IBM Partner Pavilion DS4100 manual Features at a glance

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Features at a glance

Table 8 summarizes the features of the storage server. For a list of the operating specifications, such as weight, height, and heat output, see Table 9 on page 14.

Table 8. Features at a glance

General			v User interface:	RAID controllers
v	Modular components:		– Built-in power, activity, and fault light	v Technology and interfaces:
	–	High-capacity SATA disk drives	emitting diodes (LEDs)	– Fibre channel: 40-pin fibre channel
	–	RAID controllers	– Identification labeling on customer	disk drives
	–	Power supplies	replaceable units (CRUs), rear LEDs,	– Fibre channel interface:
v	–	Cooling fans	switches, and connectors	- For base storage server: six
	Technology:		– Easy-to-replace drives, power	small form-factor pluggable (SFP)
	– Support for disk arrays		supplies, RAID controllers, and fans	ports for incoming and outgoing
	–	Support for clustering	Disk drive storage	fibre-channel cables (three SFP
	– Fibre channel host interface			ports on each RAID controller)
	– Redundant data storage, RAID		1.5 Gbps SATA hard disk drives	- For single-controller storage
		controllers, and power system (base	Maximum drives per storage server: 14	server: three SFP ports for
		storage server only)	Attached Expansion Units (base	incoming and outgoing
	– Hot-swap technology for drives and			fibre-channel cables
		fans	storage server only)	Note: The SFP port labelled
	– Hot-swap technology for RAID		2 Gbps connections only	Expansion is not active).
		controllers and power supplies (base		– Two 1 Gbps/2 Gbps
		storage server only)		(auto-negotiated) fibre channel host
	– DS4100 single-controller has a			side connections per controller
		non-redundant hard disk drive
		interface, power supply, and RAID
		controller. However, it does offer a
		redundant cooling system.
Attention: You will lose access to data if
you attempt to hot-swap the controller or
power-supply components in a DS4100
single-controller storage server.

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