VS Series Storage

The VS family of storage systems spans the requirements from entry level to enterprise class solutions delivering unprecedented price/performance leadership to high-availability SANs in many applications including enterprise computing clusters, databases and storage consolidation.

The Modular architecture of the VS storage systems and the flexibility of both high performance Fibre Channel and high capacity SATA drive technology provide for tailoring the performance characteristics of the VS storage systems to meet a broad range of bandwidth and I/O requirements.


VS Storage Solutions

  VS7000

  VS7000i

  VSEM

  VS4000

  VS Series Storage Data Sheets

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VS7000
Performance
• Maximum burst I/O rate from cache
   550,000 I/O per second
• Maximum sustained I/O rate from FC media
   79,000 I/O per second
• Maximum sustained transfer rate from FC    media
   1,600MB per second

Capacity
• Maximum number of drives supported - 224
• Cache options 2GB, 4GB or 8GB
• Maximum capacity with 73GB FC drives
   16.4 TB
• Maximum capacity with 146GB FC drives    32.7TB
• Maximum capacity with 300GB FC drives    67.2TB
• Maximum capacity with 400GB SATA drives    89.6TB
• Maximum capacity with 500GB SATA drives    112TB
• Maximum capacity with 750GB SATA drives    168TB

Host/Drive Connections
• Eight 4 Gb/s FC-AL host or FC-SW SAN    connections
• Eight 4 Gb/s FC-AL drive expansion    connections

Availability
• Automated I/O path failover and online    administration
• Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5 and 1+0
• Redundant, hot-swappable storage    controllers, disk drives, power supplies,    cooling fans
• Automatic drive failure detection and rebuild    using global hot spare drives
• Mirrored cache with battery backup
• Configuration metadata stored on every    configured drive

Configuration/Monitoring
SANtricity Storage Manager software OS support:

• Windows® 2000                  • NetWare®
• Windows® Server 2003      • AIX®
• IRIX®                                  • Solaris™
• Linux                                    • HP-UX®





Physical characteristics
Controller Module
• Height: 17.5 cm (6.9 in.)
• Width: 48.2 cm (19 in.)
• Depth: 63.2 cm (24.8 in.)
• Weight: 36.5 kg (80.5 lb.)

Drive Module
• Height: 5.2 cm (13.1 in.)
• Width: 48.2 cm (19 in.)
• Depth: 59.7 cm (23.5 in.)
• Weight: 40 kg (88 lb.)

Full Configuration*
• Height: 183 cm (72 in.)
• Width: 112 cm (44 in.)
• Depth: 91 cm (36 in.)
• Weight: 923 kg (2029 lb.)
* two cabinets, one controller module, 16 drive    modules

Operating temperature
• Cabinet: 50° - 95° F (10° - 35° C)
• Controller module: 32° - 104° F (0° - 40° C)
• Drive module: 50° - 104° F (10° - 40° C)

Electromagnetic compliance
• FCC Class A
• EN 55022:Class A:1998
• VCCI Class A
• EN 55024:1998:A1:2001

Safety compliance
• UL 60950-1:2003
• CSA 22.2 No. 60950-1-03
• IEC 60950-1:2001
• EN 60950-1:2001

Power requirements
U.S. and Japan 115 V, 15A, NEMA 5-15
International 230 V, 10A, power connection as required