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 InfiniteStorage 350 Quick Start Guide

007-4932-001

Summary of Contents for InfiniteStorage 350

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Page 2: ... developed at private expense if acquired under an agreement with the USA government or any contractor thereto it is acquired as commercial computer software subject to the provisions of its applicable license agreement as specified in a 48 CFR 12 212 of the FAR or if acquired for Department of Defense units b 48 CFR 227 7202 of the DoD FAR Supplement or sections succeeding thereto Contractor manu...

Page 3: ...007 4932 001 iii Record of Revision Version Description 001 December 2006 First publication ...

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Page 5: ...iteStorage 350 Quick Start Instructions 1 RAID Features 2 Performance Features 3 RAID Controller Features 4 Availability Features 5 General Technical Features and Specifications 5 Supported Platforms 6 Contacting the SGI Customer Service Center 6 ...

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Page 7: ... 350 Front Panel For information on SGI Altix servers used with your InfiniteStorage system see SGI Altix XE210 System User s Guide P N 007 4870 00x SGI Altix XE240 System User s Guide P N 007 4873 00x SGI Altix 450 System User s Guide P N 007 4857 00x The InfiniteStorage 350 system shares many of the functions and components used by the InfiniteStorage 4000 RAID sub system Shared information on s...

Page 8: ...and the optional disk expansion enclosures Each dual controller RAID enclosure uses two 4 Gbit per second front end host ports per controller module for a total of four host ports One or two optional SATA disk expansion enclosures can be attached to the back end disk channels Important The RAID controller canisters used with the SGI InfiniteStorage 4000 products cannot be interchanged with the con...

Page 9: ...system has the following basic features Support for cost effective SATA drive array technology Continuous availability with constant monitoring and optional redundancy of all active components Dynamic scalability making it easy to grow RAID disk resources without disruption Superior connectivity allowing simultaneous connections to multiple servers directly or by way of storage area networks SANs ...

Page 10: ...s Switched connection to disk SBOD Immediate LUN availability ILA Transparent disk drive rebuilds Variable stripe size per controller 16K 32K 64K 128K 256K and 512K Mirrored cache Drive roaming during power off Cache coherency Transparent failover and failback Automatic error recovery Write through write back or read ahead support Automatic detection of failed drives Automatic drive rebuilds using...

Page 11: ...InfiniteStorage 350 has the following technical features and specifications listed in Table 1 1 For additional technical information and specifications see Appendix A in the SGI InfiniteStorage 4000 RAID System User s Guide P N 007 4834 00x Table 1 1 InfiniteStorage 350 Technical Features and Specifications Technical Feature Specification Overview Enclosure airflow Front to back airflow Host inter...

Page 12: ...tems Software SGI Linux Environment of SLES 10 with SGI ProPack 5 or later and CXFS Support for SLES 9 Specific IRIX platforms are supported with IRIX release 6 5 27 or higher Note For further updates or information refer to the product release notes located on the CD shipped with your InfiniteStorage 350 RAID system Contacting the SGI Customer Service Center To contact the SGI Customer Service Ce...

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