| Maximum RAID Group Sizes |
RAID-DP® (high performance RAID 6)
FC: 28 (26 data disks plus 2 parity disks)
SATA: 16 (14 data disks plus 2 parity disks)
RAID 41
FC: 14 (13 data disks plus 1 parity disk)
SATA: 7 (6 data disks plus 1 parity disk)
RAID 0 (striping over third-party Array LUNs)2
SyncMirror® (high resiliency RAID 1)
Options:
- RAID-DP + RAID 1
- RAID 4 + RAID 1
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| SAN Protocol Support |
Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) for SCSI (4/2Gb); fabric-attached and direct-attached; IP SAN(iSCSI), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) |
| File Service Protocol Support |
NFS V2/V3/V4 over UDP or TCP, PCNFSD V1/V2 for (PC) NFS client authentication, Microsoft® CIFS |
| Other Protocol Support |
HTTP 1.0, HTTP 1.1 virtual hosts |
| LUNs |
Up to 2,048 server host LUNs |
| FlexVol® Volumes |
Up to 500 per controller |
| Volume/Aggregate Size 3 |
16TB |
| Snapshot™ Copies |
Up to 127,000 |
| Number of Supported SAN Hosts |
Up to 12 ports4 per controller configured as front-end (host) connectivity ports
Up to 12 directly connected servers5 (per controller and per active-active configuration)
Up to 256 SAN connected servers (per controller and per active-active configuration) |
| Supported Configurations |
Highly Available Controller Configurations
Active-active controller with controller failover6, active-active controller with stretch (non switch) MetroCluster, active-active controller with fabric-attached MetroCluster
Highly Available Back-End (Disk) Configurations
Dual-path, multipath HA storage |
| Reliability |
Redundant hot-swappable controllers, cooling fans, power supplies, optics, and RJ-45 ports |
| Management |
Onboard serial console, diagnostic LED, full-duplex 10/100Base-T Ethernet remote LAN management port with RLM and onboard management interfaces, SNMP, telnet, SSH, HTTP, Web (SSL), host scripting, e-mail alerts |
| Security |
Virus Protection
Authentication: Kerberos (MIT/Active Directory)
Authorization: LDAP, NIS
Auditing: File access logging
Encryption: IPSec, SSL, SSH, SMB signing
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) |
| Disk Shelves Supported (Fibre Channel, SATA) and Configurations |
DS14mk2 FC, DS14mk4 FC, DS14mk2AT
DS4243, Dual-path,MPHA (MultiPath High Availability) |
| Disk Drive Capacities Supported |
FC—91/181/361/721/144/300/450GB, 600GB
SATA—2501GB, 3201GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1TB, 2TB
SAS - 300GB, 450GB, 600GB |