VS Series Storage
The VS family of storage systems spans the requirements
from entry level to enterprise class solutions delivering unprecedented
price/performance leadership to high-availability SANs in many applications
including enterprise computing clusters, databases and storage consolidation.
The Modular architecture of the VS storage systems and the flexibility
of both high performance Fibre Channel and high capacity SATA drive technology
provide for tailoring the performance characteristics of the VS storage
systems to meet a broad range of bandwidth and I/O requirements.
VS Storage Solutions
| VS7000 Performance • Maximum burst I/O rate from cache 550,000 I/O per second • Maximum sustained I/O rate from FC media 79,000 I/O per second • Maximum sustained transfer rate from FC media 1,600MB per second Capacity • Maximum number of drives supported - 224 • Cache options 2GB, 4GB or 8GB • Maximum capacity with 73GB FC drives 16.4 TB • Maximum capacity with 146GB FC drives 32.7TB • Maximum capacity with 300GB FC drives 67.2TB • Maximum capacity with 400GB SATA drives 89.6TB • Maximum capacity with 500GB SATA drives 112TB • Maximum capacity with 750GB SATA drives 168TB Host/Drive Connections • Eight 4 Gb/s FC-AL host or FC-SW SAN connections • Eight 4 Gb/s FC-AL drive expansion connections Availability • Automated I/O path failover and online administration • Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5 and 1+0 • Redundant, hot-swappable storage controllers, disk drives, power supplies, cooling fans • Automatic drive failure detection and rebuild using global hot spare drives • Mirrored cache with battery backup • Configuration metadata stored on every configured drive Configuration/Monitoring SANtricity Storage Manager software OS support: • Windows® 2000 • NetWare® • Windows® Server 2003 • AIX® • IRIX® • Solaris™ • Linux • HP-UX® |
Physical characteristics Controller Module • Height: 17.5 cm (6.9 in.) • Width: 48.2 cm (19 in.) • Depth: 63.2 cm (24.8 in.) • Weight: 36.5 kg (80.5 lb.) Drive Module • Height: 5.2 cm (13.1 in.) • Width: 48.2 cm (19 in.) • Depth: 59.7 cm (23.5 in.) • Weight: 40 kg (88 lb.) Full Configuration* • Height: 183 cm (72 in.) • Width: 112 cm (44 in.) • Depth: 91 cm (36 in.) • Weight: 923 kg (2029 lb.) * two cabinets,
one controller module, 16 drive modules
Operating temperature • Cabinet: 50° - 95° F (10° - 35° C) • Controller module: 32° - 104° F (0° - 40° C) • Drive module: 50° - 104° F (10° - 40° C) Electromagnetic compliance • FCC Class A • EN 55022:Class A:1998 • VCCI Class A • EN 55024:1998:A1:2001 Safety compliance • UL 60950-1:2003 • CSA 22.2 No. 60950-1-03 • IEC 60950-1:2001 • EN 60950-1:2001 Power requirements U.S. and Japan 115 V, 15A, NEMA 5-15 International 230 V, 10A, power connection as required |