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Section 1 Intro and Overview
With our “SAN in a Box” feature, we use SAN software as well as the
Metadata controller [MDC] features needed to run the SAN software. An
optional external MDC may be required for specific SAN configurations.
1.1.2 Basic Features and Advantages
Galaxy Aurora RAID products provide these important features and
advantages:
Compact 4RU Steel and Aluminum Alloy enclosure with rack mount kit.
2300+ MB/s sustained bandwidth over a InfiniBand cable or 8Gb Fibre cables
Upgraded Nehalem processor and mother board
24 Drive SAS controller
64 bit SUSE Linux based OS
EOS embedded RAID Engine and GUI application
RAID level 6, dual parity RAID protection
RAID level 0, striping RAID function
8 X 8Gb Fibre Channel and 2 X 20/40Gb InfiniBand SAN support
24 Removable Hot Swap Disk Drives
Over 2TB partition support for 32bit OS support
Web-based Graphical User Interface
Enhanced troubleshooting and parameter tools and settings
Remote Maintenance with browser or command line
Remote Hardware Status monitoring
Available / Optional SAN Software such as StorNext: supporting full file
locking and enables protected, concurrent read/write access by all attached
clients
LUN Partitioning
Background Activities that include:
RAID Rebuild; SMART condition polling;
Media health monitoring and repair
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Failed drive reporting and Auto-rebuild while maintaining peak data bandwidth
performance
Secured Administration Access
Multiple Network Interface Card (NIC) Support
Up to 24TB logical volume support