APC 15000 RAID manual Controller Hardware

•Comprehensive, Centralized Management Capability

The controller provides a wide range of management capabilities: Configuration Management, Performance Management, Logical Unit Number (LUN) Management, Security Administration, and Firmware Update Management.

•Management Options via RS-232 and Ethernet (Telnet)

A RS-232 port and Ethernet port are included to provide local and remote management capabilities. SNMP is also supported.

•Data Security with Dual-Level Protection

Non-host based data security is maintained with scalable security features including restricted management access, dual-level protection, and authentication against authorized listing (up to 256 direct host logins per host port are supported). No security software is required on the host computers.

•Storage Virtualization and Pooling

Storage pooling enables different types of storage to be aggregated into a single logical storage resource from which virtual volumes can be served up to multi-vendor host computers. Up to 1024 LUNs are supported.

•SES (SCSI Enclosure Services) Support for Enclosure Monitoring

Status information on the condition of enclosure, disk drives, power supplies, and cooling systems are obtained via the SES interface.

•Absolute Data Integrity and Availability

Automatic drive failure recovery procedures are transparent to users.

•Hot-Swapable and Redundant Components

The controller utilizes redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and a hot swappable fan module that contains redundant cooling fans.

1.2The Controller Hardware

The basic controller (See Figure 1–1.)includes:

•A chassis enclosure (with a minimum of 2.56GB cache memory)

•10 SAS connectors that connect the controller to the drive enclosures

•Connector(s) for host Infiniband or Fibre Channel (FC-8) connection(s)

•Serial connectors for maintenance/diagnostics

•Ethernet RJ-45 connector

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