Xen Server 5.5 U2 (RTS+) Citrix Xen Server 5.6 (RTS+)

Things You need to know

EOL Timeline:
Current MD3000 MD3000i New MD3200 MD3220 MD3200i MD3220i Transition Timeframe MD3000 expected to EOL Q4 FY11 n/a MD3000i expected to EOL Q4 FY11 n/a

You can not leverage MD1000 or MD1120 behind MD3200 family SATA drives are not supported in MD3200 family.
includes SATA HDDs (Hard Disk Drives) and SATA SSD (Solid State Drives)

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Generational Coexistence
You can put an MD3000 and MD3200 behind the same server BUT
Requires both arrays to connect to a 6Gb SAS HBA* Supported on versions of VMWare supported by the MD32X0 Supported on versions of Xen Server supported by the MD32X0 Supported on all versions of Windows OSes via MPIO driver Linux OSes are limited to Device Mapper (DM) support
RHEL 5.4 and 5.5 SLES 10 SP3, 11 and 11 U1

You can have access to both MD3000i and MD3200i from the SAME server BUT
Works on all versions of Windows OSes via MPIO driver Supported on versions of VMWare supported by the MD32X0 Supported on versions of Xen Server supported by the MD32X0 Linux OSes are limited to Device Mapper (DM) support

RHEL 5.4 and 5.5

SLES 10 SP3, 11 and 11 U1
* For MD3000/MD3000 firmware upgrade in October will support 6Gb/s SAS HBAs

MD3200 Series Key SKUs

MD3200 Single Controller 224-8255 MD3220 Single Controller 224-9942 Dual Controller Optional Bezel Common across Both Snapshot Only 421-3438 Snapshot & VDC 421-3439 Turbo Performance 421-3580 Dual Cntrl Upgrade 330-8215 6Gb SAS HBA 342-0615 224-9941 313-9922

Dual Controller
Optional Bezel

224-8254
313-9451

MD3200i Series Key SKUs

MD3200i Single Controller 224-8207 MD3220i Single Controller 224-8317 Dual Controller Optional Bezel Common across Both Snapshot Only 421-3438 Snapshot & VDC 421-3439 Turbo Performance 421-3580 Dual Cntrl Upgrade 330-7846 224-8318 313-9920

Dual Controller
Optional Bezel

224-8206
313-9401

Competitive

SAS Competitive Product Assessment

Feature Dell MD3200/ MD3220 6Gb/s 2U Single or Dual 2GB 0, 1, 10, 5, 6 HP P2000 SAS 6Gb/s 2U Single or Dual 2GB 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 50, 6 IBM DS3500 6Gb /s 2U Dual 1GB/2GB 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6

Better Sun StorageTek 2530 3Gb/s 2U Single or Dual 512MB 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6

SAS
Rack Height Controllers Cache/cntrl. RAID HDD bays Max. HDD Max. LUN Max. Host Host ports/cntrl. Drive Types OS Support Snap Shots Virtual Disk Copy

12/24
96 256 8 4 SSD, SAS, NL-SAS Win, Linux, VMWare, Xen Yes Yes

12/24
96 3.5 or 149 2.5 512 8 4 SAS & SATA II Win, Linux, VMWare Yes Yes

12/24
96 256 4 or 8 2 or 4 SAS & NL-SAS Win, Linux, VMWare Yes Yes

12
48 256 4 2 SAS or SATA Win, Linux, NW, AIX, HPUX, Solaris Yes Yes

iSCSI Competitive Product Assessment

Feature Ethernet Rack Height Controllers Cache/cntrl. RAID HDD bays Max. HDD Max. LUN Max. Host Host ports/cntrl. Drive Types OS Support Snap Shots Virtual Disk Copy

Better

Dell MD3200i/ MD3220i

1GbE 2U Single or Dual 2GB 0, 1, 10, 5, 6 12/24 96 256 32

HP MSA2312i/ 2324i
1GbE 2U Single or Dual 1GB 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 50, 6 12/24 60 3.5 or 99 2.5 512 32

IBM DS3500
6Gb SAS & 1GbE 2U Dual only 1GB/2GB 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6 12/24 96 256 4, 8, 16, 32, 64

NetApp FAS2020
1GbE 2U Single or Dual 1GB 4, 6 12 68 1024 24

4
SSD, SAS, NL-SAS Win, Linux, VMWare, Xen Yes Yes

2
SAS & SATA Win, Linux, VMWare,HPUX Yes Yes

2SAS & 4 iSCSI

SAS & NL-SAS Win, Linux, VMWare Yes Yes

2
SAS or SATA Win, Linux, NW, AIX, HPUX, Solaris Yes Yes

Competitive Summary
Dell PowerVault MD3200 family delivers compelling cost/GB and cost/IOPs to our shared storage portfolio.

HP and IBM are expected to launch their 6Gb/s SAS and 1GbE iSCSI solutions around the same timeframe as us.
Against IBM: Against HP:

Superior Price for Capacity and Price for Performance

PowerVault MD3200 series is expected to be competitively featured to the IBM solution with a compelling price point.

Superior random IOP performance

PowerVault MD3200 series is expected to be competitively featured but deliver superior performance.

NOTE: These statements are based on what we believe the future products features and functionality will be. Statements will be adjusted once products are released

Solution Best Practice

Best Practice by Application

App
File Service Printing Service Web Service

I/ O Type

I/ O Size
512B- 64KB 64KB 512B- 512KB 512B 4- 16KB 64KB 4- 16KB 64KB 64KB

Random small I/ O Larger data block Random small I/ O Relatively small files, random read/ write(Store BBS Systems articles, documents into distributed files) OLAP: Random Small I/ O Database Systems OLDP: Sequency I/ O Random access, with data block eMail Service Large data block read(highly demand on I/ O Media Service bandwidth)block read(highly demand on I/ O Large data Non- threaded I/ O bandwidth and not IOPS intensive)

MD3200/I flexible tiering solution enable best performance maximizing

Vertical Application1 Critical database online backup

User User User User User

LAN Switch

MD3200i support high performance SAS/SSD hard drives, offer database online backup for business critical, high I/O translation volume access.

Leverage storage snapshot to create Point-in-Time copies for business critical data, in case of soft/logical disaster.
P Q
T-1 T-2 T-3

MD3200i

Vertical Application 2 Non linear Edit/Compiling system

..
Compile WS*n Ethernet Audit WS*n

Manuscript*n

Audio WS*n

LAN Switch

MD3200i support high performance SAS/SSD hard disk, satisfy large volume of fast write I/O. Also, MD3200i support NL-SAS disks, good for large data capacity backup MD3200i support maximum 96 disk drives, fulfill customer requirement in capacity expansion

DB Server x2

MDC Server x2

MD3200i

Vertical Application3 Medical PACS Systems

CT MR
DSA

RF

CR

PACS

Central Reading

Image Writing
RIS Server

Image Reading
MD3200i architected in a IP-SAN to integrate all PACS systems IT applications in hospitals
PACS Server

MD3200i support high performance SAS/SSD hard disk, satisfy large volume of instant read/write data access Also, MD3200i support NLSAS disks, good for large data capacity backup

MD3200i support maximum 96 disk drives, fulfill customer requirement in capacity expansion

Vertical Application IPTV Storage Systems

IPTV User Central Node
Broadcast

DB Server

Network

MD3200i

MD3200i offer optimized performance for the IPTV simultaneously access

Control Server

Video Server

MD3200i support high performance SAS/SSD hard disk and high capacity NL-SAS drives, satisfy high volume data retrieval performance and capacity requirements. MD3200i support maximum 96 disk drives, fulfill customer requirement in capacity expansion

OPG Server

Interline Positioning

Array Capabilities
$7K - $20K

Approx. Budget
$15K - $55K $10K-52K $22K+ $50K+

Capability Product Architecture Number of servers OS Support WinLux Solaris Other Drive Count

MD32x0i Traditional 32

AX4-5 Traditional 64

PS4000 Scale-Out 256

PS6000 Scale-Out 2048

CX4 Traditional 4096

Y N N
96

Y Y Y
60

Y Y Y
32

Y Y Y
768

Y Y Y
960

Snapshots/Clones
Remote Mirroring/DR Host Connectivity Thin Provisioning Application Aware Schedulers

Y
N iSCSI N N

Y
Y iSCSI or FC N Y

Y
Y iSCSI Y Y

Y
Y iSCSI Y Y

Y
Y iSCSI & FC Y Y

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Why should customers move to the New MD32x0 Series of Arrays?

Performance
Double the performance
Increase IOPs capability by up to 2X
Increase MB/s capability by up to 2X

Scalability
2X the number of host supported

2X the number of HDD supported

Additional flexibility and versatility

Choice of 2.5 and 3.5 HDD base enclosure Ability to mix SSD, SAS and NL-SAS in a single enclosure

Ability to tier storage by mixing 2.5 and/or 3.5 enclosures

Summary

Summary
Reliability Text

Efficiency

Power Performance: 2-4X Energy Efficiencies: 20% saving High Availability: HA, 10 sec failover Super Flexibility: Any configuration Enterprise Management: 1-M, 100% GUI Great Security: SED, Premium

Green Simplify Performance

Business

LSI Support Contact

Support website: http://Dellmd.lsi.cn (Online submit question)

Backup

iSCSI SAN Configurations

iSCSI Direct Attached Configurations

Dual Controller Model

iSCSI Direct Attached Configurations

Single Controller Model

SAS Direct Attached Configurations

Dual Controller Model

SAS Direct Attached Configurations

Single Controller Model

Secure Encryption Disk How it Works

Drives can be SED capable or enabled SED capable means drives can use the locking mechanism, but arent currently doing so SED enabled means drives are using the locking mechanism

Once enabled, a drive cannot be returned to the capable state without destroying data
Changing the state resets the encryption key Once enabled, drives stay enabled through power cycles SED enabled drives can be locked or unlocked Locked drives are inaccessible until the lock key is provided Unlocked drives send and receive data as normal Enabled drives are locked at power-on

Unlocked drives stay unlocked until power-down

Unlocking Drives
Locked drives at power-on can be queried for the lock key ID Lock key ID stored on drive Lock key ID changed when lock key changed Lock key and ID stored in NVSRAM One key per storage array Shared across controllers

Key disguised in NVSRAM but not encrypted

Lock key used to unlock drives during SOD Lock key may be identified via lock key ID Drives unlocked by sending unlock request with correct lock key All security enabled drives within an array must use the same lock key!

Solid State Drives (SSDs)

Use solid state memory (flash) to store data Pliant SAS SSD
149-GB capacity
Industry-standard SLC NAND flash memory technology

SSD benefits
Increased small-block I/O performance 2x the IOPs per watt, a third of the watts per drive and lower heat dissipation Faster start up (no spin up) and access to data (no rotational latency) Higher reliability with fewer moving parts Ideal for few writes and lots of reads applications
SSDs should be reserved for high-end applications where the cost can be justified

Near-line SAS Drives

Reduces complexity
No need for a SATA interposer

Comparably priced to SATA drives

Delivers the most capacity for the least money

SAS delivers up to a 38% IOPs per watt improvement over SATA (Seagate datasheet)

Outperforms SATA
25% improvement in sequential reads 140% improvement in sequential writes 15% improvement in random reads

20% improvement in random writes