AX100 (“Piranha”)
Customer Presentation
Nov, 2004
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D|E AX100 Software Suite
Target Audience
• Need for Low Cost Solution – Entry Level Price Point
• Need for Ease of Use – Single Management web-GUI
• Need to achieve Continuous Availability – Continuity of Service
solution via Path Failover
• Need for Simplified Install – 4 Steps to complete installation
• Need for Integrated Solution – Software / Switch / HBA
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Configurations
• Supported OS’s: W2K & W2K3, Linux, Netware
– Solaris in Release 16 (Targeted August)
• HBA’s: QLA200, LP982, QLA2340
• Switches: Brocade 2352
• SAN configurations
– “Default zoning” to facilitate customer installable SANs
– “Share Nothing” – Piranhas & CX’s can be in same SAN, but each
host must be zoned to one type of array only
– Support for “One hop”
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Navisphere Express
• Manage disk arrays
• Expand disk array
• Assign and remove
hosts
• Monitor system and
subsystem states
• View server details
• Manage connections
• Manage snapshots
• View software versions
and upgrade new
software
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4 Steps to Initialize the AX100
After auto-detection, select the
system to be initialized
Click “Next”
Enter the IP address of the
storage processors and storage
domain information
Note: This system is single SP – No IP for SP “B”
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4 Steps to Initialize the AX100
Provide a Name
Allows set security policy at time
of installation
Passwords can be set at a later time if necessary
Prior to “Finish” a confirmation
appears for verification.
You have successfully Installed
your AX100
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Guided Volume Management
• 3 steps to create a “Disk Array”
• Displays available disk for use
• RAID 5 support
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SnapView/Express
Fast, Economical Pointer-Based Copies for Backup
Production
• Eliminate backup window issues Server
– Creates snapshot of production for backup purposes
– Applications stay online during backup
• Moderate service levels at best economics for
backup and recovery
– Fast snapshots from production volume
– Takes a fraction of production space Production
Information
– Remains “connected” to the production volume
• Creates snapshots instantly and are Backup
immediately available Snapshot
1:00 a.m.
– Stores changed data from a defined point in time
Backup
– Utilizes production for unchanged data
Server
– Available for backup and other purposes
Pointer-based “copy”
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Automatic Path Failover
• Automatic detection of inoperative paths
• Redistribute I/O requests to active paths
• Failover is transparent to applications
• Automatic detection of restored paths
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Proven Power
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Dell | EMC Entry Array Comparisons
AX100 AX100SC CX300
Max LUNs 256 256 512
Max LUN Size 2 TB 2 TB 2 TB
Max LUNs per RAID Group 128 128 128
Max LUNs per Storage Group 256 256 256
Max Storage Groups 8 8 256
Max Drives per RAID Group 12 12 16
Max RAID Groups 4 4 60
Max Drives 12 12 60
Min Drives 4 3 5
Max host ports per array 16 8 --
Max front-end Ports per SP 2 FC 2 FC 2 FC
Max back-end Ports per SP 12 SATA 12 SATA 2 FC
Max Inter-switch Links 1 1 3
(ISL hops)
Physical Memory size(s) per SP 512 MB 512 MB 1 GB
Max Cache Size TBD TBD 256 MB 473 MB
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