The CX300 is an entry-level Dell/EMC RAID storage system with 2Gbps Fibre Channel host interfaces and Fibre Channel disk drives. It is capable of operating as direct attach storage (DAS), in a Storage Area Network (SAN), or attached to Dell PowerVault network attached storage (NAS).
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Интерфейс хоста | Fibre Channel |
Максимальная емкость | Up to 60 2Gb Fibre Channel disk drives and 8.4 TB of FC2 raw storage capacity or up to 14.2TB with ATA storage (using DAE2-ATA) |
Максимальное число дисков | До 60 дисков |
Кэш-память | 2 Гбайта |
RAID levels | 0, 1, 1/0, 3 and 6 |
Form factor | 3U |
Storage Capacity | Up to 60 2Gb Fibre Channel disk drives and 18TB of FC2 raw storage capacity or up to 27TB with SATA storage (using DAE2-ATA) |
Scalability | Supports one add on disk array enclosure for a total of 60 drives in the storage array Each FC DAE2 holds up to 15 Fibre Channel drives Each ATA DAE2 holds up to 15 ATA drives |
Cache | Up to 2GB Automatic write cache destaging |
Performance | 50,000 I/Os per second Over 680MB per second throughput |
RAID Levels | Supports RAID 0, 1, 1/0, 3 and 5 |
Supported Servers | Dell PowerEdgeTM servers Variety of Compaq, HP and IBM servers |
OS support | Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Sun Solaris, NetWare, Linux |
Direct Connect Servers | Up to 4 servers |
Servers Attached to a single array in a SAN | Up to 64 servers connected to a single array in a SAN |
Front End Connectivity | Four front-end optical ports per array. Each Storage Processor (SP) is equipped with two 2Gb front-end optical ports, each delivering up to 200MB/s Fibre Channel throughput. With the use of PowerPathTM fail over and load balancing software for multipath I/O, users can operate all four ports simultaneously |
Back End Connectivity | A single full 2Gb bandwidth back-end Fibre Channel loops per SP for a total of 2 2Gb back-end loops per array. |
Maximum Cable Length | Shortwave Optical: 300 meters |
Drive Interface | Dual, independent FC-AL interface ports on each drive, operating at 200MB/s Failover from each storage processor to both fibre channel loops is possible 15 2Gbit drives per enclosure 60 drives per system |
Drives Available | Fibre drives 36GB 15k rpm disk with 2Gbit Fibre Channel Interface. 73GB 10k rpm disk with 2Gbit Fibre Channel Interface. 73GB 15k rpm disk with 2Gbit Fibre Channel Interface. 146GB 10k rpm disk with 2Gbit Fibre Channel Interface. 146GB 15k rpm disk with 2Gbit Fibre Channel Interface. 300GB 10K rpm disk with 2Gbit Fibre Channel Interface ATA drives (requires a DAE2-ATA chassis) 250GB 5400 rpm disk drive with ATA interface 320GB 5400 rpm disk drive with ATA interface 500GB 5400 RPM disk drive with ATA interface |