IBM 88553RX, Installation Manual

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Chapter 3. Planning
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For a complete list of supported Fibre Channel hardware, see
http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/compat/machines/x455.html#Storage
The IBM TotalStorage FAStT200 Storage Server
The FAStT200 Storage Server is a 3U rack-mountable Fibre Channel RAID
controller and disk drive enclosure. It targets the entry and midrange segment of
the FC storage market. A typical use of the FAStT200 would be in a two-node
cluster environment with up to 66 Fibre Channel disk drives attached to the
Storage Server.
Two models are available:
The FAStT200 Storage Server, with a single RAID controller
The FAStT200 High Availability (HA) Storage Server, which contains two
RAID controllers and can therefore provide higher availability
Both models feature hot-swap and redundant power supplies and fans, and you
can install up to 10 slim-line or half-high FC disk drives. If you need to connect
more than 10 disks, you can use the EXP500 FC storage expansion enclosures.
Each EXP500 can accommodate 10 additional disk drives, and up to five
EXP500s are supported on the FAStT200. This means that the maximum
supported number of disk drives is 60.
Hot-swappable and redundant components provide high availability for the
FAStT200 Storage Server. A fan or a power supply failure will not cause
downtime, and such faults can be fixed while the system remains operational.
The same is true for a disk drive failure if fault-tolerant RAID levels are used. With
two RAID controller units and proper cabling, a RAID controller or path failure will
not cause loss of access to data.
Each RAID controller has one host and one drive FC connection. The FAStT200
HA model can use the two host and drive connections to provide redundant
connection to the host adapters and to EXP500 enclosures. Each RAID
controller unit also contains 128 MB of battery-backup cache.
The IBM TotalStorage FAStT600 Storage Server
The FAStT600 Storage Server is a 3U rack-mountable Fibre Channel RAID
controllers and disk drive enclosure. It targets the entry and midrange segment of
Note: Check the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for the currently
certified storage solution with FAStT for Microsoft clustered configurations and
for updates to certified solutions:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hcl/search.mspx