Hardware Installation and User’s Guide
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Hardware Specifications and Features
Hardware Specifications and Features
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This chapter covers hardware specifications associated with the GDT8522RZ and
GDT8622RZ ICP RAID Controller products and their components. See
Section 3.7
for
information about configurable RAID parameters that are supported by the RAID
Software Suite. The accompanying
Software Guide
covers all software features.
3.1
ICP RAID Controller Hardware Features
This section provides a summary of the key features, configurable parameters, and
support interface technology supported by the GDT8522RZ and GDT8622RZ ICP RAID
Controller products.
3.1.1
ICP RAID Controller Key Features
This section describes key features of the GDT8522RZ and GDT8622RZ ICP RAID
Controller products.
3.1.1.1
Product-Specific ICP RAID Controller Features
GDT8522RZ - Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 10.
GDT8622RZ - Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 10 and storage clustering.
Note:
See the
Clustering Guide
for more information about using the clustering capabilities of
ICP RAID Controller products.
3.1.1.2
Shared ICP RAID Controller Features
These features are shared by the GDT8522RZ and GDT8622RZ ICP RAID Controller
products:
•
Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) topology
•
Two 2Gb/sec Fibre Channel ports with Agilent* chip
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Two external HSSDC connectors
•
Up to two RAID controller cards of similar model, brand, and firmware in the same
system.
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Online RAID level migration and capacity expansion without reboot
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RAID array roaming
•
Single
Ultra160 SCSI controller (one internal channel with speeds up to 160MB/sec)
•
Non-HDD SCSI device support on internal SCSI channel for SCSI CD-ROM drives,
CDRW recorders, and tape drives
•
SES support
