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About your system
The Dell SD7000-S — Storage Designed for Scality RING is a 4U 90 hard drive, ultra-dense storage
appliance purpose built for use with RING
™
software from Scality. The system consists of the Dell
SD7000-S, which is the chassis and two server sleds.
The Dell SD7000-S storage appliance benefits from all the features of the Intel Xeon EP E5-2600v3
product family as well as an extremely dense and energy efficient shared infrastructure chassis. The
combination of Intel enhancements with the E5-2600v3 processors and the Dell SD7000-S ultra-dense
chassis provides performance, efficiency, and flexibility in one dense package. It supports complete
lifecycle management with the Dell™ OpenManage™ portfolio of systems management solutions,
including leading remote management with iDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller.
The storage server is shipped from Dell. The Scality RING
™
software will be loaded and configured at the
customer site by Scality or a Scality certified partner.
Key features:
• Ultra density: Up to 45 3.5-inch hot-swappable hard drives and two independent server sleds in a 4U
form factor.
– A selection of high performance E5-2600v3 series processors up to 135 W Thermal Design Power
(TDP).
• Systems management with support for iDRAC8 Edition.
• Redundant hot-plug power supply for added reliability.
• Serviceable nodes that give the ability to service one node while the other is running. Both nodes
work independently and control a maximum of 45 HDDs. Shutting down one node for service does
not impact the other node.
– Each sled has two boot drives and four PCIe Gen 3 slots.
• Up to 384 GB of memory with 12 DDR4 slots (32 GB DIMMs) per server node.
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