IBM 88553RX, Installation Manual

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Chapter 3. Planning
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FAStT Storage Manager Version 8.21 supports FlashCopy®, Dynamic Volume
Expansion, and Remote Mirroring with controller-based support for up to 64
storage partitions. RAID levels 0,1, 3, 5, and 10 are supported, and for
performance it includes a total of 2 GB battery-backed cache (1 GB per
controller).
The IBM TotalStorage FAStT900 Storage Server
The IBM TotalStorage FAStT900 Storage Server expands the FAStT family’s
highly scalable offerings with improved performance capabilities. Built upon a
new fourth-generation Fibre Channel RAID controller, the FAStT900 brings high
availability, advanced functionality, scalable capacity, and connectivity to a wide
range of storage area network (SAN) applications in mission-critical enterprise
networks.
The FAStT900 is a 4U rack-mountable high-performance, highly available, Fibre
Channel-based storage product for demanding applications. The FAStT900
features a new shared memory bus controller/PCI bridge/RAID assist engine (1.6
GB/s bandwidth), dual 2 Gbps hot swappable RAID controllers with 2 GB of
cache memory (1 GB per RAID controller), redundant/hot-swap power supplies,
redundant/hot-swap fans, and supports RAID levels such as 0 (implemented as a
RAID level 10), 1, 3, and 5 and global hot spares. It also supports four host-side
Mini-Hubs for two controllers (each Mini-Hub has two ports); four Host Ports (two
on each controller) provide a cluster solution without using a switch.
The FAStT900 attaches up to 224 FC disks via 16 EXP700 expansion units to
provide scalability for easy growth (32.6 TB using 146.8 GB drives).
The IBM TotalStorage FAStT EXP700 Expansion Unit
The IBM TotalStorage FAStT EXP700 storage expansion unit expands the highly
scalable, high-performance FAStT family with a 14-bay, 2 GBps, rack-mountable
Fiber Channel hard disk drive enclosure. Used with the FAStT900, FAStT700,
FAStT600, FAStT500, and FAStT200 storage servers, the EXP700 is designed to
provide incremental support for over one terabyte of disk storage per unit. When
used with the FAStT900, FAStT700, and FAStT600 Turbo storage servers, it
provides a full end-to-end 2 GBps Fiber Channel storage solution, extending the
FAStT family with the latest Fiber Channel technology.
Note: The new version of FAStT Storage Manager 8.4 supports Windows
2003 Server 64-bit Edition and is only supported on the FAStT600, FAStT700,
and FAStT900.