Rackable Systems OmniStor 4900F Series, Руководство пользователя

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Preface
About this Manual
Welcome
Congratulations on the purchase of your new OmniStor
®
4900F Series RAID Storage
System from
Rackable Systems. This next generation Fibre Channel storage system
provides superior high-performance, redundancy and fault tolerance with dual next
generation Wahoo2 FC-FC RAID Controllers.
It’s unique 2U design is optimized to fit in the compact space of today’s data centers
rack environments and as a deskside tower system.
The enclosure supports up to twelve hot pluggable 1-inch high Fibre Channel disk
drives in a 2U (3.47-inch) form factor. Full component redundancy is provided through
a hot pluggable cooling fan module which contains two in-line cooling fans and a
redundant N+1 power system with dual hot pluggable independent power supplies.
Hot swappable components allow the storage system to maintain continuous operation
without interruption to normal service with the loss or replacement of one component.
Host connectivity is provided through dual independent 2Gb per second Fibre Channel
ports per Host I/O card. RAID functionality is provided through one or two embedded
RAID Controllers. The controller supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50.
The OmniStor 4900F Series RAID Storage System is available as a single controller
configuration designed for Stand-Alone topologies or a dual controller configuration for
Active-Active topologies. An optional configuration is available that includes an
embedded version of the storage management software, StorView.