IBM TotalStorage FAStT600, Инструкция по установке и эксплуатации

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Chapter 1. Introduction
IBM FAStT (Fibre Array Storage Technology) solutions support the large and
growing data storage requirements of business-critical applications. These scalable
IBM FAStT solutions offer you data access and protection to meet your existing
enterprise storage requirements and prepare for the future.
Fibre channel is a new technology, similar to a high-speed network, that you can
use to connect large amounts of disk storage to a server or cluster of servers. Fibre
Channel technology supports increased performance, scalability, availability, and
distance for attaching storage subsystems to network servers. The storage server
provides for the attachment of Fibre Channel disk drives to give superior
performance and redundancy.
Fibre channel technology supports applications that require large amounts of disk
storage that is shared by two or more servers. With fibre channel, you can see a
higher throughput rate over longer distances than is possible with small computer
system interface (SCSI) or with serial storage architecture (SSA) technology.
The IBM TotalStorage FAStT600 Storage Server (Machine Type 1722, Models 60U
and 60X) comes with two RAID controllers, two power supplies, and two cooling
units and provides dual, redundant controllers, redundant cooling, redundant power,
and battery backup of the RAID controller cache. The FAStT600 Storage Server is
designed to provide maximum host and drive side redundancy. Each RAID
controller supports direct attachment of one host containing one or two host
adapters.
FAStT600 supports up to fourteen internal disk drive modules, supporting over 2
TBs of storage capacity. Additional storage can be added to the FAStT600 with up
to two FAStT EXP700 Expansion Units using optional EXP700 Attachment features
(feature number 7360, or features number 7361 and number 7362). Utilizing these
features, up to 42 disk drives can be attached to the FAStT600 with individual drive
module capacities ranging from 36.4 GB to 146.8 GB.
After you review the introductory information that is provided in this chapter, go to
Chapter 2, “Installing and configuring the storage server”, on page 11 to begin the
installation process.
Features at a glance
Table 8 on page 2 summarizes the features of the storage server. For a list of the
operating specifications, such as weight, height, and heat output, see Table 9 on
page 8.
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