About this Manual
Features
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This user’s guide is your complete documentation to set up the storage system
hardware, add components, cable the storage system components, replace parts,
and diagnose/repair your system.
For information on the software control, management and configuration, refer to
one of the following: VT-100 Software Guide or the AdminiStor Software Guide.
Features
The NexStor 4100FS Series Storage Systems are designed for mission critical
applications requiring the highest performance with uncompromised data
reliability, such as mid-range and enterprise server storage. They maintain
exceptionally high throughput and are ideally suited for high bandwidth data
intensive applications, such as electronic commerce, digital video, CAD, seismic
research, digital pre-press, and 3-D imaging.
The following are major features of the NexStor 4100FS Series Storage Systems:
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2 Gb Fibre Channel-to-Ultra160 RAID storage system enclosure.
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Hot pluggable Fibre Channel-to-Ultra160 RAID Controllers.
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Supports up to 48 drives in RAID configurations.
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Designed to fit standard 19-inch rack enclosures and a deskside tower.
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Sequential data transfers from disk arrays at over 160 MB/sec.
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Greater than 18,000 IOPs capability from a single controller.
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Active-Active failover with dual hot-pluggable RAID controllers.
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Operating system independent – no special software or drivers required.
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Four 2 Gb Fibre Channel host ports.
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Up to four Ultra160 MB per second SCSI disk channels.
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Support for up to 48 disk drives organized in up to 24 arrays and a total of
64 logical unit numbers (LUNs).
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All SCSI channels are backward compatible Ultra2 LVD and
Ultra/Fast/Asynchronous single-ended SCSI modes.
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All SCSI channels support SPI-3 Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) and
Domain Validation.
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Support for cache memory options from 64 MB up to 512 MB using
standard PC-133 compatible SDRAM. DIMMs must be qualified by nStor.
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Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, and 50.
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