Dell Sas Product Offering - Dell PowerVault MD1120 Optimization Manual

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ POWERVAULT™ MD1XXX FAMILY SAS SOLUTION
Perform periodic physical inspection of your connections and cabling
Damaged cables and loose connections may cause functional issues with your storage solution.
Dell recommends a physical equipment audit two times a year or anytime after re-cabling or re-
deploying your storage hardware.

3. Dell SAS Product Offering

The PowerVault MD1xxx Family enclosures represent Dell JBOD offering. This includes both the
MD1000 and MD1120 enclosures (see Table 2). These are feature-optimized storage expansion
enclosures that use the latest industry standard storage interconnect technology, Serial Attached
SCSI (SAS). These enclosures support between 2 and 24 physical SAS drives. Along with Dell
host-based RAID controllers, PERC 5/E and PERC 6/E, the PowerVault MD1xxx Family
introduces new levels of performance, capacity, and scalability at industry leading prices.
Table 2: Summary and comparison of key features of the MD1xxx Family enclosures
Features
Rack space
Drive bays
Supported drive types
Expandability
Management
Backplane options
Supported RAID
controllers
Cluster support
Hot-pluggable drives
Hot-pluggable fans and
power supplies
Enclosure management
configurations
Fan and power supply
configuration
Supported disk array
enclosures
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PowerVault MD1000
3U (rack only)
15 (3.5-inch drives)
3 Gbps SAS & 3 Gbps SATA II
Three shelves for a total of 45
drives per host port (unified
mode only)
In-band, using Dell
OpenManage software
Unified or split JBOD
PERC 5/E and PERC 6/E
No
Yes
Yes (combined fan and power
supply modules)
Redundant and nonredundant
Redundant
PowerVault MD3000 and
PowerVault MD3000i
VER A02
PowerVault MD1120
2U (rack only)
24 (2.5-inch drives)
3 Gbps SAS
Three shelves for a total of 72
drives per host port (unified
mode only)
In-band, using Dell
OpenManage software
Unified or split JBOD
PERC 6/E only
No
Yes
Yes (combined fan and
power supply modules)
Redundant and
nonredundant
Redundant
(designed for future
N/A
support for attachment to
external RAID enclosures)
6/16/2008