SAN

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

Hi,
 
The Dell | EMC CX3-80 supports up to 480 FC Drives. 
For 33 TB raw capacity you need somewhere between 260 - 280 146 GB Drives so there will be room to grow some...

If you go with 300 GB FC Drives you should probably be ok with a Dell | EMC CX3-40f.


Go call you contact person in sales and provide them with your specs, then he can hand it over to someone that can start planning a design with you.



Regards
Harald Jensås

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	From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Mad Unix
	Sent: den 21 mars 2007 07:45
	To: linux-poweredge-Lists
	Subject: SAN
	
	
	I need your input regarding this SAN spec, can i get it from DELL

	Shared Storage Array Fiber Channel Technical Specifications
	Redundancy All components must be hot pluggable (No downtime.)
	Storage Processor Dual Redundant Storage Processor Active/ Active
	Power Supplies & FANS Redundant power supply, cooling unit 
	RAID levels RAID 0, 1, 1/0, 3 and 5
	SAN Switches 2x Fiber Channel Switch 16 ports 4Gb (8 active)
	 12x Optical cable LC-LC 5 Meter cable
	Storage Capacity Supports up to 33TB raw storage capacity with Fiber Channel drives 
	Drives Available  min 14x 146GB drives (10k rpm) disks with min 2Gbit dual ports Fiber Channel interface (2TB raw storage capacity)
	Cache  min 2GB battery backed cache 
	OS support Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows 2000, Sun Solaris,  Redhat Linux, SuSE Linux, AIX, HP-UX 

	Supported hosts min 64 HA SAN connected servers

	Front end connectivity 4 Fiber Channel front end ports (2ports per controller)
	(Host Ports)

	Back End Connectivity   4 Fiber Channel back end ports (2 ports per controller)
	(Drive Ports) 1 redundant back end loop 

	Available software Fail over and load balancing software for multi-path I/O.
	Host Bus adapters 8x Fiber Channel (single ports) 4Gbps PCI - Express HBA card
	Managment Software is a must 
	Warranty  Three Years on-site Haradware (Parts & Labor) + software