Storage Controllers

Storage controllers

Two hot-swappable storage controllers with the following IO options:

 

• Two 16 Gbps Fibre Channel ports

 

• Four 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports

 

• Two 10 Gbps iSCSI ports

 

• Four 1 Gbps iSCSI ports

 

• Four 12 Gbps SAS ports

 

 

Storage Connectivity

 

 

 

Configurations

Storage Center supports up to 168 drives on a single redundant-path SAS

 

chain

 

An SCv2080 storage system supports one SC180 expansion enclosure

 

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)

 

 

Controller

Two hot-swappable storage controllers

Management

RAID management using Dell Storage Client 2015 R1

 

Back-Panel Ports Connectors (per Storage Controller)

 

 

Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or

Connection to a Fiber Channel fabric, iSCSI network, or a direct connection

SAS connectors

to servers with SAS HBAs

Ethernet connectors

MGMT: 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, or 1 Gbps embedded Ethernet port used for

 

Storage Center management

REPL: 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, or 1 Gbps embedded iSCSI port used for replication to another Storage Center

SAS connectors

USB Connector

Serial connector

6 Gbps SAS connectors for SAS port redundancy and an additional expansion enclosure

NOTE: SAS connectors are SFF-8086/SFF-8088 compliant.

One USB 3.0 connector used for Storage Center updates

NOTE: Not for customer use.

LED Indicators

Front panel

• One two-digit LCD indicator for Unit ID, error code, and unit location

 

identifier

 

• One two-color LED indicator for power status

 

• One single-color LED indicator for module fault status (enclosure as a

 

whole)

 

• One single-color LED indicator for logical fault status (drive, HBA, RAID

 

controller, and so on)

 

• One single-color LED indicator for drawer 1 fault status

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