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IBM System Storage (SAN and NAS)
IBM Disk Systems
IBM System Storage N6000
series
- Meet diverse and changing needs.
Consolidate diverse data sets onto a unified storage platform that provides
simultaneous block and file services.
- Perform when your applications need it
most. Outstanding performance with high bandwidth, 64-bit architecture, and
the latest I/O technologies.
- Maximize your resources. Highly efficient
storage utilization makes it possible for you to dramatically reduce power,
cooling, and space demands.
- Respond to growth. Preserve investments
in staff expertise and capital equipment with data-in-place upgrades to more
powerful N series systems.
- Improve your business efficiency. Take
advantage of the N6000 series Gateway capabilities to reduce data management
complexity in heterogeneous storage environments.
Today’s business environment demands innovation and increasingly flawless
execution. You have to manage and protect valuable data to enable business
growth and success. Your IT operations have to evolve with the business while
meeting budget, staffing, and infrastructure limits. Virtualized computing
requires networked storage systems supporting diverse data sets to unlock the
full potential of virtualized servers.
With IBM N6000 series systems, you can simultaneously meet your diverse
needs—SAN and NAS, primary and secondary storage. And you get outstanding value:
Our flexible systems offer excellent performance and impressive scalability at a
low total cost of ownership.
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Advanced Single Instance Storage |
- Performs block-level data
deduplication on NearStore data volumes
- Volume data is automatically scanned
and deduplicated, resulting in fast, efficient space savings with
minimal impact on operations
- Now available for N6000 Gateway
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Data ONTAP™ |
- N series storage operating system
provides full-featured and unified data management for both block and
file serving environments
- Single architecture and user
interface simplify data management and reduce costs for SAN and NAS
deployment
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Disk Sanitization |
- Physically obliterates data by
overwriting disks with specified byte patterns or random data
- Helps prevent recovery of current
data by any known recovery methods
- Now available for N6000 Gateway
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FlexCache |
- Creates a flexible, horizontally
scalable caching layer within your storage infrastructure that
automatically adapts to changing usage patterns to eliminate
bottlenecks
- Can help improve application
response times for large compute farms, speed data access for remote
users, or create a tiered storage infrastructure that circumvents
tedious data management tasks
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FlexClone |
- Provides near-instant creation of
LUN and volume clones without requiring additional storage capacity
- Accelerates test and development,
and storage capacity savings
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FlexShare |
- Prioritizes storage resource
allocation to highest-value workloads on a heavily loaded system
- Ensures that best performance is
provided to designated high-priority applications
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FlexVol |
- Creates flexibly sized LUNs and
volumes across a large pool of disks and one or more RAID groups
- Enables applications and users to
get more space dynamically and nondisruptively without IT staff
intervention. Can enable more productive use of available storage and
helps improve performance.
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MetroCluster |
- Offers an integrated
high-availability/disaster-recovery solution for campus and metro-area
deployments
- Ensures high data availability when
a site failure occurs
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MultiStore |
- Securely partitions a storage system
into multiple virtual storage appliances
- Enables secure consolidation of
multiple domains and file servers
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NearStore (near-line) |
- Increases the maximum number of
concurrent data streams (per storage controller)
- Enhances backup, data protection,
and disaster preparedness by increasing the number of concurrent data
streams between two N series systems
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Operations Manager |
- Manages multiple N series systems
from a single administrative console
- Speeds up deployment and
consolidated management of multiple N series systems
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Performance Acceleration Module (Flash Cache) |
- Improves throughput, and reduces
latency for file services and other random read intensive workloads
- Offers power savings because it
consumes less power than adding more disk drives to optimize
performance
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Protection Manager |
- Provides backup and replication
management for N series disk-to-disk environment
- Improves productivity through
automation of data protection tasks and delivers higher assurance of
data protection than with manual execution of tasks by reducing human
errors
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Provisioning Manager |
- Enables administrators to apply
consistent data set provisioning policies across the enterprise,
automate complex provisioning processes, check policy conformance and
pool storage resources for higher utilization
- Policy-based automation simplifies
storage provisioning, ensuring that the provisioning process is
repeatable, scalable and auditable, while mitigating the risk of data
loss due to misconfigured storage
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RAID-DP |
- Offers double parity bit RAID
protection (N series RAID 6 implementation)
- Protects against data loss due to
double disk failures and media bit errors occurring during drive
rebuild processes
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SecureAdmin |
- Authenticates both the
administrative user and the N series system, creating a secure, direct
communication link to the N series system
- Helps protect administrative logins,
passwords and session commands from cleartext snooping by replacing
RSH and Telnet with the strongly encrypted SSH protocol
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Single Mailbox Recovery for Exchange (SMBR) |
- Enables the recovery of a single
mailbox from a Microsoft® Exchange Information Store
- SMBR can extract a single mailbox or
e-mail directly in minutes compared to hours with traditional methods;
helps eliminate the need for staff-intensive, complex, and
time-consuming Exchange server and mailbox recovery
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SnapDrive |
- Provides host-based data management
of N series storage from Windows®, UNIX®, and Linux® servers
- Simplifies host-consistent Snapshot™
copy creation and automates error-free restores
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SnapLock |
- Write-protects structured
application data files within a volume to provide WORM disk storage
- Provides storage enabling compliance
with government records retention regulations
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SnapManager |
- Provides host-based data management
of N series storage for databases and business applications
- Simplifies application-consistent
Snapshot copies, automates error-free data restores, and enables
application-aware disaster recovery
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SnapMirror |
- Enables automatic, incremental data
replication between systems: Synchronous or asynchronous
- Provides flexible, efficient
site-to-site mirroring for disaster recovery and data distribution
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SnapMover |
- Enables rapid reassignment of disks
between controllers within a system without disruption
- Enables fast, nondisruptive load
balancing within an active-active controller system
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SnapRestore |
- Rapidly restores single files,
directories, or entire LUNs and volumes from any Snapshot backup
- Enables near-instant recovery of
files, databases, and complete volumes
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Snapshot |
- Makes incremental, data-in-place,
point-in-time copies of a LUN or volume with minimal performance
impact
- Enables frequent, nondisruptive,
space-efficient and quickly restorable backups
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SnapValidator |
- Maximizes data integrity for Oracle
databases
- Enhances Oracle Database resiliency
in compliance with Oracle HARD initiative
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SnapVault |
- Exports Snapshot copies to another N
series system, providing an incremental block-level backup solution
- Enables cost-effective, long-term
retention of rapidly restorable disk-based backups
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SyncMirror |
- Maintains two online copies of data
with RAID-DP protection on each side of the mirror
- Protects against all types of
hardware outages, including triple disk failure
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System Manager |
- Manages a single N series storage
system from a single administrative console
- System setup and configuration
management for fast deployment of a single N series system
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Software Bundles* |
- Provide flexibility to take
advantage of breakthrough capabilities, while maximizing value with a
considerable discount
- Simplified ordering of combinations
of software features: Windows Bundle, Complete Bundle and Virtual
Bundle
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N6040 |
N6040 |
N6060 |
N6060 |
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Machine Type Model |
2858-A10 |
2858-A20 |
2858-A22 |
2858-A22 |
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Gateway Machine Type Model |
2858-A10
(w/FC 9551) |
2858-A20
(w/FC 9551) |
2858-A22
(w/FC 9551) |
2858-A22
(w/FC 9551) |
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Controller Configuration |
Single |
Dual (active/active) |
Dual (active/active) |
Dual (active/active) |
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Processors Speed and Type |
2.4 GHz AMD Dual-core 64-bit Opteron |
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Number of Processors |
1 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
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Random Access Memory |
4 GB |
8 GB |
16 GB |
32 GB |
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Nonvolatile Memory |
512 MB |
1 GB |
4 GB |
4 GB |
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Integrated I/O Ports |
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Fibre Channel Ports (Speed) |
4 (4-Gbps) |
8 (4-Gbps) |
8 (4-Gbps) |
8 (4-Gbps) |
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Ethernet Ports (Speed) |
2 (1-Gbps) |
4 (1-Gbps) |
4 (1-Gbps) |
4 (1-Gbps) |
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Storage Scalability |
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Maximum Number of Fibre Channel Loops |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
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Maximum Raw Capacity |
420 TB |
420 TB |
672 TB |
840 TB |
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Maximum Number of Disk Drives |
420 |
420 |
672 |
840 |
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Maximum Volume Size |
16 TB |
16 TB |
16 TB |
16 TB |
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Maximum Size of Volumes/LUNs |
2048 |
2048 |
2048 |
2048 |
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Maximum Number of Storage Enclosures |
30 |
30 |
48 |
60 |
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Maximum Number of FC or iSCSI SAN connected servers (per
controller and per active/active configuration) |
256 |
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I/O Scalability |
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PCI-e Expansion Slots |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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Maximum number of FC Ports |
20 |
40 |
40 |
40 |
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Maximum number of Ethernet Ports |
18 |
36 |
36 |
36 |
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Maximum Number of Optional Adapters |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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Storage Expansion Unit Disk Drive Support |
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EXN4000 – 4-Gbps Fibre Channel Disk Storage Expansion
Unit (MTM 2863-004) |
4-Gbps Fibre Channel: 300 GB, 450 GB, 600 GB, 15,000 rpm
2-Gbps Fibre Channel: 300 GB, 450 GB, 600 GB, 15,000 rpm |
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EXN3000 – SAS Disk Storage Expansion Unit (MTM 2857-003) |
SAS: 300 GB, 450 GB, 600 GB, 15,000 rpm
SATA: 1 TB, 2 TB |
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EXN1000 SATA disk storage expansion unit (MTM 2861-001) |
SATA: 1 TB, 2 TB |
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Maximum Number of Adapters Supported Per System
(below - not to exceed Maximum Number of Optional Adapters) |
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1012 - Dual-Port GbE NIC (fibre) |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1013 - Dual-Port GbE NIC (copper) |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1014 - Dual-Port 4-Gbps FC HBA Disk |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1015 - Dual-Port 4-Gbps FC HBA Tape |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1017 - Dual-Port 4-Gbps FC HBA Target |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1021 - Dual-Port GbE iSCSI Target (fibre) |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1023 - Quad-Port GbE NIC (copper) |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1024 - Dual-Port SCSI Ultra320 HBA Tape |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1026 - Dual-Port GbE NIC (copper) |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1029 - Quad-Port 4-Gbps FC HBA - DISK |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1030 - Quad port 4 Gbps FC Target |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1031 - Dual-Port 10-GbE TOE NIC |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1032 - Dual-Port MetroCluster VI HBA |
3 |
6 |
6 |
4 |
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1033 - SnapMirror Over FC HBA PCI-e |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1035 - Quad-Port 4-Gbps FC HBA Tape/Disk |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1036 - PCIe 2 port 8 GB FC Target HBA |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1056 - Performance Acceleration Module (Flash Cache) (16
GB) |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1057 - Performance Acceleration Module (Flash Cache)
(512 GB) |
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4 |
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1058 - Performance Acceleration Module (Flash Cache)
(256 GB)* |
2 |
4 |
4 |
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1061 - Quad-port 3 Gbps SAS adapter for Disk
Attachment** |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1063 - Dual-port FCoE adapter (optical) |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1064 - Dual-port FCoE adapter (cooper) |
4 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
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1065 – Dual-port 10 Gbps Ethernet NIC card |
4 |
8 |
8 |
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Environmental Specifications and
Regulations for Appliance and Gateway Models
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N6040 |
N6040 |
N6060 |
N6070 |
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Machine Type Model |
2858-A10 |
2858-A20 |
2858-A22 |
2858-A21 |
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Gateway Machine Type Model |
2858-A10
(w/FC 9551) |
2858-A20
(w/FC 9551) |
2858-A22
(w/FC 9551) |
2858-A21
(w/FC 9551) |
AC Power/Current (line voltage for standalone systems
dependent on local power distribution; system cabinets are 200 to 240 V
only)
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100 to 240 Vac, 12A to 8A (max) |
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3.8A @ 100-120 V ac (typical) |
6A @ 100-120 V ac (typical) |
8.1A @ 100-120 V ac (typical) |
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2A @ 200-240 V ac (typical) |
3A @ 200-240 V ac (typical) |
4A @ 200-240 V ac (typical) |
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Thermal rating |
1405 BTU/hr. (max.) |
2714 BTU/hr. (max.) |
3574 BTU/hr. (max.) |
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Weight (max.) |
102 lb (46.2 kg) |
121 lb (54.9 kg) |
121 lb (54.9 kg) |
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Height |
10.2" (25.9 cm), fits into 6U space |
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Width |
19" IEC rack-compliant (17.6", 44.7 cm) |
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Depth |
24.3" (61.7 cm), 28.1" (71.3 cm) with cable management
bracket |
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Operating temperature, altitude, and relative humidity |
10°C to 40°C (50°F to 104°F); at </= 3,050m (at </=
10,000) elevation; 20% to 80% relative humidity, non-condensing (28°C wet
bulb temperature) |
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Nonoperating temperature and relative humidity |
-40°C to 65°C (-40°F to 149°F); 10% to 95% relative
humidity, non-condensing, in original container |
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Operating acoustic noise |
56 dBA sound pressure (LpA) @ normal operating
conditions (at 23°C and at sea level) |
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Min. cabinet clearances |
10" (25.4 cm) front; 12" (30.5 cm) rear |
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Min. service clearances |
30" (76.2 cm) from front of cabinet; 30" (76.2 cm) from
rear of cabinet |
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Maximum altitude |
3,050 m (10,000 ft.) |
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Filer safety |
EN
60950:2002, CE, CSA 60950 and NRTL (UL) CB (all national deviations),
EN60825-1:1994, IRAM, GOST-R |
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shelf safety |
UL/C-UL;
CE |
| Emissions |
FCC Class
A, EN 55022:1998, EN 61000-3-2, EN 61000-3-3, CE, BSMI, AS/NZ 3548, VCCI |
| Immunity |
EN
55024:1998 |
Storage Expansion Specifications
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EXN4000 - 4-Gbps Fibre Channel Disk Storage Expansion
Unit (MTM 2863-004) |
4-Gbps
Fibre Channel: 300 GB, 450 GB, 600 GB, 15,000 rpm
2-Gbps Fibre Channel: 300 GB, 15,000 rpm; 450 GB, 15,000 rpm |
| EXN3000 -
SAS Disk Storage Expansion Unit (MTM 2857-003) |
SAS: 300
GB, 450 GB, 600 GB, 15,000 rpm
SATA: 1 TB, 2 TB |
| EXN1000
SATA disk storage expansion unit (MTM 2861-001) |
SATA: 1
TB, 2 TB |
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Disk Storage Expansion Units Supported |
EXN4000—4-Gbps Fibre Channel Disk Storage Expansion Unit (MTM 2863-004)
EXN3000 - SAS Disk Storage Expansion Unit (MTM 2857-003)
EXN1000 SATA disk storage expansion unit (MTM 2861-001)
EXN4000 and EXN1000 each with 14 low-profile slots for fibre channel and
SATA disk drives
EXN3000 with 24 slots for SAS and SATA disk drives
Support for Legacy Expansion Unit |
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expansion unit interface |
PCI-x or
PCI-e-based Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) |
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Power supply/cooling fans |
Dual,
redundant, hot-pluggable, integrated power supply/fan assemblies (220V/110V) |
| AC
power/max. current |
100 to
120 V ac/4.4A; 200 to 240 V ac/2.3A 100 to 120 V ac/7A; 200-240 V ac/3.5A;
50/60 Hz |
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temperature maximum range |
10°C to
40°C (50°F to 104°F) |
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Recommended operating temperature range |
20°C to
25°C (68°F to 77°F) |
| Operating
relative humidity range |
10% to
95% relative humidity, non-condensing 10% to 95% |
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Recommended operating relative humidity range |
40% to
55% non-condensing |
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Nonoperating temperature range |
-40°C to
65°C (-40°F to 149°F) |
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Nonoperating relative humidity range |
10% to
95% relative humidity, non-condensing |
| Thermal
rating |
1,215
BTU/hr (fully loaded disk storage expansion unit) |
| Operating
acoustic noise |
56.4 dBA
@ 1 m at 23°C, 5.64 bels @ 23°C |
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Dimensions (height/width/depth) |
EXN4000
and EXN1000
3U EIA (5.25", 13.3 cm)/19" IEC rack-compliant (17.6", 44.7 cm)/20" (50.8
cm)
EXN3000
4U EIA (6.9", 17.49 cm)/19" IEC rack-compliant (17.7", 44.87 cm) / 25.7"
(65.35 cm) |
| Weight |
EXN4000 –
35.8 kg (78.8 lb) fully loaded with disk drives, 23 kg (50.6 lb) empty
EXN3000 – 110 lb (49.9 kg) fully loaded with disk drives, 53.7 lbs (24.4 kb)
empty
EXN1000 – 35 kg (77 lb) fully loaded with disk drives, 23 kg (50.6 lb) empty |
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Disk shelf safety |
UL/C-UL;
CE |
| Emissions |
FCC Class
A, EN 55022:1998, EN 61000-3-2, EN 61000-3-3, CE, BSMI, AS/NZ 3548, VCCI |
| Immunity |
EN
55024:1998 |
* Corequisite: Performance Acceleration Module II
(Flash Cache) software feature per filer/gateway. Requires Data ONTAP™ 7.3.2
** For use with the EXN3000 and QSFP-QSFP cabling
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