Dell PowerVault MD3000i User Manual
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About Your System
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Two redundant, hot-pluggable power supply/fan modules
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512 MB of mirrored cache on each RAID controller module
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Battery backup unit in each RAID controller module that protects against
cache data loss for up to 72 hours
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Support for up to 45 3.5" SAS physical disks
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Support for up to 255 virtual disks per disk group
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Up to 2 TB (2036 GB) storage on a single virtual disk
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Support for up to two PowerVault MD1000 expansion enclosures through
SAS Out port connectors on the RAID controller modules
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Online firmware updates (without taking the enclosure offline) for the
following components:
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RAID controller modules
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NVSRAM
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Physical disk
NOTE:
Dell recommends stopping all I/O to the array when downloading
physical disk firmware.
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Expansion enclosure management modules (EMMs)
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Task-based configuration software (MD Storage Manager)
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Optional snapshot virtual disk (premium feature), up to four snapshots per
virtual disk and 128 snapshots per array
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Optional virtual disk copy (premium feature), up to 255 virtual disk copies
per array
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Continuous background event monitoring for critical problems, such as
impending physical disk failure or failed RAID controller modules
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Host-based, multipath failover software for redundant configurations to
automatically reroute I/O activity from a failed, offline, or removed RAID
controller module to its alternate RAID controller module (or from a failed
iSCSI connection). This capability maintains a data path between the host
server and the storage array.