| Host interface intermix |
- Support for intermixing Fibre Channel and iSCSI interfaces allows for cost-effective SAN tiering
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| Balanced performance |
- Equally adept at IOPS and MBps, the DS3950 is able to support applications with wide-ranging performance requirements.
- Well suited for data warehousing, consolidation and virtualisation environments that have diverse workloads and application requirements
- Designed to concurrently support transactional-applications, such as databases and OLTP, and throughput-intensive applications, such as HPC and rich media.
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| Up to 112 intermixed drives |
- Ability to intermix Fibre Channel, SAS and SATA disk drives enables tiered storage
- Fibre Channel disk is allocated to applications that demand high performance and have high I/O rates and less-expensive SATA disks are allocated to applications that require less performance. And now, support of SAS disks enables the T10-PI Data Integrity feature.
- Enclosure-based intermixing maximises efficiency
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| Built-in efficiencies |
- Modular design avoids over-configuration for an affordable entry-point while offering seamless "pay-as-you-grow" scalability as requirements change.
- Efficient utilisation lowers raw capacity requirement, and support for intermixing high performance and high capacity drives enables tiered storage.
- Exceptional per drive performance creates performance value by getting the most performance out of the fewest drives.
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| DS Storage Manager software |
- Feature-rich storage management software enables maximum utilisation and uninterrupted data availability
- Configuration flexibility supports custom LUN tuning to ensure maximum performance or utilisation
- Centralised management of all local and networked based systems
- Quickly configure and monitor storage from a centralised interface
- Configure volumes, perform routine maintenance and add new enclosures and capacity without interrupting access to data
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| Dynamic Expansion capabilities |
- Designed to offer the ability to bring unused storage online for a new host group or an existing volume to provide additional capacity on demand
- Designed to eliminate application interruptions due to growth, reconfigurations or tuning
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| Up to 128 partitions |
- Enough partitions to effectively support medium scale consolidation or virtualisation environments; thus helping to reduce hardware and storage management costs
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| Fully-integrated replication features |
- Multiple options allows administrators to best fit their replication needs
- Local or remote copies can be used for file restoration, backups, application testing, data mining or disaster recovery
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| Support for heterogeneous, open operating systems |
- Support Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Linux systems designed to enable the storage system to operate in any and all open system environments
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| Custom XOR engine for RAID parity calculations |
- Efficiently handles compute-intensive parity calculations enabling exceptional disk-based performance that's ideally-suited for RAID 5 and RAID 6 configurations
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| Support for multiple RAID levels; including RAID 6 |
- Designed to support high availability and security for mission-critical data
- Designed to offer flexibility to configure the system to address varying service levels
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| Redundant, hot-swappable components |
- Designed to maintain data availability by allowing components to be replaced without stopping I/O
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| Persistent cache backup |
- Ensures any data in cache is capture and safe in the event of a power outage
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| Up to four 8 Gbps Fibre Channel host ports |
- Designed to deliver high bandwidth for the most demanding applications
- Designed to provide up to 3200 MBps cache burst rate for high throughput applications through the four channels
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| Backward compatibility with 2 Gbps and 4 Gbps devices |
- Plan for the future while leveraging current investments
- Auto-negotiate connection speed to ease configuration in mixed environments
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| Up to 112 Fibre Channel drives |
- Upgrade from a workgroup SAN to an enterprise network storage system with a single DS3950 Express
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| T10-PI Data Integrity |
- Provides customers with ultra-sensitivity to data validation assurance that every I/O is safeguarded every step of the way from application to disk
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| Dynamic Capacity Expansion (DCE) |
- Add EXP395 enclosures to an existing DS3950 Express without stopping operations
- Bring unused storage online for a new host group or an existing volume to provide additional capacity on demand
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| Dynamic Volume Expansion |
- Expand logical volumes without disrupting operations
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